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"Intellectuals and society" by Thomas Sowell is an interesting book on the subject. His central thesis is that intellectuals -- "people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas - writers, academics, and the like" - are having negative effects.

http://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-Society-Thomas-Sowell/dp...
"the reason why i like google is because i can just search anything i want in plain english w/o any query-language/search-filters."

It's not like DDG prevents you from doing this!

You can search DDG using the exact same "plain english" you use in Google.

DDG's bang syntax is an additional feature. If you don't want it or don't like it, don't use it -- just use regular search.

Personally, I don't use DDG's bang syntax myself. I like to create my own custom searches within Firefox.

But I love the high quality of results DDG provides, and the lack of spam/scam results compared to Google. Not to mention DDG's commitment to privacy, which is very important to me.
I believe one of the main points the article is highlighting is that science would have better representation in U.S. law if more elected representative were scientists, but this is not really true. Most laws aren't derived from regulatory law, but rather from common law set through court cases. In my opinion scientists are most useful as scientists, expert witnesses, and lobbyists in that order.
What I tried to say (and perhaps didn't) was scientists won't necessarily be good for a country, not that they'd be bad.

The german minister of justice, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, did a lot of good for the german internet. Her decisions were very rational and fact-based, yet she holds a law degree.

There just are too many good politicians without science degrees for the sweeping generalisation "scientists are good and lawyers bad".
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wow. All this negativity and dismissiveness about what is potentially a good & impactful technology.

if it works well, it could mean netflix that is free (the difference between free & cheap is big). It might change what people watch (like youtube). It might change how/if people pay for it.

yes. I agree tomorrow morning tv as we know it will be unchanged. I can see lots of paths from here to someplace different that could involve such a service.
Who is a scientist? If you scope this to PhDs who have done serious research in academia, you pretty much just said "no ex-university career before the age of 40." That is going to make it very hard to develop the networks you'll need to advance up the ranks of either party. You'll also likely require substantial external support for initial campaigns because relative to the lawyers, doctors, businessmen, undertakers, and pilots in your cohort you are, ahem, kinda poor. This would be easier if you had married well, and indeed having the right kind of spouse is a huge asset to your political career, but the academic lifestyle is notorious for inducing prolonged singleness.

For a broader definition of scientist which e.g. includes engineers or doctors, Americans elect them quite regularly.
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Anti-intellectuality aside. Understanding science is important, but a good scientist ≠ good manager. A scientist is usually someone with narrow, but deep knowledge/experience, as a politician I want someone with a broader set of experiences & knowledge.

I mean, MSc president - sure. PhD president - probably no, thank you :)
If you take the view that government is needed to protect people's rights (you know, "to secure these rights governments are instituted among men") as opposed to providing people with solutions for their problems - then the question becomes easy. Why should we? Who said scientists are better in protecting one's rights than, say, cops or doctors or lawyers or plumbers? I do not see anything in scientific training that makes scientists uniquely suitable for that. I would prefer, naturally, to have smart people protecting my rights, as this way they will be more effective in it, but one can be smart without being a scientist.

Of course, the government would always have a lot of purely technical questions where scientific training would allow one to decide them efficiently - but these always would be secondary roles and rarely need to be elected, but rather properly hired, which can be done by any decent manager.
So why should we elect more scientists?
Fantastic book. He also talks a lot about how being good at one thing doesn't make you good at another. Sowell's notion of effective intelligence is rooted more in experience than in aptitude. So a scientist with no political experience is less likely to be good at politics than someone of lesser intellect with that experience.
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How are they "talked into it"?

Football is by far the most dangerous sport but players know the risks before they go in.

I played high school football 15 years ago and the big issue back then was paralysis.

The first day of every season we were shown an extensive video about paralysis and the best way to avoid making risky tackles.

It was a scary video to watch. But players know the risks.
If you leapt directly from $50 to $900, how should I know that there aren't sweet spots between those two points?

I have never had a $900 chair and I have managed to avoid injury, but perhaps I am just especially robust?
Reminds me of IBMs Powers of Ten video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Another german one is Working Draft. Mostly front-end development http://workingdraft.de.
That is an easy one. Scientists are good at objective truth, facts, etc.

Most political decisions are however highly subjective, and based on values, principles and opinions.

Scientists are great for advising politicians on things that are obviously and provably correct or false, but once it gets beyond that, their biases tends to get in the way.

Asking a scientist if NASA should get more or less funding is about as useful as asking the chief bishop if the church should get state funding as a silly example.
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Great visualization.

Is there really no object in the 10^-24 - 10^-34 range?
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Really? Didn't see that. Is this a political or a technical comment? When building highly-scalable and stable systems, there isn't much except the JVM. Sure, for some corner cases Erlang might be a solution and if reliability is less important also .NET.
10.6 switched the architecture from i386 to x86-64. Since many third party applications were still i386 binaries at the time of its release, both versions of every system library had to be loaded. That did increase memory use in some ways, but it's not really a problem anymore unless you use Word 2008.

