I’m pro growth and I don’t see any reason why that has to be done badly. Eg I also care about the environment being healthy, but think we can switch to solar and be smarter about other sorts of pollution etc and achieve both ends.
And yet the comments on the thread I saw were quite useful — many from Russian speaking people confirming that the same news was being shown in Russia, etc.
Yeah well said. But I wonder if the choice would continue to look good to Europeans if the economic consequences continue as in the article I mentioned for another 15, 30, 45 years etc.
A silly example: when I was young I loved the game civ. In some games I would occasionally actually succeed at defeating all competition. But the game wouldn’t end cause you could try to go to another solar system or something still. But it was much less fun once the competition was over.
I have heard the bay area bart is in danger of going insolvent. It is both developed and under utilized. Given widespread safety and cleanliness concerns, I do wonder if a form of first class would raise use. However I imagine that’s a nonstarter there for cultural reasons.
On coffee shops: I personally find no noise or a lot of noise works for me… it’s the modest noise that kills me… when I can overhear one particular conversation I just can’t not listen.
I see thanks. I guess, hearing about other famous hard problems, I am used to seeing comments like: “if problem X could be solved it would unlock lots of other important areas of math.” Wondering if this tiling area draws attention for its own sake alone or if the problems here are similarly vectors to attack larger issues.
Good point. But still room for improvement on other end imho. Only way to succeed in some of these spaces is rapid growth at loss via massive venture funding. Doesn’t seem healthy.
In fact the winner take all / must become a unicorn approach to startups here is probably driven in large part by our inability to block competition from copying ideas. A good thing?