But on the other hand: "[The well-managed business'] workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment." Ford theorizes that greater amounts of leisure time and better pay…
You experience adventure games pretty differently from how I do. Also note that "merit" and "enjoyment" are different things.
On actually reading the article: this title is a bad summary. (Makes me think of Slashdot.) What the article covers is the point, which I hope is uncontroversial, that stimuli give rise to responses, and influence the…
But, he can only be persuaded by the arguments that will necessarily persuade him, not necessarily those which correspond to reality. What merit is it to simply find the right button to push?
I looked at this article, but I don't think the experiment proves as much as Libet claims it does. Neither he nor subsequent researchers seem to have gone beyond toy problems (what EEG activity appears in someone…
More to the point than the Geneva Conventions: the UN Convention Against Torture, which is exactly what it sounds like. As for whether waterboarding is torture under US law: the US executed a few Kempaitai (Japanese…
The pleasure of writing, and/or bragging rights -- the same way that Wikipedia came to be what it is.
Thanks for the update, and for giving it a chance. I agree that the production values are pretty bad... Good luck in your search. I've never heard of an ad-hoc implementation of assembly language before, but while we're…
You know, on considering, I think you're right -- he doesn't advise against rules engines, just the Greenspun's Rule version. (Greenspun's Rule is that "any sufficiently long-running project includes a slow, buggy, and…
Alex Papadimoulis of the Daily WTF has an article on this -- it's his opinion that the simple, "bone-headed" approach is the best one for constraints like this, and homegrown business rule engines are dangerous:…
Just to set the record straight, Caché -- which is the last man standing of MUMPS packages at the present day -- includes support for bitmaps. It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink,…
You're right, it was the dopamine system I was thinking of -- the phrase had escaped me. On Cheney: I think it's possible to say when someone's having a sybaritic lifestyle and when they're not; certainly someone who's…
Two words: Poop sock. MMORPGs have everything to do with being in the zone, nothing to do with sexuality; these two motivations are both exceptionally powerful. I remember an experiment with rats, where an electrode was…
I think it's because of who proposed it: the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, according to Wikipedia in the "51st State" article. I like the arrangement, too, but I can see why its provenance might taint it in some…
I agree, I don't think it does. $50 feels like a lot even for a commercial-grade game, $60 feels like a fortune; gaming also has an enormous piracy problem (look up what happened to Paradox Interactive with the release…
There's always been a folk culture, including folk songs -- with "folk" and "songs" as separate words, "songs part of the popular consciousness" as opposed to "songs sung in an Appalachian dialect with a banjo, a long…
This is evocative of ferrethandjobs.com, although in that case it was a matter of capital letters not coming through. URLs seem to require their own grammatical rules to avoid outrageous results, and this is just…
I'd like to see that, too. I'm skeptical about this -- especially the part where she burned her identity documents to avoid being linked to a Communist coup that occurred when she was 102. Everyone knows that little old…
As the old saying goes, "The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent"...
This is doubly ironic with Apple's hipster, Manhattan-liberal gestalt...
No, I'm saying that you should never pay your workers less than they need to live on or drive them to exhaustion, even if the market will bear it.
China's extraordinary growth is because it's in the process of industrialization -- which, by definition, only happens once for a given country, and in which ideology does not have a very significant influence. Examples…
So, 100 years ago, this kind of weight was sideshow-worthy (and remember the other things one would see in a circus sideshow...); today, it wouldn't turn heads on a subway. However: the US has become _more_…
The Winter War, like Manchuria, was a "crime against peace" by the standard of Nuremberg; that establishes that Stalin, like both Hitler and Hirohito, had launched a small aggressive war prior to WWII. The purges were…
Overtime here is not mandatory, but employers have an obligation to pay a wage suitable to their employees' dignity as fellow human beings -- not necessarily their country's minimum wage; and from the article, it does…
But on the other hand: "[The well-managed business'] workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment." Ford theorizes that greater amounts of leisure time and better pay…
You experience adventure games pretty differently from how I do. Also note that "merit" and "enjoyment" are different things.
On actually reading the article: this title is a bad summary. (Makes me think of Slashdot.) What the article covers is the point, which I hope is uncontroversial, that stimuli give rise to responses, and influence the…
But, he can only be persuaded by the arguments that will necessarily persuade him, not necessarily those which correspond to reality. What merit is it to simply find the right button to push?
I looked at this article, but I don't think the experiment proves as much as Libet claims it does. Neither he nor subsequent researchers seem to have gone beyond toy problems (what EEG activity appears in someone…
More to the point than the Geneva Conventions: the UN Convention Against Torture, which is exactly what it sounds like. As for whether waterboarding is torture under US law: the US executed a few Kempaitai (Japanese…
The pleasure of writing, and/or bragging rights -- the same way that Wikipedia came to be what it is.
Thanks for the update, and for giving it a chance. I agree that the production values are pretty bad... Good luck in your search. I've never heard of an ad-hoc implementation of assembly language before, but while we're…
You know, on considering, I think you're right -- he doesn't advise against rules engines, just the Greenspun's Rule version. (Greenspun's Rule is that "any sufficiently long-running project includes a slow, buggy, and…
Alex Papadimoulis of the Daily WTF has an article on this -- it's his opinion that the simple, "bone-headed" approach is the best one for constraints like this, and homegrown business rule engines are dangerous:…
Just to set the record straight, Caché -- which is the last man standing of MUMPS packages at the present day -- includes support for bitmaps. It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink,…
You're right, it was the dopamine system I was thinking of -- the phrase had escaped me. On Cheney: I think it's possible to say when someone's having a sybaritic lifestyle and when they're not; certainly someone who's…
Two words: Poop sock. MMORPGs have everything to do with being in the zone, nothing to do with sexuality; these two motivations are both exceptionally powerful. I remember an experiment with rats, where an electrode was…
I think it's because of who proposed it: the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, according to Wikipedia in the "51st State" article. I like the arrangement, too, but I can see why its provenance might taint it in some…
I agree, I don't think it does. $50 feels like a lot even for a commercial-grade game, $60 feels like a fortune; gaming also has an enormous piracy problem (look up what happened to Paradox Interactive with the release…
There's always been a folk culture, including folk songs -- with "folk" and "songs" as separate words, "songs part of the popular consciousness" as opposed to "songs sung in an Appalachian dialect with a banjo, a long…
This is evocative of ferrethandjobs.com, although in that case it was a matter of capital letters not coming through. URLs seem to require their own grammatical rules to avoid outrageous results, and this is just…
I'd like to see that, too. I'm skeptical about this -- especially the part where she burned her identity documents to avoid being linked to a Communist coup that occurred when she was 102. Everyone knows that little old…
As the old saying goes, "The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent"...
This is doubly ironic with Apple's hipster, Manhattan-liberal gestalt...
No, I'm saying that you should never pay your workers less than they need to live on or drive them to exhaustion, even if the market will bear it.
China's extraordinary growth is because it's in the process of industrialization -- which, by definition, only happens once for a given country, and in which ideology does not have a very significant influence. Examples…
So, 100 years ago, this kind of weight was sideshow-worthy (and remember the other things one would see in a circus sideshow...); today, it wouldn't turn heads on a subway. However: the US has become _more_…
The Winter War, like Manchuria, was a "crime against peace" by the standard of Nuremberg; that establishes that Stalin, like both Hitler and Hirohito, had launched a small aggressive war prior to WWII. The purges were…
Overtime here is not mandatory, but employers have an obligation to pay a wage suitable to their employees' dignity as fellow human beings -- not necessarily their country's minimum wage; and from the article, it does…