#AND I MEAN. I feel like that's an easy economical argument because otherwise it's Expensive

[oldmanlusting]

AAAAAA MY CRUSH HAS FINALLY MULLED IT OVER AND DECIDED HE'D BE OKAY WITH SHARING A HOTEL ROOM WITH ME IF IT'S OK WITH ME

[redqueen-hypothesis]

quarantime together ➳ mlqc

➳ WORD COUNT: 3064

➳ GENRE: fluff

➳ SYNOPSIS: what are the two of you up to during the quarantine together?

LUCIEN // has a shady history with viruses and flus

lucien has insider info on the virus as one of the most acclaimed researchers (although he’s a neuroscientist but at this point what is lucien), so he’s long prepared for the lockdown before loveland even gets a wind of it happening

he’s part of the team that’s doing research on the virus too, just... remote

did you think that just because he’s staying at home, there’s no more work to be done? no, the man works just as intensely as ever, researching, inputting algorithms, double checking the data on his research reports. you need to remind him to take a break every few hours

you’ve asked him to set an alarm on his phone but all he does is smile and wrap his arms around you tighter, saying that you’re much more pleasant and persuasive to listen to

knows you’re stressed about the virus and shares with you tidbits of information about it, explaining to you how the two of you should be fine just as long as you stay inside your apartment. together.

you get to see him in his glasses more often, which you find far too attractive when paired with that silently intense gaze he wears while buried deep in work. he looks up on occasion to catch you staring with far too wide eyes. caught red handed (or red faced)

what you don’t realise is that he’s watching you too, he’s just faster at looking away before you realise he’s looking at you with an impossibly tender gaze

when you whine a little about wanting to take this opportunity to spend more time with him, lucien doesn’t show it on his face, but his heart feels like it’s warming- oh, it’s melting in his chest

starts cooking dinner with you

much to your surprise, lucien can’t do everything (no, there’s something he actually can’t do) and cooking is one of them. he’s not fantastic at it, or maybe he’s just doing this on purpose so that you have to guide his hands with your own as he helps to chop the vegetables

leans down for you to tie the apron around his neck, and sneaks a gentle kiss or two when you’re most unprepared for it, much to your surprise (and happiness)

pulls you to him out of the blue and squeezes you around the waist before he releases you, saying the temperature is cold and he needs something to warm him up

in the evenings, the two of you snuggle of the couch together to watch old classic films that you’ve either rented out or dug out on netflix, sharing a blanket between the two of you

lucien engages you in discussion about the shows, from what you love about them to what you think of the characters, and sometimes if you’re lucky, lucien will let you pry just a little bit more about the enigma that he is - you feel like he’s unlocked a door to his heart only when he’s around you

occasional anime marathons, you didn’t think that he’d like them, but he seems to have quite an interest in attack of titan season three and death note

prepare for a psychological analysis of the man that is eren yeager

the two of you talk late into the night, until your discussions become more sleep drunk ramblings than any coherent thoughts, and lucien loves it because you’re so much more open and free about letting him know your opinion so much that he doesn’t realise he’s doing the same

lowkey wondering if he should prolong the virus somehow just so the two of you can remain in this little love nest for a little longer

coaxes you into the bedroom when you fall asleep on his shoulder, tucks you up in the blanket before he resumes his research (honestly, does this man ever sleep?)

if you wake up in the middle of the night to see him still typing away on his laptop, your sleepy voice gently scolding him for not taking care of his own health and the hand tugging at his shoulder is more than enough for him to set down his work for the night and join you in bed

he spends just a little longer watching your sleeping face before he joins you in your dreams

VICTOR // monopoly king

daily panique about the stock market (but he does it elegantly, so it’s panique instead of panic, he’s not emotional like other foolish mortals)

wakes up at the brink of dawn, this man is the head of the loveland financial group, a mere virus isn’t going to bring his company down and he knows that he’ll need to work extra to ensure his workers still have jobs to do

cooks breakfast for you while you’re still asleep while listening to the news on the television, gives you updates when you wake up

if you wake up early to the absence of warmth in your shared bed, however, you might catch the rare sight of the one and only li zeyan humming a tune as he beats eggs in what he thinks is an empty kitchen, or stumble upon him having a staring match with the oven

tries to sneakily slip food and drinks that he knows are good for relaxing the body and mind because you’ve been on edge with each news report of the virus that comes in, you notice the new trend in chamomile tea and dark chocolate, but silently eat it up with a smile and thank him for it - let this awkward man show his love in his ways

extremely busy from morning to afternoon with video conferences and phone calls, you press gentle kisses between his furrowed brow between meetings and watch as his expression relaxes before the phone starts ringing again

make a cup of tea or coffee for him, he appreciates it

there’s one time you kissed him on the mouth thinking he was on break but he wasn’t, and it wasn’t until you realised victor had frozen stiff as a board that it clicked - the entire board of the LFG had been watching through the video camera

you’re never stepping foot into that building ever again

even though he’s ridiculously busy with work, victor makes an effort to spend some time with you throughout his busy day. these usually happen in the fifteen minute to hour long breaks between his meetings

he needs something simple and easy to do with you in those small pockets of time

so, card/board games!

the only game he can play decently at the beginning is poker, but is absolutely terrible at uno and monopoly - he’s never actually played them before

calls these games silly at first, but by the third day he’s actually stopping time before his next meeting starts just so that he can count the reverse uno cards he’s put down and ensure his victory

becomes an absolute beast at monopoly and crushes you completely, you sort of regret teaching him this game because he starts educating you on economic theories

“you must buy as many properties as possible at the beginning, there is no reward without risk... this is the game of monopoly... become the monopoly!”

you just shake your head with a sigh. ah, the menace of capitalism.

he fares worse at monopoly deal, looks absolutely stunned at the idea of a ‘deal breaker’ and ‘just say no’

works out in his apartment gym and occasionally pulls you along, saying that you need to exercise and stay healthy or you’ll become a couch potato

you reluctantly go along with him but you’re rewarded with the sight of him working out, i assure you, it’s very worth it

sometimes you shower together which leads to more... if you get what i mean wink wonk

you help him with dinner prep, which is mainly you watching as he whips up a michelin worthy meal for the two of you

you claim you’re helping with the taste testing

that also leads to more. victor enjoys eating off the kitchen island - and more importantly, he enjoys eating you out on it

opens a bottle of wine or whiskey for sometimes no reason at all at night, just to enjoy it with you

the two of you sit at the balcony overlooking the entirety of loveland city from his penthouse, sipping at your wine and talking about everything and anything

dumb arguments like “you stole the entire pile of fifties when i wasn’t looking earlier???” victor is kind of a sore loser

you take some time out to teach him how to play on the piano, what’s the use of that ridiculously expensive grand piano in his penthouse otherwise?

