smogcutter

A wild thing to say about Terry Tao.

It is, however, the setting of On the Road.

The pun being that “eu-topos” would be “good place”.

It seems to me that calling the customer to get them to agree on a quote is the most important contact?

It’s like telling a salesman to just enter data into a CRM and trust their livelihood to an AI closer. See how that goes over.

I think a missing piece of this analysis for the present is the way that hyper-skepticism can come back around and make you just a different type of mark. Sovereign citizens, for example.

> Additive Manufacturing, industrial robotics, the Internet, and the proliferation of computers had already made large portions of manufacturing and low skill white collar jobs redundant by the mid-2010s.

I think a much more realistic explanation than robotics and 3d printing is the outsourcing of the social and environmental costs of industrialization to countries willing to bear it, like China, Vietnam and Mexico.

Containerized shipping, email, and computerized logistics have made globalization efficient, and therefore inevitable.

Lots of farm stands in NY’s North Country operate like this.

With Zelle, etc, there’s no box of cash sitting out and you don’t need to worry about making change.

Except for the Europeans that are literally fighting Russia.

But being willing to pay for something is a pretty good indicator for being willing to pay for other things too.

To add - there’s also an Austrian general named O’Reilly, and a famously subpar Macdonald for the French.

The French at the time were busy inventing nationalism. Someone suitably aristocratic could find a place as an officer basically anywhere.

> I'm pointing out that that's not something they did

Well that settles it then!

If only you could go back and tell them what a waste those walls are! I’m sure the Mongolians would value your expertise.