But that's about it; 10.6 is much faster and more stable in every other way, that being the entire point of the release.

Of course, I should say 'was', since it's not even the current version. Unless you're posting from a time warp.
"A rumour says that Apple will unveil iPad 3 on March 7"

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How would I know where it goes? A porn site? Phishing site?
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Just to clarify: I didn't want to say that Singapore is successful due to its small-ish population size, just that another country is almost as successful _without_ scientists at the top of the government. I chose Finland as an example since its population size is the same, the per-capita income is similiar and it enjoys a low rate-of-crime as well.

Actually, the president of Turkmenistan has a PhD in medical science [1] and the vice-president of Sierra Leone has a bachelors degree of science [2]. So both have more scientists in the top government positions than Finland. The politicians education really doesn't seem to be an important factor for the countrys success.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbanguly_Berdimuhamedow

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sam-Sumana
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I really fail to see how this is user error.

That isn't what the parent comment said.
Negative effects on what?
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Angela Merkel was a physicist before she entered politics, but you have to take into account two things:

1) She was heavily involved in politics while a student and researcher.

2) Even more importantly, she came into politics right after the fall of the Berlin Wall - right after they threw away all the old career politicians. At this point, she abandoned her scientific career to fill this enormous vacuum.

Thatcher got a bachelor's degree in Chemistry, but within three years of graduating college she was in politics and another three years later she had a law degree, I don't think I'd call her a "scientist leader".

I'll admit my ignorance about the Chinese Communist party. But that whole system is very different, especially because the leaders don't need to get elected, so it's a much more technocratic system in general. In the US, there's a difference between people who come up with new policies and the politicians who get them implemented, I suspect this is less true in China.
What am I looking at? At first I thought that it does not work in Opera, but then I tried Chrome and nothing changed.
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> Changed to a JVM centric approach for hiring and speed of development reasons.

Interesting.
Or you know, the fact that it's the most popular and widely visited website in the world.

I don't work at Google in case you're wondering. But you say you have no financial interest in DDG which makes me wonder if there are interests you do have in them that you aren't disclosing.
How about a few of us here get together, throw up a wordpress install, and start a self-serve tech/startup site. I've got RobotSays.com. Basically anyone can be an author, they create a guest post, upload their content and their picture, and submit the post for approval and we the editors fix up anything out of place and approve only the best content for the front page. A lot of design blogs allow guest post submissions and it works out very well.

Basically when it comes to tech/startup news this is all I want to know:

1 - when new startups launch

2 - important new game changing features that existing startups are implementing

3 - advice and interviews (Ask me anything) from startup founders

4 - new game changing gadgets coming out

5 - when startups are hiring

6 - when startups are sunsetting and why

That's it, no dirty laundry being aired, no drama, no egos, no kings, no divas.
Hi danso, I agree it's difficult to correctly gauge how others will react to any piece. For this blog post I had my three sisters read it -- as well as about half a dozen other people from diverse backgrounds -- and no one found it offensive. Of course, that's not a guarantee that no one anywhere will find it offensive.

The first picture is a bit edgy, I agree. Perhaps that colors the interpretation of the remaining pictures. But the following pictures are really not offensive at all. The next picture is of a woman molesting me (in a pretty PG way). Then there is a picture of a man kissing me. The last picture is of a monkey. That seems pretty harmless by most standards. But I can certainly see how the first picture may set people up to interpret the remaining pictures in a different light.
But the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC. It's not about to print all of its own internal emails.

All news channels are "biased". You can only integrate and filter.
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> Or someday in the near future, 3D printers will be churning out iPads and blue jeans.

You don't think this is true? For sufficiently large values of "near future"? 100 years? 50?
I'm really surprised that Google trusts and would still let MG Siegler review their products before launch (like they just did with Chrome for Android), when 80% of his posts now are about trashing Google. It's like begging for attention from an abusive boyfriend or father: "Come on, MG..just one little nice word about our new product...please?"

They must think that it's better this way, than to give it to someone who already likes Google, because it's more "fair" and he'd be seen as more "objective". Seriously, MG objective? Does anyone still think that by now? There's not a paragraph in his reviews where he doesn't compare anything to Apple, whether it's necessary or not, and of course Apple always comes out on top in his view.

Apple on the other hand gives out their products before release only to people who are totally on their side like Pogue and Walt, so the initial reviews of the product always come out favorable, and they get to influence other laggard reviewers, too.
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Of course Sowell would criticize intellectuals. He's an unapologetic conservative Republican.
Usually every brainstorming session ends up, at least in my experience, with a "vote" on the ideas generated. The vote is not substantiated by anything. No need to justify.