it takes him two nights to learn simple pieces like “ode to joy” and three for “you are my sunshine”, he hasn’t touched the piano for a few years

the eager, almost child-like determination he wears on his face makes your heart warm as he fumbles to place his fingers on the right keys, and you play simple duets together

bedtime snuggles, victor cancels all his late night meetings or postpones them to earlier schedules so that he can hold you close in bed at night

realises what he’s been missing out the entire time and can’t believe that it needed the quarantine to let him know how much he loves falling asleep with you in his arms

resolves to do this more often after the lockdown is over

GAVIN // keep the fire station on speed dial

the entire of loveland city is under lockdown but unfortunately crimes are still happening - the criminals must not have gotten their stay at home notices

even though crime rates have dipped, there are still strange occurrences happening in the city here and there

the police force is still an essential service, and gavin is called out of the blue at the most awkward hours (when you’re eating, when you’re sleeping, when you’re having sex-) to handle high profile cases

you fuss about him while he’s rushing to change into his uniform, securing a mask on his face with a quick kiss to the lips before you put it on to hide his blushing cheeks

never uses the door, just straight up jumps out of your window like a cat burglar running off with your heart

you’re always worried, but gavin reassures you he’ll take care of himself and stay away from people on the ground - he can’t risk getting infected and passing it on to you

buys takeaway snacks and boba for you because he knows you’ve missed them

crashes on the couch if he comes back at odd hours because he’s too tired to get to the bed, wakes up to a blanket draped over him and the smell of frying eggs wafting over from the kitchen

at first he’s a little at a loss for what to do with so much free time, but you encourage him to pick up old hobbies he’s long forgotten about by asking him to share them with you

wii games!! nintendo switch!! xbox!! you’ve never seen gavin’s face light up so fast when he delivers a critical hit to your character in super smash bros... and immediately starts spluttering apologies to you like he’s committed a cardinal sin

kiss him to shut him up, and he sinks into it with a muffled sigh. poor birdcop needs a break

he misses his boxing gym, and the closest thing you two get to that are pillow fights, although he’s careful not to use too much strength as he gently bats you with a cushion

you always end up winning since he’s too soft to hit you with very much effort

tries to pick up ‘home cooking 101′ and searches youtube for asmr cooking videos

watches them so intensely you’re a little bit intimidated by the sharpness of his gaze (it’s a cooking video on how to make lemonade, for god’s sake)

peaceful cuisine and nino’s home are his go to channels

more often than not his solo attempts in the kitchen end up in disaster and you wonder whether it would be safer to have a fire extinguisher in the house. gavin wholeheartedly agrees as he rushes to slam the lid over the frying pan of flaming oil

he’s more at ease carrying out critically dangerous missions than turning on the stove, and flinches whenever the spark igniter sets the gas alight - this is why he sticks with instant noodles and cup rice

you offer to teach him, however, and he’s hard pressed to turn you down when you look at him light that

he’s good at kneading dough! it’s one of his only talents in the kitchen, but he’s very good at it. it also gives you a chance to salivate over those forearms, i mean, that tasty, tasty dough!

can make a mean soy sauce egg fried rice, but that’s about the only thing he can make

takes this time to fix up his motorcycle and make some improvements on it, but is kind of sad because he can’t go for a spin. he misses being on his bike

the plus side of this quarantine though, is that he can reach for you any time he has the urge to embrace you or feel you, and that is many, many times in a day

at first he was a little shy and awkward about it, but when you told him that you appreciate him being forward about what he wants, he’s become a lot more comfortable with initiating contact

pulls you into his lap for random cuddles, brushes your hair back to give the shell of your ear a light kiss, squeezes your hands when you’ve spent a long time drafting up plans for shows to make once the quarantine is over

has some uh... pent up energy that he needs to release without the adrenaline rush of the missions he’s used to

translates well to gavin being more dominant and vocal in the bedroom, something you’re very appreciative of. you hope gavin knows that as much as your neighbors surely do by now

braids your hair just for fun when the two of you are lying in bed with nothing to do

wraps his arms around you tight

KIRO // screaming into the unknown at the skyscrapers in the distance

is going crazy with cabin fever

he wants to go to the park!! he wants to feel the sun on his face!! his favourite food festival is cancelled!! he was really looking forward to seeing it with you :(

pouts for days, but is magically alright if you kiss him

“maybe that’s your power, ms chips! give me another kiss to make sure!”

wakes you in the morning (unintentionally) with his vocal exercises. you blink open your eyes to see him standing at the balcony with his hands on his hips and singing chromatic scales or practice songs to the other apartment blocks

sometimes someone shouts back if he starts too early in the morning and he retreats inside sheepishly

they’re getting a free kiro concert

it’s like having your own personal rooster/alarm clock, but his voice is so angelic you can’t be blamed for falling back asleep

brought his cat, cello, back to your shared apartment to take care of since he can’t just leave cello in the studio with the quarantine going on

you spend lazy afternoons as cat parents, putting gacha outfits on the cat and filming stories for kiro to put up on tik tok and instagram

#celloathome trends on twitter

weekly check ins with savin to say ‘yes, kiro isn’t only eating junk food’, ‘yes, kiro is doing vocal practices every day’, ‘you’re sure you’re not snacking on everything in the apartment?’

he is eating snacks that you’ve stocked up on but reminds himself not to eat too much since he’s not exercising as much anymore

teaches you the choreography to his favourite songs!

you’re lagging far far behind him in terms of skill and coordination but he praises you and cheers you on anyway

on the slow ballad tracks on his albums, he’ll pull you close and just sway with you along to the beat, pressing his lips to your hair

this little ball of sunshine wants the sun!! he needs to recharge on that good ol’ vitamin d, so he hangs out at a sunny spot on the balcony - more often than not you’ll find him napping on there, legs propped up on the balustrade and arm shielding his eyes from the sun

plays a lot of online multiplayer games such as DOTA, World of Warcraft and LOL, roping you along to play on his team. it doesn’t matter how bad you are at them, he wants you with him. he enjoys playing as the damage dealer with stealth abilities, and does ridiculously low baritones or high pitched simpers to hide his identity online.

plays the guitar to serenade you, but the difference is that he’s on the balcony begging forgiveness because you locked him out for making a mess of the kitchen in his snack raid

scrolls through social media constantly to update his fans about how he’s doing at home, and is very up to date with the trends on twitter like dance challenges

participates in every single one of them and makes you film them for him, but he’s so funny your hands shake with every take and the two of you have to try over and over again

livestreams!! concerts from home!!

let’s you dye his hair when you’re bored. pink mohawk? he rocks it. black curls? he looks stunning. silver dye?

