Well, we could all move into a matrix-like universe where we’re gods, I guess. Then all we’d need for civilisation is server farms and the infrastructure to maintain them.
More near-term, if I was dictator for a day I’d impose a wealth cap between at maybe 10 or 15 million CAD and a guaranteed income you can live a very basic but comfortable life on. I feel like that would solve most problems. This could be applied globally too (with some ramp-up time) if we’re assuming world government. Climate change could be addressed with a carbon tax high enough to fund the offsetting of the pollution’s social cost.
I’m a wonk and I could go on, but those are the biggest things.
Lol, point taken. It has to be an actual rebuttal, and I guess that does take time. Downvoting everything you don’t immediately agree with seems like a bad policy, though.
Said people on the street are people involved in the production, not the consumption. It tastes fine, but animal cells don’t want to grow like that so it’s massively expensive and resource hungry, and will take a lot of research and trouble to make less so if it’s even possible in this regulatory environment (the EU doesn’t like GMOs).
Maybe stick with plant-based alternatives? They’re really good now and they didn’t used to be.
Are these huge piles of feedback actually analyzed and acted upon? Is customer feedback some sort of corporate cargo cult? Or maybe clever marketing by vendors of feedback tools and services?
Probably all three depending on the organisation. In theory you want customers and if you can make them happier in an easy way you should do it to retain them and recruit more. In practice, a lot of managers seem to do cargo cult stuff copying other better managers.
I imagine if they have a lot of data they’re processing it further, finding trends, and then just pulling samples for a detailed look.
Insulin. The buzz on the street is that cultured meat works like shit. Insulin on the other hand is already made in bioreactors, and there’s no reason that you couldn’t do it yourself with the know-how as far as I know.
Hey, if it works for you, I guess. I find I’m easily frustrated if I imagine there’s a ton of other people working against me but that’s really my issue.
I think there’s a difference between being a shitty person and being unwilling to help and being repeatedly used because you’ve helped out a couple of times before and now people end up leveraging your kindness.
I took a long time to warm to this one. I used to think that if I could just make the right arguments people would agree with me. Eventually, I realised that even if they’re perfectly reasonable, natural language has a certain bitrate, and human memory has a certain bitrate of loss over a given timeframe. If you can’t explain your idea quickly one of you will hit it.
It parses fine really, there is a (possibly empty) set of things that float in the air, and the spaceship is one of them, but bricks are not. It’s not nonsensical, it’s just a creative twist on a common idiom (“in much the same way a brick does”) that’s so unexpected it seems silly.
I also think of the later books where Arthur perfects the art of falling and missing the ground sometimes.
Sorry to question it, seeing as you like it so much, but doesn’t that not make a difference if you’re still fairly sure there’s not enough other drops?
I prefer the starfish on a beach analogy for the same thing because it cuts others out entirely.