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Hey there, yeah that's why I wrote that we try very hard to avoid micro-management in this activity, and I specifically included emails in the "bad tasks" example. It's definitely not a top-down initiative, or anything to do with tracking our employees.
Sorry, I am just going to reply to myself with a slightly contrarian viewpoint - as the article points out, low skilled jobs are being outsourced. This might make it more likely that it's graduate jobs being replaced with offshore/outsourcing, in which case we'll be left with the classic "foot on the ladder" problem.

Saying that, it's not my experience that this is having a noticeable impact, for what personal experience is worth.
Kamerschen really likes to oversimplify things here. The violent mass of poorer guys beating up their richer drinking buddy who used to pay half the drinking bill. I had to laugh, though i dont think it's realistic.

The only real point he makes is that taxing the rich too much will drive them abroad. As far as i know there is no proof for this.

I feel another problem is more important than scaring out the rich by higher taxation: when tax money is largely used for public services like schools and health care that the rich dont use as they prefer the better private alternatives. In Kamerschen's words this will give the rich the feeling they pay more for the beer, that they dont even drink!

Coming from the netherlands, i value that public schools and hospitals are being used regardless of pay grade. This justifies paying tax for everyone, and gives a sense of fair chances in society regardless your social-economic background.
Well, if they aren't exaggerating with that 5% number. Then it means they are making around $270 per month.

Kind of sad compared with minecraft that made $20k or something in a day.
"the nouveau riche need to differentiate themselves from the poor, but the old money need to differentiate themselves from the nouveau riche."

This is true; but there is a more fundamental reason for the newly rich to spend money: it is freedom.

People who did not have the right to earn and spend money; when they gain their right to earn and spend money; spend money to assert their freedom.

This is why women made spending money a ritual under the name of "shopping." They celebrate their newly found freedom.
wait, the login asks for my server and ssh password? oh how can we trust this???
Well, it's planning, just on a daily scale. This process does not compete with pivotal tracker or basecamp, which is for planning and tracking our progress on a larger scale.

If we're bottlenecked or dependent on another person or deliverable, it doesn't make it on to the board.

But I agree, this process does not aim to decide what is worth doing.
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I did not argue that "everything can be simplified to genetic fitness". So please, for the second time, stop putting words into my mouth.

It is my understanding, that your argument is:
1) Article assumes people discuss ideas to signal social standing. But: 2) People discuss ideas because the enjoy it, 3) and not because they want to signal social standing. Therefore the article is faulty.

All I am saying is: 1) and 2) may both be right. The contradiction between 2) and 3) does not arise if people are not aware of the underlying motivations for their behavior.

See also rdtsc's comment.
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Had no problems with starcraft 2 at first, but the real telling moment came when I noticed that I couldn't play single player without first registering my account for offline play with a net connection that I didn't have where I was at the time.

Felt weird having a game I had paid for and installed legit that I was being prevented from playing.
It's hard to dig through the hype here to see what you are really talking about.

What does your application do, exactly? It makes "lawful interception" of what impossible? Is it somehow more "interception-proof" than, say, PGP?

If what you are talking about is some new encryption protocol or security scheme, then the only chance you have of getting any adoption whatsoever is to publish the source code, so that respected security researchers can sign off on it. The recent case of Haystack should make that pretty clear.

But do you have any realistic reason to believe that the app you have prototyped fills a market need so well that you think you can sell several hundred thousand copies in a few weeks? That sounds like hubris to me, as does the claim that the US government (and the EU) would "do anything" to shut down your business.

Your throwaway account name indicates you are a long-time HNer; as you no doubt know, there are some very respected security professionals active here. Why not get in touch with one of them directly?
This approach certainly does borrow from the scrum daily standup meeting. Again, our goal is not to track anything that takes less than an hour to do.

And I would like to stress that this isn't a "management technique," that we force our employees to do. This process is for teams and people who see value in looking ahead at their day and providing themselves some context before diving straight in.