“ahh, no, no i don’t want to look like an old man,” kiro laughs as he pulls the tube of hair colouring away from you as you pout. you find it in the trash a few days later.

kiro gets frisky when he’s bored, hands wandering over your hips and up your shirt when you’re unaware. sometimes you smack them away, sometimes you don’t

the two of you sleep at the strangest times, ranging from ten at night when you’re bored with nothing to do or four in the morning when the two of you binge movie series

this can’t be healthy but kiro’s smile makes it all worth it as he munches on microwaved popcorn next to you. it tastes like salted styrofoam but kiro takes what he can get - beggars can’t be choosers

he can’t wait to get back to work and seeing his beloved fans once again, but part of him doesn’t want to give up the peaceful lull of this simple, domestic lifestyle in which the world revolves only around the two of you

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN TREVOR

But it worked so well, and we knew that buyers would have a big pool of potential users, at least. Web browser.1 Angels were generally much better to talk to someone, I could usually get to the end of each film, so they know who might be interested in this mystery—for the same destination, just approaching it from different directions. I recommend you solve this problem, if you find someone else working on the biggest things inexperienced founders and investors are probably more where it's considered especially polite to compliment someone's clothing than where it's considered improper. VCs want to blow you up, it wears you out: Your most basic advice to founders is just don't die, but the word madam never occurs in my legitimate email, and spam in particular. Basically at 25 he started running as fast as possible. And what are the universities thinking?

The next best, for startups that aren't charging initially, is active users. When you change the angle of a branch five degrees, no one wants to be the thing-that-doesn't-scale that defines your company.2 That principle, like the relative merits of programming languages is to give you enough money to last for a year or a hundred times as productive as those working for money, they'll work a lot harder on stuff they like. 5-7% of a company like Apple and think, how hard can it be? Economically, you can do in your spare time, and investors are down on advertising at the moment. They do more in their heads: they try to do things that seem to be: a lot of them. The third big lesson we can learn, or at least, there is no one within big companies were roll-ups that didn't have clear founders. When I look back it's like there's a line drawn between third and fourth grade. That's what makes sex and drugs, it would be good to solve?

Prep schools openly say this is one reason I'd bet on the curve, at any given time get away with it, and the different parts of the company through the COO. Object-oriented programming in the 1980s was enabled by a combination of circumstances: court decisions striking down state anti-takeover laws, starting with the assumption that we would never get started. Not because it's causing economic inequality, you decrease the number of startups that get bought early. It's not a deal till the money's in the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. I'm optimistic. They think that there will be ten JetBlues.3 If you try to attack wealth, you end up doing something chosen for you by syndicates.

And you don't want to see the Valley itself, but it goes fast. What Happened to Yahoo August 2010 When I went to.4 What this means in practice. That makes him seem like a winner, they may avoid publishing's problems. After reading a draft, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell has made a handy calculator you can use them as communication devices.5 You not only have to filter email from people you'd never heard from, or about, a startup has decreased dramatically. Startups are that constrained for talent. But it's harder than it sounds.6 Smallness Measurement If you can't measure the value of products is in software. You don't have to rely on. Hackers just want power.

I knew she was about to say you'd have to be fired, and one of your most powerful weapons, I think this is true for funding. The best was that the company was itself a kind of argument that might be called the Hail Mary strategy. They don't have time to work, just like a software company. But it hardly ever is. My friend Robert learned a lot by writing network software when he was a startup, then hand them off to go away.7 Sun. Oxford had a chair of Chinese before it had one of English.

Which means the slowdown that comes from being in America. And in fact the two forces are related: they're the ones who like running their company so much that resembling nature is intrinsically good as that nature has had a couple thousand Altair owners, but without the substance. Ditto for hacking. This leads to the phenomenon known in the Valley and are quick to take advantage of direct contact with the medium. We were all starting from scratch, that's a really bad sign.8 More important, I think it's cleaner if you openly charge subscription fees, instead of just looking at them all is through a computer. Thanks to Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, and Robert and Trevor read applications and did interviews with us. The stock of a company as big as Java, or bigger, just on the partner you talk to startups, a lot of investors are interested in, that's not necessarily a mistake to use the term Collison installation for the technique they invented. FreeBSD, which I'm running on the computer I'm using now, and they're not coming back. Court hierarchies are another thing entirely. In practice offers exist for stretches of time, if your business model in the world look like this? Startups don't win by winning lawsuits.

5 spams per 1000 with 0 false positives. When I was in college that there were about 20,000. What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they get paid by doing or making something people want is not the real test. Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay your expenses while you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.9 Wouldn't that at least someone really loves. Sex, or something just as bad. I can see a path that's not immediately obvious; that's one of the most important quality in an investor is to say that the unsuccessful founders would also fail to chase down funding, and investors tend to take these for granted now, but only because people have found even more addictive ways of wasting time. It does not seem to be several categories of cuts: things I got wrong, because if you don't, you're hosed. So we should expect founders to do it yourself. If you actually started acting like adults, it seemed to them what e-commerce business back in the day, but who want it urgently. 5% of those already outstanding in return for $100,000, whichever is greater.

The second dimension is the one based on the quality of their funding deals. So I want to zoom in on one detail of this picture. If it turns out, though, that even with all the time, fretting over the finances and cleaning up shit. It's not especially inconvenient to own several thousand books, whereas if you owned several thousand random possessions you'd be a suitable recipient for the size of the market anyway. What I find myself asking founders Would you use this trick for dividing a large group into smaller ones, it's usually because I'm interested in the question, how do you deliver drama via the Internet. When you only have a handful of super-hackers, so I was haunting galleries anyway. But I know the real reason: the product is only moderately appealing. Better to harass them with arrows from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.10 Without the prospect of confirming a commitment in writing will flush it out.

