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Well, it's not just tu quoque. Relatively few people know that the NYT charges you for reprints when your company appears in a story:

http://www.nytreprints.com/services/reprints/

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as the guidelines set forth by the publishers.

This starts to look a lot like the practice David Segal is criticizing. I couldn't find breakouts of this line item in their financials, but wouldn't be surprised if this is a nice slice.

Basically, if you're familiar with the news business, there are a host of things that are done that would shock your average news reader. For example, I await the first website that does a proper social networking analysis of each article to determine the relationship of all people in the piece to the reporter. Reporters know enough to (usually) avoid direct financial relationships, but it is amazing how many have a cozy backscratching relationship with their subjects. A friend, a fellow alum, a friend-of-a-friend, a leaker who wants to advance their own career by taking down an internal rival, a go-to quote machine who will say whatever the reporter wants them to say...these are the staples of the news biz.

Unfortunately, it's not exactly about disinterested probity.
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While I don't think the title and point of the article is exactly wrong, it doesn't fairly consider the potential difference between one or two people failing to power down their devices and several hundred people using multiple devices.

Walking across a floor that is a cluttered mess, you might have a small chance of tripping. Cleaning up most of the mess might reduce the risk to negligible, even if you don't get everything.

That's the angle I would have liked to understand better.
> What are the consequences for simply refusing to obey a crew member's instruction to power down your Kindle?

There's two Federal laws at play: one that requires crewmembers to tell you to power off the device (FAR 121.306), and one that requires you to comply with an lawful instruction given by a crewmember (49 USC Sec. 46504) (Since getting you to turn off the device is a crewmember duty spelled out by the FAA, your refusal to comply falls under "lessens the ability of the member or attendant to perform those duties". Intimidation seems to be broadly interpreted in courts as meaning anything other than cooperation. It doesn't matter if you refuse politely).

Thus the potential consequences are: you can be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.

Disclaimer: IANAL
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Valid article, mostly. But the point is still valid, and i feel that most people using Redis do not get it, it is a data structure server, it's not that hard to understand...

Use it as such and you won't be disappointed.
You're right. A little more googling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_external_tank reveals the old foam began to be phased-out in 1996, with complete phase-out in 1997. Tile loss and other damage starting even with the first flight were assumed to be related to foam loss, and the foam loss itself was determined/assumed to be due to anomalies in foam application.
Silk does it. Either shut it off or use https (which always bypasses Silk)
"Your a low number employee and your company goes public, woohoo you are rich, but people who work with you and came later and are doing the same job as you are not."

You're leaving out risk and experience:
* Employee #3 takes more risk than employee #30 who took more risk than employee #300.

* More importantly, even if they have the same roles when employee #30 joined, odds are that employee #3 was involved in quite a few other things in quite a few other roles and has had a fundamentally different impact on the team and organization as a whole.

Disclosure: I'm with a startup popular around here.. but my number is well into the double digits. ;)
I dunno, I've always wanted to do more with my time than I am able to. I want to do a bang up job at work, but still have time left over to learn an instrument, practice photography, and maybe learn a new language. There just aren't enough hours in a day to get all of this done.

If there was a good-enough guarantee against unforeseen side effects, I'd be all over these drugs. I'm non-religious, so in my view, the more I can get done before I bite it the better. If I could remove my need for sleep entirely without side effect, you can bet your ass I will.

> "but continuous pointless activity is a thing I strongly resent."

So... wanking and writing patches is an extremely purposeful activity? More so than studying history or whatever the hell else people do while hopped up on neuroenhancers?
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It's obvious that there are going to be exactly the same number of possible first moves plus or minus two. And what that has to do with the perceived complexity of the game, I haven't the slightest.
How do we know there isn't a bug in a device's airplane mode?
It's not that cautionary. If you went to jwz right now and asked him "If you went back in time and, knowing everything you know now about how much pain would be involved, would you sign up with Netscape again?"

I bet you he'd say yes.

"But who said everything has to be fun? Pain builds character. (Sometimes it builds products, too.)"
You should know that absence of evidence actually is evidence (though not always very strong evidence) of absence:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...
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The NYT prefers that the super-rich were a source of dumb money to fund enlightened government policies informed less by special interests and more by the proper custodians of our democratic heritage, journalists.

