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Why don't we want that? We will never escape a little unfairness, and we don't need to. Telling a kid that their only path out of poverty is to be an engineer or schoolteacher, but art historian is not an option -- I would love for that to be the worst of our social problems.

Whatever the merits of the idea, a tv celebrity yelling is not releveant evidence. We can't all follow her path of selling self help books to riches

Emacs out of the box requires you to learn new key chords.

Educate yourself about the origin of the word "meritocracy". It is enlightening.

If you make some better decisions, you can make some extra money to pay for an article.

Mostly because they found rewarding opportunity as leaders of teams.

Is udemy just a scam site that trades ofd consumer confusion in with Udacity?

And a large part of this is Mountain View's refusal to allow housing and deploy public transit, pushing people into becoming traffic.

How very undemocratic of you. Sometimes the law from top down is incorrect. The experiences of stakeholders matters.

Sad and interesting. I rear ended a vehicle who turned into my lane, and the officer cited the other driver for an unsafe turn.

I guess it depends on officer mood and how long the car was safely in your lane before the breaking. Mostly officer mood.

Still, there are lots of completely legal sudden braking activities that would cause a collision over 10% of the time. People don't actually drive totally defensively all the time.

It is a stupid road. Built for speed, legistlated for slow. The road should be modified to make traffic calmer.

If tailgating is dangerous, in the sense that it is involved in a collision, the law finds the tailgater responsible 99% of cases. It just isn't applied predictively.

So, instead of 5 extra minutes of ads, you get 5 extra minutes of bad content. Is that a win?

I love that Netflix by mail logistics pushed you away from popular content , but online caching servers push you toward poplar content!

1. People like well targeted ads for their shopping intent.

2. YouTube autoplay and recommendations and subscriptions. And these days, youtube channels are even buying YouTube ads..

How do you get to 300M? Is is possible that someone like University of Phoenix might offer $1B for the company? If so, might it be accepted? If so, how much are shares worth?

At my old job, whenever investors bought in they offers to buy out employee shares at the stated valuation.

Enjoyment is different from understanding. Sachs career was all about studying (psychiatric) mysteries that were incomprehensible. It possibly gave him or fed his magical thinking, which can fly under the radar in psychiatry, but can't survive educated scrutiny in mathematics. He probably did love prime numbers, and discussed it with nonmathematicians who didn't see his mistskes.

Sachs's popular books consistently embellished reality to make a better popular read, and never really got called out on it by the scientific community , perhaps because psychiatry was rather unscientific --or rather pseudodcientific -- thought the early decades of Zach's career. Sachs wasn't exremely harmful in this respect (relative to the horrors of pre-21st century psychiatry, including the folder it gave to the rise of Scientology to prey on The mentally ill), but still provided more infotainment than education.

It is interesting that the author claims that getting a 37% guess correct a few times consecutively, in one measured attempt, is unsurprising.

The whole point of the article is to show that the premise is else, in every single case: there is no letter in English that always has unambiguous prononuciation.

People taking this article way to seriously. It is a humorous story about a rigorous analysis of problem that makes false but naively intuitive assumptions to misprove a contradiction. The point is (1) the rigorous analysis is possible and (2) the assumptions are incorrect -- English does not have consistent pronunciation rules.

People are misunderstanding "trivial". Here what they proved is that there is no way to encode any of the English pronunciation rules as a function purely of context-free spelling of phonemes in a way that is consistent across the language. The data shows that all spellings must yield identical pronunciations, unless English JS inconsistent and/or context senstive. Obviously, the latter is true.

Name a successful startup that was beyond reproach.

The high flying startups you know didn't go to market with the engineering processes you mention.

Also the fact that the CEO/"founder" hasonly one year of college as relevant experience. She appears to be a pop star persona: a face to send to interviews to look cool in PR, fronting for the business machine in the back. And of course there was never any tech, just hopes they ride a hype was into winning Quest's contracts.

You say that, but really why does President want control? Once you are elected president, you are set for life with millions of dollars of "speakers fees" and free favors forever. Some people have plans to conquer the world like Hitler or Stalin, but Obama is just sort of plodding along. Why does he care about getting all this power? What will he do with it?

A (limited liability corp, the most common kind of) corporation is a legal fiction created by government to shield individuals from accountability. What non hypocritical justification could a libertarian put forth for limited liability corporations?

You can't be pro poor-people's education without being pro taxation to spend on education.

Libertarians should acknowledge the terrain and spend tbis generation on a fight for a decentralization of power from the Federal govt to a coalition of States. The way to make progress is incremental.

Libertarians should be fishing to win back the conservative wing of the republican party.

Libertarian vs Liberal is reasonable debate to have in society and government.

It's horrible but it plays into the myth of the elite rock star.

Marisa Mayer at Google famously had a gaggle of special junior PMs that she shepherded into high ranking roles.