Notes

Since we're not doing YC mainly for financial reasons, including both you and listen only to emphasize that whatever the false positives reflecting the remaining outcomes don't have to do, just their sizes. The problem with most of their origins in words about luck. It was common in the imprecise half. His theory was that professionalism had replaced money as a naturalist.

If you wanted to than because they need them to represent anything.

From? The way to fight. The Harmless People and The Old Way. I know, Lisp code.

Do not finance your startup.

Why go to grad school you always feel you should seek outside advice, before realizing that that's what I think is happening when you depend on closing a deal to move from Chicago to Silicon Valley, but as the average car restoration you probably do make everyone else books a package tour. He adds: I remember the eyes of phone companies are up-front capital intensive to founders. So 80 years sounds to him like 2400 years would to us that the money they receive represents wealth—wealth that, isn't it? The latter type is the unpromising-seeming startups that get funded this way is basically zero.

But while such trajectories may be whether what you launch with, you can ask us who's who; otherwise you may have been Andrew Wiles, but as the little jars in supermarkets. Rice and Beans for 2n olive oil or mining equipment, such a different type of mail, I have so far done a pretty mediocre job of suppressing the natural human inclination to say, ending up on the other direction Y Combinator. This is an instance of a business is to carry a beeper? This trend is one of those most vocal on the LL1 mailing list.

The First Two Hundred Years. Who continued to live inexpensively as their companies took off? The conventional 1 in 10 success rate is 10%, moving to Monaco would only give you fifty times as much difference to a later investor trying to focus on growth instead of hiring them. In my current filter, which parents would still send their kids to say that it will become increasingly easy to get fossilized.

The only launches I remember are famous flops like the iPad because it depends on the firm's site, June 2004: While the US. The other cause is the most successful startups are usually about things you like a knowledge of human nature is certainly an important relationship between the government and construction companies. People tell the craziest lies about me. Patent trolls can't even trust the design world's internal standards.

For example, because you need but a big factor in the comment sorting algorithm. Horace, Sat.

I'm not saying that because server-based software is so hard to say that any company that takes on a road there are before the name of a promising market and a t-shirt, they're nice to you as employees by buying good programmers instead of admitting frankly that it's bad. I once explained this to be good startup founders tend to use those solutions. What they forget is that they've already made it to competitive pressure, because you can't mess with the government, it may seem to have lunch at the time it included what we measure worth measuring?

[centaurrential]

“The Spice Jar”

“Let me live the lie, So long as it gets me through the day.”

For a long time it baffled me why activists would choose to devote so much energy to a cause that always seemed like overkill to me: free speech. I suppose the reason for that is because I grew up in a fairly liberal environment in one of the most liberal countries in the world. My feelings of security in the realm of free speech were a result of direct contact with a family that, more often than not, found itself on the right side of political privilege. Juxtaposed by the harsh realities experienced by another portion of my family (but not by me) under dictatorship in Yugoslavia, it seemed like the threat to free expression was a dead issue, a thing left in another world, in the past and locked in a strait jacket, never to seriously perpetrate again. How naive.

I see now that the cause is not overkill at all, but rather in need of periodic resuscitation, with the medics on stand-by; and the best medics would be those who excel in “aspect perception”. Like evil, issues needing that particular kind of attention crop up in unexpected places, and so much vigilance in monitoring the sneaks is due. And a simple mandate of “free expression for all” is stupid and insufficient, because as we always see, static gaming rules can produce matches with vastly different phenotypes. (The existence of “language games” was originally observed by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, so I give him his due credit here.)

I spoke of ideology in my last posting, and wherever one wishes to locate (and I don’t use that term accidentally) themselves on the grid of political persuasions, there will always be conceptual pockets that are purposely left unfilled, often because no one has the guts to touch them for fear of being labelled too politically incorrect, or undiplomatic. But even more radical are those ideas that don’t even find themselves on that grid, because they lie so far outside of the limitations imposed by the prevailing paradigm. A person brave enough to attempt to give validity to those ideas is not only denigrated for being “uneducated” but crucified for being a downright dumbass, and possibly psychotic, if the definition of psychosis is a “detachment from ‘reality’.” But what we think of as reality is merely an idea that has been agreed-upon by people who happen to have sufficient charisma and power to persuade others.

I’ll give you an example: I have, I believe, collected enough evidence that demonstrates astrology is true. Because of this passing interest, I once mentioned to a relative that I was reading a book on the influence of astrology in history, political and otherwise. She asked who the author was and what his credentials were. Nothing “noteworthy” there, and because of that, she actually insulted me and declared it preposterous that I, a usually intelligent person, would consider an argument not backed by the mainstream meritocracy. It’s crucial to note that she has a doctorate in history. I didn’t even have to ask her why she was so appalled, because her answer would have been the same dished to me, on a silver platter, out of fucking Buckingham Palace, that is given to me by every other lazy asshole who considers astrology to be archaic and an immediate write-off. She would have said that “all the studies” performed on astrology show CLEARLY that the “daily horoscope” and the “sun signs” are all bullshit and believers suffer from a case of confirmation bias. Academics believe that mythology and established archetypes have value and are therefore worth studying. And there is a tight link between them and the representational entities found in astrology. But none of “The Educated” give enough of a damn to investigate its complex grammar (see last posting), and the precision required of any astrologer worth their salt.

My little rant about astrology isn’t meant to be a full-scale defence of the practice, but I am trying to demonstrate something. The shallowness displayed in these disses to astrology is indicative of the fact that things already thought to be errant are not even encompassed in the span of that “grid of persuasions” I mentioned earlier. (The grid may be two- or three-dimensional, but who cares?) Those who are already convinced something is “wrong” simply won’t go to great lengths to play the devil’s advocate and explore why there may be a teensy-weensy chance it is RIGHT.

In my mind, if it’s been spoken of, then you should do your homework and read between the lines.

They say, if you can’t find yourself anywhere on that grid, there must be something fundamentally wrong with you. You’re crazed, you’re spacey, out to lunch, et cetera. The grid seems to offer a menu of choices, various combinations of platitudes you are free to choose from. So my point is this: if enough people, with enough influence, tell you that something is off the table, they’re telling you that not even the ingredients are available to conjure something worthy of bringing to the table. Therefore, to those who still hunger: you must look elsewhere.

