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> However, I am not sure how easy it is identify the kids pre-teenage.

I'm not sure how the Chinese do it, but this is exactly their approach. Children with talent (or at least some signs of it) are taken at a very young age (~5 y/o) and intensively trained.

> Importing a group of people just for the sole purpose of racking up medals (non withstanding the inherent creepiness of it) will be tremendously expensive. How do you justify the expense if the children don't want to do it eventually?

Will it be expensive? I made this suggestion based on the assumption that, as with the IT industry, it's more cost efficient to bring in workers from abroad than to depend on domestic talent. In any case, from what I can tell, the main costs come from buying equipment and hiring coaches, not from the children. All you have to do is pay for their food, shelter, schooling, and other basic needs.

The children of course will not be forced to remain in the program if they do not want to. Contrary to popular belief, this is the system used by China - no one is kidnapped or coerced into participating, although that no doubt happens in North Korea.

In any case, the US policy would be that at any point, they can quit and go back home, if they so desire. Citizenship would be reserved for those who stick with the program until they are of Olympic age (of course, there would be weeding out as well, so the numbers would be relatively low). And even if they end up going back at the age of 10, they would have greatly benefited from just getting nutritious food during a crucial part of their childhood - child malnutrition rates in India are almost 50%, even higher than those in sub-Saharan Africa. Childhood malnutrition leads to lifelong physical and mental infirmity, so the children would no doubt benefit.

There's no denying the creepiness to some people, although I don't see it that way (America is a nation of immigrants who came for a better life, and that would describe these kids perfectly). This would be a cost-efficient and humane way to reassert US Olympic dominance over China, something that a lot of people are concerned with.
I'm pretty sure it's like that most places, being a community college -> state university transfer myself (in Illinois), and knowing plenty of other people who went from community college to Northwestern and a few other nice private colleges. Anything out of your degree's core reqs. seems to usually be easy to transfer from community college, and that's usually what the first 2 years are. CC is also a good place for knocking out your math requirements, and a lot of the people in my math classes were traditional university students doing it to save money, or to get it done during a summer semester at home.

Problems might be more from not having a decent community college to go to, families that think community college is unacceptable, or just slacker inertia. I had an excellent community college, and went back to school as an adult over 10 years after dropping out of high school, so none of that stuff applied to me.

edit: better explanation at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4338579
It doesn't really punish larger countries, because larger countries can send much, much broader teams. Try and find a sport that doesn't have the Chinese or Americans competing in it. Then do the same for small-but-not-tiny countries like New Zealand, Ireland or even Greece.
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Most countries with strict gun control nonetheless have a way you can get access to rifles for sport-shooting at licensed facilities. One of the two Indian shooting-sport medallists is also in the army.
Brazil and Mexico suffer from the same problem, they are middle income countries with more than a 100 million people and yet they are not much better than Kenya, and although not a country with much people Israelis are richer than the majority of the world they do not go well in the Olympics either, so money just do not buy a good Olympics performance like the article tried to sell.

One thing that can explain is culture, Australia has a culture for competition, for example Australian lifeguards compete in the Surf Life Saving competition in aquatic sports, it's not a coincidence that Australia goes well in aquatic sports in the Olympics, Swimming, Rowing and Sailing are responsible for half their gold medals.
What about the password manager of Firefox? It seems to be better at remembering passwords from signup, so the only missing ingredient seems to be generating a random password upon signup.
You are totally free to switch to any form of communication anytime you choose, it's just inconvenient. And Facebook does provide a comprehensive export of your data on request.

Switching banks is inconvenient too, especially if you have outstanding loans.
I just love armchair experts.

You didn't need to be an expert for this one. You could have seen the inevitable dive coming with nothing but the most basic understanding of stock markets and concrete measures like the expected price/earnings ratio, without even referring to anything specific about how Facebook operates.

And if you did consider anything deeper than that, applying the slightest common sense to where Facebook's growth has come from so far and the current global population for example, or looking at Facebook's dubious record with regard to building a sustainable, efficient advertising system to monetize their users, or keeping those users on-side with sensitive issues like privacy or just the everyday user experience, every single one of these indicators would have been a red flag.

