Tag: Storage
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Still trying to settle this…
I’m uncertain about the FTC ban on non-compete agreements. My consistent theme is STORAGE, which includes amortizing skills. If a company has paid an inventor or developer while he worked up a device or program or design for the company, the business should be able to protect the skill they paid to develop. Patents and…
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Reprint on preserving
Ran across this 2015 item when looking for something else I’d written about McBee cards. It’s not really relevant to McBee, just a thought worth preserving about thoughts worth preserving. The importance of STORAGE in all realms is among my constant themes. = = = = = Why not store reality as reality? Something called…
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Enjoying rare realists
Online people who agree with reality are rare. (Offline realism is far more common.) So I appreciate the few writers and podcasters who are firmly grounded in reality, ignoring soap opera noise of all sorts. Taggart is reliable, and most of his guests are also reliable. Last week he talked with Hoenig, who was the…
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Common factor
Politicians refuse to solve problems because a solved problem means no budget and no talking points for campaigns. Every single problem must grow and grow and grow to provide more budget and more campaign funds. The sole purpose and goal of politics is endless pointless argument. If an argument might conceivably lead toward cleaning up…
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Necessary compromise
The anticoiners at Reddit discuss whether bitcoin is halal or haram. Some of the commenters get the important point. The basic rules of Islam solidly forbid all forms of speculation and usury. BUT modern Muslims engage in banking with interest, and engage in speculation, just like modern Jews and Christians. All three abrahamic branches agree…
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Must be genetic
Random irrelevant thought. Provisioning, laying aside food or other value toward the future, must be in the genes. Protists and plants and insects do it automatically. Birds and mammals do it in a more intelligent way. Finding that Yes, I’ve Got Enough After All gives tremendous pleasure, and this happy event occurs often in dreams.…
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Input
In two of today’s brief items I made the same point without trying. Input matters more than output. This isn’t true of everything, but it’s a view we tend to skip when analyzing social, economic, and physical quantities. When we discuss “freedom” and “rights”, we concentrate on what people are saying. We neglect the equally…
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Alt Hopper
I happened to read a little filler about the American origins of our “Mexican” and “Italian” and “Chinese” food. Familiar territory, including the development of chili on cattle drives. This got me thinking about alt history for cattle drives. Our media and movies treat the Wild West as a long period of widespread wildness. In…
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Templargraph
I was looking for info on an interesting story told by Ripley, and ran into this instead… The Knights Templar used hawala-style full reserve banking to finance Crusades and pilgrimages. A pilgrim could leave his cash at Temple Church in London, and withdraw it in Jerusalem. Instead of carrying money, he would carry a letter…
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More stony continents
Falling back yet again to the one surviving Frank Edwards newscast, from 1954, for an example of Ockham in action. Edwards features a recorded message from Congresscritter Wayne Aspinall of Colorado. = = = = = What should be alarming the nation today is the sharp drop in farm income. We only have to look…
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You can do better
UncommonDescent’s take on the Lawrence Livermore fusion advance: Could fusion energy be God’s design for supplying humanity’s energy needs in a future era? Come on, you can do better than that. The fusion-powered SUN is God’s design for supplying energy to life. We still haven’t turned fusion into a practical and controllable energy source, and…
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Another waste of talent
Skimming through the thousands of updates on nonsense projects like NFT and DAO, I’m struck by another waste. The waste of tech skill is obvious to a nerd like me, but I was slow to notice the waste of sales skill. Every one of these offers is creatively persuasive, putting together nonsense buzzwords in a…
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Coal vs Ice
Here’s a leftover thought from the Ice Industry set, not quite resonant with the theme. I mentioned that Enid Ice and Fuel was in two parallel businesses, processing and delivering portable cold and portable heat. The parallel doesn’t work well. Ice is extremely temporary, almost as evanescent as electricity. Ice can only be stored in…
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Reality = ∫(Demon)dt
Wolf has two great graphs today. The first is the total quantity of counterfeit “money” in the central bank, updated. It shows the sudden surge “justified” by the 2008 manufactured “crisis”, and the VASTLY LARGER surge “justified” by the VASTLY LARGER 2020 manufactured “crisis”. The 2022 turnaround is continuing without pause, and the demons are…
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Return to Truman 2
Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings near a powerful magnet. Still branching from that Feb ’50 Mutual news broadcast. It includes a brief emotional snip of the HUAC committee grilling Henry Wallace. The simple FACT is that all politicians were neutral and non-combatant from 1920 to 1940. We actually…
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