If I'm taking a car ride, even a short one across town, I still like to pick my route.
And this news article format is why I mention Peter Norvig's online essay about how to read research reports

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

in comments to most HN submissions of such articles that I see.
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What if we consider the motivations of the bar owner here? If the bar owner cut prices with the intention of stimulating more spending on alcohol (as tax cutting is generally presented as a fiscal stimulus) then they would probably give the biggest discounts to those who were most price-sensitive...
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He owns the company. Do you think the media will blame Segway for his death?

Certainly not his family.

Quite unfortunate.
This seems very odd to me. I mean this things don't travel that fast, couldn't he jumped (stepped?) off of it? Sad story :(
They make a big deal about the download having your name and address embedded in it to deter people from spreading their copy all over the net.

And then they said that their demo version will be full version until it contacts the server... And you can download the demo without an account.

They defeated all of their own protections.
And yet, the web app scaling guys are making 2-3x those people in salary alone.
Hopefully you flagged it.
That is what he is saying, yes. Although I think this varies greatly with region, because in Toronto it is more like 4-11% for an ESOP.
Not quite. A large part of the company went on to become the recently deceased Realtime Worlds. Mike Daily, the author, for example worked at RTW until earlier this year, not at Rockstar North.
The rich might not use public schools and hospitals, but they benefit vastly more than the poor from other services that governments provide, such as economic stability, protection of property rights, infrastructure giving them better access to markets etc.
"Segway company owner killed by own Segway" is virtually irresistible as a media narrative.
The implication of your post being, of course, is that they likely wouldn't have. Because they are, duh, Soviets?
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I agree, but what they are describing sounds less like the DRM we've come to know and hate (yes, I know that's the point of the article, but let me explain). When I think of DRM in, say, music purchases, I usually think of some way of restriction. But here the title DRM actually makes sense: it's Digital Rights Management. This actually enables the developer to distribute the right to the full version of the game to it's customers, not to restrict them. By that same token things like Valve's Steam allow Valve to distribute games, although on much more restrictive terms. Of course the FSF would completely disagree with any of this, but I would definitely like to hear RMS's take on this particular setup.

I guess the big question is going to be "does this scale?"
There's more to Intellectual positioning than signalling one's intelligence, even if the underlying motives are assumed to be more-or-less base. Hipsterism in general is about being ahead of the curve, not necessarily being the smartest in the room. With Intellectual Hipsterism that means being conversant with the latest ideas, not the most complex ideas. To be up-to-date with the latest radical thinking gives one a privileged position in the discourse because the proportion of the group for whom your input seems novel and interesting becomes greater. This puts the Intellectual Hipster at odds with the mere 'meta-contrarian' because a conservative opinion conservatively argued will never be perceived as novel or interesting. The Intellectually hip[1] will therefore argue in favour of a passé or seemingly discredited position using novel (conbinations of) techniques and references, thereby making the retro idea cool again!

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizek
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How the heck did my dog's name wind up in my contact list? Apparently this was from tagging pictures in Picasa and now if I try to delete anything from Google Contacts it warns me that they'll also be deleted from Picasa etc. Geez, maybe I want my dog tagged in Picasa but I don't necessarily need to keep her in my contact list. I can't remember the last time I phoned her or sent her an email.
Foiled again! I was working on the exact same type of website (clojurespells.com), but was way too slow. Oh well, maybe David would be interested in a bunch of spells ... errrr... recipes. :-)
No, you're supposed to get a wall of bold white text on a screaming pink background, with no spacing between paragraphs. Not terribly readable.
I've been building Shopify themes for the last couple of years. Part of the reason that I've stuck with it so long is that Liquid is really easy to learn. I'm of the opinion that anyone capable of understanding a for loop and if statement can learn the basics of Liquid within a day.

I know there are a few other apps that use Liquid, including one of your competitors. See here for a list: http://github.com/tobi/liquid/wiki

From an end-user perspective, I'd highly recommend Liquid. I don't see how you can escape having a template language of some sort, and Liquid seems more thought-out than most.
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I responded to someone who attempted to show the quality of medical care in a country by looking at the countries life expectancy. The problem I pointed out is that many factors play into life expectancy with medical care being one of the many[1]. From what I have read obesity leads to many early deaths and people who are obese have a much higher rate of disease. The US is one of the more obese countries and is far more obese than Japan. The difference in life expectancy could be attributed to the poor general health of the citizens and not to any difference in medical care. In fact, with how poor Americans seems to treat their bodies it's amazing that many live as long as they do. Perhaps it's through access to much better medical care than available in other countries?