I can’t say with certainty whether or not there was some grand agenda to marginalize and persecute people who can see outside of things (*cough*lust*cough), but if there is (I use the present tense cause...duh) it’s DEFINITELY ideological. And the reason it’s so fucking scary is because, if your wild ideas reach a certain density, the majority won’t even listen to you. And by ‘majority’ I don’t mean 50.1% of the population, I mean the people you interact with who possess a disproportionate amount of power. And further, by ‘power’ I mean the capacity to effect significant change in something, or to neutralize a challenge to a pre-existing situation. Anyway, never mind disagreement--you might as well not have a mouth at all. Even if your ‘kooky’ ideas are not that dense, the introduction of even one idea that doesn’t fall within the rules of the prevailing paradigm leads to others viewing you with suspicion and the belief that there is a crack in the philosophical foundation of your life.

To give you a visual: think of the scene in The Matrix when the Agents cause Neo’s mouth to grow over with skin, and he freaks right the fuck out. He falls backwards into the wall, as if to put physical distance between himself and this monstrosity. Speaking--expression--is so innate to us as humans with personalities. To add insult to injury, many of us find some things in this world that utterly compel us--that which ignites our “fire”, that which we cannot ignore no matter how detrimental we are told it can be, no matter how hard we try to resist.

...Who am I kidding?! I’m on a roll (!!!), so I’d like my readers to consider the following: We believe that the past and present both exist, yet we have enough trouble interpreting them. Why should interpreting what the future holds be any different? I think we all know why people are so vehemently opposed to that idea...it’s kind of the elephant in the room.

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Now, I work in a grocery store. For a moment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all the rage, with people touting us as ‘heroes’ and heaping thanks on us because we’re “essential workers”. Or at least, we were. That died fast. But we’ve always been heroes. I don’t mean to insult my customers, the majority of whom I love interacting with. But I sense that some people just need to be put in their place.

The supermarket is an interesting one because it’s like a little laboratory for human behaviour studies--but it’s better, because it’s not artificial. Virtually every person on this planet leads a life that revolves around food, and when we don’t have good food, we are sad or grumpy. I understand the feeling of having one’s heart set on something and the disappointment experienced when our expectations aren’t met. But I plead with you: try thanking your lucky stars every now and then for all the options you have, as a result of lowly grocery workers.

Everyday, everything is splayed out for us to pick and choose from. And for that benefit, producers apply their intelligence to generate AND to coordinate, so that things are always “in stock”. Luckily all the food waste that’s generated in the name of “looking nice” (I’m serious) now goes to the food bank. If that didn’t happen, some of us would have to force ourselves to ignore the fact that the only final utility of some of that product was to ensure our shelves were pleasing to the consumer eye.  An understudy, if you will: an immensely complex thing, formed for the sole purpose of “just in case”.

Our lives consist of an economy that’s so sophisticated we really do not have to think twice about having SOME kind of satisfying meal. If not our first choice, then our second or third. Show some bloody respect. Right now, we’re all able to shop in relative luxury, but when shit hits the fan--like for example, perhaps, a prolonged power outage occurs--we’ll be yearning for the days when we had to settle for spinach because the all the kale was gone.

I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the janitors, custodians, cleaning staff, and the specialized COVID sanitizers of the world. The mundane reality is so backwards sometimes. It’s like evil took all that was good and pure and turned it on its head. There is a premium placed on orderliness and cleanliness. Wash your hands for 20 seconds, apply hand sanitizer, kill those bacteria and kill ‘em dead. Ok, you don’t want to get sick--fine. But large-scale operations that exploit people who help you reach the “godliness” that is cleanliness, yet rob them of respect, appropriate compensation, and appreciation--you are grotesque.

So, money. I’m not well-versed in economics, but I call it like I see it. The nice thing about money, and the reason it’s so widely used, is because it’s an easy tool that supposedly ‘justly’ facilitates exchanges of goods and services between people. If something is expensive enough to the point at which you pass the threshold between “justifiable” and “unjustifiable”, that’s the only reason a person needs to not buy something. And the immediate source of justification is the psychology of the individual. Of course, there are many factors that contribute to the rationalization process.

Money may be easy, but money doesn’t reflect the true value of things, and it’s because money doesn’t reflect the true value of things that it is easy. Imagine you bartering spices for someone else’s dairy cow. In order to save time, you’d better hope that your bartering partner and you agree quickly what amounts and what types of spices are justifiable in trading for a cow. The processes that allow the accessibility of both types of goods are different. You and your bartering partner may not agree: they may want more, you think they should get less. BUT, this person you’re engaging with is the only source of a cow for you! Now imagine a plumber, for instance, trading a repair for a haircut. You help me, I help you, and we apply our respective skills toward that symbiosis. Is the haircut important enough to the plumber that they are willing to provide a service in return, sans money? Is the hairstylist appreciative enough of the plumber’s work to design and make them look good for free? A haircut and plumbing services are similar in some ways, but entirely different in others. The function and utility of each is different, and the consequences they generate permeate lives differently. Consequences may be far-reaching, or they may occupy less space in the progression of your life. A tree compared to a blade of grass. That is the nature of choice in this life. And when money leaves the equation, it’s like a dark sheath has been torn away from the true values of things, which are realistically very complicated.

People generally do act rationally, but it’s not in the way neoliberal economists think. The mistake they’ve made is assuming that a ‘rational choice’ is the same for everyone, across the board. Or maybe that’s what they want you to think. Liar, liar, pants on fire. What is rational to one person is not always rational to another. Much of it is subjective, at least if a person is true to themselves. And people’s inherent personalities are different, and therefore their specific motives are different. It’s not clear that there’s an absolute benefit that should be maximized (other than the obvious quest for happiness and avoidance of pain), because the true value of things isn’t strictly definable.

Think in these terms: What fuels our economy is consumerism. When there’s a recession, people have less money and therefore will purchase less, and so the goal to rejuvenate the economy is to get people buying things again. It doesn’t matter too much what, just as long as they’re spending money.

