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Isn't this the guy who squats on domain names? http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/
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> Or is it just possible that some people can do things that other people can't!? You are talking about degrees of mastery, the parent was talking about doing it in any capacity. It is quite possibly true that only some can become the best chess players in the world, but is there anything stopping the vast majority of the population from playing chess? The latter is the attitude many hold, which he found disconcertin…
>is there anything stopping the vast majority of the population from playing chess? I don't play Chess, so I'm going to make an assumption here that the rules are somewhat complex? I am also going to say something pretty not PC. Yes, I'm sure there are lots of people I have met in my life that can't be taught to play Chess. I used to work in a restaurant and I trained new hires, you wouldn't believe the incompetence…
I love this idea. I live in Germany, and (as pointed out in the text) carpenters can still be seen from time to time during their journeyman years (which is called "Wanderschaft" or "Walz" in German). Slightly OT but here's a picture of what it looks like when they walk across the country [1] I always found this concept deeply fascinating because these people get a chance to see many things from different perspective…
@ytdtty your comment has been hellbanned, though I'm not sure whether it was meant as sarcastic as it sounded. So for the sake of hoping that it was genuine interested, yes they do.
(Genuine interest.)
I love this idea. I live in Germany, and (as pointed out in the text) carpenters can still be seen from time to time during their journeyman years (which is called "Wanderschaft" or "Walz" in German). Slightly OT but here's a picture of what it looks like when they walk across the country [1] I always found this concept deeply fascinating because these people get a chance to see many things from different perspective…
I haven't really thought this through, but I'd like to shamelessly take the opportunity to piggy back onto swombat's #1 post: Barring disasters, in early 2014 I will be leaving the precariat and can stop being the money-grubbing mercenary I've been for the last few years. I don't exactly have fuck you money, but I should be able to get by on less than £~10kGBP / $~15kUSD a year. I'm currently based in London, UK. Som…
Sounds like the way Paul Erdős spent his entire life... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
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Interesting -- I had a submission autodeaded a few days ago too, but I assumed it was the site (infoworld.com) rather than my account which had been banned.
hey Colin, To check submit something else and if that does not go auto-dead your account is fine.
I think that, in America at least, one of the few professions where this truly is alive and well is medicine. After four years of training you become a Doctor, but then you spend the next 3-5 years as a resident before you start to actually practice. Hospitals are these complex learning institutions where people in various stages of training are involved in everything to keep them learning.