Comment author: qer 23 March 2007 10:15:14PM -1 points [-]

Teach him decimal notation! It would bring us ahead a thousand years. Can't remember who first said that, but I read it somewhere.

Comment author: themusicgod1 31 January 2013 12:04:08PM 0 points [-]

Wouldn't he have just discarded it as he was trained with other notation?

It would be like someone in the modern english world trying to learn chinese math notation. We could probably understand the concepts so could in principle do it, but it would seem relatively unweildly, even if it turns out that it's a much more elegant way of doing math. We'd never know.

He might very well learn it and then go "that's cute" and then ignore it.

Comment author: pnrjulius 30 June 2012 03:47:38AM -1 points [-]

This is why I have decided not to be an entrepreneur. All the studies say that your odds are just not good enough to be worth it.

Comment author: themusicgod1 04 January 2013 06:40:56PM 0 points [-]

All the studies say that your odds are just not good enough to be worth it.

...and even if you are, people who are able to re-arrange the odds to their favour may end up crowding out the honest ones ;)

Comment author: themusicgod1 04 January 2013 06:33:07PM *  0 points [-]

Closely related: escallation of commitment While it's possible to not escalate commitment when you're in a losing situation, it is often our default tendency.

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