Molson Hart

Is this our next great startup idea? Instagram, for stone sculptures? I agree completely. I think you need to make the saving redundant, i.e. make sure you have a computer with sufficient HD space and make the cloud autosynch to your hard drive.

Google drive is supposed to do that in theory. Redundancy is super important. Another one is encoding. For example data ppl lament why "ancient, inefficient" CSV survives (text files basically). It is because you can still read it 20ys later with virtually all software.

I didn't think about csv's in that way - cool. Re: redundancy, Taleb's takedown of competitive advantage in international trade gave me much to think about. We have two lungs, two kidneys. Should we not have some duplication in industry?

You mean redundancy within a single company? A company has less means of autarky compared to a country or a person (more specialized by design). And society gets the duplication by competition/anti monopoly measures.

But good question. I'm not sure I understood it correctly though.

Oh I see what you mean. Yes, post communist countries who did it the least (Baltic states) suffered the most when USA capital withdrew in 2009.

Did free trade the least? I thought the baltic states were pretty pro-capitalist, no? Estonia is like this weird startup paragon no?