gametheoretic

>Wow that sounds like some kind of german from the distant past, if at any time we spoke that way. Don't get me wrong! It just sounds, let's say interesting :-)

Hahaha. Vor 3-4 Jahren könnte ich etwas besseres produzieren, aber jetzt nicht. Es gab wirklich eine Zeit, wann ich Aufsätze über der Schriften des Heinrich Bölls schriebe. Heute könnte ich nicht nur etwas zum Mittagssen bestellen. Und das schmerzt mich.

>Thinking about it, it's probably the imperative form leading into the sentence. If we reword it a little, it gets a lot better: Eine Frage an die Deutschen: warum haben die Piraten so wenig Erfolg? In Bezug auf die NSA Affäre, usw., meine ich.

Danke sehr :D

Boom, what a closer.

Deutscher, eine Frage - warum haben die Piraten so wenig Erfolg? Im Gefolge von NSA, usw., meine ich.

I applaud your approach and don't know whether your conclusion is correct.

But if it's not, it's for reasons right in front of you - TC ain't doing any investing. An invite to participate at Disrupt is less like a "most likely to succeed" award at a regular high school and more like "best hair" at a magnet high school.

Everywhere, pedigree counts.

Silicon Valley ∈ Everywhere, whether it likes it or not.

>If there were truly big stakes attached to that exam then there would be a lot more than 340 people out of 150,000 getting a perfect score.

That, and we're all blissfully unaware of what fraction of that 150k participated in the course, and what fraction merely participated in clicking the confirmation email.

>As a kid, I didn't have that problem.

Word to that. Yours truly, for example, took Multivar and LinAlg at Georgetown while in high school (in summer semester before sr. year - for fun), scored a 35 on the ACT w/o prep, AIME participant, that kind of thing. Later failed out of college. I hope this kid really is a genius because if he's not, well, "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising."

The highlighted section was not in reference to 2008. It was in defense of masculine bullshitting, which has its time and place just like everything else. Especially at poker tables.

Who buys CDS? Mom and Pop? If a used car salesman sells Grandma a lemon, that's not nice. Unless Grandma is also a used car salesman.

Getting off topic...

Try rewriting that sentence without passive voice, see what you find.

> Where has adding women to a previous male bastion caused reduced performance? MDs? Parliamentarians? Senior corporate executives?

I made no positive claims, only negative ones.

>Imagine if we had had ibankers who stopped to think "Maybe CDSs are a bullshit kind of insurance, but with inadequate capital, so the first black swan that poops on a big CDS position is going to blow up the planet."

Doing my best to refrain from username-dropping here. If an iterated game rewards some strategy s, then the eventual adoption of strategy s is inevitable. Don't hate the player.

>Men have a tendency to bullshit their way past lack of knowledge.

I will assume you're referring to Chris Bart and Gregory McQueen here. ;)

But seriously, human beings, lacking omniscience, require strategies to work around their blind spots and keep moving forward. When/if we're lucky enough to be cognizant of our own ignorance, we can either notify the others in the room or we can not - both are real options; neither strategy is universally dominant. Obviously, I'm being nice; it is called 'bullshitting'. But if you have a nose for it, then who's to blame for letting it affect you?

Other than the ad networks, who's surviving and growing their business off of ads, really? Like, who's in the business of ad clicks and the business of content? TechCrunch, et al. So, handshake coverage deals, just like now. Samsung is willing to pay a lot more for your site to proclaim its love of Samsung's new device than it is for some annoying little 150x150 ad, no matter how many times you show it.

If your use of the word 'compelling' is in reference to the contents of that link, well, I just could not disagree more. a) Surveys are shit - they're as far removed from double-blind as you can get, and b) the framing of cause and effect is highly opinionated, e.g.: "Having just one female director on the board cuts the risk of bankruptcy by 20%" -- superior feminine corporate guidance or well-documented feminine avoidance of risk(y companies, e.g. startups, for whom bankruptcy, statistically, is the expectation)?

>quotas seem to be the direction that Westernized societies are heading for in the 21st century.

Explicit quotas are a big no-no in the U.S. (where most things are concerned - you can find exceptions here and there). See, for example in university admissions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_Ca...

IMO, legal risk surrounding hiring is THE reason consulting is growing so huge, so fast (in the U.S. at least). Even if the government were to foist quotas on everyone, hiring consultants instead of employees provides a way around it.

>"Any port in a storm." as the saying goes.

Love the humor, usbcondoms crew! Another one I hope you find a place for in the future: "In the dark, all cats are gray" -- Benjamin Franklin. Yes, really.

