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A balance of power between multiple branches and levels of government, and aka oversight, can mitigate that. Not perfect, but neither is nonregulation.

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.

That's not how statistics works. Your statement is the converse of happened, not the contraposive.

If we agree the original article was meritless, downvote both that article and this, instead of upvoting them both.

Are you claiming that the people who built Windows were not productive?

As a programming achievement, I think you mean ViaWeb, and the Arc or HN.

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.

Because you are content in your surroundings and more energy efficient.

Those others are lying to impress you. That's the point.

Printing is an improvement over email?

That's not what "design patent" means in US law.

The red case is a smart cover.

"waterfall" was a made up term invented in a paper to describe a hypothetical development process, not an actual process.

Parent point is that once you have a nontrivial queue, very already lost, so it doesn't matter which style is faster.

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.

Because no one can spell queuology or queuistics.

Yes, and it is how real stores work, which is the point.

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.

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 with more investment. So, now what? Should gifted, advanced, mainstream, and disabled fight each other for funding, or maybe fight pure waste like Iraq War for funding?

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 direction in math. They drove me to the library and to my math team practice before school. I can't imagine how they could have given me nearly as much support in chem lab... And I even did a college chem lab one summer in high school, as part of a math summer program!)

What happens? He becomes the most beloved billionaire in history? I don't think Steve Jobs needed more help.

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 overstated the kids' contributions to and translate into elite college placements.

No one can say these kids aren't smart and deserving, but what about kids who are also smart and deserving but not related to researchers or their friends? I prefer math contests where any kid who can reach the library has a downtown tty good opportunity.

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 back into the curriculum so their kids can't bluff their way through math class.

Considering how awful college stats classes are, I don't see high school getting any better.

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.

The VP article linked to this one as background material. That is where OP found this article to repost for karma.

The exact same analysis applies to developers.

Your paragraph 4 contradicts paragraph 2.

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 about ads though.

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 doesn't have a large scale document base or mail base.