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It's funny that you ask for case studies, because many people argue that what is happening right now has never happened before.

I'm studying business with a healthy dose of economics, and when we ask Professors, they even don't know what is going on, and everyone who says so is just guessing. IMHO no one knows what's really going on!

We have to just let it play out. If you want to be somewhat prepared be flexible and adapt quickly to new situations as you see them developing. Not very useful and very generic but the only thing you and I can do.
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Gosh, that attitude couldn't be more different in Beijing. Here in the PRC, business owners and entrepreneurs are viewed with some suspicion, a holdover from the revolutionary days. For example, Li Ning was a national sports hero, and he really sullied his reputation by going into business and founding a big sports clothing brand. Folks just don't believe that you could get that successful honestly. The expectations of corruption are too high.

Sure, people want money, but most believe that the only real way to get it is through some kind of graft or payoffs. Thus, the way to get wealthy is to get a high job in a large and established company or government organization, and put themselves in a position for the inevitable kickback. They may not paint it in those terms, but that's basically what those students were asking for.

Now for the caveats: There is an AMAZING amount of entrepreneurial activity at the bottom of the food chain, and there is definitely an emerging entrepreneurial class. China's also a huge and diverse country, and there's definitely pockets of Silicon Valley-like activity. However, culturally they're swimming upstream.

Frankly, I fear for the economic future of China unless they kickstart some more private business activity (particularly startups). The majority of economic activity here is in massive sluggish state owned enterprises, and that's a recipe for disaster if this economic downturn is long and nasty.
Yes, somebody needed to point out this (the obvious).

It might be the perfect time for bank startups: with "the new guy" bank image. Whoever lost money starting a bank?
why? would that make him a shithead? Surely it'd make the hotel a "shithead" or something?

The visitor that got bumped probably got a discount if he comes back in a week or two, or something.
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China is right now an excellent place for entrepreneurs, especially young, local ones. What is a _real_ barrier for these students is expectation and prestige. They just finished at the most prestigious schools in China. The only thing their families will accept is a great salary from a well know company.

The good news is this isn't hurting entrepreneurship in China. There are far too many smart young Chinese that do not have these outsized expectations...and maybe more important have nowhere to turn but to start something themselves.

Maybe another way to summarize this article is "Wharton profs' only interactions with Chinese students is at the top .0001% of the class."
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The current situation is much worse than Japan's "lost decade." Unfortunately, the crisis today is global in scope. When Japan went through its "lost decade," it was eventually able to export its way back to growth. That option does not exist today. Europe - particularly Eastern Europe - is contracting faster than the US; Japan is falling off a cliff; China is most likely already technically in recession. Trade and industrial production are actually contracting at faster rates than they did at any point during the Great Depression. It's not at all clear where global growth will come from at this point.

Obviously, we will have growth at some point in the future - maybe even in a year or so if we fix the financial system. But it might be five years from now. It might be ten. It might be longer. But there are social factors at work here complicating the picture. There is most likely going to be substantial social unrest around the world in the next few years. Eastern Europe and China are probably the most immediately vulnerable areas. It's impossible to predict what the consequences of potential social unrest or governments collapsing (like Latvia last week) would be, but they need to be considered in assessing how bad this current crisis could become.

This is not to say that we're all going to start living in a Steinbeck novel, or that shanty towns will start propping up everywhere. Our standard of living will go down, but we'll still live better than we did thirty or forty years ago. But we are going through an economic reset. This will be much worse than the mild recessions we've become accustomed to.
Right. I think Buffett talked about this only because it explains why Clayton Homes won't be able to lend as much in the near future. Buffett obviously thinks the bailout was best for the country and for Berkshire in the long run, but he had to explain these numbers to shareholders (from the table on page 11/12 of the 2008 letter):

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This is not nested because it is only partly a reply to Jessealdridge.

I am new to hackernews, so I can't claim any idea of how to apply these ideas to that site. However, I find the notion of a "town center" a very intriguing one for the web, especially apropos of footnote 7 of the article. Most social sites act like huge suburbs, and many of their users are invariably suburbanites trying to escape the suburbs. In this way, the problem of a lack of place gets abstracted, and suburbanite communities emerge around topics that the real people can't discuss in their physical environments for lack of a place to do so. Their place to discuss things they would explore in the real world itself becomes amorphous and isolationist. But this is too broad; enter Dunbar's number.

I don't think Dunbar was the first to suggest that communities need a finite size, but his observation that that size is proportional to the volume of a brain region is interesting in that it provides an example of a willingness to assign a metric for community size to which human beings would be subject. This raises the question I'm trying to ask and the point of this long-winded comment.

How can we create fulfilling communities on-line that will enhance the essentially human aspects of such communities? Jessealdridge suggested breaking large communities up into smaller numbers (perhaps something like www.fluther.com allows). But if any metric like Dunbar's number is to be believed, this number should be a reflection of a deeper determinant of identity in a community, which itself requires an obvious representation in the allowable forms of interaction on the site. In the high-quality sites in the physical world, human communities are delineated by spatial relationships according to the organizing principles of architecture. But such places are rare in the physical world, and are mostly confined to very old cultures or small liberal arts colleges.

