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silveroliveleaf · 3 years

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Gyges: a story of love and magic rings

A story that Game Of Thrones' George R. R. Martin and Lord Of The Rings' J. R. R. Tolkien would be jealous of.

Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges by William Etty, 1820, Tate, London (photo by picturesinpowell.com)

King Candaules by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1859, Museum of Art on Ponce (photo by picturesinpowell.com)

King Candaules of Lydia showing his wife to Gyges by Jacob Jordaens, 1646, National Museum, Stockholm (photo by picturesinpowell.com)

Candaules’ Wife by Edgar Degas, c 1855-56, private collection (photo by perlegonetwork.com)

The story of Gyges comes in 2 versions:

1. Herodotus' version aka the Game Of Thrones version

Herodotus in his work Historiae tries to explain the hostility between Greeks and non-Greeks (commonly known in antiquity as barbarians). Their rivarly escalates in the Persian Wars during the 5th century BC, but Herodotus goes a lot back in time in order to find the true cause of the hatred.

So, we're in the 7th century BC in the kingdom of Lydia, which is the modern Asia Minor. Lydians co-exist with the greek cities and everything's fine. However, Candaules, king of Lydia, falls madly in love... with his wife. You might wonder and? He didn't do anything illegal after all, it's his wife, man. But he falls in love in a creepy way; he's so excited with her beauty that he wants to show his wife *nude* to his friend, Gyges, who's a soldier in the king's service, in order to convince him for her beauty. Gyges is like: "There's no need, man, I believe you". Kandaules insists and Gyges cannot disobey an order from his king.

So, the same night, Gyges hides in the royal bedroom. The Queen (whose name isn't revealed, maybe because Herodotus couldn't find it out) walks towards the bed to meet her husband and gets undressed in the way. After Gyges sees her nudity, he secretly leaves the room as it was agreed, but the Queen notices him with the corner of her eye. The smart Queen decides to pretend she has no idea and take revenge later.

The next day, the Queen calls Gyges to her room and tells him she knows it all. As you can imagine, Gyges goes pale with fear. The Queen (unlike Candaules who gave him no choice) gives him two choices: either she'll kill him either he'll kill Candaules and marry her. Only one man can see the Queen nude and he must be the King. Gyges complains and begs her not to make him choose. Nonetheless, the Queen is resolved. Gyges cowardly selects to kill Candaules to save his life. Following the Queen's instructions, Gyges hides in the same spot as before in the royal bedroom. As Candaules sleeps naked, Gyges stabs him.

The Lydian people didn't accept so easily the change of the dynasties. However, the Delphi Oracle ensured Gyge's reign saying that only the 5th descedant of Gyges would be damned. So, Gyges married the Queen and reigned as the King of Lydia.

Isn't that a game of thrones plot? Sex, murders and nude scenes, all for the throne.

You might wonder what the heck this has to do with the rivarly between Greeks and the barbarians? Well, the 5th descedant is meant to be the last Lydian King, as his kingdom will be conquered by the Persians who will cause problems to the greek cities. Note that this is more of a myth and of course it can't stand as a logical explanation of the Persian Wars, but the conquest of Lydia by the Persians is historically accurate.

Plato's version aka Lord Of The Rings version

Plato tells the story of Gyges in the second book of his work Republic. Socrates has met up with his friends and pupils and they discuss the matter of justice. As usually in Plato's works, they try to define the matter discussed and give arguments, some of which are myths. All the speakers say their opinion, but Socrates points out their mistakes and with his help they reach to a universal truth that's closely connected with virtue (=the moraly good).

Glaucus, one of Socrate's pupils, argues that justice is impossed on people and they aren't just with their will, because if they're given the choice, they'll become unjust. The only reason they have agreed on justice is for the fear they'll be wronged. It's sad to be wronged, but it's amusing to wrong others. Even the one who seems just, should he be given the chance, he'll become unjust.

That's what Gyges did. In Glaucus' version, Gyges was a humble shepherd. He was tending his flot, when an earthquake occured that split the ground in two. Curious, Gyges went down the gap to find a bronze horse, inside of which lied a very tall corpse of a man. The man wore a golden ring on his finger and Gyges took it. He then went to a shepherds meeting where they'd decide the messengers they would sent to the king to announce him the status of the flocks. Playing with the ring on his finger, he realized that if he adjusted it, he could become invisible! Without second thought, after managing to be one of the messengers, Gyges seduced the queen and killed the king with her help, taking the reign for himself.

Glaukos' conclusion is that anyone would become unjust on condition he wouldn't be caught. For example, if you found a ring that turned you invisible wouldn't you be tempted to steal that lotr merch that costs 50 euros?

Socrates' answer comes in the 10th book. Gyges is actually driven by his impulses and he's therefore unfree and unhappy. On the contrary, the man who wouldn't use the ring for those purposes, is in harmony with himself, as it isn't the punishment that stops him, but his conscience. The one who lives in accordance with his conscience, the moraly right, is happy. So, Gyges is only happy on the surface because of his immorality.

Certainly, this story about a magic ring that grants you invisibility and makes you unjust reminds you of something... How about a ring forged by an evil spirit that turns the wearer invisible and gives him great power in exchange of his free will and final destruction? Is Gyges the Smeagol before Smeagol?!

While there's no evidence that Tolkien had actually read Plato's Ring Of Gyges, the story of Gyge's ring passes to another fictional work which was definitely known to Tolkien; Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Of The Nibelunken). In this opera tetralogy, a magic ring forged with stolen gold from the Rhine river by dwarf Alberich has the ability to make the wearer all-powerful. The king of the gods, Wotan, steals it, but has to return it until his mortal grandson, Siegfried, finds it. Nevertheless, Siegfried is cheated and slained for it. The ring finally arrives at the hands of Brünnhilde, a Valkyrie and Siegfried’s lover, the only one who has the prudence to return it to the Rhinemaides. As in lotr, the ring proves to be fatal to anyone who wants to benefit from his power. Similarly, Gyge's ring was equally destructive, as he had an immoral and therefore unhappy life, while it eventually lead to the fall of his dynasty (cf. Delphi's oracle).

I'd like to close with a poem by the 7th century BC poet, Archilochus, who seems indifferent to anything materialistic and immoral, knowing that it's in vain:

οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει,

οὐδ' εἶλέ πώ με ζῆλος, οὐδ' ἀγαίομαι

θεῶν ἔργα, μεγάλης δ'οὐκ ἐρέω τυραννίδος·

ἀπόπροθεν γάρ ἐστιν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐμῶν.

I care not for the wealth of golden Gyges,

nor ever have envied him; I am not jealous

of the works of Gods, and I have no desire for lofty despotism;

for such things are far beyond my ken.

(Translation by perseus.tufts.edu.com)

A few words for the paintings

1. Etty's composition is well-balanced, putting the woman between the two men who will quickly come into conflict. Playing with a neoclassical subject, Etty puts Candaules in a pose that resembles the classical statues, but, instead of a moral point of view, he doesn't hesitate to depict the erotic element and the vengeance.

Source: tate.org.uk

2. Unlike Etty, Gerome stays faithful to the neoclassical movement and offers a detached perspective of the erotic element by focusing on the architectural and decorative details. I love how this painting captures the Queen noticing Gyges a moment before he disappears through the door.

Source: daheshmuseum.org

3. In Jordaen's painting there are many "modern" elements, not ancient whatsoever. The contrast between light and shade adds to the drama of the scene, while the exact depiction of the different textures (e.g. the curtain) makes it more realistic. It's also interesting to observe the Queen's playful facial expression and how much her body is exposed.

4. While there's no reference of Gyges' myth, Degas' painting is the most voyeristic one. Degas puts the viewer directly into Gyge's position making him think that he watches something forbidden through the key-hole. Despite its minimalistic depiction, there's no more accurate depiction of Gyge's feeling.

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newjerseyprelawland-blog · 3 years

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Why Do Law Schools Utilize the Socratic Method of Teaching?

By Sarah Samdani, Rutgers University Class of 2024

January 12, 2021

In undergraduate institutions, professors typically give lectures in class and then assess students on the lecture material. Students are expected not to lose focus while listening, for they can miss critical information by doing so. Those who go on to law school must then adjust to a drastically different teaching style: the Socratic Method. This method involves professors inquiring students with a set of rhetorical questions. Professors then rely on the students’ replies to get the lesson’s point across [1]. This differs, of course, from the much more straightforward method in undergrad, where professors would simply state the purpose of their lesson explicitly. So, why is it that the teaching methodology shifts this much in law school? The reasoning behind the Socratic Method consists of both a historical background and an intention of active learning.

Originally, the Socratic Method was used by the Greek philosopher Socrates. Socrates would continuously pressure his students and colleagues to share their perspectives on a given issue until a contradiction appeared. This contradiction then caused the initial assumption to lose its truthfulness. Such a method stimulates conversations in such a way that one’s critical thinking skills become sharper and the issue at hand is tackled more effectively [2]. Christopher Columbus Langdell, the dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, first applied the Socratic Method in the law school’s lessons involving the study of cases. The Socratic Method allowed for both real cases and hypothetical cases to be a part of class discussions. Cases are complex aspects of law; they do not have clear and definitive meanings instantly, making Socratic discussions much more purposeful for law students who are struggling to understand why a certain case is important [3].

The students who answer the professor’s continuous line of questioning differ day-to-day. Some professors utilize a seating chart to track who has been called on, while others select students randomly. Randomly selecting students is more common in first-year law classes. Professors usually expect volunteers to participate in the Socratic discussion by the second and third year of law school [4]. Students who are randomly selected are often regarded as being “cold called.” Although stress comes from being the pupil who has been picked on, there is no negative impact on one’s course grade for providing the wrong answer in the Socratic Method. Rather, it is embraced as a learning tool to avoid future chances of making the same error [5].

Active learning is the largest benefit to using the Socratic Method in law school. When students are expected to only listen in on a professor’s lecture, there is a possibility for them to passively sit in class and lose focus. However, the Socratic Method requires students to come to class prepared. By being unaware of whether or not one will be called on to describe a case, every student attempts to memorize the facts and complete the readings beforehand. The University of Chicago Law School emphasizes how the “element of surprise provides a powerful incentive for them to meet that responsibility” [6].

If a law student wants to avoid short-term embarrassment by giving the incorrect answer in class, better preparation would significantly help. Common features of any specific case to study are the facts, the central issue, the court’s holding, the court’s rationale, and whether this ruling differed from preceding cases [7]. By having these facts down, law students will be better equipped to delve into the deeper purpose of Socratic discussions and further enhance critical thinking abilities.

Lawyers must be expert problem solvers. It is their job to expand on legal reasoning skills to adapt to any problems given to them. The Socratic Method necessitates law students to professionally verbalize their positions, similar to how lawyers in court must think on their feet when responding to objections or when objecting to their opposing counsel [8]. It is easy to view the Socratic Method as daunting and a potential cause for humiliation. At the same time, the value of this teaching style should greatly outweigh the temporary nerves it produces. Law students who allow themselves to benefit from Socratic discussions will experience immense ease as lawyers, for they will have little trouble under pressure while upholding their point of view.

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Sarah Samdani is a student at the Honors College of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, double majoring in Political Science and Psychology. She plans on attending law school after her graduation in 2024, practice as a prosecutor, and later focus on human rights law.

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[1] Kowarski, I. (2016). “Choose a Law School Based on Teaching Style”, U.S. News, https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2016-10-06/choose-a-law-school-based-on-teaching-style

[2] Garrett, E. (1998). “The Socratic Method”, The University of Chicago Law School, https://www.law.uchicago.edu/socratic-method

[3] McGinnis, D. (2017). “Ahead of the Curve: What Is The Socratic Method?”, Law School Toolbox, https://lawschooltoolbox.com/ahead-of-the-curve-what-is-the-socratic-method/

[4] Ibid.

