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>Microeconomic models that assume the marginal productivity of a worker can be calculated in advance are drastically at odds with the reality I see Micro theory is very general, an…

>Ease the author's discomfort, more like. I wouldn't be so cynical, but I agree with >chances are that your subconscious is telling you to leave them the hell alone The funny thing…

>a lot of you older guys have trouble understanding... Maybe when you're 30 you will be able to form a complete sentence.

Actually the logic is quite sound. A dollar spent on the mars rover is a dollar not spent on poverty reduction. I do think that in the long run, spending on science and tech in gen…

I don't see how you can base a long term business model on a technology that can easily be broken (i.e. cracking the app so that photos aren't deleted after some time like the send…

The implication that the powerpoint slides were concocted by China in order to discredit and weaken US internet based companies is absolutely ridiculous. It puts any conspiracies I…

If we are discussing the benefits of logic programming, I think it's important to include other declarative languages like SQL. The idea of specifying directly what is computed, an…

>Not getting a wage equal to your productivity at the margin may be considered exploitation in several schools of microeconomics. If an employee provides value X and receives wages…

>Am I the only programmer who doesn't like being economically exploited (in the formal microeconomic sense)? For me, it's demotivating to know I'm putting forth effort for which so…

It is also just barely too incoherent to argue against. I guess some skills do improve with age.

it is. I read that link already, in fact used it as a reference when I did convert from Matlab to python. I converted back when I realized that in spite of the apparent syntactic s…

>The main issue as I see it is that as we use money as a proxy for value, we disproportionately weight the desires of the rich over those of the poor. A service for rich people (e.…

Someone should create something like ListServe, where there were that many subscribers, but I had a higher chance of getting selected :-)

This is a good question. In financial models, one common approach is the "noise trader" theory where some people make random trades. These are the people who lose out to the inform…

Well the article claims IQ measures the capacity for abstraction, which isn't necessarily the same as intelligence: the best programmer isn't the one who always starts with a UML d…

> Claiming that they are not interchangeable based on the difference between pass-by-reference and copy-on-write is just silly. Actually I gave one more reason.

Python and Matlab are not interchangeable. Matlab is unique in its expressiveness for numerical and matrix computation, and value semantics. Value semantics matter a lot because th…

It's really unfortunate that the data is presented at such a high level of aggregation. It would be so much better to have individual level data (perhaps with personal info such as…

Why is this a matter for the executive branch? Can someone with more knowledge of US politics explain?

This was a good article, and I think it's important to point out that it doesn't just give reasons why US schools don't use open source software, but that these reasons (especially…

Thanks for pointing that out, while I was reading the article I was wondering how they could brand themselves as apple-like when they must surely be selling and Android phone. It's…

"A lot" and "rampant" seem like exaggerations. Based on that link, most of MIUI's changes are to the Android source code, which licensed under the permissive Apache license. Only t…

I'd guess that phrase refers to how energy is put into and taken out of the flywheel: using electrostatic force rather than electromagnetic.

That's great then. Yes it would be very interesting to hear how this works.

Hi thanks for the article. Have you actually implemented this system or are in the process of implementing it? I think the article is much more interesting if it's more than just a…