radisb

I am in a cafe and was sipping my coffee when I read your comment. Now people are looking at me laugh my ass off, with half the coffee spilled on the keyboard.

Nice, though I dont know if it is the wisest thing to start coding The Matrix in javascript.

Billions flowing into the country does not mean that they will be distributed to those in need. But even if they are, a lot of people need those 100mil now and cant wait for billions later. Unless we accept the poverty percentage of India as an axiom. No pun intended.

oh... :)

Looks like Oracle's Virtual Private Database? (or something like that, I cant remember the name)

> Also I am very certain that people would get by better without Facebook then they would with the lowly legions of those toiling away to keep the world merely "clean".

I totally agree with that. That's why I weight it with the scarcity. Of course you disagree with the scarcity of Zuckerberg, but in my comment I assume that what defines a "Zuckerberg" includes the outside factors that the individual doesnt control.

I wonder why it is not easy anymore to find a 15 inch laptop with resolution above 1366x768. Right now I am using a 4 years old laptop with 15 inch matte screen and 1680x1050 resolution which for me are the perfect specs for laptop regarding screen. They dont the sell these specs anymore. It seems they abandoned big resolutions at 15 inches, and to get more than 1366x768 you have to go at 17 inches. Maybe there is an exception or two, but in previous years, there were a lot of models featuring 1400x1050 or 1680x1050 at 15 inches. Anyone knows why?

IMHO, it has nothing to do with importance or impact of the work one does. It has to do with the supply and demand: Even if we assume the irrational that e.g. a cleaner's work is 100x more important than Zuckerberg's work, the fact that for every Zuckerberg we can find much more than 100 cleaners means that a Zuckerberg is much more important than a cleaner, not that cleaning is more important or less important that Zuckerberg's work. In fact, personally, the impact from absence of cleaning would be much bigger than the impact from absence of Facebook. But if I take the importance of cleaning and multiply it by the scarcity of cleaners I get a smaller product than multiplying the importance of Facebooks with the scarcity of Zuckerbergs.

> because they were engaged in new and productive work

Well, new and productive work is not equivalent to valuable work, for possibly a pretty big number of definitions of "valuable". Of course, "valuable" is subjective.

I mean, of course, in the global future context, this endeavor may contribute a lot of value, but what if I am starving and I probably wont be there to take advantage of that value? With sufficient people in this situation, the value of this project is pretty low.

This is not correct. Many people dont bother to vote or review unless the movie for them is at an extreme goodness or badness, so the hassle is worth it. I ve watched a lot of so-so or simply good movies, but I only have voted 5-6 times and those got either a 10 or a 1.

The "experiment" protocol specifically forbids that

I would like to see the exact same graph but having instead as value the humans killed per unit of the animal. I doubt if the mosquito would be on top.

GATES: "... We knew what programmers wanted, because we’re programmers. So we wrote BASIC."

Nuff said.

It is as long as you say it upfront

Yes, all that are facts. But out of how many truck related deliveries? With your logic, one could say that even if 100% of drone deliveries resulted in a fatality, it would be enough to do < 16 deliveries a day on average and be able to say "Drones are not doing a worse job"

Actually this happened in Cyprus very recently...

I use Chrome and pin the tabs I definitely dont want to lose but I cant read right now. They stay there forever and dont take space. If they start piling up and do take space, I am forced to take out some and keep the really useful ones. Those that survive this iterative process for a long time go into the bookmarks.