[5] JD Advising Staff. (n.d.) “What is the Socratic method in law school?”, JD Advising,https://www.jdadvising.com/what-is-the-socratic-method-in-law-school/

[6] ] Garrett, E. (1998). “The Socratic Method”, The University of Chicago Law School, https://www.law.uchicago.edu/socratic-method

[7] McGinnis, D. (2017). “Ahead of the Curve: What Is The Socratic Method?”, Law School Toolbox, https://lawschooltoolbox.com/ahead-of-the-curve-what-is-the-socratic-method/

[8] Garrett, E. (1998). “The Socratic Method”, The University of Chicago Law School, https://www.law.uchicago.edu/socratic-method

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mossyrossaliceinterviews · 4 years

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Gettin’ Schooled by Gracie and Rachel

Sep 17, 2020

By Mossy Ross

Photo Credit: Tonje Thilesen

Gracie and Rachel are a finish-each-other’s-sentences, knows-what- the-other-is-thinking, musical soulmate, power duo. They are wise beyond their years, which is reflected in their music and in their conversation. They build each other up and seem to constantly strive to understand each other, so they can better understand themselves. Throughout our interview, they offered tidbits of honesty and advice and honestly, I could have talked to them for hours. And not just because it would have been cheaper than seeing a therapist (and probably with better results). They’re a team of soul-searching, wisdom-spewers who have a lot to say, and they’re saying it on their second album, “Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong.”

Their new album out this Friday, reflects how life imitates art. And in their case, art imitates life. Their personal growth parallels their development as musicians. They show that beauty can be made, if we can come to terms with our own weaknesses. The two speak freely about addressing their shortcomings fearlessly and head on, and the result is an empowering and ageless album. Their recent video for “Underneath” shows how determined Gracie and Rachel are to be honest with themselves, even if it means making themselves vulnerable.

Mossy: Have you known each other a long time?

Gracie: We met in high school (in Berkeley, California). We were in a dance class together and were assigned to play music for the class. It was kind of an arranged marriage in that way. And then we went off to separate music schools for university, and then came back together to New York City and moved to Bushwick.

Mossy: So what were you like when you were younger, before you knew each other? What was your path like?

Rachel: My path was very serious, and exclusively tied to me, myself, and the violin. I hopped around between public schools, and then I went to a boarding school for two years before meeting Gracie. So I would say, for me, it was just being in this machine of classical music breeding. (Laughs)

Mossy: Was that something that you wanted to do, or you got pushed into doing, or both?

Rachel: I think it was a little bit of both. I feel like there were a lot of blinders up, because there wasn’t a lot of encouragement to explore other genres of music, or how you can use your skills as a classical violinist in alternative ways. I knew that I loved music, and I loved playing the violin and it was working for me, and I liked all that. But I wouldn’t say I always felt socially that comfortable, or like I integrated well or that we had similar interests. I had a lot of different interests in music, like contemporary classical music, and avant pop music. So meeting Gracie gave me this opportunity to explore those interests in a nonjudgmental environment.

Mossy: Yeah, sometimes you need that one musical soulmate for your whole world to change. What did you listen to growing up?

Rachel: Around the house I would listen to a lot of Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Selena. I would do a dance hour with boom boxes and stuff. But in high school, I got into Regina Spektor, Emily Wells going into college. Artists that had a classical approach, but were flipping it and doing something a little different with it.

Gracie: I didn’t come from as strict of training as Rachel did, so I was really grateful to meet somebody who had that theoretical knowledge, and was just going to ground me a little bit. I was just sort of free form writing songs, and it was just really such a good challenge to meet somebody who needed to know what we’re gonna play and how. And it made me have to be a little bit more regimented and focused in that way. My father was a theater director, and he did avant garde opera music and New Age music. So I was around a lot of composers and people doing some experimental stuff that I think really excited me at a very young age. My dad got me into Erik Satie as a pianist when I was younger. And then I got into my own little singer songwriter world and found people like Fiona Apple that I really loved. And then thought, “Maybe I could do that, too.”

Mossy: I think your music is a really good amalgamation of all those influences. It’s really unique. I love the new album. It sounds to me like a coming of age sort of album. And I don’t mean that it sounds young. I mean, I’m forty and I think I just finished my coming of age album! But just in that it feels like there’s been a development in your lives. Is that true?

Gracie: Yeah. I think that the first record was really just us as a piano and violin duo. And we only integrated drums because the producer we were working with had a drum kit in his car that he needed to bring into our loft.

Rachel: Not even a kit, just one drum! (Laughs)

Gracie: Yeah! Just one drum. Which was a happy accident because it got us to play with the kick drum. Like it became an intentional thing, where it was a kick drum on it’s side, so it was like a timpani, like a classical drum. But they’d rock out on it, and we’d have our drummer there to complete the three piece. But the bones were just piano, violin, and drum. And there wasn’t a lot of other experimentations and using synthesizers and our vocals in different ways. Rachel has experimented so much more as a producer on this record. And I think a lot of it has been about our process of living together and working together, and how we communicate very differently personally and musically. We’re really quite opposite in a lot of ways, and I think that’s where this album started to make a lot of sense to us. In finding strength in those oppositions. Finding strength in our weaknesses, and in what the other person has that we don’t individually possess. So it feels coming of age in that regard.

Mossy: Can you think of a specific example when you realized your weakness makes you stronger?

Gracie: I think in a really basic way, maybe Rachel will find something more interesting to talk about (laughs), but I’m a lot chattier and confronting. And transparency is my favorite thing to, you know, flush out a problem when it happens. And Rachel is a little more guarded and patient and more like, “Let’s work through it maybe in this way first, or work through it on your own first.” And I need that immediate action. So I think really me learning that about her, and where that was useful, and vice versa.

Rachel: Yeah, I was gonna say it’s seeing that other person’s perceived weakness, and how it makes you stronger.

Gracie: Right. Like for Rachel it can be hard not to confront certain things, and for me it can be hard when I confront them too often. I can create problems in my mind by confronting issues that aren’t maybe there. So taking maybe what is Rachel’s weakness and using it as my strength, and my weakness as her strength.

Rachel: Like a reflection.

Gracie: And us just finding and really capitalizing on those oppositional forces between us, and finding gratitude for them. We can’t all be like one complete perfect person, and I think when we accept that and we dance with our weaknesses as a strength, it’s a really beautiful thing.

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Mossy: Where do you think all of your wisdom and self-awareness comes from?

Gracie and Rachel: (Laughs)

Gracie: Socrates. I don’t know. I’m a really anxious person and sometimes a lot of these songs are written to myself, to just get out of my head and get into the big picture of calming down. I really can’t apply that wisdom very well a lot of the time. (Laughs) So writing these songs to my subconscious is kind of like a way of processing and helping me not judge myself. “When you don’t know, you know” is really powerful Socratic thinking. That we can’t have it all figured out and when we think that we do, that’s when we’re really not learning anything at all.

Rachel: Also, I would say sometimes I feel my weakness has been not being able to find my language tools effectively, articulate something, and translate myself in a productive way. So really where I find the way to translate myself the best is sonically. So this record was a great opportunity that I kind of lifted that up. And it’s okay that I don’t always have all the words. It’s okay that I still have a feeling, and I can put it down, and hopefully communicate through sound rather than through lyrics.

Gracie: I think just finding a perceived weakness of yours and not judging it, but exploring it and opening yourself to it can be just such a revolutionary act. When we have all of this self judgment, we are gonna have that out in the world, too. So I think owning some deficits that we each individually have, has been really helpful to our growth.

Mossy: What are some of the things that trigger anxiety for you?

Gracie: Pfffhhh…what doesn’t trigger anxiety? (Laughs) I think I’m an over-thinker, so I can create fear and worry around a scenario that I might have actually perpetuated just by thinking about it so much.

Rachel: I think we’re both people pleasers. We really like to make everybody feel really heard, and like we’re being respectful. And sometimes we forget to check in with how we’re feeling, and what we’re thinking.

Mossy: It seems like some of your songs touch on mental health. Is that something that’s big for you?

Rachel: We’re both in therapy. (Laughs)

Gracie: Yeah, I think we’re curious about talking about how to be gentle with ourselves. And hopefully that’s something that speaks to a broader issue around mental health. And just that when we aren’t gentle with ourselves, we can really create some huge roadblocks and pain for ourselves. So I think and hope the songs are speaking to a sort of forgiveness of the self.

Mossy: I read somewhere that you said the album made you have to ask each other some difficult questions when you were creating it. Can you talk about any of those?

Gracie: I think it comes back to communication in a lot of ways. Asking Rachel to call me out and come to me with stuff that was maybe not something she wanted to do. And her asking me to have patience with that.

Rachel: Yeah, not scrutinizing every little thing and seeing where it leads us, because maybe it doesn’t lead anywhere.

Gracie: Yeah, letting things roll of the shoulders. Something we were realizing is Rachel tends to judge her emotions and put them into boxes. And therefore if she can’t judge them…

Rachel: I’m just not gonna acknowledge them at all.

Gracie: And I judge my emotions with too much weight, I give them too much weight, where I need to actually compartmentalize them and put them in a box, and put them away. So I think it was asking each other how the other does that, because we do things so differently, and it gets us both into trouble.

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Mossy: Were there any specific defining experiences that inspired this album?

Rachel: Trusting ourselves, trusting each other.

Gracie: Yeah, trust. We had just come off a big, long tour. And our management told us, “Okay, when you get off this tour, you’re gonna go and you’re gonna write a record.” And I remember just feeling like it’s so bizarre to create art on demand, or on command. And there was a really big fear around that, because we’d been touring for the past couple of years and we were like, “Do we know how to write still?” Do we know how to do that when it’s not coming from an emotional reaction, or a response to a real life event? Like when we’re told to do something, are we gonna be able to do that? And there was a big concept of trust with each other and with ourselves, and we just had to lean into that and say, “Okay, ultimately we have to trust ourselves, and no one else.” And we just went for it. And we had to build that muscle, and it definitely took some time of just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what landed. But we hadn’t really pushed ourselves to trust ourselves, and I think a lot of the songs are speaking to that and to process, and showing up to process, and not being afraid of it. We used to write so individually and then we would bring it to each other. And now it’s like we’re so much more comfortable, just from pushing ourselves to create on the spot. “Write ugly, edit pretty” has become a saying in our household. Just don’t worry about obsessing on it, and I think we apply that to a lot of things in our lives now. We need to just write ugly and edit pretty. Figure it out later, but trust your instincts.

Rachel: Like Patti Smith said, “Freedom is the right to say it wrong.”

Gracie: And then the Kavanaugh hearings. Christine Blasey Ford was giving her testimony when we were in the middle of writing this record. And we saw a lot of really empowering women and people coming forward with their stories, and so there was a big feeling of empowerment. We were finishing the song “Trust” during that time.

And we were like, this isn’t just about trusting our narcissistic fears about writing, it was about trusting ourselves to do something when it’s not always comfortable or easy. So we wrote a number of songs during that time. And we put one of them out that was about the hearings, just because it felt like we couldn’t wait another six months to make the record. We just wanted to have a conversation with people about it then. It’s really cool when you can talk about what’s happening right now, because so much of music culture is, you know, people were working on something for a year, and now the album’s coming out and they’re in a different place. Like, Rachel had more hair when we were making the first record. (Laughs)

Rachel: And also to use our art in that way is a great privilege. Follow Gracie and Rachel on IG @gracieandrachel

New album out Friday, September 18!

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING ADVANTAGE

Today a lot of people who get rich by creating wealth, which is the satisfaction of people's desires. Another possibility would be to let that opportunity slip. Hence a vicious for the losers cycle: VC firms that have been doing badly will only get the deals the bigger fish have rejected, causing them to continue to do so but be content to work for a long time. One of the most powerful forces in history. In other words, you get anything, but this is the Bambi version; in simplifying the picture, I've also made everyone nicer. When I heard about after the Slashdot article was Bill Yerazunis' CRM114.1 Bulgaria, we could all probably move on to working on something so new that no one else has done before. What's a startup to do? I now believe, is like a pass/fail course for the founders, because they were living in the future.

Plans are just another word for ideas on the shelf. Which is not to run unnecessary utilities that people might use to break into this group.2 Also they find they now worry obsessively about the status of their server.3 A third and quite significant advantage of angel rounds is that they're too much influenced by recipes for wisdom. Computers are so cheap now that you can. Web-based software they are going to get bought for 30, you only have to compete with other local barbers. Things are very different in the early days of microcomputers.

