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American politicians decry climate change openly? The way things have been going the last few years, you could have fooled me. Huntsman was notable as the only republican candidate to say he believed in climate change.

I think the idea behind the article is that scientists are generally trained to work with/find factual information and grow their understanding, while engineers are generally going to take scientific knowledge and apply it to solve problems. These are both approaches our country could use more of in government.
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I don't think you need to find a visitor from another planet, just another country.
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I was hoping this would be about Battletoads, which IMO is the hardest platform game I have ever played. Even on an emulator, with the ability to freeze frames and save/reload game state, I could not beat Battletoads.
This is a nice article, but I don't really like the ending. "Everything is really complicated, so don't try to predict it or think about it too hard" isn't a particularly uplifting message, and there's not even much reason to think that it's true. Perhaps it's a mistake to generalise too much from the success of a few companies, but if we're not trying to generalise at all, what hope do we have of improvement?

I'd like to quote from a really fantastic book, The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell, a section called "Waiting for Mendeleev":

Unfortunately, at present, there is no “unified theory of game design,” no simple formula that shows us how to make good games. So what can we do?

We are in a position something like the ancient alchemists. In the time before Mendeleev discovered the periodic table, showing how all the fundamental elements were interrelated, alchemists relied on a patchwork quilt of rules of thumb about how different chemicals could combine. These were necessarily incomplete, sometimes incorrect, and often semi-mystical, but by using these rules, the alchemists were able to accomplish surprising things, and their pursuit of the truth eventually led to modern chemistry. [...]

I wish we had one all-seeing lens. We don’t. So, instead of discarding the many imperfect ones we do have, it is wisest to collect and use as wide a variety of them as possible, for as we will see, game design is more art than science, more like cooking than chemistry, and we must admit the possibility that our Mendeleev will never come.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDX9dyjqimA
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We have a lot of career politicians here as well who only worked in their respective parties usually starting in the youth organizations and then working their way up the ranks.

I'm curious though what you consider a to be "real" job.
Heh. We are definitely just as vindictive and scheming as anybody else, I'll admit. The thing is, though, that our worldview is based on evidence. No matter how vicious the funding committee meetings get, we are expected to have rational arguments for all of our claims and we are expected to back up our arguments with factual, tested evidence.

We may sink as low as anybody else, rhetorically speaking, but when we choose to we can do a lot better than the average person.
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The paper:

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/36/13451.full.pdf&title=...
they aren't synonymous - its just that 'Companies' have the money, where as the 'People' doesn't.

Have a watch of the movie at http://www.thecorporation.com/ (its free but donate if you have spare money!). They pointed out that clever people managed to give corporation the rights as a person with strokes of the pen, those very same rights that many have shed blood and lives to grant. And yet, a corporation has none of the checks and balances that a person has - e.g., they can only be punished financially because the concept of freedom doesn't exist for a corporation (you can't improson a corporation!). A corporation doesn't have to be accountable for crimes they commit (ala, limited liability).

I think a corp should not be granted the same rights as a person, unless it is also held to the same regard as a person.
Having played both, there are some key differences:

- American Football allows blocking, whereas rugby does not. This means it's perfectly legal to blindside someone as hard as you can, often helmet to helmet.

- Football allows tackling above the waist without wrapping your arms around the other player, whereas rugby does not. This means people can launch themselves at the other player as hard as they want without wrapping up, basically turning themselves into large projectiles. The goal, up until recently (since the league started cracking down), was to have a helmet-to-helmet collision in order to knock the other player out (most often happening to wide-receivers). Knocking out another player is a point of pride and a strategic advantage as well.

- Football has armor, Rugby does not. This actually works against Football. It encourages harder hits and head-to-head collisions. Football helmets protect against skull fractures but not concussions. The brain moves independent of the skull in a high impact collision despite how shock absorbant the helmet may be. In rugby, players are a LOT less likely to crack each other's heads together because of the risk of fracture.

I played rugby for 7 years through high school and college, and Football 2 years in high school. I never received any concussions in Rugby (let alone any serious injury at all), but did receive them in my short experience playing football, and at the Junior Varsity level no less.

If I ever have a son, as much as I love the sport, he is banned from playing American football.
More likely, the NFL will gradually transition to a safer game that resembles flag football. It may lose some of its audience, but there's too much brand value to fold completely.
Very funny, but... isn't Lyons himself click-whoring with articles like this? He is (or has become) a part of the circus.
And bush is the only president so far with an MBA. Is the USA becoming socialist? [/sarcasm].

http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/02/gwb_hbs_mba.html
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Why would a scientist want to be a politician? So they can spend their days fighting over paperwork instead of solving problems they're passionate about?

