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It means she grew up during the worldwide Great Depression, but was still old enough to have known its stark contrast to the prosperity of the 1920s. This could have influenced her towards extreme frugality.

She was also an adult before the worldwide adoption of Keynesian fiscal policy, so the idea of even temporarily running an unbalanced budget might be particularly odious to her.

Flash is still quite useful because desktoppy apps have legitimate needs which are thwarted by the browser's rather uptight security model, but are mostly satisfiable with Flash's controlled way of enabling them.

On the other hand, mechanically generating the code you've abstracted away will make sure you only get the same bugs every time. ;)

What is a square year?

Are you sure about that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine

Demonstrating anything beyond that would require proof, hence the burden of proof is squarely yours. :)

And, since no one ever gets screwed, we can therefore conclude that your original argument is correct!

(See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences)

Physics classes don't prove a blanket statement regarding grade quality over all subjects, any more than Yao Ming proves that Chinese people tend to be seven feet tall, or the King of Sweden proves that Swedes tend to be kings.

... as measured by grades.

The elderly?

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I realized I was using my inbox for several functions:

1. notice urgent or topical subject lines

2. store items to read later

3. store items to reply-to later

4. store important already-read items for later reference

5. store to-do items, often implicitly as 2-4 above.

Once I set up the appropriate labels, I was able to move functions 2-5 out of the inbox, leaving it just for function 1.

Ah, I love a good challenge!

Neither of these are equivalent. The "only capital-gains tax" scenario creates incentives for foreign investors in US corporations. The "only corporate tax" scenario creates incentives for US investors in foreign corporations.

The current scenario seems to be a "get some tax revenue from whomever we can" strategy, but it might be worth tinkering with the ratios, especially to determine whether a more capital-gains-heavy, corporate-tax-light regime might increase overall tax revenue, by altering in the US's favor the flow of foreign capital, domestic capital, corporate relocations, and corporate expenditures.

This could be gamed, or lead to runaway karma effects within a small, incestuous cabal.

If I were pg, I would handle it similarly to amichail's suggestion, but instead of voting power going to submitters of articles that I like, I would have it go to voters of articles that I like.

In other words, I would restate the problem as, "I can't be awake 24 hours to moderate every single submission, so instead, I'll assign invisible voting power based on how reliably a given voter's running and recent preferences match what I would want to see on the front page."

I would add some random jitter to the algorithm, to mildly penalize people whose votes are too similar to my own.

The bonus to consistently good submitters would not be better voting privileges, but better submitting privileges (better initial placement and/or slower decay).

And I would silently give voters and submitters whose patterns negatively correlated with my preferences corresponding penalties, and use their poor taste as valuable data on what not to put on the front page.

I suggest "Splooploo".

When you already know a better, simpler, cheaper, and faster way to meet the stated goals, you can email your boss a counter-proposal, clearly outlining the advantages to your proposed approach.

This might be risky in highly political work environments (or with touchy bosses), but in general, they are paying for your expertise, not your typing skills, and a decent boss will recognize and appreciate your initiative.