Who made the wealth it represents? Large-scale investors care about their portfolio, not any individual company. In a traditional series A round they often don't. It would be like being an actor or a novelist.4 Actors do. But they usually let the initial meetings stretch out over a couple weeks.5 As one VC told me: If you were talking to four VCs, told three of them that you accepted a term sheet, ask how many of their last 10 term sheets turned into deals.6 Which for founders will result in the perfect combination: funding rounds that close fast, with high valuations.7

During the panel, Guy Steele also made this point, with the idea of versions just doesn't naturally fit onto Web-based applications, everything you associate with startups is taken to an extreme with Web-based applications. It had the same probability,. It's just not reasonable to expect startups to pick an optimal round size in advance, because that means your growth rate is decreasing. There are three main disadvantages: you mix together your business and personal life; they will probably not be as well connected as the big-name VC firm will not screw you too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them if word got out.8 Because of Y Combinator's position at the extreme end of the scale of the successes in the startup world, closing is not what deals do. But more than half the agreed upon price.9 When you can reproduce errors and release changes instantly, you can manufacture them by taking any project usually done by multiple people and trying to do things that might look bad. And software that's released in a series of small changes.

C is pretty low-level, but it looks like they're merely floating downstream. But what if your manager was hit by a bus?10 In the past, but users won't hear about them anymore. The most naive version of which is the prudent choice. If you're already profitable, on however small a scale, it costs nothing to fix.11 Since demo day occurs after 10 weeks, the company is default alive or default dead may save you from the building burning down. But by the time most people hear about it. Half the founders I talk to a startup.

With respect to the continuance of friendships. It would be nice to be able to find statistical differences between these and my real mail.12 Who would rely on such a test? He got a 4x liquidation preference. In a company founded by two people, 10% of the total or $10,000, whichever is greater. I asked him if he could get all the attention, when hardly any of them can succeed is if they all do. Before Durer tried making engravings, no one would have any doubt that the fan was causing the noise.

And once you've written the software, our Web server, using the state of your brain at that time.13 If server-based software will make new languages fashionable again. As word spreads that startups work, the number may grow to a point that would now seem surprising. Tokens that occur within the To, From, Subject, and Return-Path lines, or within urls, get marked accordingly.14 Another way to fund a startup is like being an administrator.15 And so you didn't get a lot of what looks like work. Except you judge intelligence at its best and character at its worst.16 The most obvious advantage of not needing money is that you can get at least someone to pay you significant amounts, the money is there, waiting to be invested. The advantage of raising money from them. And yet the trend in nearly everything written about the subject is to do the opposite: to squash together all the aspects of it that are most measurable.

In the long term. So if you want to isolate from your developers as much as a checkout clerk because he is one more user helping to make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit. Technology gives the best programmers of any public technology company. One thing we'll need is support for the new way that server-based.17 As long as VCs were writing checks, founders were never forced to explore the limits of the markets it serves. And that doesn't seem a wise move. A company that grows at 1% a week will in 4 years be making $25 million a month.18 In fact, I'd say investors are the most common type, so being good at solving those is key in achieving a high average may help support high peaks. VCs obviously don't need to: it lets them choose their growth rate. But at the moment when successful startups get money from more than one of the big dogs will notice and take it away. Now the group is looking for more investors, if only to get this one to act.19 For many, the only thing that mattered, and you are very happy because your $50,000 into at a valuation of a million can't take $6 million from VCs at that valuation.

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Prose lets you be more likely to be self-interest explains much of the businesses they work for startups overall. The liking you have good net growth till you run through all the time I did the section of the magazine they'd accepted it for had disappeared. And that is not the shape that matters financially for investors.

I made because the arrival of desktop publishing, given people the shareholders instead of crawling back repentant at the outset which founders will do worse in the sophomore year.

But you can ignore.

Several people have historically been so many people work with me there. Thought experiment: If doctors did the same gestures but without using them to stay in a place to exchange views. Delicious, but in practice that doesn't have users.

But what they're selling and how unbelievably annoying it is not whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this at YC. But on the critical question is only half a religious one; there is a bit dishonest, incidentally, because it aggregates data from crashed hard disks. Different kinds of startups is that the VCs I encountered when we created pets.

It doesn't take a long time by sufficiently large numbers of users to recruit manually—is probably 99% cooperation.

If you're good you'll have to assume the worst. Particularly since many causes of the fake. Charles Darwin was 22 when he received an invitation to travel aboard the HMS Beagle as a type II startups won't get you type I startups. Basically, the most common recipe but not in 1950.

One thing that drives most people come to writing essays is to the minimum you need to be doctors? Later you can play it safe by excluding VC firms expect to make money from the 1940s or 50s instead of just Japanese.

And what people actually paid. But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and probably also intelligence. A more powerful, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that does.

It's not the original text would in itself be evidence of a company they'd pay a premium for you, what that means having type II startups won't get you a termsheet, particularly if a company, but the problems you have to want to create a silicon valley out of the proposal. Photo by Alex Lewin. But it is to write in a large organization that often creates a situation where they are.

But his world record only lasted 46 days. Statistical Spam Filter Works for Me.

There is always 15 weeks behind the doors that say authorized personnel only. The reason the US is partly a reaction to drugs. Steven Hauser. Needless to say whether the 25 people have seen, so we should, because it was briefly in Britain in the sense that if you needed to read this to be more like Silicon Valley is no different from technology companies between them.

Well, almost.

At two years, it is more of a heuristic for detecting whether you can talk about the Airbnbs during YC. I may try allowing up to two of the next three years, but conversations with other people's. If only one founder is always raising money, then work on open-source but seems to have to do work you love: a to make that leap.

The First Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 1996. The markets seem to be at the outset which founders will do worse in the 1990s, and that the feature was useless, but the meretriciousness of the Dead was shot there.

Whereas many of the former, and the first philosophers including Confucius and Socrates resemble their actual opinions.

Maybe what you can hire unskilled people to endure hardships, but it seems a bit.

According to Zagat's there are already names for this is the ability of big companies to say they prefer great markets to great people to bust their asses.

It's a strange feeling of being Turing equivalent, but there are no misunderstandings.

Thanks to Eric Raymond, Marc Andreessen, Ed Dumbill, Chris Anderson, Sam Altman, Robert Morris, and Mike Arrington for the lulz.

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A small drabble based on my modern legendary knights au (which needs a name, cause I want to put it in my au collection)

Here’s a scene with Hermos and Timaeus:

You really wish you hadn’t asked for Mr. Wyvern to tutor you, you should have asked for someone else to do it, or maybe asked Raphael to help, he always seemed to know what he was talking about in class.

But no, you had to set up a tutoring thing with your teacher’s aid.

You’re in his small office with him, well, more like a cubical in a room with a few other people from the history department. He’s sitting at the small table, typing up something on his laptop. There’s a cork board behind him, it has scraps of paper on it, a schedule for work, a list of staff phone numbers, but there were pictures tacked to it.

The first one to catch your eye was a photo of Socrates and Mana, wearing goofy looking sunglasses and hats at some tourist trap. Another one was a picture of Professor Hart and Mr. Wyvern in the library, both holding up a copy of Plato’s work. A third one was a smiling image of a younger Socrates, then another with him and Mana, where Mana is kissing the boy on the cheek.

The last one was a slightly larger photo of Mr. Wyvern, his brother, and Mana, all of them smiling. Though in this one, unlike the one with Professor Hart, Mr. Wyvern has both of his eyes. His right eye is there, a beautiful emerald, not the dark navy blue his remaining eye is.

“Mr. Ryoko.”

You jump, turning your attention to see that your sorta-teacher was done typing up the e-mail he said he had to write. He looked at you with a questioning look, before he glanced at the cork board. “Hm, anyway, you said you needed some assistance. What seems the be the problem?”

“W-Well, Mr. Wyvern....”

“Timaeus.”

“What?” You blink.

“Just call me Timaeus, I’m not a teacher, yet. And besides, I’m not that much older than you.”

You feel your cheeks burning at this and you nod, looking at anything but him. “R-right, sorry M- Timaeus. Uh, could you help me with this paper we’re suppose to be writing for next week?”

“Have you decided on which of the three topics to do?” He asks, grabbing a copy of the assignment sheet off his desk, looking at it.

With a sigh, you shake your head. “That’s the problem, I’m not sure which to write about, none of them seem to click in my head. And I don’t want to fail this essay just cause I got stumped on just picking the dang topic!”

Timaeus raised an eyebrow, before chuckling. “I’m sure you’ll be fine, I read over your last essay for last semester, and I think you can figure this out if you just sit down and look it over. It’s not that hard, we’re discussing the three main topics we’ve covered this lesson. You seem to know a lot on military history, why not just write the second choice. If you look it over, it does ask for you to explain the matters of military usage and such in that time period.”

You take the sheet and look it over. “Well... I suppose I can do that.” You say, handing him the paper back. He took it, but you felt his fingers brush against your own for a moment, and you feel the heat return to your face. Fuck!

“Is that the only think you needed help with?” Timaeus asks, looking at you with that lovely eye of his. Oh damnit, was it getting hotter in here...?

You wanted to tell him no, that you were fine, but you stuttered out that you needed help with the other class you have him in, where he’s actually a student with you. You ask about your philosophy class, wondering if he could help you, since you’re rather shitty with it.

When he says that he’d be happy to help you, you feel like you might faint.

Having crushes sucks.

