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> The Koolhaasian moment in design began to fade, as one might expect, with the coming of the 2008 global economic crisis; since everything in architecture takes longer than in any other field, the full-on rejection is only getting underway now, but already the accelerationist paradigm has been replaced by another: a meliorist one, eco-conscious and modest, international in outlook but more focused on firms working within their communities, especially those in developing countries.

What is this writing style?

> But, while technically innovative, with a carbon-fiber body, the i3 is essentially a very expensive hatchback.

Yep. When people buy high performance or luxury cars, part of the mystique is that it is the latest evolution of some sort of classic. It's going to be hard for BMW et al to position electric vehicles as belonging to any existing lineage. This puts their brand at risk unless they can figure out how to make a remarkable electric car. But nobody really knows what that would be.

Or less complicated, like piles of CSV files.

> [H]ow much does someone care about a topic when they choose to make money by not talking about it....

She didn't choose to make money by not talking about it. She took the money, then talked about it.

It's one way of fighting back in a situation where one party is financially superior to the other.

Legally, Lambda School probably has a good case for getting the money back, but it might be unwise for them to pursue it.

It is free money until Lambda School actually gets it back. It's up to Lambda School to decide the if money and/or the precedent are worth the public relations cost of fighting about it.

> That's hardly symmetrical to the fear of losing the money that you have already invested...

It's pretty symmetrical. Choosing not to buy is not as easy as it looks, when you are under pressure to do so. Madoff took advantage of this. The crash of 1929 was preceded by unhinged buying.

They exist to stop any participant, human or electronic, from going haywire.

Piling in on the buy side because of a fear of missing out counts as panicking.

I get the impression that the people running Robinhood actually don't understand how difficult it is to implement what they want to offer, both on the reliability side (outages) and on the logical side (infinite margin).

> Industry isn't a culture, it's a combination of skill sets and infrastructure. China is the world's second largest economy...

It's interesting to see those two statements adjacent to each other. China is a tremendous world power, but if I understand the history correctly, it arrived at this point after a series of (sometimes extreme) cultural and economic upheavals that prioritized modernization over traditional culture.