The kind of people that want to be scientists would have no interest in politics, beyond what it takes to get them funding.
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> It's riddled with human rights violations, corruption and environmental pollution.

More likely because it's a poor country than because it is pro-scientist.

> While American politicians decry climate change openly, China just seems to ignore it.

They are doing significant efforts in green technology. Furthermore, China isn't all that bad if you look at per capita statistics which is arguably more fair to compare.
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My attempt to be culturally neutral. You can always blame Martians and nobody will get upset.
I think the really big factor here is that scientists
don't want to go into politics!

Pretty much my guess. A lot of people I know say that, if they were mysteriously elected president, their first words would be "I quit!".
You don't even need to be from another planet. I'm from Germany and I'm baffled at US politics pretty much every time I read about it.

That isn't to say that it's better in any way here - we just have more political parties, so the nonsense is spread out a bit more, but that still doesn't mean we have less nonsense.
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Unfortunately her doctorate hasn't prevented her from making one inane decision after the other during the ongoing financial crisis and even on the field she should be at least somewhat knowledgeable (nuclear power) she didn't really evoke any trust into her decision-making (first extending life span of nuclear reactors despite strong criticism by experts and than retracting this decision only a year later in the wake of Fukushima).
Why don't Americans elect scientists? Because current American culture is anti-intellectual. I can't really back this up concretely, but as an American, it's hard to find anything intellectual around. A long time ago, people went to hear lectures on the weekends, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates were well attended. Now, TV "news" is a joke, and even NPR is becoming a bit entertainy. I get the feeling that few Americans want to think.
I disagree though. Merely having a PhD in the science field would change the (future) politician's worldview - from how to view data (you gotta admit it, if more US politicians were scientifically literate, they'd be less likely to claim climate change is false) to basic skepticism.

Having work done in the field of science, imo, is a plus
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Every industry has people within it that are unethical or try to game the system for their own benefit at the expense of others. If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad.
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The reason is fairly straightforward. Power moves in social circles.

It is the same reason why there aren't many lawyers who make it politically in China.

Secondly, support has to be nurtured, and potential candidates groomed by power brokers or king makers. These people act like VCs and are generally very conservative when it comes to investing their scarce political resources.
Which really doesn't show, ever. I think being a scientist (and by contrast, a politician) is a matter of thinking, not of degree or title. The currently top rated comment [1] explains it rather nicely.

[1]: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3589032
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Vetle is a fairly uncommon Norwegian name, and happens to be my first name. Very weird.
Aside from all this, can anybody imagine what their Amazon bill is like? Lucky them they have not so demanding venture capitalists to pay their bills. I honestly wonder how long they will be able to keep growing like they do without making any money.
Do you have a ballpark figure of how much money she'd like to make each month?
Wait. Which site is the new one? The colorful book or the white boxes + image based background? My comment above is based on the book one.
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I'm in Iran.

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FYI: https and basically every secure Internet protocol was shut down, couple of days ago in Iran.
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My impression is that being a scientist involves a whole lot of fighting over paperwork instead of solving problems (at least in America, when it's time to apply for grants!).
Not all scientists are government-employed. It may be a majority in some countries, but I would not disregard the amount of scientists employed in the private industries as well. They may not be involved in fundamental research, rather "applied sciences", but they are scientists nonetheless. Anyone who produces data through experimentation, analyses it, uses critical judgment and appropriate tools to make evidence-based decisions is basically, in my eyes, a "scientist", no matter the exact field of work.

Regarding your first point, the scientists who are not pragmatic will take severe hits to their reputations down the road. Data and methodology is what matters, not personal opinion.
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That'll be the same reason Americans don't elect a Juris Doctor who was President of the Harvard Law Review, right?
One aspect I've never thought about before is the selection of representatives for parliament/legislature. In the U.S., they're pre-selected in primary elections per party, but the national elections are single-winner per seat, so the candidates are out pandering to the voters constantly. I don't know percentages, but many other countries use multi-winner to select their national multi-seat bodies, and my understanding is that those would-be candidates aren't out campaigning, or at least not anywhere close to as visible as they are in the U.S. or the U.K. where there are direct single-winner elections for seats. As ideologically-driven as political parties are, maybe the parties still tend to select more rational, scientific-minded representatives when the would-be reps do not have a requirement to pander directly to the population prior to the election.