[1]Other life expectancy lowering factors that have little to do with the quality of medical care include murders. For example wikipedia states and [Japan] experienced 1.1 murder per 100,000 population, compared with 3.9 for West Germany, 1.03 for England and Wales, and 8.7 for the United States that same year.
"I'm prepared to suggest that even in 2000, (15 years later) you couldn't be certain that the person you were talking with had an Email address."

You still can't. As you point out, the vast majority of people have one, but a significant number still doesn't, for various reasons. Email would be less common among, for example, people in rural areas, the elderly, and those who just aren't very interested in this internet thing. Yet all those people usually have phones and can be reached by snail mail... so email still hasn't completely caught up yet.

Also, this prediction is from 1985. It turned out to be completely wrong, but it would have taken quite a visionary to predict the situation in 2010. It wouldn't have been hard to predict in 1985 that future computers would be faster and have more memory and storage space, but going from "64K in a breadbox" to gigabytes of storage, ubiquitous and cheap computers (often embedded in other technology), wireless connections, etc, would have required quite a mental leap. (The point being, that in the 1985 environment, email wouldn't have made a lot of sense, while in 2010 it does. Or actually some people seem to think it's becoming old-fashioned... but that's a different story.)
Why not do a Clojure section here then?:

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
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I thought about this before (P2P communication similar to Twitter), but not via ssh. Why not just dedicate an incoming port (configurable) per group that you want to associate with?

- As soon as you started the connection, it would try to connect to all group members via their ports. If the group list is old, or if some are offline, maybe some/all wouldn't work.

- Whoever has the fastest response time, if their group list is newer than the existing group list, the client requests an updated group list from (just in-case it is out of date). If no one is online, obviously this doesn't happen. The user of the client trying to update must ok the changes to the group list (to keep someone from gaming the system). You could also specify who to get the grouplist from.

- At this point the client must be ok'd by the others if his IP/port has never been accepted into the group before.

- If accepted, at this point the client is flagged as someone who has a group list to share.

- At this point the client can communicate with others in the list, and if you want it to be microblogging or just IM'ing, anything goes, depending on the client.
It is clear that the challenge is to find a way to give free reign to the intellectual curiosity while studiously ignoring the lurid temptation of discussing the faux-irony of his death.

Ok, I'll bite. How about using GPS to make a safety feature where the Segway will not ride within a certain distance of "dangerous" features like sea cliffs? An override such as turning a master key would be required.

Such a feature could also help deter theft: Segways designed to be used on a single property would not operate outside the property, something like the locks on shopping carts.
Instead of throwing rocks at rich folks or regurgitating what some professor told us in college, let's change the experiment such that perhaps we can look at it from a fresh perspective.

Let's say that everybody at the bar is happy. The rich guy has what he wants, and the poor guy has what he wants. They all have a good time. Let's even assume that after the new rules the rich guy decides not to move and comes back to the bar. Maybe because his likes the band.

Now the poor guy finds a business opportunity making the amount the rich guy is making. What happens? What would you do?

The poor guy would be an idiot to take the job. After all, he has everything he wants, plus free beer. There is no reason to take on some new work with tremendous responsibilities and risks for no reason. For the politically incorrect among you: if the poor are completely happy, society stagnates. People very very rarely build huge businesses simply because of altruism. For the PC among you, stress breeds learning. Challenge breeds invention. That stress or challenge can be internal or external to a person, but it must exist in most of us for our society to continue to progress.

Now realize that there are 97 poor guys for every rich guy.
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If he drove his car off a cliff and died, would the headline be "Porche killed Segway owner"?
This is a clever and witty comment which points out that the original paper couldn't possibly have meant what the journalist said it did.
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I think you are simply unfamiliar with lesswrong.

They write articles like this all the time, and they are usually targeted at biases which afflict lesswrong readers disproportionately. A quick look finds at least 3 articles of this nature in the past 2 weeks [1].

