oldbuzzard

Just looks like a login page to me. No way to see either info on your event or your clever puzzles w/o giving up my personal info :(

From the article, I think the "remaining money" may be entirely notional. It talks about Ron Graham chipping in $5k to help cover a $10K bounty.

Besides, these days the money is mostly beside the point. It is like those Knuth reward checks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check. In most cases, certainly the most recent $500 "happy ending" problem, the bragging rights are worth more than the money.

It would be nice to be able to move or get rid of the task completed box to review your solution and look for modifications. Then you could reset and replay. The inability to review after completing is annoying.

Meh. I have prime and keep getting $10 off coupons but here in Minneapolis I don't see anywhere I want to order from. Bitesquad has places that I order from every now and then. If Amazon had a decent network they might entice me in to becoming a restaurants customer... but as it is, it is like the crappy prime video selection.

(2017)

Gleick's "The Information" and Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral" would be 2 other good pop sci books on the origins of CS.

https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1...

https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...

Craig Venter

The article addresses that a couple of paragraphs down. Thats her whole point.To quote:

"The Nation at Risk report that started it all turned out to be bullshit, by the way -- grounded in another laughable statistical error. Sandia Labs later audited the findings from the report and found that the researchers had failed to account for the ballooning number of students who were taking the SATs, bringing down the average score.

In other words: SATs were falling because more American kids were confident enough to try to go to college: the educational system was working so well that young people who would never have taken an SAT were taking it, and the larger pool of test-takers was bringing the average score down."

Wow! My life in the Minneapolis strongly resembles my former life in Seattle. I have walkable/bikeable neighborhods, good local restaraunts and food coops/farmers markets, etc etc

The problem isn't the Midwest, it is suburbia. I've know contractrs at MS like in the article. Plenty of folks in Boston or Northern Virginia or RTP are living in the far suburbs and working in unsatisfying jobs they aren't good at... nothing to do with the Midwest.

The Center for Economic Policy Research has a great free pdf ebook on Secular Stagnation from 2014 which has essays from a variety of economic heavyweights discussing the possibility of lower growth going forward.

http://voxeu.org/content/secular-stagnation-facts-causes-and...

How so? Most of these are explicitly apolitical

The monarchy didn't help with Brexit. I suppose it could help broker coalition governments in a parlimentary systems... though Thailand certainly shows how overly broad lese majeste laws and and strong military can have the opposite effect at least with regards to national unity.

Well Yes. That's the irony. If you had even minimal trademark enforcement, the risk ratio would encourage you to manufacture and sell white label and counterfeit jackets as separate firewalled vendors. So one could be shut down without effecting the other. Here the risk is clearly so low they don't even bother... or maybe they have firewalled vendors and the cost of setting up a generic vendor is so low that its less than the dual manufacturing pipeline... either way that's the irony.