Did you ever think that maybe those investors aren't looking for a short term return and don't care about the stock price day to day. You know the type of investors we actually need more of.

I imagine most people who bought Facebook were banking on an irrational market-driven rise in the early days followed by a quick cash-out. You know, exactly the type of investors we actually need fewer of. Anyone who made the slightest attempt to consider the fundamentals from either an economic or a business standpoint was on a different continent on IPO day.

And if you actually were a little more creative you would see that Facebook doesn't have to bundle everything into the website. It can have separate brands like Instagram and grow into new markets that way. And with its sheer user base and content it would be able to decimate smaller competitors.

Except that in something like eight years so far, they have no demonstrated record of successfully doing those things, so banking on hypothetical future values based on what they might do (assuming any of a dozen major tech firms don't each their lunch first) is exactly the kind of foolish speculation that drives a $38 starting point.
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I meant what I said. Please don't put words in my mouth.

It was an emotional reaction. And it still is.

We went through all this with animated gifs, then <blink>, and then flash.

Please. No more.
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Honestly, it gives the impression that some of the commenters are from the internet. As sad as it is, you can kind of expect shit like that from completely disinterested parties who just want to be assholes.
Can someone smarter than me please explain why a system where trades got matched / executed at a granularity of once per second or once per several seconds wouldn't work? What would be the problem with exchanges accumulating and keeping secret buy and sell orders and executing them at a reasonable interval?
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Of course we do.

There's a substantial and growing body of social science research that indicates that inequality leads to a whole host of social ills--see Wilkinson and Pickett.

There's also an intuited sense that when so very many people (1 in 4 children now!) are underfed, and so very many have no real access to medical care (1 on 6 americans), when education is becoming ever more inaccessible, and when the few institutions that have successfully defended workers from a hardscrabble life of hopeless poverty are virtually destroyed, AND there are a few people who don't really work harder (and certainly NOT billions of times harder!) than the rest of us, but enjoy quirks of market, law, and birth to amass vast wealth, that something might be wrong with the system that allows them to do that.

We're trapped in an economic system that concentrates resources and power, whose foundations we have been so thoroughly indoctrinated to accept that we treat them as immutable laws of nature, rather than inventions to serve us--all of us, not just the ultra-wealthy. Laws of nature, we might be stuck with. Inventions of our own making, we might could improve upon.

Yeah, we'd like a more equal country.
There is a need to worry, because AFAIK at least Debian hasn't provided patches yet, so come September servers might still be crashing.

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Korea was only a Japanese colony for 35 years (1910-1945). After the Japanese occupation ended, the Koreans did their best to reject everything Japanese, so I don't think you can base your conclusion on that.

I don't deny that the Koreans do well in other sports, just that it's not like they have a cultural advantage or something. For example, their dominance in archery at the 2008 games was partially due to their building an exact replica of the Beijing archery range in Korea 2 years earlier and using it to practice. Many other competitors had never practiced on that archery range until they arrived at the Olympics, and it threw them off.
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But what assumptions are people making? It's easy to say you want equality of wealth, but life is more complex than that. There are clearly paths in life that can take you down to the lowest low or to the highest high, both from the same starting point. I went to high school with kids who's parent all had similar social status and weath, but our personalities created a wide wealth gap between us.
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This appears to be the study that the figures are taken from:
http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf

And here's the definition of wealth:

I also use a more restricted concept of wealth, which I call “non-home wealth.” This is
defined as net worth minus net equity in owner-occupied housing (the primary residence only).
Non-home wealth is a more liquid concept than marketable wealth, since one’s home is difficult
to convert into cash in the short term. Moreover, primary homes also serve a consumption
purpose besides acting as a store of value. Non-home wealth thus reflects the resources that may
be immediately available for consumption expenditure or various forms of investments.
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Absolutely, things like these are the only hope for facebook's drowning fortune.
Basically, yes.

>Blow said that he was inspired by Myst, but also by the non-existent games that could have been inspired by Myst but weren't...

