> Gates is usually right about this kind of stuff but I can't agree with this one.

Context: He said this in 1986.

Reading your post...lots of misconceptions about Dr. Dweck's work. You might want to finish that book.

Speaking of prop aircraft...

Related article [0]: The WWII-Era Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money (link bait-title)

You might be interested in this article about the A-29B program. The Super Tucano can provide superior ground support, it is very cheap to produce and maintain, and the US military could have gotten a lot of them out in the field quickly. They're being built now and will be used in the Afghan and Iraqi militaries, but the Pentagon preferred to put all of their money in the F-35.

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow

We had a pretty epic discussion on here about that yesterday, in fact. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250599

But the reason the Pentagon didn't purchase was not because of the F-35, but because Congress wouldn't let them defund the A-10, which the A-29 replaces. DoD isn't going to pay for two CAS/COIN aircraft, so the A-10 remains.

Thanks!

Great changes! My wife and I conduct Lego WeDo and Scratch and camps for kids 6-9 & 9-12. Even the 6 year olds have no issues with the WeDo interface and could handle a bit more—but the Scratch interface is out of reach to all but the most advanced 6-7 year olds (top 1-2% in reading/visual-spatial). These changes look like something in between the WeDo and Scratch levels.

Love it—but only in combination with treadmill and other seating options. Standing still all day is miserable.

“Do I want to work 60+ hour weeks and have barely any vacation time?” “Is there more to life than work?” ...and the rest...

It's pretty normal for people in their 20's to consider all of those questions, regardless of passport status.

> I may personally filter for an experienced physician, in their 50s, 60s all fine, who has done thousands of the same procedure with good track record.

Side note, probably irrelevant...it's been a few years since I looked at the numbers, but when I worked in Continuing Medical Education I learned that the group with the highest success rate for surgeries was docs with 3-5 years experience.

As I understood it, under this plan there won't be a 'last human' because...kaizan...the humans will always be improving and innovating.

...Until profits are in danger and you have a conservative board. Then you might see the last human, shortly followed by corporate irrelevancy.

> How come we have ten numerals?

By itself, a great way to start the discussion. The art is in knowing what NOT to say.

Thank you for showing a commitment to getting useful knowledge published at reasonable prices. And of course, there isn't anything more reasonable than "free on github". I'm excited to pick through these books to become a stronger javascript programmer.