impossibility

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Impossibility: 4 Super fun scale: 4 Best karaoke lines: “Betta be street if he lookin’ at me / I need a soldier / That ain’t scared to stand up for me”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Impossibility: 3 Super fun scale: 6 Best karaoke lines: “Who are we? / What we run? / The world”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Think of it as an extension of Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem, which holds that good content moderation at scale is impossible.

From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2022

FT reporter Hannah Murphy later tweeted that Bosworth was citing Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem: a maxim, coined by Techdirt founder Mike Masnick, that says “content moderation at scale is impossible to do well.”

From The Verge • Nov. 12, 2021

The Impossibility of a Laissez-faire Policy.—Great indeed is the contrast between the present condition and one in which the government had little to do but to let industry alone.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates