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Not true. If all goes well, they'll be there when you are too old to do stuff on your own.
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yeah. I know three people who bought one the day it came out. What really surprised me is that my sister (who runs a property management company) got one.
So, whether a trend starts depends more on the environment ("tinder-dry forest") than on the starter ("careless smoker"); but you get a much bigger trend if you start with an Influencer.

So you get more bang-per-buck from Influencers, right?

Seems like a conflict of intentions: science (wanting to understand the big picture) vs. engineering (wanting to make something happen, efficiently).
Good question. You would think that competition and ease of entry would bring down the price of content on a particular subject down to a format level. sort of a Moore's Law of ebooks. First one in makes out good but not si good over any length of time.
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The Magic community solved the "he who spends more wins more" problem with limited play. I particularly like Magic Drafts, which are a very cheap and great way to play Magic. Wizards even formally recognizes limited play and design all their sets with constructed and limited play in mind.

Limited play turns what used to be an obscenely expensive and obsessive game into a very cheap one that is over in one evening. I really like it.
Yes, even knowing nothing about the subject at hand this argument looked a wee bit exaggerated. If the situation were truly so astonishingly extreme, wouldn't the USA become a major net exporter of airline-pilot talent?

Come to think of it, is the USA a major net exporter of airline-pilot talent? And if not, why not? Is the fix in, as it is with doctors and lawyers? (Getting a medical degree is one thing, moving to the USA is another, but getting licensed to practice medicine in the USA without a US medical degree is, alas, a third.) Or is the language and cultural barrier too high? (I was under the impression that international airline pilots all spoke at least enough English to communicate with air traffic control, which is to say: pretty decent English. You'd think that you could have a pretty decent life as an expatriate American airline pilot.) Or would it just cost more than folks are willing to pay?
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That Haskell code, as I understand it, will dynamically dispatch the call to max through the Ord typeclass dictionary passed at runtime. The C++ code will statically choose the appropriate function.
I would guess they actually did this first (determine the area directly) so that they could judge how large to make their sample word. Their results look very nice and, notably, are scaled appropriately to a single ballpoint pen's worth of ink.

or maybe not. might have just turned out well!
This article's closing text also references the intriguing term describing our emotional/psychological response range to humanoid robots, the Uncanny Valley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

I'm now curious of my own reaction if had a life-life robot right in front of me. There's a great line from the movie A.I. where Gigolo Joe's character (a robot) asks rhetorically, "Do you know why they hate us? It's because they made us too smart, and immortal."
And fwiw, Ticket to Ride Europe is better designed than Ticket to Ride America, if you have a choice between the two.
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Agreed that Limited is better. But it still costs money, yes? A new deck every time?

My problem with M:TG is that the knowledge keeps turning over. In 1996 I spent quite a lot of time playing, reading, tinkering with -- and buying -- Magic, and as a result I knew all about the best Magic strategies and could follow the top players with interest. Then I looked away for six months, and when I looked back I was a hopeless old man and had no idea what was going on. Yeah, I had some appreciation of the format and the principles, but all the standard tactics were different -- new cards meant new ascendant strategies.

I eventually decided that, if I take up gaming again in such a serious manner, I'll play and study bridge or chess or Go or Scrabble or poker or something where, should I happen to acquire any skill, it will persist for more than a year or two. Heck, even Settlers would be a good choice; that game has legs.
US politicians are learning this trick too.

While non-profit foundations belonging to US politicians typically don't own shares of corporations, it's very hard to see these non-profits doing any charitable output; a lot of these organizations just have huge administration costs: plane tickets, dinners, and so on
> This guy has no good words for anything that anyone actually uses.

The Symbolics Lisp Machines had thousands of known installations. There are still active users. Myself, for instance. Other enthusiasts. Certain U.S. Army facilities, as well.

> a healthy respect for the real and the possible

You don't get to declare that a non-braindead OS and machine architecture are unreal and impossible just because politicians defunded Symbolics (the company's weakness was mainly choosing to live entirely off the Cold War pig trough.)

What was built once could be built again.

> Rich Hickey of Clojure fame, who put in hard work to make it better

I have nothing against Hickey as a person. How he chooses to spend his time is no business of mine. Yet I have no reason to thank him. He has created nothing of value to me.

I am not attached to Lisp per se; rather, I am drawn to systems capable of total reflection and introspection. Clojure offers neither. It disgusts me because it has sold so many on the illusion that it has somehow rescued the most worthwhile innovations of the Lisp world; on the contrary, it is consigning them to oblivion ever more thoroughly, by feeding the widespread misconception that anything which does not fit snugly into today's broken environments is simply no great loss and ought not to be missed:

"We owe it to the losers in these little skirmishes to make sure that, if nothing else, the good ideas are not lost along with the framework. And we do not accomplish that by defining that there was nothing lost. That's both callous to those who worked hard on these other things and short-sighted to the future, which might one day care about the things that got lost."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/b2c0190dc3...
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well he is definitely trying to debunk gladwell, as indicated by him bashing gladwell's lack of airline pilot and scientific credentials at the end of the article. it certainly isn't an unbiased alternative theory by an impartial third-party.
All but 16 countries have lower external debt per capita, so there's a fair amount of choices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_d...
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he's talking about selling information that people need to solve some problem, and pg said in footnote 1 that he's not talking about such information, so this whole objection is irrelevant.
Come to think of it, is the USA a major net exporter of airline-pilot talent?

Dunno, but I have a hunch the answer is yes. (Not "net", but we probably do export.)

I was very surprised when I was flying from Hong Kong to Shanghai on Dragonair a few months ago; both the captain and first officer were white guys with American accents. Not what I expected from an airline that only flies from mainland China to Hong Kong. (I also flew on Cathay Pacific on that trip, and the flight crew had British accents. They were not Chinese, which is what surprised me.)

So I assume there are some pilots that choose to work for a foreign carrier rather than a US carrier. It makes sense, because English is an important skill, and the pay must be about the same. If my work life would become less stressful by moving to Hong Kong, I would gladly do it. I don't see why pilots would be any different.
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I got some beer brewing equipment. Now I won't have to use old water jugs and spill stuff all over the kitchen. Come to think of it, this may have been just as much a gift to my girlfriend as to me... (she got me the stuff)
Some old Piers Anthony/David Eddings books from my 14yr old son, which was possibly one of the most personal gifts anyone has ever given me. My daughter got me a laminated Spanish vocab foldout which was really awesome because I've been meaning to make up my own. Finally spending a Christmas with my European wife was the best though. ;)

My gift to us all as a family was to go see Avatar in IMAX 3D tonight. It was amazing.
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This is so very old hat. Has been time over time over time for years. Why is this so high up on HN?
In Dominion, everyone is on equal footing with respect to resources (give or take the random aspect).
The flat rate is pretty high though, and discourages innovation.
I just read Outliers yesterday, conveniently enough, so the chapter is fresh on my mind. While Greenspun certainly refutes a thesis quite effectively, I don't think it's actually the thesis of the chapter he's discussing.

First of all, Gladwell does not at any point claim that American or Canadian pilots are "the best" due to the power distance index--in fact, he doesn't claim that at all. If you look at the book, the U.S. has the fifth-lowest index (lower being "better" for these purposes), behind New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Ireland, and he never says anything in the chapter that even implies that American pilots are best.

Nor does he say anywhere that the power distance index is the primary cause of plane crashes. Indeed, he explicitly says that any accident is caused by 6-7 small mistakes building on one another without being caught--something that could quite possibly be caused by inexperience, as Greenspun notes--but which can be exacerbated by two people in the cockpit unable to communicate in a direct way.

So while I think the article is a useful and interesting theory about differences in rates of crashes (though it should be noted that U.S. airlines do not have an overwhelmingly better safety record than, say, major European ones [1]), it is ultimately another in a series of "hey, let me overgeneralize what Malcolm Gladwell is saying and back it up with minor factual gaffes I found in the book" articles.

[1] http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm
Agreed, I wish the world had more like him. Even when wrong, he's wrong in interesting ways and we end up learning something new.
Actually, the allocation of money has nothing to do with the idea of science, but is rather a simple necessity brought on by, ironically, politics. That allocation process also has many of the same safe-guards you mention.

The part of the metaphor that is completely incorrect, is that democracy is a truth finding system at all! You can not vote the law of gravity out of existence, for example. As a truth finding tool, democracy is only as strong as the education of its members, and even then, it provides no strict framework for judging quality or correctness of results.

In that sense, democracy has little at all to do with science. It is merely a tool for managing and controlling human actions.
I think discrimination or malice toward homosexuals is immoral and unethical, but mere dislike when not called to coincide with a value system, does not provide enough information, by itself, to be considered illogical.

Yes it does. Discrimination against any group based on their sexual preferences is illogical. Sexual preference cannot logically correlate with any logical mistreatment.
I read it several months ago and had the same reaction to this article. Thank you for confirming.

I don't recall that chapter being about ethnocentrism or even about how to fly planes, but rather about power dynamics, and reverence versus the "entitlement" that he talks about elsewhere in the book.
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Looks like the Apple fanbois got to the comments section pretty quickly. I think they are hearing for the first time that not everyone on Earth uses an iPhone, and that this shocks and frightens them. (Next someone will mention that Windows has a higher market share than OS X. How could that be!!)
Sidestepping the question, let's ask:

1. If the US defaults, what country can I move to that will substantially increase my odds of success?

2. If fiat currencies hyperinflate, [same question]?

There's a very, very short list to answer those questions.
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Given that most people would care if even a stranger were assaulted and pushed to the ground, perhaps the clerk reasonably assumed you didn't care because it was a Catholic figure who was the target. In that case, he would be right in assuming YOU were intolerant - of Catholics.

Well, at least people around you must be tolerant of fat people.
Kindle (latest generation) seems like the best from the people I've asked.
And yet... it's highly likely that there's a bias to the data here. The people most likely to be interested in and seek out Android phones and Android apps are also precisely the people most likely to be in O'Reilly's target market. So while it may say something about Android adoption among geeks, it doesn't provide any useful data one way or another about adoption among the general population.
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And some books, notably Hackers & Painters, although not in eBook format.
For better results, see "Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing":

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So why is this interesting?
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It does paint him as a form of hypocrite since there's no scientific reason to discriminate against homosexuals and he's asking us to trust science.
Hey I got that too, the collecting agency that is.
google doesn't always do this, just sometimes. it's not a browser issue. it could only be if you're logged in to your google account. that's why you're having trouble reproducing it.
Yes! It's just gotten popular here in Taiwan over the last month. I love it, and I've played it all through the night twice now.

I was a magic play way back in the day, but eventually got irritated about having to either buy new cards each time an expansion came out, or fall behind players who had the newer, more powerful cards. Fortunately, Dominion has everyone drawing from the same cards, so this particular problem won't happen.
In general usage you may be correct, however I must say that I hold myself and my peers to a higher educational standard on HN.
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Most of the names it comes up with are anywhere between stupid and downright abysmal. "Laylord"? Yikes. It even recommended "Dad", that'd be an interesting name for a child.
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Watts isn't just some random researcher. His papers are required reading in networks courses. Of course, he's an academic, and academics are boring so fastcompany had to bulldoze some of the hemming and hawing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model
I believe that America exports at least some pilots.

I live in China, and a couple years ago there were rumors going around among the foreigners in the city I live in that a Chinese airline (I think it was China Southern) was considering moving all of its foreign pilots from Shanghai to this city in order to cut costs.

I have also run into American pilots flying a Thai Airways plane (we were one of the last groups off of the plane, and then we stopped to rearrange who carried what luggage, and crew caught up with us in the hallway).
> If this were true and Microsoft made that a default feature on IE, what would happen?

A lawsuit? Microsoft would be altering Google pages without consent from Google and presumably without the consent of the user.

It's not too different from this: what if IE changed Google search results themselves?
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It's not quite that simple -- while "raises the question" would be correct in Giles' sentence, your essay on publishing does consist of a circular argument.

And here instead of addressing the question of whether you really read this site or remember the Parrot posts, you pick a low-hanging ad hominem. At least his attack on you directly addressed (and undermined) your argument, instead of just being a grammar nitpick.

Fallacies don't cancel each other out, even when misapplied :)
W isn't supposed to be "good design". What they are is "stylish". They cater to image & brand-conscious people just like Prada or Versace. I assume it's a profitable niche.
> Agreed that Limited is better. But it still costs money, yes? A new deck every time?

The draft I play in charges $8 for three boosters. You get to keep the cards and you can easily sell your rares for >$8 most of the time if you want. $8 for an evening of entertainment isn't bad, cheaper than a movie.

> My problem with M:TG is that the knowledge keeps turning over.

It really doesn't though, it just changes form on the surface. The pillars of Magic are card advantage, speed, efficiency and a good mana curve. Those things apply universally, it really doesn't take long to get up on the new cards. In draft you are rarely going to make an elaborate deck, it's much more about bang for the buck (granted, this does mean you are missing out on a entire side of the game, but that's the side that requires money and time, so...) At most 3 expansions are legal at a time. I was a very serious/obsessed player in the 90's, now I am a very casual for fun player. All the cards I own fit easily in one tiny box. Draft/limited play really can be for fun and simple.
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> Not all assets are worth the same amount to all players!

I wrote that trades happen because the parties value the relevant asset differently (the one that starts with the asset thinks that the cash is worth more than the asset to it, while the other thinks that the cash is worth less to it), so "correcting" me by telling me that is curious....

> to think that asset is underpriced

I didn't say anything about "underpriced". I said that the two parties had different opinions about the assets in question wrt themselves. They can both be correct. (They can also both be wrong.)
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> The issue is: how much of the chemical energy stored in the fuel is transformed into mechanical energy?

Hmm - you claimed that the hummingbird was "better", but you don't know the relative efficiency.

It's unclear how the existence of supersonic rockets tells us that birds, which can't go supersonic, are better than planes which can. There isn't a bird that has the payload of a Cessna, let alone a 747.

> The hummingbird can hover better than a Harrier or a JSF. If you want to start an argument, pick on that.

What definition of "better" are we using? I've yet to see a hummingbird which can carry a person, which a Harrier can do.

Hummingbirds are quieter than Harriers, but if I want to break something, they're rather useless.
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..and (this is the part where I remm saying 'Jesus sure does not love me all that much') results were out for one of the professional exams I gave in Sept and I flunked.
That wasn't supposed to be a conclusive rebuttal; it was a joke (the point being I do read the stuff on HN).
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So then the trendsetters still get to set trends. They are the people who recognize what will be persuasive, and adopt or create it.

They are also the people who try new things and are out "persuading."

Trendsetters are necessary but not sufficient condition for creating a trend. The lesson for marketers is that you need to create a product that fits the times and push it to the right people.
Don't think it was registered by Apple.
so, you are saying that amongst the tech-savvy people android may become the platform of choice. Good enough for me ;)
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> Maybe it wouldn't help, but how would limiting greenhouse emissions harm the environment?

Less developed societies tend to be environmental disasters while more developed ones use more energy. Compare urban China's air pollution with LA's.
I must have missed where the author mentioned this was intended to do anything in favor of (or harm to) the advertisers who have bought the ads.
Well yeah, I imagine if Apple cared they wouldn't wait until the day Macrumors revealed it. Registering ...sucks.com domains must be standard procedure for some domainers. I wonder how much money is in them on average.
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Availabity with dynamic content is easy (ok not easy, but it's a fairly routine straightforward process). The CAP theorem says you get 2 out of the 3 of consistency, availability, partition tolerance. Just getting availability and partition tolerance by themselves is just a matter of good engineering, nothing revolutionary.
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