Snark aside, the NYT is a great crusading liberal paper. All four of those final words are important all of the time.
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Brain is very well capable of flooding itself with dopamine.

The idea is that if you use drugs for that, brain becomes lazy and less eager to do powerful bursts without dope.

If you don't, it has no choice.
There's a big difference in power levels between wifi (that only has to go a few hundred feet to the on-plane transceiver) and cell phone radio (that has to go possibly several miles to a ground tower). Additionally, GSM has a transmission pattern that can cause noise in radio receivers and other audio devices - just try holding an active GSM phone up against a poorly shielded speaker sometime!
I came here to say exactly this. Bughouse is crazy fun when you have a teammate who is brutal.

I wonder why no one has implemented Bughouse as a massively popular webapp, I'd love to play that again.

Edit: Huh, apparently Bughouse is still 1v1, the 2v2 variant is called Crazyhouse. We never called it that back then, weird.
Shall we just remove that bit in the guidelines that says "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." ?
Yes!! Thank you so much. That's exactly the point I was trying to make.
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It's not an honor system.

It's a system in which most participants have a vested interest in the system itself working with integrity as a whole, and a substantial downside cost of being caught.

While single-round shorting of a system is highly feasible in many systems, an iterative game (there is more than one round being played) means that cheaters have to contend with the possibility of detection and retaliation. This is what keeps many meatspace systems largely honest: it's a restricted domain, biological socialization tendencies work fairly effectively (even a large city can have a "small town" feel), and reputations matter.

In the online/digital space, complexity throws most of this to whack. Any public IP is exposed, largely equivalently, to any other public IP. Attacks are generally launched through compromised systems, and those systems themselves have little reputation risk (Joe/Jane Sixpack's WinXP box doesn't particularly care if it's considered "untrusted" by small segments of the Internet).

The complexity of systems being defended makes detection of attacks in realtime (and distinguishing these from self-inflicted damage) difficult. Most attacks, if detected at all, are detected well after the fact. The noise level of constant low-grade attacks has to be factored in (or more likely: ignored). And it may be a slight escalation of an otherwise largely benign attack that takes down a system -- too high a hit rate on an expensive query, resource exhaustion, cascade effects.

Complex attacks (like complex systems) are prone to failure. Your attacker is also most likely going to KISS -- unless she has a very specific and high-payoff interest in your systems (say, Stuxnet / Duqu).

The main difference between online and physical security systems is that honor and socialization systems don't work nearly as effectively. There are measures which can help resolve this: while the Internet is vast, its infrastructure is highly concentrated among a small number of firms and entities: major routing centers, backbone links, registrars, hosting centers, and payment processors. Countering attackers at any of these points can be effective, though this usually comes with significant friendly casualties.

I'd call the premise of the article flawed, and I don't watch TV.
Back in high school we played Bug House during lunch and at the end of chess practice. This is easily some of the most fun that can be had with a chess board.
Malcolm Gladwell showed how small advantages often turn into huge advantages over time in his book "Outliers". I realize its not universally applicable, but his anecdote shows that more things are winner-take-all than you would think.

Brief Summary of His Case Study:
A hugely disproportionate number of Canadian NHL players are born in the first couple months of the year. Someone investigated this, and attributed this to the cutoff date for kids' hockey leagues was January 1st. Note that this is for ~7 year old kids or something. Because kids grow so rapidly, the boys born in January and February had a small but real size and strength advantage over the hockey players born towards the end of the year. This lead to the older players being perceived as superior (because they were), and therefore getting more attention from coaches and more playing time. This in turn made the gap one not just of size, but also skill. These better players eventually went to play on travel teams and play even more hockey with more attention, and got much better. Some of these eventually went to play in the NFL.
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Well, students in school are in real, actual slavery (they realistically can't quit or change school) AND they are often sleep-deprived. Meaning things are not good.

For wage workers it's less obvious but everything which pushes you for continuous putting of more than 40hr/week without correspondingly large financial gain should be discouraged.
That number - 40hr/week - is there for a reason.
I'm sure that peak being the $30 mark and everyone Googling for Bitcoin to cash in on it had nothing to do with it.

