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I'm embarassed to be Canadian.

I'm not opposed to usage based billing - users who use more should pay more, but the rate should be commensurate to actual costs. Regulation is meant to protect the public from potentially unfavorable actions by authorized natural monopolies. Perhaps the ISPs should be selling bandwidth on a market, like with electricity.

I'm uncomfortable with how easily correlations are taken as causations. Will longer assignments 'teach' better? Or, is it that the students who are more willing to learn are also more willing to do longer assignments?

For your desktop/laptop, F.lux adjusts your screen color in the evening: http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

(added bonus: gets rid of the eerie blue glow when you Skype at night)

I highly recommend using Gitosis; it makes managing teams, projects and users a breeze. It's really nifty: you get a git repo that contains the ssh keys and config file to manage the system. Add the user's key, add the user to the config file, push, and you're done!

I experience this with RockBand and Starcraft, but has anyone had this experience with math?

During exam time I'd often experience hallucinations of equations, but even crazier were the dreams: sometimes I couldn't wake up unless I performed a mathematical operation on some regular object, ie. "what's the Laplace Transform of this blue chesterfield?"

I've been toying with the idea for a while, but there are still many obstacles to overcome: a) Efficiency (communication, administration) There's a reason most startups have 2-4 founders, and why certain open source projects eventually collapse under their own weight b) Dividing the profits. How do you measure User1233s? contribution vs. User252s? c) More minds =/= better product An enlightened leader (say, Jobs) is sometimes better than a democratic process. Also, massive collaboration tends to result in lowest-common-denominator results (ex. Digg, Reddit)

..but then again, a lot of these problems could be solved with some sort of (online web app?) system: a) Basecamp tweaked for massive collaboration. b) StackOverflow-esque reputation system + karma + uservoice demand identification? c) No suggestions here yet, but HN seems to be doing a pretty good job at engineering away the Digg-problem.

Awesome! ...but passing on this for the sake of my productivity, for now.

Worked well for me (shocking for Ffox 3.5 on Ubuntu). I'm particularly impressed with the interface for manipulating the distributions directly by interacting with the graph.

However, the 'expert opinions' are not very discoverable (they were off the screen for me). Perhaps offering them on the side could work? (Since the input data is pretty fuzzy, the graphical area doesn't need to be so large).

Also, I find the 'rate-increase' graphs are less intuitive than the normal distribution graphs. Unfortunately, I don't know how to improve upon them.