Perhaps one of the reasons that such frameworks of fulfilling human interaction are so rare is that they are very difficult to understand and very expensive to make. The web can do better at creating frameworks for human interaction because it uses information explicitly, potentially clarifying the underlying principles generating the framework, and because it is much less expensive for people to come together and create something on the web than it is for them to come together and make something architectural, in the physical world.

Unfortunately, this seems to mean (as you pointed out in your article) that sites much less often impart a sense of a change in place, or of a place at all. I wonder how the problems you've outlined (trolls, stupid comments, mean people) map onto the architectural representations of these problems, and how the solutions you've come up with could map onto architectural solutions to the analogues of those problems. In short, the article makes me wonder, however tangentially, how the web could benefit from being more than a surrogate, and perhaps more of a support structure, for physical human communities.

Could hackernews benefit from having some relationship to physical places?
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China has well over a billion people. You'll find a lot of ANYTHING in China, including entrepreneurialism. However, in my experience, most Chinese don't believe that starting a business is the best way to wealth.

Of course, I'm a white American (that happens to live in China). Perhaps you have some insights that I'm lacking.
The measure of innovation is patent registrations? I'm not convinced by this measure. Sure, it allows them to draw a nice graph, but if the underlying data is trash, the graph is less than useful.
I don't quite follow: how were the profs making money without benefiting others? Profs don't make that much money, or do they? Also stealing was just one of three ways for getting rich they suggested.

I can't imagine business schools are to blame, much more likely seeing people get rich in banking is to blame.
well said. Entrepreneurial activity is more embraced in Shanghai, as opposed to Beijing. This thread now says Taiwan, Beijing, and Shanghai all have different attitudes. So much for lumping the Chinese in one bucket ;).
Well not exactly... The work we are doing at Borange is more concerned with scheduling and availability than sending group SMS, and my main point was that there are possible strategies for migrating people off of SMS by including SMS compatibility. It's the lowest common denominator in mobile messaging, and you really can't afford not to include it to some degree for moving forward.

Yeah, crazy dead heap there, though! How long until SMS joins it? :)
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You are going to have a very, very difficult time living in Tokyo for $600 a month. Is that $600 you have budgeted out for rent or $600 total?

At $600 total it is, flatly, impossible for you unless you intend to sleep on a park bench. At $600 for rent you can probably find somewhere in the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area (note: this is huge and can be upwards of 3 hours from Tokyo proper by train) which will take a foreigner for a few months without requiring $2,000 worth of key money, but it will certainly not have a workbench.
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I don't agree with your line "specifically white Americans". I'm a white American and have lived in Shanghai 9 years. Of all the various types I see coming into Shanghai, the type that seems to have a very hard time assimilating is the "ABC". The American Born Chinese. This is a multi-faceted problem. But to be sure, there are many white Americans that "get it" and assimilate quite well.

Your point about sample size and selection bias is right on. This is the real take away from the article.
I don't know - his examples were rounded corners, a float that he fixed and an unrelated-to-IE font issue. Are they worth cutting of 10% of your users?

Quite often it's worthwhile maintaining a bare-bones version of your site. For more than just compatability - there is also accessibility, printing, slow connections, etc, etc. Surely it's a better user experience to just downgrade them to that?
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This is actually only recently true, when investment banks became PLCs. Back in the days of partnerships, everyone was highly incentivized to put the institution first.
That's the scale for the chart - The article (that it links to) claims: "analyzed over 700 variables, including those driving innovation (business environment, government and regulation, human capital, infrastructure, and local demand) along with proxies for innovation output (for example, economic value added, journal publications, patent applications) to identify trends among the success stories"
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I voted up, because there's some beautiful thoughts and ideas in there, and Einstein's an amazing man. However, I'm a bit scared by:

"The text of Albert Einstein's copyrighted essay, "The World As I See It," was shortened for our Web exhibit."

This paragraph in particular seems awkward in the flow of the essay, and the ellipses suggests the re-author/exhibitor is likely liberally oversimplifying quite a bit:

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

I don't think anyone likes gung-ho destructive violent force, but most rational thinkers understand that basic defense is necessary to at least some extent. Or at least, it's been historically necessary in the past. I'm going to guess Einstein's point was much more sophisticated and nuanced in the original, unedited work.

Still a beautiful piece with beautiful ideas, but selective editing of great thinkers always scares the hell out of me.
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Your thoughts are very nice and I know there are many that think like you. Unfortunately, the path to riches, as these students depict, almost never leads to wealth redistribution.

I live in Shanghai. All I see the new wealthy do is park their cars illegally in the bicycle lanes.
"Even if the job goes away I'll be alright, because I'm not afraid to wait tables (or perform any other type of manual labor)."

