KaiP

RTFA before commenting please

Your comment added nothing because it was responding to a straw man rather than the article itself.

Because giving them a say has caused massive inequality and the loss of billions of dollars in wealth?

That seems more like a values thing than a process thing. I doubt that this process would produce terrible work conditions if Amazon actually cared about their employees well-being.

Use the right tool for the job. Risk profiles between web app software and rover software are totally different.

Is travel a Veblen good for the average tourist to New Zealand?

What's the connection between hard and virtuous?

Are certification, accountability, and unions really the defining characteristics of engineering?

Directly from wikipedia: In 1960, the Conference of Engineering Societies of Western Europe and the United States of America defined "professional engineer" as follows:

A professional engineer is competent by virtue of his/her fundamental education and training to apply the scientific method and outlook to the analysis and solution of engineering problems. He/she is able to assume personal responsibility for the development and application of engineering science and knowledge, notably in research, design, construction, manufacturing, superintending, managing and in the education of the engineer. His/her work is predominantly intellectual and varied and not of a routine mental or physical character. It requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of others. His/her education will have been such as to make him/her capable of closely and continuously following progress in his/her branch of engineering science by consulting newly published works on a worldwide basis, assimilating such information and applying it independently. He/she is thus placed in a position to make contributions to the development of engineering science or its applications. His/her education and training will have been such that he/she will have acquired a broad and general appreciation of the engineering sciences as well as thorough insight into the special features of his/her own branch. In due time he/she will be able to give authoritative technical advice and to assume responsibility for the direction of important tasks in his/her branch.

I don't see anything about unions in there

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See http://www.reddit.com/r/hfy for more stories with a similar tack

kai :)

This professor works at a private college in Michigan called Hope College, from what I can tell he is not subsisting on taxpayer money.

Gets stuck at "Freeing unused Kernel memory: 124k freed" on my Cr-48...

'i' will put you in insert mode, which should let most keypresses passthrough

Great example of a terrible incentive structure. Obviously, no city should rely on tickets for revenue, but I imagine it is more politically viable to increase ticket revenue than property tax revenue.

Ah okay, thanks for the explanation.

How could you use this for manned flight? Assuming a (best-case) linear acceleration, accelerating to 25000 mph over 1 km would be 12736 g.

I'm surprised The Atlantic didn't make it on that list. I always see it mentioned in the same breath as the other sources and have found most of the articles fairly unbiased and interesting.

The Back to the Future Timeline was removed, but the diagram can be found in the discussion section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Back_to_the_Future_(film_s...

"Even Google was unable to handle the load."

I was under the impression that Google's problem was due to an automated attack response, not due to bandwidth issues.

Also, the article cited: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10273325-93.html has been updated to say that only CNN "appeared sluggish." It may be true that the news on the Internet was crippled, but there's basically no hard evidence suggesting it from the source he cited.

Explanation of the proof by the person who implemented it:

http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/lam/paper/html/paper....

First use historical statistics and if possible, historical examples of the ideas being implemented. What the article presented was not much more than circumstantial (costs are going up, we have these programs, therefore these programs are causing costs to go up). If the evidence seems sound by an independent advisory board, have a pilot program put in place at one hospital, one city, or one county and carefully monitor the results. If proven successful in those trials, expand further.

This article is a pretty clear demonstration of what I dislike about popular economics (liberal and conservative) compared to hard science. Conclusions are drawn up based on ideological assumptions, then evidence is gathered, then public policy is changed. In any given case, several explanations are possible, but rarely is empirical testing done to prove that one is more feasible than the other. Instead they coexist as equals, gaining support based on random political futures. Perhaps this is a fundamental weakness in economics and cannot be overcome, but it seems to me that not enough pressure is being put on the field to make the ideas fully testable. As a engineer and numbers guy, I want to see my tax dollars spent (or not spent) only on ideas that have been rigorously examined and tested to be the most productive for society.

The main problem I have with video over text is that it takes much longer to convey the same information. I can read about 5 times faster (450-500 wpm) than most video (90-100 wpm). So other than special cases where video is crucial, I much prefer text.

From the article: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/phputils/wrap_image.php

Not that you should use it to make travel decisions. The odds that your plane goes down, even in icy conditions, are extremely low.

I was curious about your claim, but looking at GDP/hour, it doesn't appear true:

http://www.conference-board.org/economics/downloads/Producti... (page 18)

What studies are you basing your claim off of?

The reason people find Google less objectionable than Microsoft is that it is far easier for the average consumer to switch search engines than it is for them to switch operating systems. So while Microsoft could force out better competitors, there's no way for Google to stop people from using another search engine. There just needs to be one that is worth switching to.

Top football programs basically fund entire athletic departments. So in order to maintain a top brand, paying an excellent coach 10% of your budget doesn't seem to be a bad investment.

See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122853304793584959.html?mod=...

Interesting news, although pretty light on the details. Also, why is the author so angry?

I enjoy reading interesting (#6), serious (#7), and succinct (#8) comments. Hopefully this new system will encourage such behavior.

I'm tired of hearing about a better battery. Yes it would be useful and lucrative, but it's a very hard problem that has been worked on by lots of people for a long time.