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… One clue to the corporate stagnation puzzle is the ease with which communist apparatchiks moved to corporate executive roles. The true competencies may be similar.
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… It is a constant fascination for corporate drones – how did we acquire so many seemingly incompetent executives? To answer that might be to understand “secular stagnation”.
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I’ve begun thinking of somatization “mind-body” disorders in a literal sense, as disorders in the neural networks that integrate consciousness and the motor and sensory cortex.
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To decompose autism and schizophrenia into sets of traits distributed across well and unwell alike is to acquire a new and useful perspective on humanity.
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Realized how to explain medicine to engineers. Diseases are spherical cows.
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The way H flu attacks trigger Strep defenses that in turn make Strep human lethal is a good model for how corporate executives become fully parasitic.
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What America needs is a House of Lords. Every adult worth over 1 billion is appointed so long as they keep their wealth.
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Secular stagnation: What if the current corporate environment were selecting for remarkably mediocre CEOs? How would that play out? How would it resemble historic political structures associated with incompetent presidents?
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Thinking of our broken net [medium.com] i remember seeing a movie of the building of the St Louis arch. Incredibly crude, very high risk. 18th century sewer systems. We’ve always built broken things.
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@berklee @davmendels @patrickhone Beats only makes sense to me if Apple is going to open a new form of creatives business. Film/video, gaming, music. They have distribution channel, customer base, display technology. Contract with the creatives.
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Two shares recently on innovations in scam: porn troll suits and iPhone lock blackmail. We live in the Age of Loki – trickery abounding. #b
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MyAT&T.app now includes unlock request (post-contract) and ability to disable data for an individual device on a multi-device plan. Getting to be a handy app.
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I wonder if anyone has compared mathematical ecology and macroeconomic models.
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… fascinating bit of war-on-Christmas-flag-ban-no-prayer-ObamaCareAttack Facebook stream is memetic evolution of “attention industry”. By variation and reproduction creating value-free memes of great power. Unanticipated consequences expected…
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The best security measure we can take now is to close all the web accounts we don’t absolutely need. Should be a spring cleaning national event. #springaccountcloseday
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The term “ubiquitous intelligence” may better evoke our current world than “artificial intelligence”.
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@oluseyi In American 2014 fines for misdemeanors and court costs bankrupt the poor while fines for felonies go unnoticed by Corporations. Yeah, we is broken. // @danielgenser
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@clarkgoble Speaking of Life of Brian -> 12 Monkeys. I think Polio bioweapon blackmail is an emergent strategy. Didn’t start out with this idea, Taliban see it now. Reminds me of smallpox fomite use in Amerindian genocide. //@davmendels
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I suspect the current state of corporate America is wasting a vast amount of talent and training, and that explains much about our economy. So how? And why?
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I’ve noticed that most of the great Stack Overflow info Google gives me is marked as “closed as not constructive” or “Locked” or both. I think they have a moderator problem.
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Two articles past few days on high exec pay in healthcare and university. The parasite class.
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LinkedIn’s Contacts+ app for iOS can add new Contact sources to LinkedIn like iOS Contacts, Evernote, Yahoo, Gmail, etc. You can’t remove them however. Funny how they forgot that. (iOS Privacy settings will detact Contacts.app).
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OTA DTV antenna arrangement is PITA. Remember when we were told DTV broadcast wouldn’t work and time shift cost would rise 500 %? Yeah, me neither. Funny that.
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Discovery mitigation through data purging is big in modern corp. Amnesia mitigation critical for employee. At least Glass life recorder/”Evernote”/ OCR/structured data parsers will end that effort.
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Anyone play around with Cloudera’s VM versions of Hadoop [www.cloudera.com]? I’m trying one now with VMWare Fusion on Mavericks/iMac.
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Thought we were ahead of curve with kids learning Mathematica. Realizing they’re being commoditized by web wrappers on open source symbolic math infrastructure. Math education kicking up the exponential curve.
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.. more on the newish lipid guidelines … 87% of all men 60+ on statins, but probably 94%+ of black men. It would be good to no more about statins and cerebral lipids. For example [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]: “statin-associated impairment of cognitive function”.
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Dr K on Scalia’s EPA dissent: managing externalities is Marxist [mobile.nytimes.com] because “from each according to his ability”. So does believing the strong have a duty to the weak really make one a Marxist? Seems a bit of a leap. I thought that was noblesse oblige [en.wikipedia.org].
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Thought of the day: Are prisons America’s largest special needs housing program?
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With all the conflicting science on optimal diet I wonder if it will be whatever your gene donors are over past 2000 years.
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@clarkgoble I missed reading that one, life intruded! Plutocracy and Poverty concern me more than inequality; PP would be better focus identifier. Language limits. Corporate vs Plutocrat vs Voter – PCV – is new “trilateral”. (Not all bad!)
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The conflict between corporate avoidance of predators (legal/gov) and employee need to remember resembles organism vs cell conflicts. Which makes me a malignant cell. Or maybe a stem cell.
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Changing my #Aperture org. I used to create smallish Projects and use albums across Projects, now I’m making bigger Projects and creating albums that I store as Children of Projects (that parent/child relationship is merely a convenience of tree org).
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Unimpressed with Aperture/Smugmug “synchronization”. Images removed on Aperture side aren’t removed from Smugmug.
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Google / Facebook 2015: Know enough and control enough to guide people to outcomes without evident ads. Earn percentage of transaction. Advertising disappears.
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So the latest Mac version of Mathematic needs a Java SE 6 runtime. Not impressed.
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The mono-skip [photos.app.net]. I made it to fix my left arm coordination problem with CrossFit rope jump. Seems to help. Maybe double-under before I die.
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Picked up some Grand Canyon postcards that look fine, but scan very poorly. Something in emulsion? I wondered if it was some diabolical rights management tech, can’t find anything on this. Probably random…
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Eternal inflation and Higgs instability vacuum collapse seem made for one another.
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Thanks to how time emerges a universe can be at one infinite and microscopic. Ok Tegmark, how do I tell physicists from stoner cranks again?
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These Family Medicine evaluation exam questions need to have answer option of “insufficient evidence” or “we don’t know”. That’s what EBM reviews would say. Instead they use dueling specialty society guidelines to create illusion of knowledge. Grr.
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… Though Corporate oligarchs do have advantages. Emergent Corporate entities care nothing for gender identity or pigmentation or religion. They want only to grow, and to suppress threats.
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At least Russia’s oligarchs are human. Ours are often non-human Corporate people. John Roberts serves them all.
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In the time it takes a photon to travel a trillionth of a proton diameter, the mass of the protoverse doubled 260 times. Forming the multiverse. Tegmark, mathematical universe.
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Anyone wondering why their medical records don’t move well should look at what happens to an Outlook appt that was a response to a Google Calendar invite when you change date in Google. Or vice-versa. Compared to healthcare, that’s trivial.
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Why isn’t there a cognitive bias [en.wikipedia.org] mutual fund? Would make bets against population level cognitive bias. At level of a population ought to be quite predictable. See also – einstellung effect [notes.kateva.org]
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@nitinkhanna posted on Google’s Inactive Account feature. I’ve added it to my primary account, and updated my 2/2013 “inherit the cloud” post on the digital estate [notes.kateva.org]. FWIW, Google answered the question of my original post!
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Human cognitive speed peaks at 24 + dramatic reduction in corporate lifespans + rapid changes in business process -> Vinge Rainbows End is an operating manual …
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Just occurred to me that I can tweak the Feedbin/Pinboard tag workflow that creates my app.net shares to create a custom science/culture/geog/history stream for my kids to subscribe to. // @clarkgoble @wickedgood
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