India (from wikipedia) also appears to have direct election of its parliament. India is fairly well known for its stifling bureaucracy. Is that coincidence, or the start of a pattern?

Maybe it's also in part due to other countries (those which aren't degenerate and corrupt enough that the government can fraudulently influence elections) knowing they're not the world's largest superpower, and knowing they can't afford to screw around as much.

I'd love to see the voting system changed to Range Voting (best overall?) or Condorcet (best ordering-based voting system?). For its discrimination against third parties, plurality voting is simply horrible, and IRV is nearly as bad[1]. I'll note that I don't think a voting system change alone will fix the American political system.

http://rangevoting.org, despite its nominal bias, is the best voting system resource anywhere.

[1] for instance: http://bolson.org/voting/irv/ IRV fails monotonicity, which IMO is a huge deal. http://rangevoting.org/Monotone.html
Yeah, I've noticed this in Australia... Politics is full of failed ad execs and dis-barred lawyers. The really intelligent people now go into the private sector because politics has lost any semblance of being a respectable or intellectual career. What happens when you have policy dictated by reactionary idiots? What happens when this continues for more than a generation? Very scary.
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I was just about to say the same thing about Basketball here. I'm in KY and our local high school team always does well, and our college team, while never great, had a good season last year, as well, and has a few bright stars amongst its roster. March is crazy here. It's nothing but basketball, basketball, basketball, and my Facebook and Twitter feeds fill up with commentary every time there's a game. The local community gets behind it, even at the high school level. The school district closes school for the day if the team has an out-of-town game in the state tournament, so people can attend, etc. (As a parent, I don't agree with this action, but none the less, it is interesting from a social perspective).

I'm not a huge fan of the sport, but even I find it hard not to get sucked in.
The one that sold 73 million tickets last year, at the major league level alone.
Plenty of other countries have had memorable scientist leaders. The article itself opens with a picture of Merkel, and then of course, there's Thatcher... And most of the Chinese Communist Party Glitterati are engineers.
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Yah, obviously that's the value he's adding. I think it's a zero sum game, however. Shilling isn't going to help a crappy product out in the long term, only the short term.

And it brings up all manner of ethical grey areas: is blogging journalism? Do influencers lose influence when they lose objectivity? What the fuck is an influencer, anyway?

If a journalist is ever an influencer, he or she is doing it wrong...

Buh, I could go on a giant rant here about how journalism is dead, or at least, extremely sick... How am I going to write about people places and events when those people places and events are writing about themselves?

Fortunately, it would seem there is still a consumer for quality, deep journalism on specific topics.

I don't even know what I'm really saying here, anymore... Just that Lyons really hit a nerve. It's super frustrating to be in an interview with someone who makes 10X what you make, and is completely unaware of what's really going on in their industry.... All too common an event.
from my understanding of rugby, another big difference is rules regarding how a team keeps possession of the ball. In rugby (to the best of my knowledge) it's important to fall properly so that your team can ruck over you and keep possession. There is little to no incentive to try to ram forward at full speed, especially if it means falling improperly, which would just lead to a turnover.

In football it's the opposite, every yard is fought for because the team maintains possession after being tackled, and the way you keep possession long term is by moving 10 yards in 4 downs.

In rugby this means 2 players slamming directly into each other at full speed happens very rarely, while in football it happens all the time, and is in fact practiced.
Its not who you elect that matters. Its how decentralized the system is and how limited the power of the government is that matters.

When the amount of power is great and concentrated, those lusting after power work very hard to get it. And they will do what they need to get it. And then use the power to keep it.

But when the government is limited and very decentralized, its not going to attract sociopaths as much.

In Switzerland, each member of a 7 person council takes a one-year turn presiding.

There's a joke about it actually. A tourist is discussing this with a Swiss man he bumped into.

After asking many other questions, the tourist finally asks "So who is president this year?" The Swiss man replied "Oh, this year its me."
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I'd bet fewer than 25% of American adults can tell you both of those things.

Plain and simple:

Obama got elected because he is a great speaker and he's charismatic. Qualities much closer to being a popular actor or religious figure got him elected rather than his intellect.

It didn't hurt that people were tired of the previous party (this is a common pattern).
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