See also, cause and effect.
Just a word of advice. McKinsey consultants are potentially worse than just an MBA on your founding team. There's a reason you never hear about McKinsey consultants ever going on to actually start a company that actually matters. They are "value extractors" not creators and generally if you have one on your founding team, I pray for you. They can't do anything on their own. In my experience they do not really understand what it takes to actually create a company and are motivated so much by money and their insecurities as the writer of the FT piece hints at.
There are other options than "allow free cell phone use" and "frisk all passengers to ensure they're not smuggling in an active cell phone". Asking passengers not to use them is a decent compromise between safety and inconvenience. Naturally, if a crash were to actually occur due to mobile phone use, the FAA would need to revisit this guideline.

Note that GSM phones in particular _do_ interfere with radio systems - that irritating buzz you hear when a GSM phone is near a speaker amplifier can affect airplane systems as well (although it depends on where the phone is on the plane, of course). There can also be interference with _ground_ systems - cell networks aren't designed to deal with the rapid tower transfers caused by ultra-high-altitude phones moving at Mach 0.85.
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Hi Nick:

Regardless of what the FAA says, my reason is still valid. It is also not really in conflict with what you're saying...you're right that it's not really consistent since folks are still allowed to read books, but that doesn't invalidate my point either.

I would point out that people are not really as likely to take a crossword with them in an emergency as they would be a computer.

Also, you're frankly wrong in asserting that electronic devices are not more distracting than a paper book; think of anything involving headphones, for instance.
I think this is less of a danger for good developers and engineers, whose skills are constantly tested by objective measures,and thus, get a lot of immediate feedback as to whether their skills pass muster. I think designers, on the other hand, are more likely to overestimate their ability when first learning how to integrate code
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Cell phone transmissions are much less frequent when the phone is idle than when it is in active use. Even if people just stop talking on the phones, it's better than nothing.
"How many tons of pig iron bars can a worker load onto a rail car in the course of a working day?"

That should be a big sign that Taylorism and scientific management is basically only suitable for industrial manufacturing.
How do we know there isn't a bug in a device's off switch? Most of them are software-based these days.
One year difference is huge when in that age range.

I went to school when I was 6,5 years old. Everybody else in class was 7 with some months. I was the weakest and could not do anything properly despite the fact that I'm pretty gifted. I could only get good grades for any subjects in the fifth grade. And even now I feel the weakest and the least protected by default. ADHD certainly didn't help too.

So no, being 7 years old and being 7 and 3/4 years does give you a big advantage. The fact that everybody is uniform only magnifies it.

In the workplace everybody have the different age, story and skill set, so this hardly applies. It's no longer a function of two variables monotonous on both of them, but a function on dozen.

And also while small difference give clear boost in competitive environments, it's not so obvious in cooperative environment.
Is it just me or do these headlines essentially seem to read: "Living liked to <X> disease, death"?
Well then I stand corrected. I trust you're not a paid shill for Ramit so I'm not so concerned about the marketing anymore. Like I said, I like Ramit, I'm a subscriber, and I once had a brief back and forth exchange with him over email. He's a nice guy.

I get that you were speaking specifically about Silicon Valley. My criticism has more to do with the general trend I see of people advocating that you should rush out to SV and try to strike it rich in Startupland. This post just got me thinking of that so please don't think I was being critical of you. I was just reminded of something related and was speaking about that. The Ramit thing was critical of you but I trust you're sincere so, like I said, I stand corrected on that point.
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Not really. It is an example of me reading an Ask The Pilot column, on Salon, in which this topic was discussed, and finding myself in agreement with the reasonable points made therein, by an actual pilot.