>"It's like there's some really fucking awesome game like Myst that nobody ever made because it was filled with all of these illogical puzzles and stuff, right?"

>I didn't follow. He was inspired by an imaginary game?

http://kotaku.com/5893336/jonathan-blows-the-witness-is-an-e...

By the way, I've been following The Witness blog for a while and they have some really amazing and surprisingly technical content.
Here is the paper (cited in the article): http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf

Quote: “The principal wealth concept used here is marketable wealth (or net worth), which is defined as the current value of all marketable or fungible assets less the current value of debts. Net worth is thus the difference in value between total assets and total liabilities or debt. Total assets are defined as the sum of: (1) the gross value of owner-occupied housing; (2) other real estate owned by the household; (3) cash and demand deposits; (4) time and savings deposits, certificates of deposit, and money market accounts; (5) government bonds, corporate bonds, foreign bonds, and other financial securities; (6) the cash surrender value of life insurance plans; (7) the cash surrender value of pension plans, including IRAs, Keogh, and 401(k) plans; (8) corporate stock and mutual funds; (9) net equity in unincorporated businesses; and (10) equity in trust funds. Total liabilities are the sum of: (1) mortgage debt; (2) consumer debt, including auto loans; and (3) other debt.

This measure reflects wealth as a store of value and therefore a source of potential consumption. I believe that this is the concept that best reflects the level of well-being associated with a family’s holdings. Thus, only assets that can be readily converted to cash (that is, ‘fungible’ ones) are included.”

Please note that this is only the source of the numbers The Atlantic used in their comparison. The Atlantic did the actual poll asking people for how they think the distribution looks.
Heh, yeah it does work well on iPad. Though to be fair, it's not really a fair comparison, since Mobile Safari specifically h/w accelerates CSS transforms, and will always work, since the hardware is known. On desktop, browsers are dealing with various issues due to crap GFX hardware and dodgy drivers. Browsers seem to be doing some some fairly mysterious blacklisting stuff to try and deal with it, but it doesn't seem to be completely working (for me at least).

That is, I can play the very latest Steam games on high graphics settings, but I can't run WebGL in my browser, despite upgrading to the latest graphics drivers for my (now fairly dated, yet powerful) Geforce 8600GT. And until a recent driver update, CSS 3D transforms also weren't working, despite those very same top-end games running just fine.
You missed alternative 3) The entire gawker user and staff db was compromised two years ago. He hasn't changed his password "in years" and uses it on other sites. The attacker brute-forced the compromised hash at his leisure.
There are plenty of "summer countries" that win gold in the winter Olympics. I recall one year Jamaica won gold with its bobsledding team.
No it's not, but anyone who runs their own mail server can do it, and anyone who provides a mail service for others could provide it as an option. Hell, even Google could implement it, and add a simple "Upload your public key" option to their preferences page. Maybe doing it as one of their Google Labs things. Obviously, they could implement it in a much more efficient fashion than the implementation I provided.
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You're 100% right about long term investors. I remember seeing a statistic that shows most of today's most successful stocks started out bombing at their IPOs.

I didn't mean to come out as an armchair expert, just a believer in common sense. I reached my opinion by bundling the stock drop with: 1) Facebook's "ad click bots" story (I had a similar problem when I advertised on FB years back and have been hearing on and off about Facebook ad problems a lot over the years. 2) The revelation that at minimum 10% of FB accounts are fake (still not a bad percentage assuming it isn't secretly higher). 3) Revenue being based mainly on advertising (whose 0.1% click-through rate is going down each and every year). 4) FB getting closer to reaching its maximum realistically possible users. 5) A serious lack of innovation, drive, diversifying or anything at all going on at Facebook. 6) Near zero horizontal growth with no sign of vertical growth either.

At the moment it's just a sitting duck. I mean, my God what have they really done all these years? When a company branches out too far we call it a "Microsoft", when it has all branches and no trunk we call it a "Yahoo", and when it has only a trunk without branches it's now a "Facebook". The fact that they released "time-line" and "ask questions" shows how few options they have at growing or expanding (or how few they've tried). One trick, one pony indeed. They might go the way of Google and start expanding and experimenting after their IPO but from what we've seen. I'm not so sure at all.
While you provided an accurate description of the Indian culture, your comment does not address the issue at hand.