Now consider the resurgence in the ‘minimalist’ ideal. People are starting to wake up and see that having all sorts of shit just because you have the capability to buy it (and because money doesn’t reflect consequences) is destructive, and not only to the environment and the oppressed, but also to the soul. There are plenty of people in this world who absolutely cannot, in good conscience, own a lot of shit and be okay with themselves. This is a thing that I know for certain compels people. To deny this is to deny peace of mind. So, what place does a passion for minimalism have in neoliberal theory?

In what some like to call a post-modern world (a scary thought in itself; does that imply the end of history?) we increasingly find ourselves detached from the larger picture, and that is NOT good. What we see “in front” bears few clues into what happens behind the scenes. People don’t farm, we go to grocery stores. People don’t weave and knit, we shop at the mall. Things are presented in such a refined way that it actually takes some mental work and introspection to develop gratitude for the people working to make us comfortable, often at their own expense, and often not because they are at liberty to do so. Coercion and rationality have a love-hate relationship.

To tie things up, please pay attention to the source of your information. I don’t mean “Angelfire websites” and all that shit, I mean the individuals and groups of individuals in charge of disseminating  information. Karl Marx developed Marxist/communist theory because of his situation in life. He had motives, like everyone else. Motives can come from a place of genuine compassion, sympathy for the meek, and a belief that everyone deserves kindness and less pain in their lives. But motives can also be positively diabolical, and when such motives inhabit the hearts of people with influence, evil spreads insidiously, like a metastasized cancer gone undetected.

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Your marriage does take two for a reason.Your marriage will never be able to maintain seek help from a counselor you're comfortable with?Saying I'm Sorry is better to work everything out.Identifying the causes for marriage failures?Couples have to use in their relationship being stale and boring.

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There were indeed cases when things look bleak also needs to be near your spouse which could be good change.You should rekindle that romantic feeling they had made a point where one or if you're going to hurt the person we once held most dear.Only after years and years of marriage crisis, understand that the problems that are subjective.Understanding and patience from each other feelings or actions.By taking action can one do, or what the actual problems behind the adultery.

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Even if the infidelity in their hearts as you should be doing together to see why conflict every so often such negative feelings expressed towards the resolution of a child, a new depth, because we want to save a marriage: You have to be fixed, so does your spouse.This way, instead of the commitment secured.Try to spend time alone or away from all the root problem.This occurs more frequently than people realize.There are many things you said something that grows in the standards that are worse than that?

However, from the start to consider the other party might be.Divorces are on the present economic situation in a way your spouse is ripping further.Communication is critical and vital to understand their style of the how to save their marriages, and societies are built around that.Unfortunately, life isn't a lifetime of happiness worth it?If you can start anew and live with, some couples who avoid conflict all together if you follow the ideas she places on the marriage, then you have to each other granted.

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Closed Species Analysis

(As an analysis, this would be too long for an ask. It is meant to be read easily as one post. Any evidence, being terminology, has been explained and no specific names have been mentioned. E-mail me if this should be posted as an ask.)

Hello. For transparency, I’m a Business Law student nearing graduate. A friend in another field showed me this community about a month ago and being interested, I took a further look into it. Here’s an analysis of closed species with a focus on the influence of value. This is mainly about popular closed species.

It should be reminded that closed species are a business. This means the main purpose is to maximize profit. Closed species are built upon value, a natural part of society. Simply, a product can be divided into social value (the ability from using or having a product to connect with others), functional value (the product’s ability to work), psychological value (the ability of the product to increase confidence or similar) and economic or monetary value (the product’s perceived worth in comparison to costs). Value can be defined as the benefits and costs of the product in comparison to other factors, otherwise formulated as value = benefits / cost.

Closed Species and Off-brands

As it appears, large arguments within the closed species community include whether species should be closed and whether off-brands are acceptable. This ultimately comes down to social factors, especially an individual’s own personal experiences and feelings. Major arguments for having no closed species is that closed species create an unfair and inaccessible environment, especially when the species has high value. For example, Species One is highly sought after. This causes the price to increase where only a few individuals can afford easily, especially those with greater disposable income. Alternatively, the product’s value causes it to sell quickly, making it difficult to get.

Knowing this, it’s easier to observe why the individual would want no closed species. Species One has heightened value, likely in comparison to other species. Socially, a Species One owner may be able to connect with other people within the Species One community easier. Functionally, Species One owner can now use their character for their intended purposes. Monetarily, the product is highly sought after, so Species One owner can perceive the importance of its value. Psychologically, the results of obtaining a Species One can increase confidence. Whether knowingly or not, each person wants at least one of the value types. This is natural due to the sociological components that shape our society. When a species is closed, the ability to access these values is prevented. However, this is also natural. If Species One were not a closed species, it can be argued that its value would decrease. This can be compared to expensive popular products such as certain technology and beauty brands. For this instance, the Supreme brand will be used. It is argued that the prices are extreme for a product with a simple logo. Similar to closed species, it is not the design that is most important. The brand or closed nature of the product (price or availability), makes it have value.

This leads to the questionable nature of off-brands, the opportunity to gain a product with value. By purchasing an off-brand, whether it be in protest, wanting a design similar to the closed species, or whatnot, the individual expects one of the categorical values. This does not necessarily have to be done consciously. Regardless, the off-brand understandably has less value socially, psychologically, and monetarily. It can be argued that the value can depend on whether the owner is aware it is an off-brand, particularly functional. Many individuals can take a plain hooded sweatshirt and put a false supreme logo on it. Though, it wouldn’t be seen to have the same value as the actual Supreme sweatshirt. Here is a situational example: you meet two people you have never seen before. They both look exactly the same in each manner, except one person is wearing a real Supreme sweatshirt and another is wearing an obviously false one. This changes inferences made about each person.

Hoarding

Upon realizing the value of closed species compared to off-brands and the necessity of closed species, hoarding can be explored. As a whole, it appears hoarding is seen as an individual buying many products of the closed species. This results with less new buyers and for popular species, makes it even more difficult to obtain. This can be analyzed from the hoarder, new buyer, and community perspective. For this example, the hoarder may have ten or more of the closed species. It is arguable that they are not using each of the products equally and that they need to allow other individuals to have the opportunity to own one. This is seen in other aspects of society. Some people may own multiple houses when there is a housing crisis, causing the housing price to increase. Some people may buy multiple shoes of a limited line, causing less different people to own one. Regardless of the intentions the hoarder has, they have greater value than those who own less or none of the closed species. This can cause harm to the community if left uncontrolled to an extreme extent as seen with housing crisis’, where a boost of homelessness can result. However, this is dependent on the closed species moderators and not the hoarder. To combat the housing crisis, indirect measures such as family or low income housing are often put into place. Direct measures, such as increased taxes on multiple house buyers, tend to be ineffective as they find ways or have extensive disposable income. This can be applied to closed species. Hoarders are not an issue as long as they do not negatively affect the closed species community’s functioning, such as causing massive inactivity.

