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  1. Last 7 days
    1. That this talent for organization and management is rare among men is proved by the fact that it invariably secures for its possessor enormous rewards, no matter where or under what laws or conditions.

      for - critique - extreme wealth a reward for rare management skills - Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth - Mondragon counterexample - to - stats - Mondragon pay difference between highest and lowest paid - article - In this Spanish town, capitalism actually works for the workers - Christian Science Monitor - Erika Page - 2024, June 7

      critique - extreme wealth a reward for rare management skills - Andrew Carnegie - The Gospel of Wealth - Mondragon counterexample - This is invalidated today by large successful cooperatives such as Mondragon

      to - stats - Mondragon corporation - comparison of pay difference between highest paid and lowest paid - https://hyp.is/QAxx-o14Ee-_HvN5y8aMiQ/www.csmonitor.com/Business/2024/0513/income-inequality-capitalism-mondragon-corporation

  2. Sep 2024
    1. i wanted to convey the sense that not doing something to stop that tide of limiting freedom um is not natural it's it it it's limiting to whatever natural telos there may be and to existence

      for - claim - not intervening against Russia, that is trying to limit freedoms is not natural - Bernado Kastrup - counterexamples in ecology

      comment - Isn't a predator species in nature naturally setting a limit on the prey species in the environment? - In that way, the predator population is acting as a limiter of freedom, but keeps the prey population in check and in balance - There are many cases in ecology where the (artificial) removal of a predator species in an existent, balanced ecosystem resulted in overpopulation of the prey species as - there is no predator population to keep them in check

  3. Apr 2022
    1. What I like best about pdf files is that I can just give them to someone and be almost certain that any questions will be about the content rather than the format of the file.

      Almost every time I've used FedEx's "Print and Go" for a PDF I've created by "printing" e.g. HTML (and that I've verified looks good when previewing it on-screen), it comes out mangled when actually printed to paper.

  4. Mar 2021
    1. Arrays are definitely objects. Not sure why you think objects can't have a length property nor methods like push, Object.create(Array.prototype) is a trivial counterexample of a non-array object which has these. What makes arrays special is that they are exotic objects with a custom [[DefineOwnProperty]] essential internal method, but they are still objects.