The article also does not advocate for lumping people into the meta-contrarian class and discounting their opinions. It explicitly says not to do that: "meta-contrarianism is a real tendency in over-intelligent people, it doesn't mean they should immediately abandon their beliefs; that would just be meta-meta-contrarianism".

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ql/error_detection_bias_in_research... http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distrac...
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pw/the_affect_heuristic_sentiment_a...
Looking back, this is probably one of the most important initiatives in the last 30 years, though I don't usually like Stallman. I've personally found more utility in the BSD and MIT licenses, but the GNU initiative really spawned the free software movement as a whole. It's interesting to think where we would be today if Linux and the GNU userland tools were never created. Would it have been possible to build something like Google without free software, or would it have gotten killed by licensing and vendor fees? In any case, Stallman really did change everything.
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Good movie dealing with this in the Boer War: Breaker Morant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant_%28film%29)
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Your idea of a fresh perspective is build a straw man to imply that the poor are all lazy?
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Let me begin by saying that I FEEL anti-social, introvert with a need for solitude to re-charge, and as a monkey see-monkey do-personality with minimal repertoire, when it comes to social navigation, and overly serious in all circumstances containing 20% people, I don't know. Except, when I'm slightly inebriated.

When I got my first Mac, an SE/30, back in 1992, it came with a Meyers Briggs Type Indicator program. The result placed me barely inside "introvert", right next to the dividing line between extrovert and introvert.

(http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas... for details on what and how.)

I have retaken the test 3 times since then, and twice experienced extrovert/introvert result as "extrovert", barely inside extrovert. For comparisons the other three parts of the test (placement as thinking or feeling, sensing or intuition and judging or perceiving) have remained the same over the years.

Since the questions in the test as well as calculating result follow strict rules, I am led to conclude that the two times I tested "extrovert" were periods of happiness and security in my life. Just enough endorfin and dopamin juice in my brain to lead me to evaluate my own social skills and desire for social interaction slightly more positive than normally. (I wasn't drunk during these tests... :-D )

What say ye? Are we introvert and extrovert from brain chemistry and previous programming? Can we change? Should we change? Or just make the most of it, rather than compete with those, who've had their whole life to learn how to navigate by the laws of extrovertism...?
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We hesitate to put non-technical tasks into pivotal and assign them point values. We've found that changes our development velocity, which is not desirable.

The other big issue is that our process is about setting out two or three things we want to do in a day, and seeing if we can meet our goals.

It would not make sense to click the "start" button on three features/chores/bugs at the beginning of the day, because again it would skew the pivotal data.
Your logic only holds in a world made only of beer and work. As you add other things to the model, the rich guy's advantage increases, creating more motivation to work.

I think you vastly underestimate greed if you think having healthcare and not having to worry about where their next meal is coming from is going to kill motivation. We've got whole industries devoted to giving you a reason to spend money.
Why would it matter if it wasn't private? It's not like you're putting mission critical info on the board - there's not enough space to write out anything detailed.
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This article has nothing to do with Dr Kamerschen, here's an extract from his page at http://davidk.myweb.uga.edu/

"Contrary to Internet folklore, Dr. Kamerschen is NOT the author of "Tax Cuts: A Simple Lesson in Economics" or “Bar Stool Economics” or anything similar to that. Additionally, he does NOT know who wrote it and he has no opinion on its merits."
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I thought Liquid was created by Shopify, so apologies for that! Didn't realise it was available for others to use. It seems that its just for Ruby / RoR though? We currently use PHP and Python
The EU had this problem but that's only because their tax regimes are regionally differentiated. Affluence flight is probably only a problem when one region of a country has significantly higher taxes than another, which would seem to imply that raising the federal income tax rate in America wouldn't cause the rich to leave because they have no where to go really. It may not be pleasant for the rich but wealth transfers are necessary for a stable, modern society; after all who will buy their products if everyone but them is poor?
While never having ridden any of these things. It seems to me they have an obvious design fault while riding on a decline, where gravity pulls you forward which leads to the snowball effect of increasing your speed indefinitely.
If you're taking your Adventure-model segway out in the country for sightseeing, you're surely going to override that safety feature at some point.