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Maps was certainly advertising driven, but it also changed many, many people's lives

This is interesting, thank you!

I don't like this article very much, I don't think Catholicism envisions the world as a giant piece of clockwork controlled by God. But I do think there is value in historical Fortune-Telling.

You could probably plot out a comic book cinematic universe or put together the story arc for a whole video game series out of the characterization baked into Tarot or Astrology.

They could have stamped a caveat just before the descriptions of the writing exercises:

"If you're already better at writing than Benjamin Franklin, feel free to disregard"

I took it to mean "put the sentence in your own words in a shorter way"

What if striving for artistry delights the user, but frustrates the spouse and children or leads to the deterioration of the artist's physical health or mental wellbeing?

There are a lot of ways to deconstruct a one dimensional artists > craftsmen > laborers point of view because it is overly simplistic.

If people are elitists at work and they're snooty about it, why stop them?

It's hard to study the 30 years war in such a way as to conclude that the movers and shakers of Europe were all angels

'Portable bassinette' is American for carrycot

Capital Ideas:The Improbable Rise of Modern Finance takes a historical approach to the development of finance.

It was striking to me how recent many developments are!

>but doesn't work well for "personal brand" building, so doesn't get much uptake among experts.

This is what Quora is all about

So we know you are satisfied with sexual politics in the US in 2016. Do the women in your life feel the same way?

Have you had conversations with other people about this stuff or have you deduced it all from first principles?

I sure would like to dump all of my passwords. I had always been told that the biggest risk of having so many passwords is password reuse. ie If the password for an inconsequential service is stolen it can be used to access more important accounts.

In 2009 or so I had 4 I would use and I had two more that I used only for my Gmail and my bank.

Two or three years ago I got tired of it and now I use three, one for Gmail, one for the bank, and one for everything else. I know I'm probably not applying best practices, but I'm so tired of it.

For an article that mostly read as PR for Okta, I'm glad that they mentioned browser/OS keychains and OAuth.

If Mozilla Persona had a big push from a sales force behind it like it appears Okta has, I wonder if they couldn't have blown out this whole market a while ago.

I would recommend Robert Love's Quora answers as an additional low barrier starting point

http://qr.ae/TNK9UD

You're right, she was only a "teaching assistant for some course"

http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/taawards-616.html

Corporations have to make good use of practically all of their money as a responsibility to their shareholders.

People without major financial goals (or whose financial goals are predictable to be automated away in the case of the grandparent post's retirement) are free to run a surplus and do away with discipline as long as their behavior is regular.

Thank you for your Godel notes below! I'm going to check out the links.

I have the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in my Facebook feed and they're mentioned in the article. I think the point of the article is to mark the work the teacher of the Godel class at the Institute did to digest the material for the students of his/her class.

The preliminary milestone of digestion of a subject for teaching is a syllabus, also mentioned in the article.

This is nonsense. There are many, many regulations are driven by trade. There is no effective way to perfectly separate the economic from the political. People need to get a long and agree on many matters in order to trade. Getting people in line is politics, trade is economics, but they are two sides of the same process.

Peer to peer is an important part of 21st century advertising. Peer to peer replaces the slow, impersonal work sales people and broadcast advertising campaigns would perform in the 20th century to educate customers and to negotiate the customer's needs and budget.

Nowadays it is very easy to find people just like you online and ask them what they bought and whether or not they are happy with the product (although not everyone has trained themselves to do it).

That neighbor to neighbor information dispersion replaces a lot of the function of broadcast advertising.

Related:

It's time to build your own router

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10936132

I read the comment above as disapproving of the all of the parentheses in the gp post.

If you remove the posts from people who write that way from the total we are closer to a monoculture.

The difference between having one fewer way of writing and literally having one way of writing is the size of the rhetorical exaggeration in my comment

Some people speak with a lot of parentheticals.

We don't need speech to be a monoculture for people to understand one another.

Selling some at a lottery provides a market for people who would be priced out very early along the curve.

If you want to avoid a Hunger Games situation where only the rich and famous enjoy your product (the NBA and many musicians care about this) that sort of person needs to be provided for

In times and places where eunuch servants have existed, there have been happy eunuch servants and unhappy eunuch servants

>The truth is probably people have different metabolisms and if you are hungry in the morning you should eat and if you are not you shouldn't.

Bodies don't always cooperate, if you are going to exercise strenuously in a given day you had better eat some kind of breakfast whether your body feels like it or not.

Breakfast is always going to be the opportunity to eat when you have more of the day ahead of you. That's true by definition, and it's the principle behind the chestnut about it being the most important meal of the day. There isn't much more to it than that.

Coming from of the United States and hearing about how federated soccer is all across Europe is really saddening.

In the US we have baseball where we have a sane semi-pro system. In football and basketball which are the real money, growth sports, there's the best-in-the-world professionals, the unpaid 20 year old college players and not a lot in-between.

In college, a buddy of mine became close friends do with a semi-pro soccer player out of Austria. He wasn't the best in the world and he was an au pair in the off-season, but he was in tip top shape in his late 20s playing soccer for a living.

It really isn't like that here. On the top end of the average case scenario, you have 3 years to make a living doing what you've been trained practically 20 years to do and then you're out in most cases. The whole employment market for these athletes would be a lot more sane if it were like baseball where you have families coming out to see minor league football and basketball players at reasonable prices.

I could imagine that there would be a Peter principle situation where a successful infosec professional is given progressively more difficult responsibilities as long as nothing bad happens. Is this not the case?

Race in the United States has a very particular history

I know minstrel shows made it to England, but I don't think they ever made it to the Adriatic Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show?wprov=sfla1

I love to see House of Cards plotlines in the wild

A fortune cookie from the top of /r/getMotivated today:

http://i.imgur.com/faEh2Rb.jpg

Thank you for sharing your videos, they are a lot of fun!