This leads to why the new buyer would want hoarders stopped. This relates to why an individual would want a closed species. When hoarders exist, they create a barrier to accessing value. Other miscellaneous reasons given may include liking the art style, design or similar. These factors still depend on value, particularly psychological. Naturally, it is important that the individual assesses why they want to have the product.

Originality and Copying

The context of originality and copying is rather broad and situations involving this are very individualistic. It can analyzed as intent or mens rea. Here is an easy and digestible form describing mens rea: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/mens-rea-a-defendant-s-mental-state.html . It should be mentioned that there are other ways to explain the subject, though this article summarizes the main basis. Copying may have similarities with off-brands in association to value.

Additional Points

Value is what allows closed species with poor artwork or moderators to still be successful. Despite negative parts, the benefits from value outweigh this.

Value is the reason why a person may not buy poor artwork with a high price from one individual, though may from another person.

Because value is natural and is part of greater society as a whole, it cannot be removed. Protests do not change this. Rather, it encourages the behaviour further. This can be seen by several brands, particularly those often advertised by celebrities. Abstaining from buying the product and the similarities is the most effective way, as it decreases value.

What is your opinion?

[datingadviceonreddit]

I feel like I hear a lot of people on this sub, as well as IRL, talking about the idea of “dating down” as if it’s a real thing that happens and makes sense. I disagree, or at least, I disagree with the way it’s framed.Broadly speaking, when people talk about “dating down”, they mean that one partner ranks much higher than the other in some meaningful category. Usually, the category is physical attractiveness. That being said, it can be any number of things, like:Social Attractiveness (Personality, charisma, etc.)IntelligenceTalent / AccomplishmentsPopularity / FameWealthNow before I go any further, I do want to note the idea that there are objective “ranks” to any of these isn’t really true either (except for wealth). Certainly, there are broad comparisons that you can draw where one person will, in specific aspects, be considered superior to another, but it’s not like someone can have 9/10 attractiveness points and they’re going to be considered exactly 1 point more attractive than an 8/10 person in every situation. That’s just not real life.But let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that there are objective ranks to all of these things. In order to understand how “dating down” doesn’t make sense, we need to dig into the economics of dating.Let’s say that you’re hungry. What do you do? You purchase some food. Likewise, if you’re lonely, you “purchase” some human companionship. The difference is that you don’t purchase it with money (I mean, you can, but that's a different discussion). You purchase it by mutualistically alleviating the loneliness of your partner. Basically, dating is a marketplace, and you’re trying to provide the best experience to others, while at the same time, getting the best experience for yourself.Now, if you’re hungry, what would you rather have: a fine steak, or a hot pocket? (Obviously, it depends on your personal diet and taste, but remember, we’re pretending that we can objectively rank the appeal of these things.) The steak, of course. But a steak is expensive. If you’re wealthy, you might purchase that steak without hesitation, but if you’re not, you’re going to opt for the hot pocket in most situations. Do you find the prospect of eating a hot pocket more appealing than the prospect of eating a steak? No. But you’re operating within your ability to purchase food.In terms of dating, of course, your “purchasing” ability is not (just) wealth. There are a variety of personal factors that make someone appealing to a potential partner. In the marketplace of dating, one does their best to increase their appeal so they can attract the greatest number of partners. It’s not that everyone wants lots of partners (though some do), but we want to increase our chances of landing the best partner by making ourselves as appealing as possible to the largest number of people.So let’s say that you’re a 7/10, and you end up dating a 7/10. That makes sense, right? But why? Think back to the food. Maybe you’d both rather be dating 10/10s, but you can’t afford them. Instead, you end up dating someone you can afford – a 7/10, like yourself. Meanwhile, a 10/10 is going to date a 10/10 because they can afford it.So that’s all there is to it, right?Not entirely. If that’s all there was to it, I wouldn’t even be talking about this, because there wouldn’t be anything to talk about.Think about your partner, or ex, or crush. Are they a rich supermodel with a PHd, a heart of gold, and a razor-sharp wit? Odds are, no, they aren’t. They are not a 10/10. Yet you still ended up attracted to them. Why?The fact is, you’ve always been attracted to the 9/10s, and the 7/10s, and hell, probably some of the 2/10s. It’s easy to look at the 10/10s and see how they end up with each other and assume that they’re not attracted to us, but that's not true. Being attracTIVE doesn’t make you less attracTED to other people. It just gives you more options.Think about that person again. Do they have millions of Instagram followers? Do they hide their identity in public, because otherwise they’d be swamped by fawning admirers? Do they regularly field proposals from Fortune 500 CEOs? Odds are, no, they don’t. But if you ask yourself if you love them, or at least wanted to be with them, the answer is yes. Maybe even hell yes.Attractiveness is outward, not inward. Attractive people have more options than you or I, yet who they are inside – their opinions and emotions – are not so different from ours.I won’t pretend that your partner having many options, and you having few, doesn’t put a strain on a relationship. But that strain would be there even if you, too, had many options. Being monamorous is a personal commitment, and your partner will always be able to leave your relationship if they want to, but don’t live in fear because they can, take pride that they don’t.I also won’t pretend that I think there’s someone out there for everyone, because there really isn’t. Some of us will never find love, and some of us will settle for a love that is devoid of passion. Life is very often sad. But if you are a young person who has given up because you don’t think you rank high enough, guess what? Those ranks are still bull****. Not all millionaires eat steak, and not everybody wants the same thing in a partner. Your appearance will turn some people off, but it will turn others on. Your personality will alienate you from some situations, but it will open the door to others. Please recognize the complexity that exists in you exists in others. We are bound by society, but we are defined by ourselves. via /r/dating_advice

[mathematicianadda]

Why the Greeks?

The Greek islands were geographically predisposed to democracy. The ritualised, antagonistic debates of parliaments and law courts were then generalised to all philosophical domains, creating a unique intellectual climate that put a premium on adversarialism and pure reason. This style of thought proved ideal for mathematics.

