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by gujk 15y ago
A balance of power between multiple branches and levels of government, and aka oversight, can mitigate that. Not perfect, but neither is nonregulation.
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by gujk 15y ago
The problem is that a law like you suggest is unenforceable. I It would be more effective to reduce the power of the central federal government.
33.
by gujk 15y ago
That's not how statistics works. Your statement is the converse of happened, not the contraposive.
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by gujk 15y ago
If we agree the original article was meritless, downvote both that article and this, instead of upvoting them both.
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by gujk 15y ago
Are you claiming that the people who built Windows were not productive?
36.
by gujk 15y ago
As a programming achievement, I think you mean ViaWeb, and the Arc or HN.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yeah it does. It is a relief that the search actually finally works in win7 so no one has to care about the uselessly horrible menus and dialogs fixing the control panel.
38.
by gujk 15y ago
Because you are content in your surroundings and more energy efficient.
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by gujk 15y ago
Those others are lying to impress you. That's the point.
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by gujk 15y ago
Printing is an improvement over email?
41.
by gujk 15y ago
That's not what "design patent" means in US law.
42.
by gujk 15y ago
The red case is a smart cover.
43.
by gujk 15y ago
"waterfall" was a made up term invented in a paper to describe a hypothetical development process, not an actual process.
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by gujk 15y ago
Parent point is that once you have a nontrivial queue, very already lost, so it doesn't matter which style is faster.
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by gujk 15y ago
I thought the British were the world champions of queuing, even in situations where there are no affordances, Brits instinctively know how to queue and suffer no jumper.
46.
by gujk 15y ago
Because no one can spell queuology or queuistics.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yes, and it is how real stores work, which is the point.
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by gujk 15y ago
Wow. Lucky for us we'll probably never have an incrediblly genius physicist who can't wipe his own drool or speak English under his own power. Probably. Anymore.
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by gujk 15y ago
The description you give of yourself is by most common educational definitions not "gifted" (135 IQ or top 2% on standardized tests), so we are back to the point that "gifted" kids find their success just fine. Everyone could achieve more
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by gujk 15y ago
You are absolutely going have some familial encouragement and support in any field. I was one of few of my math peer group in high school and college who didn't have Ph.D parents. (I had plenty of support, and but not direct parental direct
51.
by gujk 15y ago
What happens? He becomes the most beloved billionaire in history? I don't think Steve Jobs needed more help.
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by gujk 15y ago
These high school placements into university labs are a classic example of how privilege plays out, converting socio economic status into plausible credentials. Connected parents get glamorous internships for their kids that massively overs
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by gujk 15y ago
Increasingly? The whole Discovery Program of the late 1990s and 2000s is everything but plug and chug and memorization, to the point that parents started a reactionary "Where's the Math?" movement (actual name) to put some plug and chug ba
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by gujk 15y ago
Considering how awful college stats classes are, I don't see high school getting any better.
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by gujk 15y ago
Where is New Math being taught? I learned (and loved) New Math in a gifted program in the 90s, at one of the last New Math outposts in America, in an IMACS/MEGSSS program.
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by gujk 15y ago
The VP article linked to this one as background material. That is where OP found this article to repost for karma.
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by gujk 15y ago
The exact same analysis applies to developers.
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by gujk 15y ago
Your paragraph 4 contradicts paragraph 2.
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by gujk 15y ago
Firefox wins on only two feature, but important ones: privacy and advertising addons. It is the only reason I tolerate the rest of Firefox's slowness and memory hogging. 95+% of the market doesn't care about privacy and half don't care abou
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by gujk 15y ago
Google Apps are quite effective at losing on their own demerits in a business environment, even without privacy concerns, though that is a big one. The main win over say MS suite is price and hosting, if you have a very small operation that

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