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Re:Rules of the seat-acquisition game on the Overground by neonshot on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @09:05AM (#4809017)
Hard to describe how much i enjoyed this.
Re:Rules of the seat-acquisition game on the Overground by vytasgd on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @11:52AM (#4809859)
+1. Reminds me of Urinal Game Theory:

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/Papers/urinal.pdf

NB: Haven't actually read that paper, only the abstract, I've just discussed the concept in a class...I think I might read it later today!

Re:Rules of the seat-acquisition game on the Overground by dhugiaskmak on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @05:53PM (#4811822)
I was asked a question on this topic when I was interviewing to be an intern at Microsoft over a decade ago. To this day it is the only interesting interview question I have ever been asked.