As far as authority goes in general, and the FAA in particular, I think the FAA and Homeland Security are utterly full of it, most of the time. This issue is more evidence of that; I agree with those who point out that there is no reason to power off devices. Just pointing out that there is indeed a valid reason to want folks to put them away. Especially anything involving headphones.
If I was greenfielding a new project tomorrow, I'd use a Redis/MySQL combo. MySQL for all the data in perfect first-normal form, and then Redis for storing difficult joins, caches, queues, etc. It would be a perfect marriage.
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This is pretty cool, I just gave it a test drive. At scale the global pool would probably get really noisy. The tracking thing helps, could the posts be arranged by subject? Do comments impact the order of the posts?
I have an ASUS Transformer and love it, but I have used the camera just once and never have used the GPS. I would think that is pretty common usage pattern for most tablet owners as they use their phone for both of those tasks.
Could you explain to what degree incidents of unexpected interference result in dangerous failure modes? Is that sort of follow-up analysis done?
The FAA/TSA alway justify things in terms of "safety" and "security", but never calculate the massive costs associated with seizing billions in toiletries and productivity.

Let's calculate that. There are about 800 million[0] passengers on domestic and foreign owned airlines in the US market, with many people flying more than once per year.

Each person is taxed between 1-2 hours in terms of "safety" regulations, ranging from backscatter scans to nail clipper seizures to water bottle appropriations. Once on the plane, they are again taxed by about 15-30 minutes on each end from the ban on use of laptops, including the emergency landing song-and-dance that the vast majority[1] of passengers have already seen.

So let's say conservatively about 2 hours in total. So 1.6 billion hours per year. At a conservative estimate of $10 per hour, that's $16 billion per year. This does not include the $8.1 billion wasted on the TSA itself.

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-03-29-airline-pa...

[1] In the unusual circumstance that a first time flyer is on board, a video could instead be played during check-in online, in the lounge, or on the seat back rather than slowing everyone down to look at the flight attendant. Would not be surprised if the percentage of first-time flyers on US domestic flights is less than 5%.
Aww man, don't edit because of downvotes. I saw it before you edited and I knew what you meant. It's more important to make a point than to appease the karma police (not related to the Radiohead song). Fuck the karma po-lice.
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Think of all the millions of articles that have been written about caffeine, stimulants, etc. That's all the frame of reference these journalists have, so they only look for information similar to things they already know about.

It takes decades and a multi-million dollar drug company marketing budget for a new idea in medicine to become widely familiar. Take, for example, the unique nature of SSRI anti-depressants vs the ones that came before. For years most people didn't get Prozac. Is it an upper? A downer? Like speed? Like heroin? Like Valium? Like benzos? It took forever for it to become widely understood that it was something all together different.
The DEA is only one factor. I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to suggest that Shire is giving less than 100% towards the production of Adderall since they have a new brand-name drug Vynase that is still protected by patent.

I'm still not exactly sure how Shire managed to set it up so that they are the only ones making the ingredients for generic Adderall.
I returned mine too. It's not safe to let the kids use it. Amazon insist you have one-click purchase set up even to watch free prime content, and they don't let you set up a pin or a password just for the pay-for stuff. So it's trivial for my children to run up outrageous bills.

(I installed and very soon thereafter uninstalled the amazon prime app on my TV for the same reason: when you watch free prime content, they still seem to send you a $0.00 invoice for every single free thing you watch. Then when your children watch something else, they charge your card, and the "invoice" gets mixed up with all the other $0.00 invoices in your amazon folder or inbox. Fuck That Shit. At least Netflix is safe against that shit.)

If it wasn't Amazon, it'd be a clear-cut scam. But it's Amazon, so I have to hope they come to their senses. Until then, we're getting an ipad, and we're sticking with netflix (even though we have prime ... for now anyway).
After a 30-degree navigation error was corrected by turning off a DVD player, would the pilot seriously endanger the aircraft by asking the passenger to turn it on again to test? Anecdotal, and probably completely false.
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I thought preventing unwanted interference between devices was what FCC rules were for. Couldn't they design aircraft equipment to tolerate radio waves from devices meeting certain FCC standards?
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1. Not all devices with a computer chip have radios, my TI-84 calculator has a Z-80 processor but there is no radio in it
2. Aircraft radios operate on a very different frequency then consumer electronics, and I'm pretty sure the FCC wouldn't allow consumer electronics to operate on the same frequency as the radios in a cockpit regardless
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Relying on passengers to turn off their phones seems like the most ineffective approach no matter your desired outcome. Isn't it possible to insulate the cabin to prevent RF from exiting? This feels simplistic, but other than that is there a reason this wouldn't work?