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The Paradox of Choice: The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

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Re: The Paradox of Choice: The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

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Post by mynameishere »

ardit33 wrote: post #18
mynameishere wrote: post #16

I'm surprised by the war analogies. Withdrawals are an essential part of military strategy.

It is a good analogy. During WWII the soviet red army got smashed at the beginning by the germans, and was in retread (lost a lot of men and equipment). Millions of soldiers were captured. Hitler gave the order to summary execute all commanders and communist members found in each unit. Meanwhile, Stalin, pissed at the poor performance of its army, gave order to execute all the commanders who retreated, or their units…

If the red army hadn't retreated initially it would have been annihilated. Again, an essential strategy.

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Post by lg »

robg wrote: post #12
jkush wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you. What I'm more interested in however, is who really gets to say what dishes are on the buffet? The cooks? The consumers? My gut tells me the consumers have a lot less choice than it appears.

If it's your restaurant, you do! Now, if you want to stay in business better to offer a few dishes (not a buffet) that people would kill to eat delivered by cooks who love great, simple food. (And yes, we can run with this line of thought all day. Mmmmmmm, embodiment.)

Ah, the Jobsian theory of restaurants.

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Post by run4yourlives »

ardit33 wrote: post #18
mynameishere wrote: post #16

I'm surprised by the war analogies. Withdrawals are an essential part of military strategy.

It is a good analogy. During WWII the soviet red army got smashed at the beginning by the germans, and was in retread (lost a lot of men and equipment). Millions of soldiers were captured. Hitler gave the order to summary execute all commanders and communist members found in each unit. Meanwhile, Stalin, pissed at the poor performance of its army, gave order to execute all the commanders who retreated, or their units…

That's a piss poor understanding of history.

The only thing that turned the tide of the war for the Russians was winter. Stalin's kill 'em all approach had virtually no effect on the performance of his army. In fact, Hitler's fight 'til the death orders ended up being laughed at my German commanders.

When you're a nazi choosing to surrender to Stalin's red army, you understand the true meaning of death.

Re: The Paradox of Choice: The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

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Post by ardit33 »

run4yourlives wrote: post #23
ardit33 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a good analogy. During WWII the soviet red army got smashed at the beginning by the germans, and was in retread (lost a lot of men and equipment). Millions of soldiers were captured. Hitler gave the order to summary execute all commanders and communist members found in each unit. Meanwhile, Stalin, pissed at the poor performance of its army, gave order to execute all the commanders who retreated, or their units…

That's a piss poor understanding of history. The only thing that turned the tide of the war for the Russians was winter. Stalin's kill 'em all approach had virtually no effect on the performance of his army. In fact, Hitler's fight 'til the death orders ended up being laughed at my German commanders. When you're a nazi choosing to surrender to Stalin's red army, you understand the true meaning of death.

"That's a piss poor understanding of history. The only thing that turned the tide of the war for the Russians was winter. Stalin's kill 'em all approach had virtually no effect on the performance of his army. "

First of all, your "That's a piss poor understanding of history." is a pretty crappy comment for a forum like this that wants to stay civil. I hope you choose better wording and are not like this with your friends, and colleagues.

Second, attributing the defeat of nazis to weather, is trivalizing the whole history. I am not saying Stalin's orders to not surrender won the war, but it was a huge factor on the battle field, while you say it had no effect.

BBC - The Battle For Russia http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1971071

The nazis caught almost 2 million soviet prisoners in the first part of the war. Imagine those people actually haven't given up, but fought to death, then the outnumbered nazi machine would have never reached so close to Moscow (16 miles). One of the reason, after the war, a lot of ex-soviet prisoners, were treated really bad, almost as traitors.

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