They were some of the approximately 1, 000 people who gathered Sunday in a Manhattan hotel for the Hackers on Planet Earth conference, where New Yorkers with a penchant for pushiness, nosiness and the obsession with being first were able to hone their skills at technical mischief, urban-style.
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Note that if we consider the case of cardinal preferences for instance, if Alice and Bob both had to state, within certain bounds, how much happiness they would get for each color of each house separately, and the situation which produced the most happiness were chosen a minimally-liberal solution does not require that they have no nosiness at all, but just that the sum of all " nosy " preferences about one house's color are below some threshold, while the " non-nosy " preferences are all above that threshold.