I fail to understand how voting for stuff (which is basically the dictatorship of the mainstream opinion) is going to get the most creative solutions on the table. That defeats the whole purpose, and makes brainstorming fail to deliver on its promises.
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I always find it funny when people consider my "anecdotes" to be self-evidently delusional and utterly useless.

Guess I should just tell dozens of people that the years of frequent brainstorming we've engaged in has been a complete waste of time. Science says so!
I spent 6 years reading internal BBC emails. Can't comment for the rest of the BBC, but nothing comes close to the integrity of BBC News.

>But the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC

Go read any BBC news story right now and scroll to the bottom. They even link out to other news sites covering the same story. I can't think of another news website that links to competitors like that.

BBC News certainly doesn't give preferential treatment to BBC.
Yes seriously, what is with the YC alum idolatry? I understand that these people have very valuable experiences to share in the context of our discipline, but it should stop there.

Let's not put a subjective subset of entrepreneurs on a pedestal and lose our time gossipping about who they play basketball and go to parties with.
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There are lots of Interesting things that can be done on top of this Bit-torrent Protocol. I smell - they are slowly building a platform and a Dev Community.

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Matches my experience. To have one good idea, you must not have one hundred terrible ideas.
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Hard and fun are completely different things, I agree. I spent about 3 months on the basic algorithm, making sure the levels generated were feasible and interesting. The remaining 3 years have been spent making the game fun. The real trick is tailoring the difficulty to suit the level of the player. When you nail this correctly it leads to a very satisfying experience (and the algorithm does have a sense of 'flow' when it designs level, although I can understand that's hard to believe without playing the game)
DocumentCloud (by the creator of Backbone) is also using window-bound variables. Seems to work for them I suppose.
Well, considering the dangers presented by earthquakes (cf. Fukushima), maybe there are reasons for New Zealanders to be anti-nuclear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_New_Zealand

I know, a lot of different factors contributed to the outcome in Fukushima (e.g. power generators installed in the basement, which is flooded after a Tsunami. See http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushim... for a good analysis). Still, one might argue that there are areas that are not quite suitable for building nuclear power plants.
Interesting definition of "tech" that seems to exclude companies like HP, IBM, Atari, Xerox and more that would have had just a little bit more that 1MM/year in flow.
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in the old days when I ran Red Hat Linux this was the main reason my system would rot: I would want to run some piece of software, the developer had decided to depend on some very recent version of a library not present on my system and I would have to roll the dice and install it. usually it would be okay, occasionally things would break, but eventually it would lead to my system becoming unusable from all the dodgy packages that were installed.

things got a bit better with Debian. and even better with Ubuntu.

to this day I still have this problem. this weekend I had to upgrade my laptop to the latest OS and in the process I managed to brick it. I spent most of my weekend getting it on its feet again.

the thing is: I spend perhaps 1/10 as much time dicking around with my system now as I did when I was running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad. and more of the system works more of the time. I think most of this is down to Macs and OSX being a much less diverse environment. the hardware is well defined, the OS releases are far fewer and thus more defined etc.

that being said: when things go wrong on a Mac it is much more of a pain to sort things out. it is much easier to find solutions online for Linux problems -- and Linux is much easier to diagnose. I'm not entirely sure why.
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"The future of TV first involves someone like Apple or Google working with the content providers and the ISPs to provide a solution"

Won't happen. The music industry handed, well, the music industry to Apple on a plate. The wider media watched, learned and face slapped.

Apple and Google are far too powerful for the media to hand any more of that kind of control to. Watch how Google really is struggling to get industry partnership with Google Music.

With Hulu we saw major players (NBC, ABC and Fox) come together and build out a solution themselves.

My guess is that any future internet-based "TV subscription service" will come from a similar joint venture. The technology isn't that difficult so why hand over the keys to a 3rd party when they can own things themselves?

My personal aspiration is that the %age of the population who want to buy tv subscriptions (by whatever medium - cable, dish, internet) will actually decrease and the power will shift away from the existing incumbents simply providing the same service over a new medium but to actually something radically different.
I'm not equating this with morality whatsoever. I do find it quite humorous that somehow after the creation of easily distributable music due to the Fraunhofer Institue and high speed bandwith, that somehow music, movies, and television and the demand that they be accessable for free, or instantly available anywhere at any price you choose has become a 'moral' issue.

Note the movie industry is doing perfectly fine with piracy in its current state, I don't debate that. Just look at the yearly numbers: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/ not too bad IMO.

So, seeing as how they are doing just fine in the face of all this piracy, why shouldn't they try and do as much as they can to crack down on the money they think they are losing? They are doing just fine, which means there is an obvious demand for their product, so they should be trying to stop people who are eating into their profit margin, what is wrong with that? Sure you might not agree and believe that 'the man' is evil and stealing 99 cents out of every dollar that goes to your beloved band which no one has ever heard of, but it is still their right to protect their investment. It isn't an inherent right put forth in the Constitution that states you should be entertained for free, or at whatever price you choose.