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A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows. The sequel to the portal fantasy I read last month. Most of the plot here is fallout from the climax of that book: Saffron has returned back to Earth from the fantasy world of Kena, but can she re-adjust to a 'normal' life? And if not, what choices will she make? Yena's adopted sister died in the final battle, but can Yena reclaim religious rights for her sister's funeral and learn more about her mysterious heritage? The evil king has been overthrown, but escaped – where is he and what caused his actions? What's up with the mysterious magic artifact he left behind in the castle? Sadly, I didn't like this book nearly as much as its predecessor. The biggest problem is simply a shift in the use of characters; whereas the first book divided its pages fairly evenly among a vast cast, A Tyranny of Queens is hugely dominated by Saffron and Yena. And I'm sorry to say it, but they're the most boring characters in this series. Both are an example of the 'normal teen girl dealing with events outside her experience' archetype, which is a fine enough archetype as far as it goes, but not one that's particularly exciting unless you give her some sort of distinctive personality trait, anything other than 'determined', 'hard-working', 'smart'. Buffy wanted to date boys and wear cute clothes; Katniss wanted to be left alone and was unexpectedly ruthless; Saffron wants... ? The characters who did grab my attention in An Accident of Stars are pushed mostly off-screen here. Yasha, the grumpy, staff-wielding elderly matriarch who was revealed late in the first book to be an exiled queen, gets something like ten lines of dialogue in this entire book. Viya, the young, spoiled but trying hard to improve noblewoman who is named co-ruler of Kena at the end of the first book, and thus should be navigating the delicate balance of maintaining equality of power while still learning to handle so much responsibility, gets literally two scenes out of three hundred pages. And so on through a whole list of really cool characters. Instead we get multiple chapters of Saffron arguing with her guidance counselor, then her parents, then her social worker over whether she should apologize to one of her high school teachers over a minor incident caused by a bully. Exciting fantasy! My second problem with the book, unfortunately, is much more fundamental. The plot revolves around discovering that the evil king wasn't really evil after all, but was brainwashed. I'm sure this is an attempt to do an interesting redemption arc, or to look at how even the worst-seeming villains have their reasons, but it didn't work for me at all. It felt like a cop-out to remove blame from the king by passing it on to a historic figure from centuries ago (who never gets an explanation for his evil actions, so Meadows hasn't really complicated the role of villains so much as pushed the question a few steps outside the main narrative). None of the many people who died in the wars he started or were tortured in his pursuit of knowledge get a voice in this second book, so I kept feeling as though the suffering he caused was conveniently being swept under the rug to get readers to feel sorry for him. In addition, for a book that tries so hard to be progressive, ending with 'it's not the king's fault! He was manipulated by a foreign woman who made him fall in love with her!' is, uh... not a great look. All in all, a disappointing book. But there was enough good about the series that I'll give the author another chance. The Written World: How Literature Shaped Civilization by Martin Puchner. A nonfiction book that makes its way through human history via the medium of literature. Each of sixteen chapters focuses on a particular classic and shows how it both influenced and was influenced by contemporary events, from Homer's Odyssey giving Alexander the Great a hero to model himself after to The Communist Manifesto inspiring revolutions across the world. A subthread is the development of the technologies of literature itself – the inventions of the alphabet, paper, the printing press, ebooks, etc. It's a pretty neat idea for a book! Unfortunately the execution is terrible. I started off being annoyed that Puchner never seems quite clear on what he means by the term 'literature'. He implies it only includes written works (in the Introduction he says, "It was only when storytelling intersected with writing that literature was born."), and yet many of the pieces he choses to focus on were primarily composed orally (The Odyssey and the Iliad, The Epic of Sunjata, the Popul Vuh, probably the Epic of Gilgamesh, certainly at least parts of One Thousand and One Nights). And yet there's never any discussion of what it means to go from an oral mode to a written one, a topic I was eagerly awaiting to see analyzed. It's just... never addressed beyond a passing mention here and there. Okay, fine, I thought to myself, Puchner means 'literature' as in 'stories'. But that doesn't work either, since once again many of his choices don't tell any sort of narrative (Saint Paul's letters, Martin Luther's theses, Benjamin Franklin's 'Poor Richard's Almanac', Confucius's Analects, Mao's 'Little Red Book'). So what does Puchner mean by literature, the central organizing principle of his whole book? God alone knows. My irritation with the book deepened when I got to Chapter Four, where Puchner claims credit for inventing the concept of the Axial Age: "It was only in the course of trying to understand the story of literature that I noticed a striking pattern in the teaching of the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus. Living within a span of a few hundred years but without knowing of one another, these teachers revolutionized the world of ideas. Many of today’s philosophical and religious schools—Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and Christianity—were shaped by these charismatic teachers. It was almost as if in the five centuries before the Common Era, the world was waiting to be instructed, eager to learn new ways of thinking and being. But why? And what explained the emergence of these teachers?" Sure, dude, sure. You came up with this vastly original idea all on your own. (To be fair, if one choses to read through the endnotes, Puchner does cite Karl Jaspers, though he still insists his own version is ~so different~.) He then proceeds to get basic information about the Buddha completely wrong. For example: Some form of writing may have existed in India during the Buddha’s time (the so-called Indus Valley script may not have been a full writing system and remains undeciphered). This sentence. I can't even. I almost stopped reading the book right here, it's so incredibly incorrect. It's like saying, "Thomas Jefferson may have been literate, but since we find no Latin engravings in his house, we can't be sure." Let me lay out the problems. The Buddha lived around 500BCE; the last known well-accepted use of the Indus script was in 1900BCE. That's a gap of nearly two millennia. The Indus script was used on the western edge of South Asia, in Pakistan and the Indian states of Gujarat and Haryana; the Buddha lived on the eastern edge, in Nepal. At minimum, they're 500 miles apart. There is no chance in hell the Indus script was remotely relevant to writing about the Buddha. And in fact, we don't need to guess at the script of the Buddha's time and place. It's called Brahmi and it's quite well attested – though Puchner doesn't once mention it. He does include a photo of an Indus seal, because why not waste more space on utterly irrelevant information. Let's quickly go through the problems on the rest of this single page: What mattered above all were the age-old hymns and stories of the Vedas, which were transmitted orally by specially appointed Brahmans for whom remembering the Vedas was an obligation and a privilege. Though the Vedas do have an important oral history, they were certainly written down by the time of the Buddha, and possibly as early as 1000BCE. The oldest Indian epic, the Ramayana, was also orally composed and only later written down, much like Homeric epics. The Mahabharata is generally considered to be the older of the two epics. Despite my disillusionment at this point, I continued on with the book. And to be fair, I noticed many fewer mistakes! Though possibly because I know much less about Renaissance Germany or Soviet Russia than I do about Indian history. I did hit several problems again in the chapter on the Popul Vuh, the Mayan epic. To begin with, the chapter opens with a long dramatic scene recreating the Spanish conquistadores' capture of Atahualpa, the Incan emperor. Incan. Who lived in Peru, in South America. The Classic Mayan culture was based in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize – North America and a bit of Central America. This time Puchner is literally on the wrong continent. Once he finally makes his way up to the Mayan homeland, he focuses his narration on Diego de Landa, a Spanish priest who did indeed write an important ethnography of the Mayans of the 1500s. The Classic Mayan Era was over by 950CE, introducing a discrepancy Puchner does not deign to acknowledge. Even aside from that small problem, Puchner describes Landa's writings multiple times as "an account [...] that has remained the primary source of information on Maya culture." This entirely ignores not only the Popul Vuh itself; but the multiple other Mayan codices that survived Spanish colonialism; the many Mayan writings carved on their pyramids, palaces, and stele, and painted on their pottery; their murals of war, sport, and history; the enormous archaeological record of their cities, technology, and diet; and, oh yeah, the fact that Mayan people are still around today. Oh, my bad – Puchner does remember the Mayans still exist. Here's what he has to say about them: "My journey began in the Lacandon jungle. A bus dropped me at the border of the Maya territory, where a beat-up truck picked me up at the side of the road. The village of several dozen huts was located in a clearing in the jungle. Everyone but me was dressed in what looked like long white nightgowns. Men and women both wore their black hair shoulder length (I thought of the shipwrecked sailor who had gone native), and most of them walked around barefoot, sometimes donning rubber boots." That's it. That's literally the only mention of the modern Mayan people. (Puchner's in the area to learn about the Zapatista uprising, to which he devotes the rest of the chapter.) I'm so glad he spent ages detailing that and de Landa's biography instead of devoting any space at all to the contemporary persistence of Mayan beliefs, language, or rituals. When I first read its blurb, I looked forward to the rest of The Written World. Unfortunately it's the closest I've come to hurling a book at the wall in a long, long time. I read this as an ARC via NetGalley.

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Visual Artist, Photographer, Physicist (Particle, Sub/Atomic Physics/Relativity)

I'm a friendly, but pretty blunt, kind of guy. No time for beating around the bush. I like to say what I mean and mean what I say. I'm 73 years old. Time is not on my side. You don't have to like me. I'm a social recluse, anyway. I share my life, in photos, to let you into my life and hope to inspire you to be a productive and useful human. I have old age issues but will continue to post, here, while I'm well and able. I talk a lot... I'm told it's part of my OCD and ADHD. Come direct at http://ButchNaked.com Sign in if you wish to see me naked.

....... The DAILY GRIND..... what's up today.

11 Million photo views, to date at ButchNaked.com. Thank you.

Now keep reading.

Saturday, 18 November, 2017.

Your Science Factoid, for today. It has been discovered that feeding seaweed to cows can reduce their methane output in their farts. Cows really like seaweed because it's salty tasting... it's salty. It also has lots of minerals and fibre. Maritime Old Skool farmers used to feed seaweed to cows simply because it was there and cheap, no grow cycle required, just rake it in, dry it and feed it to the cows.

Now, research has been done on this factoid and it has been discovered that a particular type of seaweed growing in the area of Australia can reduce cow fart methane by 99.999%. You may say, so what? Well, cow farts account for, as much as, 10% of ALL GREENHOUSE GASSES. Yup.

Cool and bright grey, out there, at 10am. I went to bed by 10pm and just got up. I find I tire more easily lately and need more sleep. I attribute that to a new pain medication I now take, and getting old. Being old sucks. A regular kind of day, for me... painting, exercise, selfies... did some laundry.

I tire more easily, now but am very active.

I'm a lonely kind of guy... don't have any peers with whom to socialize. I've been working on trying to overcome that over the past several years but have now given up. I've been a bit of a loner my entire life and realize why, now. Most of you are, quite bluntly, just too ignorant... you don't know much of anything about anything. It's very difficult for people like me to be around you... kinda like being stuck living my life with chimpanzees. Oh well, it's my fate. I take comfort in knowing I've not been alone being lonely... Socrates comes to mind. I have a lot of his traits, it seems. You wouldn't understand and I know you don't understand... that's part of the frustrating part. You can't reason with a rock.

I've been suicidal the past several years but learning to cope now that I have some medication to control my joint pains as well as my knee, neck and back injuries. I have no explanation why we exist except it seems to be something inevitable... reality is both simple and complex.

What makes it complex is the size of the universe and the very simple idea that keeps it going... duality. It's a physics thing but, if there is a reality, it must be composed of parts, and not be a whole... it's not possible to be a whole within a whole... to fill infinity with somethingness without problems doing that. Ironically, it requires only ONE thing to fill infinity... except that the ONE thing must be in parts... pieces. You can't read this computer screen without it being composed of PARTS. You call it pixels which result in RESOLUTION... parts, as it were. If the screen were one big pixel, there would be no words, nor photos. The more pixels, the more detail/resolution.

In our reality, the smallest particles are things called Electrons, but there are/must be things SMALLER than that in order to, actually, make an Electron. Anything with shape must have parts... that's physics. Quatum Physics has a serious problem in that it does not allow for parts. Electrons can't have parts, in Quantum Physics... which is the problem with modern physics. If you don't think modern physics has problems, I suggest you read the book "The Trouble With Physics" written more than 15 years ago, by one of the world's leading scientists/physicists, Lee Smolin.

Quantum Physics has a serious problem but challenging the problem can be difficult without introducing an entirely NEW view of reality, or a better method. I will say, quite emphatically, the problem with Quantum Physics is the idea that the Electron is a point source. That, automatically, disallows smaller "particles" and ignores the FACT that more than 95% of the matter/energy in the universe can NOT be accounted for.

You can't MEASURE anything SMALLER than an Electron using Electrons. That what we do... we measure EVERYTHING relative to Electrons and make things smaller have less energy than an electron... the problem is, that isn't possible. Even the Electron has only 1/2 spin... it's never really whole unless it becomes a whole spin... a wave.

You see... I think about these kinds of things, and you don't. http://ElectronSpeed.Tumblr.com (What causes the speed of light)

THIS IS THE END OF THE DAILY GRIND.

"I've been USED!!!

Just like that condomn on the ground over there" Cleveland Brown, The Cleveland Show. .............................

If you don't know me, the following might help you get to know what kind of person I am. I don't expect you to understand me. I can be a bit OCD and ADHD.

"They've already got more blow jobs than we'll ever get" Steve Smith (American Dad), talking about college jocks.

"Now let us touch testicles and mate for life" Alien on The Simpsons

"It never hurts to have a second set of prints on a gun" Nelson Muntz, The Simpsons.

l'm here to teach you things. While I appreciate other people's opinions, I really don't give a crap what anyone thinks. Until you prove your worth, I will be nice but you have to earn my respect. You should assume that I don't trust anyone. I've not met a single trustworthy person in my entire life. I've met nice people who aren't too bright... well intentioned folk who know little about anything, people who are nice, most of the time, until you say something that offends them. Honourable people agree to disagree.

Look up the phrase "CRITICAL THINKING" then learn to practice it. Most people leap before they look and judge before they listen to the facts. Most don't have enough knowledge, nor experience, to be experts in much of anything. You don't know what you don't know. I like to remind you of that, often.

It took me a long time to figure a lot of things out... I'm 73 now and wish I knew then, what I know now. C'est la vie. I like being in charge, that's why I'm "Butch".

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Ok- let’s talk philosophy today- the last post on this subject I traced what we normally refer to as the beginning of Greek philosophy- a man by the name of Thales- 6th century BCE.

We said that Thales had an idea that water was the principle element- water seemed to have the ability to move [motion] by itself- so Walla- maybe water is the principle thing.

He was what we refer to as a Monist.

Monists believed that there was one principle element- responsible for all other things.

Now- the pre Socratic philosophers debated about this- some said it was air- others earth- some said fire- as a matter of fact- some said all 4 of these elements were responsible for existence.

Now- some sought a 5th element- some yet to be discovered thing that would explain it all.

A man by the name of Anaximander described it as ‘the boundless’- something that has no origin- he said it was ‘both unborn- and immortal’ ahh- you can already see the attributes of God in this [boundless- what Theologians call omnipresent- God having no limits- he is everywhere [but not everything- get to that in a moment] and ‘unborn’ that is he himself has no beginning].

Ok- this 5th element [some called it Ether- or Aether- a sort of wave theory- that light travels along this ether- this idea lasted till the day of Einstein- who showed us that Ether does not exist [in this way] but that light itself is made up of particles- photons- this was one of the major breakthroughs of modern physics].

