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‘Honduran Supreme Court declares zones for employment and economic development (ZEDEs) unconstitutional’

#727·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago

We will update you on news, events, and do longer form write-ups […]

‘longer-form’

[…] on the projects discussed in the talks, […]

You mentioned the talks in the previous sentence. Remove “discussed in the talks” and instead say ‘discussed projects’ or ‘projects that were discussed’.

[…] as we now have many more news sources we didn’t yet know about.

Don’t explain yourself to your readers. Remove this part.

#714·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #711·Criticism

Not a lawyer but reproducing the entire letter from Próspera ZEDE is presumably a violation of their copyright.

#712·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #699·Criticism

We will update you on news, events, and do longer form write-ups […]

‘longer-form’

[…] on the projects discussed in the talks, […]

You mentioned the talks in the previous sentence. Remove “discussed in the talks” and instead say ‘discussed projects’ or ‘projects that were discussed’.

as we now have many more news sources we didn’t yet know about.

Don’t explain yourself to your readers. Remove this part.

#711·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·CriticismCriticized1

In the coming period, expect us to pick up on many of the talks’ subject matter.

False possessive

#710·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

Zu- series of popup projects

That hyphen looks out of place.

#709·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

The Honduran Supreme Court still needs to publish an explanatory addendum on the passed law to explain how (existing) ZEDEs will be dealt with after this ruling.

Passive voice hides accountability. Who will deal with ZEDEs? Use active voice accordingly.

#708·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

Prospects for Próspera and other ZEDEs look dire and in a recent post […]

The alliteration threw me off a bit here. And if they’re dire they’re not really prospects. ‘Outlook’ might work better here.

#707·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

lighter taxes and regulations

‘lower taxes and lighter regulations’ (I don’t think taxes can be ‘light’)

#706·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

achieved via allowing

‘by allowing’

#705·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

made […] legally possible

Just say ‘legalized’

#703·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #702·Criticism

legally possible

#702·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticized1

Related to #700:

ZEDEs are SEZs in Honduras.

What are SEZs?

#701·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

I now see that the newsletter links to an explanation further down:

ZEDEs are SEZs in Honduras.

But that’s too late. May have already lost readers at that point.

#700·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago

Not a lawyer but reproducing the entire letter from Próspera Zede is presumably a violation of their copyright.

#699·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·CriticismCriticized1

Honduran Supreme Court declares ZEDEs unconstitutional, putting Próspera and other ZEDEs in jeopardy.

Not everyone knows what a “ZEDE” is. Is it an acronym? What does it stand for?

#698·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

Your subconscious is like a computer […]

She says “like” so the sentence is technically correct, but it would have been better if she had said the subconscious is a program (or an amalgamation of programs). What she’s presumably getting at here is that the subconscious is automatic like a computer and unlike the conscious, which can stop and reflect and criticize and so on.

#696·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #662·Criticism

more correct

Something is either correct it isn’t. There is no “more” correct.

#695·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

I just found this related Popper quote underscoring my point:

Truth is hard to come by. It needs both ingenuity in criticizing old theories, and ingenuity in the imaginative invention of new theories. This is so not only in the sciences, but in all fields.

Popper, Karl. The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality (p. 44). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.
#694·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago

Your subconscious is like a computer […]

She says “like” so the sentence is technically correct, but it would have been more correct if she had said the subconscious is a program (or an amalgamation of programs). What she’s presumably getting at here is that the subconscious is automatic like a computer and unlike the conscious, which can stop and reflect and criticize and so on.

#670·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #662·CriticismCriticized2

Your subconscious is like a computer […]

She says “like” so the sentence is technically correct, but it would have been clearer if she had said the subconscious is a program (or an amalgamation of programs). What she’s presumably getting at here is that the subconscious is automatic like a computer and unlike the conscious, which can stop and reflect and criticize and so on.

#668·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #662·CriticismCriticized1

Ayn Rand writes:

Your subconscious is like a computer—more complex a computer than men can build—and its main function is the integration of your ideas. Who programs it? Your conscious mind. If you default, if you don’t reach any firm convictions, your subconscious is programmed by chance—and you deliver yourself into the power of ideas you do not know you have accepted.

#667·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago·Original #661·Criticized5

[…] your subconscious is programmed by chance […]

This sounds as if chance was the programmer. The word ‘randomly’ might have been better. But that presumably still isn’t quite what she meant; I think she meant something like ‘haphazardly’, with no clear direction, by uncritical integration, ie osmosis, of ideas from the surrounding culture, as I believe she put it elsewhere.

#666·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

[The] main function [of your subconscious] is the integration of your ideas.

Isn’t it the conscious mind that does the integrating, and then the subconscious stores the integrated ideas and executes them in applicable contexts?

#665·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism

[…] more complex a computer than men can build […]

It’s not clear to me that the basic building blocks of the subconscious (as opposed to its components at runtime) are necessarily all that complex. Why couldn’t they be simple?

#664·Dennis HackethalOP, over 1 year ago·Criticism