colins_pride

Both with Paul Newman.

Optically about pool hustling. Really about the processes through which the naive progress as they encounter the underbelly of reality.

Kolakowski -> http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...

With the exception of a few places like HN, the best comments are treated about the same as bad comments. The absence of incentives leads to the absence of quality.

The other issue is related in the sense that if there was a good mechanism for aggregating comments across sites it would almost certainly serve to recognize and reward the best comments. Solve the fragmentation problem, and you get resolution on the first one for free.

In a world where the OS market is fragmented, centralized control and opression becomes even more difficult than it was in a desktop-centric world where one OS had huge market share.

Now that's not the case if we end up with one web-centric OS, but I don't see that happening any more than I see Bing taking over 65% of the search market without any response from Google.

You can be generally opposed to something, but accept it as the least bad option in a specific situation.

That some stories then get un-deaded is testimony to the faultiness of the system.

The problem is not a financial one. Money is not the constraint. There are people with access to (for our purposes) unlimited sums, with good intentions, and a good track record at getting difficult things done, who have not made a meaningful dent in the problem.

The answer must lie in an approach nobody tries, which immediately eliminates throwing money at problems. It also means that it doesn't make sense to give money to an existing organization.

The problem is inherently informational. How many thousands of small villages have wells, but no access to clean water because some small, inexpensive part is broken? I've travelled extensively in the third world, and this is the situation in all too many places. The key is in knowing what is needed where, and what equipment and knowledge is required to redress the problem.

The right answer is some sort of mega-clearinghouse of such information; matching people who know what is needed where with people who are headed in that direction and can bring equipment and acquire the knowledge required to successfully deploy the equipment before they go.

Hint: if you have to change the law to protect an industry, the industry is a dinosaur. You are not really saving it, merely delaying the inevitable at great global expense. The proper course of action lies in that eastern technique known as letting go

I think it's because this is something that is very hard to stick with. After the physical adjustment, one has to be willing to organize one's life in a way consistent with this, and that is tough when everybody uses this other mode of sleep.