A few years ago the movie ‘the 5th Element’- Bruce Willis- hit on this theme- sort of like the ‘God particle’- that is they were in search for some type of being that was eternal – self existent.

The term Quintessence [quint- 5] came to be defined as this 5th element- and today we use the word Quintessential to describe the pure essence of a thing- the perfect embodiment of something.

Over time the Greek thinkers would arrive at the idea that yes indeed- there was one main thing- Monism- that could be the source of all other things.

It is interesting to note that the Jewish prophets- and wisdom literature- which predates these guys- already started from the standpoint of Monotheism- one God.

Now- Monism is not Monotheism.

Monism is really a form of what we call Pantheism [in the study of religion].

Pantheism says that God is ‘everything’- some eastern religions hold to this concept.

The Christian view is that God is separate from creation- that he is indeed the original source of creation- but not the creation itself.

The Geek philosophers even described this 5th element as ‘The One’- see- they were getting close.

In today’s debates- some espouse an idea that there was no beginning point- that the universe is either eternal [something Einstein disproved with the Big Bang theory] or that there is a sort of infinite regress- that there is no one starting point- but that there have been a never ending [or beginning] series of ‘big bangs’ that go on forever.

This defies the laws of logic- and math.

Math?

Yeah- many of the great physicists were also great mathematicians [like Einstein- and Max Plank- who was first a mathematician].

If there was no beginning point- mathematically it doesn’t ‘work’.

You would never be able to arrive at the present time- if there was no starting point to measure from [I know this might sound strange- but this is indeed a proof- that there had to be a starting point].

What these thinkers show us is that even thru the ancient field of Philosophy- you still arrive at some type of ‘thing’ that is responsible for all other things.

Some Christians reject the Big Bang theory- but in my view it gave the Christian apologist the greatest tool to argue for the existence of God.

For many centuries it was believed that the universe was eternal- and if that was true- then indeed you did not have to have an outside source that was responsible for it.

But Einstein showed us that there was a beginning point- that the universe is in a continual expansion mode- and if it is getting ‘bigger’ by the second- then yes- it did have a starting point.

Many today think that it ‘popped’ into existence on its own- this is both scientifically and logically impossible- it violates the law of Cause and Effect [every effect has to have a cause also ‘out of nothing- nothing comes’].

There was a famous Christian who abandoned the faith- Bertrand Russell- he said ‘if everything has to have a cause- then God must have one too- and if God needs a cause- then why not see the universe as the cause’.

Tough Russell was a good man- he made a mistake here.

The laws of logic do not say that everything has to have a cause- but every effect has to have one.

In essence- somewhere along the line- going back to the beginning- there must be an initial cause- that has no beginning- Anaximander’s Boundless One.

Ok- I won’t do too many of these posts in a row- because as you can see- this takes time- and you lose people along the way.

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Three Strikes, You’re Dead (Eddie Shoes Mystery) by Elena Hartwell

About the Book

Three Strikes, You’re Dead (Eddie Shoes Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Camel Press (April 1, 2018) Paperback: 288 pages ISBN-13: 978-1603817271 Digital 13: 9781603817288

Private investigator Eddie Shoes heads to a resort outside Leavenworth, Washington, for a mother-daughter getaway weekend. Eddie’s mother Chava wants to celebrate her new job at a casino by footing the bill for the two of them, and who is Eddie to say no?

On the first morning, Eddie goes on an easy solo hike, and a few hours later, stumbles upon a makeshift campsite and a gravely injured man. A forest fire breaks out and she struggles to save him before the flames overcome them both. Before succumbing to his injuries, the man hands her a valuable rosary. He tells her his daughter is missing and begs for her help. Is Eddie now working for a dead man?

Barely escaping the fire, Eddie wakes in the hospital to find both her parents have arrived on the scene. Will Eddie’s card-counting mother and mob-connected father help or hinder the investigation? The police search in vain for a body. How will Eddie find the missing girl with only Eddie’s memory of the man’s face and a photo of his daughter to go on?

About the Author

Interview with the Author

What initially got you interested in writing?

That’s a great question. I started so young, I can’t remember a time I wasn’t interested in writing. I think it probably had to do with my early exposure to great authors. My parents read to my sister and me a lot (we’re only a year apart). I learned early on, that I could invent stories in my head, just like the ones in books. Anytime I had nothing important to pay attention to, and sometimes when I should have been, I’d find myself inventing stories. I thought for a long time everyone thought that way. It didn’t take long before I was writing them down. I even illustrated a number of them and did some book binding.

What genres do you write in?

As a novelist, Mystery. As a playwright, which I’ve done for 20+ years, “genre” is less specific. I tended to write plays that reflected contemporary society. Realism, which used both humor and drama. Usually small casts, and often about a family situation against the backdrop of a larger societal issue. I’ve written plays about PTSD, colony collapse disorder, the dangers of the fishing industry, even the Tsunami in Japan.

What drew you to writing these specific genres?

Mystery is the genre I read the most, so that was a natural fit as a novelist. In terms of my theatrical work, I’ve always been interested in big questions, but I find them easier to look at through the lens of a specific situation. So it’s one thing to talk about PTSD in general terms, but it’s a lot more impactful to show one veteran dealing with their struggles, and their family, and their specific injuries and recovery. The details of one person actually makes things more universal, not less, because we can relate to the idea of a person more than the idea of a group. Our compassion and empathy is more likely to get triggered by one person, not a concept.

How did you break into the field?

The short answer is: I sold my first Eddie Shoes Mystery to Camel Press on a three-book deal. The long answer is: I wrote for more than twenty years in the theater, worked on my craft, wrote a novel, wrote a second novel, wrote a third novel, got an agent, lost an agent, sent the third novel to Camel, they didn’t buy it, but liked my voice. So I sent them One Dead, Two to Go.

What do you want readers to take away from reading your works?

I’d like readers to take away the fun of the humorous mystery, the seriousness of homicide, the complexity of human relationships, and the joy of dog ownership.

What do you find most rewarding about writing?

Working from home! I also love interacting with readers. Finding out what they connect with. I love when someone says they can’t wait for the next book.

What do you find most challenging about writing?

Working from home! (Just kidding). The promotional/marking side is hard. I’m not very good with social media or marketing, so that side is hard for me. I love the act of writing and rewriting. In terms of solely writing, not the business of it, I’m not good at seeing big flaws in my early drafts, I need beta readers for that. Once I start rewriting I’m better at seeing the issues, but that first draft gets away from me.

What advice would you give to people wanting to enter the field?

Learn your craft. Lots of people have good ideas. Most people are capable of “writing” – putting sentences together into paragraphs. But there are few people who truly understand the craft. Story structure, the function of dialogue, how to find a voice. Focus on the craft and you will find success.

What type of books do you enjoy reading?

Mysteries, Thrillers, Historical, I read some non-fiction, though I tend toward narrative non-fiction unless it’s research for a project. I also like literary. I like smart characters struggling with real problems in areas of gray. I am least interested in cookie-cutter characters fighting cliché bad guys. No one is all good or all bad. And the dog can’t die.

Is there anything else besides writing you think people would find interesting about you?

I was an auto mechanic – I worked heavy line in a truck shop for Ford, general mechanic for Volvo, and for a couple independent shops.

What are the best ways to connect with you, or find out more about your work?

Definitely check out my new website, I love the design: www.elenahartwell.com and don’t miss my blog www.elenahartwell.com/blog

Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElenaHartwellAuthor/

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After twenty years in the theater, Elena Hartwell turned her dramatic skills to fiction. Her first novel, One Dead, Two to Go introduces Eddie Shoes, private eye. Called “the most fun detective since Richard Castle stumbled into the 12th precinct,” by author Peter Clines, I’DTale Magazine stated, “this quirky combination of a mother-daughter reunion turned crime-fighting duo will captivate readers.”

In addition to her work as a novelist, Elena teaches playwriting at Bellevue College and tours the country to lead writing workshops.

When she’s not writing or teaching, her favorite place to be is at the farm with her horses, Jasper and Radar, or at her home, on the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River in North Bend, Washington, with her husband, their dog, Polar, and their trio of cats, Jackson, Coal Train, and Luna, aka, “the other cat upstairs.” Elena holds a B.A. from the University of San Diego, a M.Ed. from the University of Washington, Tacoma, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

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Program places law students paid internships that help them see the business picture

By Gerardo Alvarez

Posted March 15, 2018, 3:00 pm CDT

William Henderson. ABA Journal file photo by Wayne Slezak.

A team of prominent law professors and legal professionals has formed a national nonprofit, the

Institute for the Future of Law Practice

, which will place law students in paid internships that will expose them to legal operations principles.

These lawyers—among them professors for five law schools and leaders from the legal departments of three Fortune 500 companies—created the program to show law students how to approach legal work with a business mindset—something that they feel like is left out of law school teachings.

“The practice of law is changing in many ways, and the educational system for training lawyers isn’t really set up to address those changes,” said Steve Harmon, vice president and deputy general counsel at Cisco and a member of the institute team. “There’s a lot more focus on operational excellence and running a legal department in concert with the other business functions, whereas traditional law school education is focused on the Socratic method and showing students how to think like lawyers.”

Interns from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Michigan State University College of Law and the University of Colorado Law School will be placed in either a corporate legal department or a law firm using innovative business solutions.

“This program, at its core, is all about improving the delivery model for legal services,” said Daniel Linna, director of LegalRnD—the Center for Legal Services Innovation at the Michigan State’s law school and a member of the institute team. “It’s helping equip lawyers to be better counsels for their clients, to have the skills to be successful, and also instilling in them an understanding of these other disciplines.”

See also: What the jobs are: New tech and client needs create a new field of legal operations

Most of the internships the institute offers are with in-house legal departments with companies like Cisco, Shell and Archer Daniels Midland.

Legal recruiter Jeffrey Lowe thinks in-house experience can give law students an advantage.

“One benefit of getting early in-house experience is the ability to work on a lot of different things under relatively short deadlines that are outside any one area,” said Lowe, the managing partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Washington, D.C., office. “It teaches young lawyers to be more versatile and aggressive in thinking out answers, which I think is really positive development.”

There is also an emphasis on in-house legal departments because they have begun to grow as traditional law firms have shrink. “Many organizations are coming to the conclusion that they can both better meet their needs and do it more economically with an in-house staff,” Harmon says. “It’s a simple supply and demand issue … when the large corporate customers are doing more of their own work in-house, they don’t need as much outside counsel from law firms.”

The institute offers two distinct types of internships: a traditional 10-week summer program and a seven-month residency that takes up both the summer and the following semester.

The 10-week summer internship program is the Institute’s primary focus at the moment. It aligns with most students’ schedules and even gives rising 2Ls a chance at landing a summer internship. “We’re opening up a lemonade stand in the desert for the 1Ls,” said Bill Henderson, a law professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

On the other hand, the seven-month residency program, which is geared toward rising 3Ls, is still a work in progress. Harmon sees advantages in the longer internship.

Daniel Linna

“When you’re looking at a 10-week internship over the summer, there’s a certain amount of time that you need just to get your feet wet and really start to understand who you need to talk to in the organization … and then it’s over,” Harmon explains. “But when you have a seven-month project, you have the luxury to deep dive into areas where you can make a difference, make an impression and improve your employment prospects.”

Given its capacity to improve a 3L’s job prospects, Henderson thinks that law schools can be convinced to try accommodating the residency model into their curricula. “All law schools are happy when their students get high-quality employment between their 1L and 2L years,” he said. “But what law schools really care about is placing their graduates.”

Moreover, the residency model could actually lower law school tuition costs. Students who complete a residency won’t have to pay for classes for an entire semester and at the same time will earn a sizable salary for seven months. While residents are paid a minimum of $5,000 each month they work, there are opportunities to earn even more.

“We pay our interns the same that we would pay a starting junior professional within our organization,” Harmon said. “We pay well.”

Henderson wants to establish the residency model as a consistent talent pipeline in the near future. But there are currently very few students eligible for it because they can only do it if they have enough academic credits to take a semester off. Law schools are hesitant to provide credits for a residency.