I think the unskilled labor jobs would be even more scarce than other jobs in a depression. It would work if you own a farm, so that you could turn manual labor into food directly, I suppose.
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It's worth remembering though that Einstein was a german jew during Hitler's rise to power. Seeing the very worst of human qualities exposed via the military system can certainly make one less than objective.

Of course, I'd like to think that he realizes that the same system he abhors ultimately crushed that evil, but sometimes emotion can run deep. He wasn't immune to human feeling.
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> This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism--how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

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Can you give an example? Because that runs contrary to all my experience. I've worked in enterprise most of my career and I can honestly say that "Hello World" is a 6 month timeline (i.e. that is the innate overhead in doing almost anything).

It would take 30 days to simply meet all the required people and work out what they needed. Let alone build, test and all the other things you need to do (even leaving aside non-core-dev tasks like signoffs, infrastructure, deploy, train, rollout, etc).

(In fact, it generally takes a lot longer than that, but for the sake of argument).
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Maybe because this quite nightmarish (yes, I've tried) and they didn't want to ruin their premise. Generally the magic falls apart as soon as images get involved or when you need to align something pixel-perfectly - which also mostly happens when you want images to line up.

I'm very fond of the idea - but not so fond of the possible implementations (including this one) that I have tried. The math alone drops you into the funky realm of rounding differences between the browsers. Values like 14.575% just don't come out the same in every browser and it's a bit of a gamble whether you'll be able to fix the resulting uneven gaps or not.

There's also the issue of font-rendering. Most fonts are optimized for a few standard point sizes and develop a nasty blur or bad kerning when you start sizing them with em's or percentages instead of hard pixel values. The aforementioned rounding variances make it near impossible to have, say, an 1.4em helvetica (relative to a 75% container) look crisp on all platforms.

So far I have yet to see a grid-based fluid layout with images that actually looks convincing across browsers and platforms - without requiring kilobytes and man-months of CSS hacks.

Over here we've had good success with pixel-based grids for graphics heavy sites and fairly simple, albeit markup-dependant, approaches like Malo for liquid layouts. We've also used the "holy grail" for n-column layouts but found that to become a maintenance-hassle over time.
I really doubt that learning a hard language would be detrimental to their education.

In many countries kids study 2 or more foreign languages and they are much better off because of it. The more you learn, the easier it is for you to learn more.

Plus, I've been studying Chinese writing and I don't think it's as hard as it looks to an outsider.
Keep in mind that this is a translation - originally, Einstein wrote this in German [1].

most rational thinkers understand that basic defense is necessary

I think he is looking at things from the perspective of the institutions' interaction with individuals - in particular, that those individuals subjugated to the military or similar institutions are an enormous waste of potential. This part, in particular, speaks to that notion:

"He who joyfully marches to music, rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice."

1. Or at least, there are slightly different versions out there: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html
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Thanks for that - I do find that quote more interesting. The original simplification sounded like, "Scrap the military, I hate it, it shouldn't exist." Einstein's actual quote outlines that his disdain is for people who enjoy being part of the military herd system, which only still exists because of political interests acting through the schools and the Press. The simplification sounds like, "Scrap the military", the original is more along the lines of "Military would've been gone except for government acting through the schools and media" --> HUGE difference there, and I find Einstein's unedited/un"simplified" far more insightful.
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"Most people reading this would not be happy at all living off of $400 per month, that's noodles for lunch every day."

I did say I was talking about ramen profitability :). I'm in my early-mid twenties and at this stage in my life am accustomed to plowing every penny into investments.
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Maybe it's easier to come up with an improvement to an existing invention? It's still an invention in either case... Just pick something you're familiar with and brainstorm the issues with it (and possible innovative solutions naturally).
and I don't like to see people well trained in finance completely screw up the economy...as they have.

Most "experts" have no more credibility now than the masses who can barely calculate simple interest. They are a bunch of paid-for shills. Just because you understand the math behind derivatives does not mean they should have ever been allow to exist.
It's not quite so black and white, but yes, if you look at IE8, IE8 is more standards compliant because Microsoft has less leverage over the browser market any more.

Nevertheless, it has been blindsided by the sudden appearance of much faster Javascript in chrome and other browsers. It's too late in the dev cycle for IE8 to get that. It will have to wait for IE9 or 8.1 or whatever.
At my two previous employers, that's exactly what they do. All machines are completely locked-down. I suspect this is not unusual at large, more traditional corporations.
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I think he did a pretty good job explaining why he made the choice to drop support for IE in TFA.
Hm, I blacklisted readwriteweb a while ago for myself when I noticed they had a lot of "submarine articles" (meaning articles somebody paid them for).
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And here I thought I was alone in my thoughts and perception of the current situation :)
sigh... and london did not fare well :( There are a number of "things" going on here, and all I can imagine is the scale of SV :)
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