Amen. Furthermore, if diversity in thought is the goal, surely diversity across nationality and even age produces the greater aggregate effect, no? I.e., if the starting point of discussion were only ever how best to increase diversity of thought, one would undoubtedly expect nationality/age to come up more frequently than they do, compared to gender. It's almost as if certain parties are feigning genuine inquiry while merely paying hollow lip service. But what could their motivation possibly be?

>Tickets for All Your Base are on sale now, and we look forward to seeing you in October.

John, you rascal!

Yea and nay - as always with IT, the answer is "it depends". My background is with telecom giants. 'Round those parts, ain't nobody B'ing their own D. If a company does anything for the government, it may as well do everything for the government; almighty Compliance is a jealous god.

Ask an IT guy. The internals on the 990 desktop series >>> the 960 series >>> the whatever... 600-somethings, etc. Continual improvement, model after model. When you're dealing with thousands of employees, ease of interchangeable internals is a godsend. What have they done lately? Kicked ass.

Uh, Netflix has a killer edge within their industry that every other company in the world wishes they had in their own. They should keep doing exactly what the fuck they're doing, and not listen to what anybody else thinks. The peanut gallery has been wrong about them every inch of the way.

But seriously, why on earth would you adopt your losing competitors' business model when you're the new hotness?

>Who says women do not have the fortitude to not shower for days and live off cold pizza?

Why is everything always about what people are 'saying'? "Who says girls can't play football." Nobody, in the most exacting, chokingly literal sense. Nonetheless, my lived experiences suggest to me that if I want to start a football team, there are better and worse places to look for teammates. If you think that's a political stance, well, I respectfully disagree.

What would you say the NBA prizes, fortitude or height? One to a point - the other immeasurably.

Whose side would Freud be on? See: 'Partial Object', particularly its canonical example.

(My point here is the term, not the man.)

dat full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8

Replace, and I'll delete this one.

"Sorry, Gary. Come talk to me when you have 558 friends. Gare? I'm sorry, Gare, those are the rules. Everyone has to be equal. It doesn't matter if you'll never have 558 friends and I only had to find 32. Everyone's equal! Don't you see, Gary! Gary? Gare? What are you doing. Sic semper what? Aughhhh."

A = {all areas ∈ Tech | TNY's staff can cover the area at the level they cover other beats}

B = {all areas ∈ Tech | area interests TNY readership}

A ∩ B = ________

Not a "challenge" or anything: do you do hackathons? When you know you're not going to win, but also know you're going to be on stage later, an intentionally and blatantly stupid app is the way to go.

Q: Cui bono?

/provocateur

It's misogynistic by that hip, new definition of misogynistic that doesn't mean misogynistic.

Would you be explaining the joke if you were to note that no non-trivial solutions exist for n?

I don't get it. :(

Sean! I love you!

My sister, 14 next month, was diagnosed ~18 months ago with UC. Everything has been such a roller coaster for her, it's been unbearable. On and off this and that medication, etc, etc - after reading through crohnology.com/testimonials, it seems like you guys really get it. :)

Do you have any tips on how best to introduce her to the site? You and your team, I glean from your Stanford talk, have made a real commitment to making the site as friendly as possible (not in the usual "even dumb users will get it" guruspeak sense, but actually friendly - you know, in the "friend" sense). So let me lean on you.

Right now, this month and last, is/has been such a critical time for her, medically and, due to the nature of the illness, personally. She's inherently super shy, so it took her a long time to open up with her first doctor and start moving forward-- but he moved recently, and the new doc, well, just ain't working out... But the thing is - and this is why I'm so fucking happy you've made Crohnology! :) - she's also a very bright girl who knows the ins and outs of the treatments she's going through. (And she does the social thing online, has 50 apps on her phone, yada yada - picking up functionality will be a non-issue.) So you see how, shy girl + a personal medical issue + C.com = 8 birds with one stone for her.

My single (hopefully ignorant) worry is that my sister, being 13 and shy, will come on the site and think, 'This isn't my crowd.' Or something to that effect. Please, please, please, tell me I'm being a big, dumb idiot and why, or just point me somewhere that might be a good first link for her to visit, or... anything! I know from your vids you've thought about this stuff in and out!

Eternally Grateful,

Mike

P.S. - Commented here rather than on your site because I wasn't sure what the policy on the undiagnosed barging in on the community was. Given the personal nature of things, there's definitely an advantage to keeping things "members only." That said, if you feel this discussion is better had in say, the comments section of a post on C.com/blog, I'm happy to sign up and repost over there. :)

Uh, perhaps the above commenter "ignores" said disproportionality because it's so beyond platitudinal that it doesn't bear repeating but rather is taken as a given starting point for any discussion on the matter.

This reminds of the famous tea kettle parable.