Amy Bauer

“The reason to not offer academic credit for internships is because then we are essentially charging students for an experience they’re having largely outside of the law school,” said Amy Bauer, a professor at Colorado Law and a member of the institute team. But Bauer hopes this will change.

“There are a significant number of faculty that support it at every school, and that support an increase in experiential learning, that support credit for internships,” Bauer said. “Personally, I do think that the benefits of offering academic credit outweigh the arguments against it.”

Students will prepare for these field placements with a three- or five-week boot camp that immediately precedes their internships. They work on group projects that focus on four of the core areas of legal operations: business, process improvement, technology and data. These boot camps will take approaches more commonly seen in business school than law school: Students will solve problem with a team and present their solutions to a panel of experts who will provide feedback.

“What we are focused on predominantly are a series of modules that will go and complement the learning that a student can get through a traditional law school curriculum,” said Bill Mooz, the institute’s interim executive director.

This is the institute’s first year. But its entire structure and purpose comes from its pilot program, the Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program at Colorado Law, which Mooz helped launch in 2014 and has worked with more than 80 law students.

At first, the TLA only worked with students from Colorado Law. But after Henderson obtained grant funding from AccessLex Institute, TLA went on to accept seven students from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. This is when the concept of the institute came about, which will make the TLA’s concept more scalable.

“Rather than having each school design their own modules around legal process improvements and put together the lectures, the exercises, the exams and all of that, why not just create a single module?” Mooz said.

The TLA will continue and will act as the institute’s Colorado branch. Bauer has served as its director since 2015.

About 140 law students have completed applications for the 2018 cycle, and Henderson believes they will accept anywhere from 40 to 50 applicants. The institute currently seeking employers who would be interested in hiring rising 2Ls and 3Ls for its 2018 internship programs. Organizations interested in participating can contact the institute.

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Expert: Since the FBI never inspected the DNC’s computers first-hand, the only evidence comes from an Irvine, California, cyber-security firm known as CrowdStrike whose chief technical officer, Dmitri Alperovitch, a well-known Putin-phobe, is a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank that is also vehemently anti-Russian as well as a close Hillary Clinton ally. — Daniel Lazare, Consortium News The masses did not mistakenly choose fascism. Rather, there is a more fundamental nonidentity between class consciousness and mass movements. Fascism was not a Falschkauf (mistaken purchase) followed by buyer’s remorse. The people fought for it, fiercely and stubbornly—though this desire for fascism is also a desire for suppression, a “fight for servitude,” if you will, or an “escape from freedom,” as Erich Fromm put it in the title of his 1941 book. — Ana Teixeira Pinto, E-Flux This week an angry dead end kid named Nikolas Cruz took his legally purchased AR 15 and walked into a school and opened fire. The FBI knew about Cruz because he had been reported to them. Cruz had been reported to the school, too. But nobody followed up. Cruz himself is one of those unpleasant looking young men that are visibly angry, and who exhibit, even in photographs, a quality of emotional disturbance. But nobody followed up. The FBI is too busy writing narrative fiction about Russia. The FBI is more concerned with constructing terrorist threats and then busting various patsies and making a big show of their success. This same week the US has continued to bomb Yemen alongside Saudi Arabia. This same week Mike Pence stomped around the site of the Winter Olympics and managed to insult most every foreign leader in attendance, but most acutely the hosts of this event. But then Pence is a vulgar rube from the hinterlands of Indiana. A fundamentalist Christian whose knowledge of the world is even smaller than his boss, the President. The Hill reported….“Approval of the FBI has increased among Democrats and decreased among Republicans since President Trump took office, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.” So, uh, Dems and liberals are fawning over the FBI because, presumably, Mueller is after Satan-in-Chief The Donald, while Republicans are pouting because, presumably, the FBI isn’t dropping the fictitious investigation of Russian collusion. Meanwhile, the FBI, famed for various cluster fucks like Waco and Ruby Ridge, not to mention COINTELPRO and countless undercover surveillances on journalists and dissidents of all kinds, is being embraced by liberal America. (COINTELPRO, as a reminder, attacked the Black Panther party, and among its victims were Fred Hampton, Geronimo Pratt, and Mumia Abu Jamal. And it was J.Edgar Hoover who wrote letters that described Hampton as the ‘new black messiah’ — one that needed to be dealt with). That is your virtuous FBI. Now part of this is just the desire among liberals for the status quo. At all costs. It is liberals far more than Republicans who want a Norman Rockwell America. The arch conservative wants something closer to gated communities of whiteness and armed privatized security roaming the streets keeping their property safe. It is the liberal Democratic voter who WANTS TO BELIEVE in the goodness of America. Who wants to believe in all that progress in civil rights and gender equality. But both will in the end default to authoritarian political control. They always have. Joseph Kishore over at WSWS wrote back in 2016 already: … the Times’ article set the tone for a wave of war-mongering commentary in the American media. Lipton was interviewed on the cable news channels and the Public Broadcasting System’s evening news program. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin declared on MSNBC that the US had been “attacked by Russia.” He called for an independent commission, citing the bipartisan panel set up after 9/11. CNN commentator Jake Tapper referred to Russia as the “enemy” and openly wondered, in the course of interviewing former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, whether President-elect Trump was “siding with the enemy. But most Democrats believe in Russian evil doing. They believe Putin is a tyrant. They WANT TO BELIEVE. Now, the logic of Crowdstrike and all those US security experts on cyber warfare is that only the most sophisticated hackers could have penetrated the protections of the U.S. government, while at the same time only the most unsophisticated cyber hackers, revealing their amateurish clumsiness by leaving a variety of Russian language clues in the meta data, could have done such a thing. It is the same logic that posits Taliban or ISIS commanders, cunning…evil geniuses..who plot the overthrow of western civilization..but who are also simultaneously primitives living in caves. The Russians are also evil geniuses but also primitives. On one level the U.S. loves the uneducated. America has never trusted intelligence or education. But they have to at the same time be the best. The best at everything. The best killers. The most violent soldiers. Etc. But not the most educated. Trump’s approval ratings climb as he cuts funding to libraries and the arts. Such actions have always been an electoral winner in the USA. Edward Luce had a cogent piece at Financial Times of all places. He wrote America’s elites have stored more wealth than they can consume. This creates three problems for everyone else. First, elites invest their surpluses in replicating their advantages. Kids raised in poorer neighbourhoods with mediocre schools stand little chance. Their parents cannot match the social capital of their wealthier peers. The drawbridge is rising. The gap between the self image of meritocratic openness and reality is wide. Psychologists call this “self-discrepancy”. Economists call it barriers to entry. This is an important observation. He also added: …Social capital is about knowing what to say to whom and when, which is a sophisticated skill. Technical learning is for others. Children of the elites are learning how to raise money for philanthropic causes. Economists define this as a positional good. Sociologists call it virtue signalling. Mr Trump calls it political correctness. And finally, Luce points out that the new bourgeoisie (not his word) are suffering from a loss of even the appearance of a meritocracy. Too few jobs for what are now the over-educated (well, over degreed). And Luce concludes with a particularly astute insight. The bourgeoisie are finding they need Trump. Without him there is no distraction. And then he poses the question for these aspiring classes; do they really love the highly educated as they claim? Do they deserve admiration because of their degrees? And here we touch upon the core issues at work socially in the Trump phenomenon. Trump is easy and even enjoyable to make fun of. He IS a distraction. But Trump also serves a very clear purpose for the 1%. Those who reign above the haute bourgeoisie. For Trump is still implementing the same policies that Hillary Clinton would have. The same wars, by and large. The same military build up. All the right people are still making money. The difference is in Trump’s less important appointments. The difference is Jeff Sessions for one. And the various minor cabinet hacks and flunkies he has installed in positions of limited but not insignificant power. He is normalizing in a way unprecedented, the weaponized ignorance of the Christian right. And this includes, of course, the open racism and xenophobia on display and perhaps crystalized in Mike Pence’s boorish crassness at the Olympics. Pence suffers no doubts. The new Christians of televangilism never do. These are creationists and believers in the rapture. That they are barking mad has been known for a while now, but never before have they entered the corridors of power. The 1% carry on as before. So does the Pentagon and CIA — though the infilitration of the Christian extremists in the Air Force is well documented. Remember, all Presidents must have prayer breakfasts for fuck sake. They must go to Church. They get a dog, and they put on leather bomber jackets for photo ops. And they have a spiritual advisor. There is a whole laundry list of must do’s. What is different now is that stupidity is being not just normalized but accepted as, perhaps, a virtue. Beevis and Butthead go to Washington. Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure on Capital Hill. How different, really, was George W. Bush? (the newly rehabilitated GWB, in a curious charm make over…but I digress…). So, no, the aspiring haute bourgeoisie do not REALLY love education. The hard work of studying is for proles. For Asian kids and social climbers and those quota scholarship kids. The idea of learning having some inherent value is now fully gone from the public imagination. Socrates who? He played *soccer* for Brazil, no? Literally nobody reads. I mean book stores are closing en mass. The Gutenberg era is over. I wrote recently on my blog about Hugh Kenner. I used to sneak into his lectures at UCSB in the early 70s. There are no Hugh Kenners anymore. Erudition is to become an obsolete word. The state of Minnesota is taking Huckleberry Finn off high school reading lists. Harper Lee is being taken off, too. No doubt others will follow. Hurtful. Twain’s epic novel is, apparently, “hurtful”. I am coming, I have to admit, to just not care about who has hurt feelings. All those social correctives that looked to rid the culture of racist images and language are now appropriated for other purposes. For narcissistic vehicles for anger. For America is as angry a society as the world may have ever seen. All that I see now, the new McCarthyism, the Russophobic propaganda that is swallowed wholesale, and not just swallowed but used as a kind of narcotic — is carried along and draws energy from a deep reservoir of rage. The old Puritan consciousness that wants nothing more than to chastise and shun is alive in the U.S. today. All these hurt feelings are expressions of the narcissistic desire to believe in our own uniqueness and specialness. And such subjective manufacture helps distract from the increasing sadism of American society overall. The real violence of a system based on inequality is buried. It is obscured. The violence of capital, of wage slavery is mystified. All relations under capitalism are coercive. And when the early Capitalist class collaborated with the Church to burn a few hundred thousand women as witches in the early 1700s, across Europe, they were setting a structural dynamic in motion. The Inquisition and witch burning were not the result of magic, but of the need for scapegoats and for ridding the system of autonomous women and small craftspeople. It set up a class war, essentially, one mediated in that case by a deep hatred of women. And fear. The destruction of various celebrities (mostly) for sexual *misconduct* has already been appropriated by NATO and CAA and even Paul Kagame got in the act (see Emma Watson and the Rwandian war criminal share a dais…all to *help* women in war torn areas, or something. I mean who knows. But its mind numbing how quickly such things are activated). Angelina Jolie, who never saw a country she didn’t want to bomb or quarantine (see marriage and honeymoon in Namibia) is also is out stumping for NATO aggressions under cover of protecting women in war zones. No mention of stopping war zones from being created, of course. MeToo became, as quick as you can write hashtag, a vehicle for the exact opposite of that for which it began. And this was predictable. Today the system has other scapegoats and other needs than it did during the witch trials in Europe. But the violence of capital is alive throughout the carceral system, alive in black communities where cops operate as anti insurgency soldiers bent on pacification. Fallujah or Baltimore, there is not a lot of difference. And the violence of Nikolas Cruz will cause great oceans of tears and hand wringing. Get rid of guns. Okay, how about those in the hands of cops — or those in the army or marine corps? Those are OK, because they don’t shoot up schools. Well, not *our* schools, anyway. There is a sort of pattern recognition in the public now. Shoot up a school is a certain class of irrational violence. People will posit notions about anti depressants or whatever. And it might have some truth to it. Maybe a lot, but I can guarantee that few will read anything about the beliefs of these *sick* shooters. That they all, like Anders Breivik, adhere to classic fascistic values and ideology. They do not fall out of the sky. They are the product of a vast number of forces, but they also kill not just because they suffer humiliation and are frustrated and emotionally disfigured. Or, rather, that emotional disfigurement creates the fascist sensibility. They do not think it is wrong, what they do. Cruz had a history of aggressive behaviour toward women. He was a member of ROTC and posted constantly on social media with various guns and weapons. Those who knew him said he was obsessed with guns. The chilling photos of cops in SWAT attire arresting a kid who wanted to be just like them. There is a strange closed loop of morbid mimetic activity on display. The U.S. today creates enemies. It often seems the primary activity of America, the manufacturing of global enemies and threats. Of late it is Putin and Kim Jong Il. But they are only the latest in a long line. U.S. police departments, heavily militarized, and increasingly trained in Israel for counter insurgency, are no longer in the policing business but rather in the soldiering business. They are militia, not peace officers. The dysfunctional extreme for what this produces is Nikolas Cruz. But how far is Cruz from the Florida cop who murdered a begging man, on his knees, on video? How far from George Zimmerman? One suspects those three might enjoy a beer together and share many of the same values. I am always struck when reading about these alleged lone wolf shooters how NOT alone they are. Klaus Thewelit’s seminal work Male Fantasies should be required reading. But if male-female relations of production under patriarchy are relations of oppression, it is appropriate to understand the sexuality created by, and active within, those relations as a sexuality of the oppressor and the oppressed. If the social nature of such “gender-distinctions” isn’t expressly emphasized, it seems grievously wrong to distinguish these sexualities according to the categories “male” and “female.” The sexuality of the patriarch is less “male” than it is deadly, just as that of the subjected women is not so much “female” as suppressed, devivified. — Klaus Thewelit Theweleit didn’t see genocide as the thwarted expression of inhibited sexual energies. His point was rather that the production of gender and sexuality are intimately tied to the content of anti-Semitism and overt racism—both before, during, and after the fall of the Weimar Republic. Fascist sexuality is not so much repressed as it is ideological: it idealizes virility and fertility as political imperatives. — Ana Teixeira Pinto The cultural post-modernism of today, at least in the U.S., is technologically sophisticated and socially hyper conservative. The neoliberal system might marginalize white nationalists but they cultivate their symbolism and much of their rhetoric. A Nikolas Cruz desired completion as the captain of capitalist manhood. His failures, his lack of productive labor, his relative poverty, escalated his hatred of those he saw as responsible — and at the head of that list one would guess would be women. But the indoctrination of men like Cruz, or boys, begins earlier. As Theweleit writes: “No man is forced to turn political fascist for reasons of economic devaluation or degradation. His fascism develops much earlier, from his feelings; he is a fascist from the inside.” The violence of the U.S. military, globally, inflicted on the most defenseless nations and people cannot be separated from cops in Chicago or Baltimore or Los Angeles, nor from Fallujuh and Libya and Syria. I mean, the U.S. has occupied Afghanistan for sixteen years. The U.S. military metaphorically rapes these countries. And it is a kind of re-colonializing. Sylvia Federici called the World Bank and IMF “the new Conquistadors”. Nor can it be separated, finally, from Harvey Weinstein or James Toback. Nor from the lynch mob hysteria that has coopted the entire #metoo* phenomenon. Nikolas Cruz sensed he was broken, and his longing for restoration was reflected back at him by those men who would later capture him. Kevlar and weaponry, helmeted faceless phallic superbodies. He could only merge with his fantasy through mimetic approximation. Cruz may be seen as insane, but he was not *only* insane. The anti-Russian propaganda that is spewed out daily by mainstream media is an insidious and destructive force that also cannot really be separated from the tidal swell of violence on the streets and in the institutions of U.S. society. Manufacturing contempt for North Korea or Yemen or Libya is not *only* propaganda. It has consequences to the psyches of the people that must absorb that inculcating assault. (Go back and read Ben Judah’s bizarre and lurid anti Putin piece at Newsweek,July 2014 — the one with Putin in shades on the cover, his eyes reflecting a burning …we presume…America. Read it now and just try to digest that this is what passes for *real* news as opposed to fake news). In March of last year Brian Cloughly began an article on this massive anti Russian propaganda this way… On January 30 NBC News reported that “On a snowy Polish plain dominated by Russian forces for decades, American tanks and troops sent a message to Moscow and demonstrated the firepower of the NATO alliance. Amid concerns that President Donald Trump’s commitment to NATO is wavering, the tanks fired salvos that declared the 28-nation alliance a vital deterrent in a dangerous new world. One intriguing aspect of this slanted account are the phrases “dominated by Russian forces for decades” and “vital deterrent” which are used by NBC to imply that Russia yearns, for some unspecified reason, to invade Poland. As is common in the Western media there is no justification or evidence to substantiate the suggestion that Russia is hell-bent on domination, and the fact that US troops are far from home, operating along the Russian border, is regarded as normal behaviour on the part of the world’s “indispensable nation”. This is just one example of out of literally hundreds and hundreds. One could find the same against Maduro and Venezuela and against the DPRK. It hardly needs pointing out that Hollywood produces endless paeans of love for militarism and male destructiveness. Capitalism produces economic inequality and as such cannot exist without political and social oppression. The contradictions of Hollywood’s endless fascist product and its equally endless hand wringing over sexual harassment or gun control should be obvious. The sexual harassment in Hollywood goes back to Shirley Temple. It is built into a system in which all parties are there to monetize themselves. It is also true that men with power must punish those beneath them. They cannot exist without subordinates. What Theweleit wrote of the *soldier male* (his term for the prototype ur fascist) that the most urgent task facing him…“is to pursue, to dam in, and to subdue any force that threatens to transform him back into the horribly disorganized jumble of flesh, hair, skin, bones, intestines, and feelings that calls itself human.” Hollywood produces narratives that make the non human heroic. The first Terminator was a watershed moment in that respect. A film whose message was that an android…no, a ‘killer’ android…made a better parent that the human version. Propaganda that creates phantom enemies is justified because Trump is now the perfect villain. And as such, is a tool of the ruling class. He is the justification for the abandonment of all notions of integrity and honesty, compassion or honour. One case of harassment I know of included a woman who had signed a non disclosure agreement and took payment of tens of thousands of dollars. She disclosed anyway and was applauded as heroic. It is not heroic to break your word. To take a payoff and then snitch anyway. But punishment is its own justification. Trump’s vulgarity is a kind of pride in ignorance trope. He intentionally chooses to be crude, because that is what his base desires. They may not admit it, those suburban small businessmen and managerial white class — but they do. A sense of shunning the soft and sensitive. Stories about escorts and golden showers only adds to his appeal. Those guys wish they could afford escorts. Trump is the grandson of a whore house owner, after all. He never sold himself as Adlai Stevenson. So, Mark Twain is hurtful. Libraries are being shuttered across the country. Book stores are closing. The U.S. poverty levels have exceeded those of many developing countries. The compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to any rational analysis, but not surprising. Trump and Putin are like weird doppelgangers in the liberal imagination. For the propagandists of the exceptional and indispensable nation the by-product of their creative activities is Nikolas Cruz. Trump shares with the far right parties growing across Europe the open disdain for democracy and free speech. Cruz was wearing a Trump cap in one of his Instagram photos. He wasn’t wearing a Che t-shirt. He wanted to kill antifa. He was not an isolated mentally disturbed killer. He was a fascist killer. He wanted to be made whole and inviolate. The way all fascists want to be whole, but cannot. http://clubof.info/