The biggest problem according to me lies in the Indian culture; We don't challenge authority enough to pursue our dreams.

In Indian culture most decisions that matter are made for children by their parents. Disobeying your parents has an associated stigma to it. While this being a good thing for holding the families together, and arguably increasing happiness, this can be a deterrent to developing a person's individuality and self confidence.

So while it is difficult for well wishing parents to suggest a high-risk, high-reward path for their children (it's not their dream after all), which involves the child following a sport which he/she is good at, the children's subservience hamper independent thinking required to pursue their dream on their own. IMHO this is the primary cause of the herd mentality that we see so very often in India.

This herd mentality causes a catch22, where prior successes are required in a sport for parent-approved children's participation, and due to lack of participation there aren't any successes.

Of course there are miracles, but unfortunately not very often. For example, I attribute a lot of the participation in cricket and as a result the top class Indian cricket team that we see today, to the miracle named 'Sachin Tendulkar'[1] - one of the best batsmen that the sports has ever seen.

But with the modernization(westernization?) of the Indian culture, things are looking better. Looking at India's history at the Olympics[2], recently we have started seeing successes across a variety of sports - shooting, boxing, and badminton. I hope this trend continues and helps convince more parents to let their children pursue their dreams and not be just another rat in the rat race. And also convince a lot more children that challenging the authority can sometimes be a good thing.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_Olympics
> China is a special case since the government basically forces people to shoot for Olympic gold in marginal sports

This is a common misconception. No one is "forced" to participate in the Olympics in China. Poor parents send their children to Olympic trainers because if their children do well, they'll get to go to college for free and have a good, middle-class job.
The only runner in history who runs a faster final 200m split then his first 200m.

How this is allowed with able bodied athletes is beyond me.
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India is a big country with a huge population. As with many other complex phenomena, there is no one reason which can explain why India is not doing well in sports. My guess is that the country is just going through a trough. Wait for a few more generations and see.

In general, as economic forces level the playing field for most countries around the world, the medals tally will start correlating well with the population.
Will it be expensive?

Sending a scouting network into a foreign country that largely doesn't speak your language in order to watch a broad swathe of children isn't going to be cheap.

Given that the US already leads the board in total medal tally, do they really need to game the system that way? Besides, it makes an even further mockery of the idea of 'amateur athletes' when you're essentially buying them from the other side of the world.

Citizenship would be reserved for those who stick with the program until they are of Olympic age (of course, there would be weeding out as well, so the numbers would be relatively low).

Lure a family to an entirely different culture with promises of wealth and wellbeing, then if they aren't gloriously successful for whatever reason, throw them away like trash, back into a culture they're now not used to, particularly the kids? All so you can increment your medal tally to stem the 'yellow peril'? This is morally reprehensible.
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I don't buy that the military is required to work that way.

Take a look at Iraq and Afghanistan to see how many losses are inflicted on the superior military by groups who are not organized in any traditional military sense.

Do you think they would be more effective if they wore uniforms and had a formal command structure?
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Why shouldn't communication to managers be global? In this case it is an important part of managing expectations, which is part of culture.

With it in, people have a pretty good sense of whether they are likely to be impacted. With it out, people will assume that they are impacted whether they are or not, and will resent it. Also including it in what everyone got significantly reduces the risk that some low-level manager who never liked the work from home policy will try to eliminate it locally.

Those strike me as pretty good reasons to leave it in.
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Well, they don't have another choice, and so this is a good option. It's better than what happens in India, with almost half the child population suffering from malnutrition - it's even worse in India than in sub-Saharan Africa, which is saying something.
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Don't know, a Korean friend said Kumdo is one of the most popular sports in Korea, he lived there for a couple of years, don't know about judo but I would not be surprised if it was that popular as well.

I'm not Korean and only said what members of the Brazilian-Korean community, in which I have a some friends, said to me.
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