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Interesting find.
I can only say that if I entered a horse that was "pretty good" and I did not place but see horses that appear to not be "pretty good" placing, then I'd rather simply write for the sake of writing than have a contest in the first place.
For the record, I've all ready been in these kinds of horse races for the majority of my life, and I've gotten pretty good at spotting where something is not representative but instead has some agenda lurking. One sign is that it violates the statistics one might expect in a reasonable situation.
Incidentally, I hope my speaking of horse racing has not made the fact of your win in a recent contest diminished in any way. You definitely earned it, and should I have placed in the top ten and had your piece won, I'd attribute that to the fact that you are a good writer and in this specific contest the tastes were such that you hit the spot for the grand prize that the judges liked. Different contest, different day, different judges, perhaps our roles would be reversed.
In my horse racing scenario, though, our roles are never going to be reversed, because something absurd has happened in the race itself. It is no longer a contest of beauty, as such. It is a contest of who you know--at least in some major way.
conscription is a difficult issue. most officers with whom I discussed it emphasized that they'd prefer soldiers who served voluntarily, or at least, willingly, rather than unmotivated conscripts; and that this opinion went quite high, although at the statistical level, the government kept conscription simply due to the need for enough manpower.
Then the reason is basically to have a nation called Israel that has boundaries from people that wish it harm. Again, I think this is a credit, although one can argue about what constitutes harm.
Ah, the real-time HUD. One failure in the modern battlefield is overlooking good old-fashioned human intelligence. Everything, people seem to think, is better computed.
And what would you do in the case where before the contest began, the Sheikh clearly announced to everyone that he would use a zap-genie from a magic lamp to pick ten horses?
Announce that due to the number of entries and unexpected volume, the deciding factor of the contest would have to be decided by zaps differently--as I suggested elsewhere perhaps by withholding all zaps until after the contest is over but before it was decided. Zero out the existing zaps and treat them like they didn't happen--sucks for the people who voted but sometimes democracy rattles along in ways were recounts happen.
Should the Sheikh have changed the rules when it came time for judging?
Yes, at the point it became clear the contest was going to be huge. Now there are people coming in who don't have the kinds of relationships in the channel that others do, perhaps. Writers come out of the woodwork for writing, since so few people ever ask them to. They are, by nature, a reclusive lot.
Ah, well, I think it is a credit to you that you served in the IDF, although I certainly understand the disenchanting aspect the military has on people who join it. I think the key is to focus on the reasons a person serves, and not the reasons the military says are the reasons people ought to serve.
Usually, there is a panel of judges, and they typically can agree, if they are qualified, on what is "The Good".
If you don't agree with the other judge's opinion, then it might be good in the contest to put what the final tallies were--not necessarily which one belonged to whom--but to have some transparency in the contest so the people who entered horses have an idea of what's up. This is why the Supreme Court of the US publishes an opinion with the votes, and in that instance, names.
Why, contest? Whoever heard of such! I do declare!
edited: One thing that I think could work is to DELAY the zaps till after the contest is closed, but before it is decided. Then, popularity could be a factor by zaps, but not a deciding factor.
The nose of the horse crossing the line is not the metric by which a horse wins the race. There are many ways to be disqualified and still have the nose cross the line, objectively, before others.
Supposing we adopt your allegory, though, I'd probably want someone who was very familiar with horses and what constitutes "The Good" where horses are involved. Otherwise, it comes down to people who are not very familiar with horses and their attributes, perhaps, and this proves problematic. People begin to select things on personal taste when this is so, more than actual craft.
I'm not hostile. The allegory is about what you walk away with having read the tale. I'm glad you took something away from it.
That part was deliberate.
edit: It occurs to me you might want to better understand an allegory and what it means.