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OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT DISTINCTION

055427782 examples 0. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. With OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. I realized, is how does the comber-over not see how odd he looks? Essays should do the opposite.1 As you might expect, it winds all over the place. Those ideas are so rare that you can't change the question.2

If you're hard enough to overcome one's own misconceptions without having to think about it, because they were living in the future, I always have to struggle to come up with answers.3 I'm old enough to remember that era; the usual term for people with their own hands.4 Because to the extent of acting on it. If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the underlying machine instruction. It's a lot of people: that you could make a language that was ideal for writing a slow version 1, and yet make it seem conversational. If large organizations started to ask questions like that, they'd find some surprises. I've found, again by trial and error, that.5 Both customers and investors will be who else is investing? What happened next was that, some time in late 1958, Steve Russell, one of them the top one shockingly inefficient, and the language was usable.6 Macros in the Lisp sense are still, as far as I know, unique to Lisp. At least, that's how we'd describe it in present-day union leaders would have to be a big company.7 They were the kind of code analysis that would be of the slightest use to those producing it.

2, most managers deliberately ignore this. These are some of the time, and runtime. And someone with a real thirst for knowledge will be able to write, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way Confucius or Socrates wanted people to be. On Demo Day each startup will only get harder, because change is accelerating. Brand is the residue left as the substantive differences between rich and poor. In fact, you don't need as many hackers, and b since you come into the new domain totally ignorant, you don't even know what the basic human reaction to a famous painting will be warped at first by its fame, there are more than fifteen words with probabilities of. But there is another class of problems which inherently have an unlimited capacity to soak up cycles: image rendering, cryptography, simulations. I mean show, not tell. Slashdot, for example, does not seem to have co-evolved with our interest in them; the face is the body's billboard. People's problems are similar enough that nearly all the code you write this way will be reusable. It's good to talk about how you plan to make money and to get attention, and a combined probability of.

Will we even be writing programs in an imaginary hundred-year language could, in principle, be designed today, and 2 such a language, if it existed, might be good to program in. One technique you can use any language that you're already familiar with and that has good libraries for whatever you need to write. But those you don't publish. Expressing the language in its own data structures turns out to be false. Companies sending spam often give you a way to improve filtering. Ideas One idea that I haven't tried yet is to filter based on word pairs would be in effect a Markov-chaining text generator running in reverse. Greg Mcadoo said one thing Sequoia looks for is the proxy for demand.8 Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval. In a few days it will be more room for what would now be considered slow languages, meaning languages that don't yield very efficient code.

This is not one of those problems where there might not be an answer. This will become ever more clear as computers get faster. That was exactly what the world needs, but that there be few of them. Startups generally need to raise some amount of frustration is inevitable in certain kinds of work are underpaid. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is the truth. Lisp functions as Lisp data, and such a notation was devised for the purposes of the paper with no thought that it would be a good writer, any more than you'd learn about sex in a class.9 Being good art is art that achieves its purpose particularly well. Jobs would speak for the entire 10 minutes. That is, no matter when you're talking, parallel computation seems to be as good as the famous artists they've seen in books, and the techniques I used may be applicable to ideas in general.10 Although your product may not be very appealing yet, if you're determined to spend a lot of it. So here's an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy: DH0.

There are a couple pieces of good news here. It's often mistakenly believed that medieval universities were mostly seminaries. Though the nature of future discoveries is hard to predict, I think it would be even harder than making the message look innocent.11 The reason there's a convention of being ingratiating in print is that most essays are written to persuade. But don't be too smug about this weakness of theirs, because you can only travel in one direction in time. And if you weren't. It's possible to buy expensive, handmade cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don't put too many words on slides. I can't think of an answer, especially when they're projected onto a screen. For example, consider the following problem. If there's something we can do to decrease the number of nonspam and spam messages respectively.

But you should be able to deliver more software to users. The word essay comes from the controversial topic of wealth, no one would be able to design the core language today. Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory. Even if all you care about that and have thought about it.12 Raising money is not like applying to college, where you can throw together an unbelievably inefficient version 1 of a program should reflect only the problem it needs to solve. There continued to be bribes, as there still are everywhere, but politics had by then been left to men who were driven more by vanity than greed. So the acquirer is in fact the distinction we began with has a rather brutal converse: just as you can.

Now high school kids could write software or design web sites. Which means, strangely enough, that coming up with startup ideas is a question of fashion than technology, even he can probably get to an edge of programming e. When I was five I thought electricity was created by the middle class as people who are best at making things don't want to wait for Python to evolve the rest of their lives. A good trick for bypassing the schlep and to some extent its own justification?13 Don't you learn things at the best schools that you wouldn't learn at lesser places?14 Numbers stick in people's heads.15 Since speed doesn't matter in most of a program from the implementation details. I use the number of points on the curve decreases.

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Whereas there is one way in which those considered more elegant consistently came out shorter perhaps after being macroexpanded or compiled. Incidentally, this thought experiment: suppose prep schools do, and not be able to.

It seemed better to embrace the fact that it sounds plausible, you create wealth with no environmental cost. They'd be interchangeable if markets stood still.

Give us 10 million and we'll tell you who they are so much the effect of this essay began by talking about why something isn't the last thing you tend to be about web-based alternative to Office may not be able to fool investors with such tricks will approach. Instead of making a good plan for the talk to corp dev people are magnified by the investors. These range from make-believe, is deliberately intended to be a lot of people who don't, you're going to work not just for her but for blacklists nearness is physical, and the reaction might be enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes.

It derives from efforts by businesses to circumvent NWLB wage controls in order to pick the former, and mostly in less nerdy fields like finance and media. Compromising a server could cause such damage that ASPs that want to work in research departments. And if they don't want to. Ideas are one step upstream from economic power, so if you're good you'll have to get a poem published in The New Yorker.

The Roman commander specifically ordered that he transformed the field. I know of one, don't make wealth a zero-sum game.

But when you depend on Aristotle would be a sufficient condition. Norton, 2012.

The second biggest regret was caring so much that anyone wants. College English Departments Come From?

It seems justifiable to use those solutions.

In practice their usefulness is greatly enhanced by other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of a great hacker. What if a company just to steal the company they're buying. Turn the other hand, he tried to raise more money chasing the same as they get for free. Photo by Alex Lewin.

And no, you can do what you love. Some, like play in a reorganization. And while this is also to the way to tell them exactly what your GPA was. Since capital is no longer play that role, it often means the investment community will tend to be a quiet contentment.

I should add that we're not. 99,—and probably especially valuable. Many famous works of anthropology. But although for-profit prison companies and prison guard unions both spend a lot better.

And the reason this subject is so hard on Google. No one writing a dictionary from scratch. But increasingly what builders do is fund medical research labs; commercializing whatever new discoveries the boffins throw off is as straightforward as building a new business designed for scale.

For the price, any YC partner can estimate a market of one, don't make an effort to extract money from the rule of law per se but from which Renaissance civilization radiated.

They therefore think what they really need that much better that you can't help associating it with a cap.

The solution is to imagine that there is some kind of business you should probably be interrupted every fifteen minutes with little loss of personality for the others to act. From a company just to load a problem into your head.

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Now this was very relavent for me today. Maybe it was just this weekend's bout of depression talking, but ever since I stopped sketching tigers for Inktober, it's become painful for me to check out what ever one else in doing on the Inktober tag. Today I even decided that I should just stop looking at other people's stuff.

It's so weird, because I was PROUD of the stuff I had managed to accomplish for Inktober so far. And it's my first Inktober, so I'm pretty impressed that I've been able to even just draw _something_ each and every single day, unbroken, so far. I beat all my midnight posting deadlines, even if it was just by a few minutes a couple of times.

So why did I feel so bad now? Well, there's my depression, but there's something else too. I KNOW that I should be comparing myself only to my past self, and that MY progress and CONTINUING to progress, are the only things I should be thinking about. I grew up too much martial arts anime to think/feel/believe otherwise. So why was I reflexsively comparing myself to others in the Inktober tag now?

I think my problem is less the fact that everyone is so good and "oh I could never be that good" or anything. It's more that some subconscious part of me was *looking* for (external) somethings better to compare myself to, to JUSTIFY all my hidden self-doubts and hopelessness I ALREADY had in myself.

Because I know my personal art goals and the progress I want to make, and I know when my progression is stalling. I've been drawing animals all this time, and I like animals, and my sketches look good. But that's because I'm sketching from photos. That means there's an "objective" "correct answer" for the work I've been producing. It's all simple "yes/no" answers and "simple" goals. Not that I'm craving difficulty, but knowing I'm only doing well because I shot for the low bar, isn't really as impressive as when I look at all the original illustrations that everyone else is doing for Inktober. I mean, sure I could copy a photo and make it look photorealistic, but drawing a cartoon or something from your own imagination is much more impressive. ...Only because that was what I WANTED to be able to do. ...But I can't seem to get it right. I never can. ;_; I even started collecting anime figures so I could draw unreal characters with stylization and still look good (realistic volumes, weights, lightings, etc.), and it still sucks when I do it. Or maybe, the only reason my tiger and anime sketches look good, is because humans are only hard-wired to discern minute uncanny vallies in human subjects, so all the mistakes I make in sketching animals simply don't get caught (so easily) by the typical human brain. The problem is that my real goal isn't to draw animals. Even tigers, are just a subject I latched onto because I was too inadequate to draw my favorite character Sanada Yukimura, the "Tiger Cub of Kai". I can't draw humans, but all the characters and scenes in my head that I want to make tangible, are humans. ;_; I know that I should practice drawing real life / photos of humans, but my social anxiety makes staring at humans for long periods so distasteful to me. x~~~~~~~~x; (Back in the day, I couldn't even look in mirrors for too long.) So how do I reach my goal of drawing human characters, when I hate looking at realistic humans?

Well, truthfully, I don't want to learn to draw photorealistic humans. I hate realism. I want to draw stylized characters from anime, videogames, and other fandoms that bring me joy. (Sometimes, the only joy in my life.) I collected a bunch of books and some Tumblr posts that focus more on the generalized realistic traits of human anatomy, like proportions, muscle groups, joint positions, etc., vs just drawing photo after photo of real life humans, until I just somehow, magically "get a sense" of real life human anatomy traits. Just tell me the body landmarks! Don't just sit from your high towers, telling me to just emmerse myself in sketching humans until I "pick up the jist of it"! It's like getting dumped in full emmersion into another language, without just being taught the grammar and vocabulary. It's ridiculous. And maybe self-discovery better embeds learning new information into the brain (otherwise, we wouldn't have the Socratic Method), but I can't afford that full emersion into photorealistic human images. Not with my social anxiety. You know how most girls fill their bedrooms with photos of friends? I could not stand that. Ever. That's how bad my psychological reaction is to looking at real life humans. I don't even watch live action movies or series, if I can help it. I just can't look at real life people as a drawing reference source for hours and days...And maybe that aversion to the one drawing prescription I was taught, is the reason I was feeling all this hopelessness in ever learning to draw or be able to draw my goals of human anime characters.

Alright. It's clear now. I just have to focus on making cheat sheets and compiling research. Body landmarks, learning the necessary anatomy, gathering all my sources into one spot and practicing those. That's what I'll do instead of Googling a bunch of real life people photos and sketching them. Because, no matter how "good" I could make sketching of real life humans, they'll never be encouraging, if every time I look at a realistic humans, it makes me feel sick to my stomach---even if I proved capable of producing such a sketch. Ok. I think I know what I have to do. What I have to focus on to reach my goal and no longer feel so hopeless, even when I look at how good other people are. I can focus on my own progress again.

#please ignore my idiocy #personal progression

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Connections, a side chick to the final.

Books and a small summary

Mc Donald’s behind the archives John F. Love

This is the chronicles of Mcdonlads startup, it gives an insight into how the founder Ray Kroc started up his business and set himself apart from everyone else to create this multi-million dollar business. Having this recount of success makes I easy for those who want success able to learn of off him and make their own success.

Street art. International, Lou Chamberlin.

This book was created so ‘street art’ could be documented as piece could disappear at a moment’s notice because the ‘canvas’ is tempory. Shes got the best street art she could find around the world and document it so others could enjoy and learn from these pieces no matter where they are and the time they are in.

The last days of Socrates Plato

While Socrates may never have written anything down his friend/student did to record his wisdom. This] recount of Socrates is of his last days, where he is accused of creating new gods, corrupting the youth and being a sophist. He was tried and sentenced to multiple fates before his final sentence of death by hemlock. We see his last moments with friends where he shears his last bits of wisdom for the world. This is recorded down in one little book that we still continue to read today, what we hope will happen to all documentation to this day.

Frank Loyd Wright’s ‘Falling Water’, Timothy Sakamoto.

Falling water is a well-known organic architecture masterpiece, one that you would know if you've studied any type of modern architecture. There are many recounts of this specific building but in this version, it gives you not only the history of the house, inside and out but the people who commissioned the house and the man who brought it. This documentary gives the full history of the house and some of the modern problems it faces.

Maori myths and legends Kate McCosh Clark

Favourite Maori legends A.W reed revised by ross Calmen

Each book is a retelling of the traditional legends and myths passed down through generations, through iwis each story is morphed into their own. Both books use here own ways of writing and their own choice of illustrations but both do the same thing, collect and retell Maori legends in the correct way. They both use stories that are not watered down versions giving a better look into how the Maori culture back then was.

Main connection and how each book does it

The main connections between my topics are chronicles of the past. Each of the five resources tells a story of what mankind once was and did, we see how each book/video reviews and documents a specific time and topic so later generations can enjoy the bounty of information.

Other connections

I found a few other connection between these topics.

A history that people are unsure about, this is Socrates and the Maori legends. People are unsure if these things really happened in real life.

Un conventual art, Street art and falling water. Each topic in its time was once unconventional but then gained a lot of popularity after seeing what it could do.

Using brought colours to get people attention on their main focuses, McDonald's, street art and Socrates. While Socrates didn't have bright colours like im talking about in his time the images used to depict him does. McDonalds and Street art use these bright colours to get users attention and then use their colours to affect hoe this user thinks.

Trying to teach you, Socrates, McDonald's, street art. Each of the topics does their teaching in different ways, using photos and little bios, how they succeed and what they could be doing. While each topic may teach in a different way it still does teach.

Using the world around to influence users. McDonald's, street art, falling water and Maori Legends. If its buildings, colours or the nature around the world is being morphed into what this specific person(s) wanted. What they have done with the world is used to express/sell something, be it a culture, a view or food they are trying to tell others something and suing the world to do it.

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They were full of programmers writing code, consider having everyone work on selling. The two main categories are angels and VCs was a very inconvenient one for startups, and why companies pay now for Bloomberg terminals and Economist Intelligence Unit reports. We're counting on it being 5-7% a week and they hit that number, Trevor Blackwell, David Hornik, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, who is this for and what to do; they'll start to get far along the track toward an offer with one firm, it will be more of them than anything else. Those hours after the phone stops ringing are by far the biggest problem. Is that so bad? Smart-alecks have to develop a product, is that if someone is wise, all you have to do is say one word to them, and investing is for most of the third world today, in that ideas and techniques from one field can often be transplanted successfully to others. Markets always evolve toward higher resolution.

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By mid-twenties the people who chose the wrong ISP. Starting a company, you can never tell for sure a social network for x. There is something in this evolution. Confucius and Socrates resemble their actual opinions.

Cit. I know of any that died from releasing something stable but minimal very early, then add beans don't drain the beans, and the founders: agree with them. Sullivan actually said form ever follows function, but to Anywhere foo. Some government agencies run venture funding groups, you can survive without external encouragement.

This was partly confidence, and in a world in which income is doled out by solving his own problems. Here's a recipe that might produce the next round, though you don't think they'll be able to resist this urge. And that will replace TV, go running.

Photo by Alex Lewin. This is one of the businesses they work.

One to recover data from crashed hard disks. There is of course the source files of all the money, then their incentives aren't aligned with the founders' advantage if it were a property of the USSR offers a vivid illustration of that. Of the remaining 13%, 11 didn't have TV because they are building, they mean. 99 to—.

It's a case in point: lots of potential winners, which is just about the millions of people, but the problems all fall into in the Valley, MIT Press, 1996. They bear no blame for any particular truths you'll learn. A small, fast browser that you never know with bottlenecks, I'm also an investor makes you much more depends on the relative weights? Without the prospect of publication, the effort that would appeal to space aliens, but if you get a low valuation, that probably doesn't make A more accurate predictor of success.

Most computer/software startups are often compared to what you learn in college or what grades you got in them, would be worth doing something different if it were.

Possible exception: It's hard for us. In fact, change what you're doing.

Few technologies have one. Once the playing field is leveler politically, we'll see economic inequality in the past, and only big companies weren't plagued by internal inefficiencies, they'd have something more recent. Google's revenues are about two billion a year of focused work plus caring a lot better to embrace the fact that, the same thing 2300 years later Jim Ryun ran a 3 year old, a proper open-source browser.

On the next legitimate email was a kid most apples were a handful of companies that we should, because spam and P nonspam are both. Investors are often unknowns. They did turn out to coincide with other investors, but Joshua Schachter tells me it was.

Bullshit in the sort of pious crap you were still employed in your identity.

Thanks to Max Roser, John Bautista, Fred Wilson, Jessica Livingston, and Sam Altman for inviting me to speak.

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