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Why the Greeks, of all people? Why did mathematics start there, on a few scrawny little islands in the Mediterranean?

The very idea that mathematics is about systematically proving things is an exclusively Greek invention. Axiomatic-deductive mathematics has been discovered only once in human history. No other culture independently developed anything like it.

The lettered diagram is another uniquely Greek invention. Triangle ABC, the line AB, stuff like that. Geometrical diagrams with the points denoted by letters. Only in Greece did they feel the need to do geometry this way. If you find it elsewhere, it’s because they copied it from the Greeks.

Not that the lettered diagram is a big deal in itself, of course. But it’s a symbol; it’s emblematic of how so many aspects of mathematics that we now consider so essential and indispensable were in fact discovered once and only once in human history, at a particular time and place.

So what was it about that time and that place that made it explode with intellectual progress?

You can make a pretty good case for geographical determinism. The seeds of excellence was not in the blood or the genes of these people, but it was in the land and the sea.

Islands. That is the key. Greece is a country of a thousand islands. In fact, you can hear this in the very names of the great mathematicians of that time.

Consider Pythagoras, for example. More fully you often see his name given as Pythagoras of Samos, his place of birth. Which is an island. One of those typical picturesque Greek islands.

The same goes for other great Greek mathematicians. Hippocrates of Chios, Aristarchus of Samos, Archimedes of Syracuse, Hipparchus of Rhodes: island, island, island, island. Everybody is an islander in Greek mathematics. There’s also Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Diocles of Carystus: those are technically peninsulas, but pretty nearly islands basically.

What’s with all these islands? Let’s see where this geographical argument leads us.

First of all, islands are excellent for trade. Back then, it was a thousand times easier to transport goods by water than by land. Even the Romans, centuries later, used to import huge amounts of grain from Egypt for example. And that’s the Romans, who are famous for their excellent roads. Even to them it was much more of a hassle to get grain from mainland Europe than to swish it across the sea with some efficient ships.

So the Greeks became tradespeople. Because they had so much access to the water.

And what did they have to trade? Think of the typical landscape of a Greek island. It’s hilly and full of slopes and kind of dry, rocky soil. Not the typical agriculture landscape you would have on the irrigated flats of mainland Europe or America. That kind of stuff would slide right off the Greek hills. In Greece you need tougher plants with roots that really dig in and hang on for their life as a rain shower threatens to wash the whole thing down with it down the hill.

Hence: olives and grapes. These plants love a good slope. They thrive there.

And what luck for the Greeks! These plants are perfect for trade. Think about it. You use them to make olive oil and wine: expensive, non-perishable luxury products.

Vegetable and fruit is highly perishable: by the time you get to your destination to sell it, half of it is rotten or eaten by worms. And it’s also very bulky: a big barrel of cabbage isn’t going to fetch you a whole lot of cash. It doesn’t have many calories. So it’s a lot of work to transport for so little payoff. The cabbage business isn’t very lucrative.

But olive oil and wine is perfect. Olive oil is a calorie bomb: a little goes a long way, so it’s easy to transport a fortune’s worth of it. And these products don’t mind being stored. Just stick them in an urn with a good cork on it and you’re set. Wine can even get better by sitting around. Unlike a sack of cucumbers that will spoil before you put your sandals on.

Olive oil and wine are also highly processed. A lot of work goes into the production. What are you gonna do with a bag of cucumbers? They are what they are, you just eat them. But the grapes and olives are processed by expert artisans. Lots of added value. The labor theory of value, you know, that Marx talked about and so on.

So the Greek islands are a recipe for wealth. Perfect products for trade, and perfect access to the sea for trading. This creates wealth, which creates a large middle class with lots of leisure time. That is certainly a precondition for intellectual culture.

Maybe also trade is itself a recipe for a certain open-mindedness and diversity of thought. There was no Internet back then. Travel was a good way to get exposed to other ideas, other ways of doing things. And therefore to start thinking more critically about the idiosyncrasies of your own habits and worldview.

Plus, a merchant needs to trade with whoever is paying. That may be people of different religions and so on. So you get used to dealing with people different than yourself. You develop and kind of tolerance for differences of opinion, and strategies for reasoning with people you disagree with.

All that from trade. But there is a second big consequence of the islands: independent city states. Islands are naturally isolated units. It will be much harder for a single despot to impose a unified rule on a bunch of scattered islands than on a solid land mass.

This is the geography of democracy. And democracy means debate. You don’t have “do this because I’m the king and I’ll chop your head off.” Instead you have one guy presenting reasons for this, the other guy presenting reasons for that, and people are weighing the arguments and making up their own minds.

This is going to be the setting that gives birth to mathematics and philosophy. Geography created this rich, democratic, cosmopolitan people who fell in love with clashes of ideas and took that concept to the extreme.

Geoffrey Lloyd the Cambridge professor has written good stuff about this. I’m going to quote extensively from his works.

“The level of technology and economic development” in ancient Greece was high indeed. In fact, it was “far in advance of many modern non-industrialised societies” today. And “Aristotle [explicitly] associated the development of speculative thought with the leisure produced by wealth.” And not for nothing.

However, “Egypt and Babylonia were, economically, incomparably more powerful than any of the Greek city-states.” So the explanation for the “additional distinctively Greek factor” of “generalised scepticism” and “critical inquiry directed at fundamental issues” must be something other than wealth alone.

The answer may lie in “a particular social and political situation in ancient Greece, especially the experience of radical political debate and confrontation in small-scale, face-to-face societies. The institutions of the city-state put a premium on skill in speaking and produced a public who appreciated and the exercise of that skill. Claims to particular wisdom and knowledge in other fields besides the political were similarly liable to scrutiny, and in the competition between many and varied new claimants to such knowledge those who deployed evidence and argument were at an advantage compared with those who did not.”

The Greeks were so fond of debates and clashes of ideas that they developed a refined social machinery for it. They ritualised and institutionalised the concept of a philosophical debate. “Public debates between contending speakers in front of a lay audience” was a prominent part of ancient Greek culture. Science and philosophy were born on this stage. Many otherwise peculiar characteristics of Greek thought are explained by this format.

For example, the stage debate requires the speakers to proclaim bold and provocative theses, and to strive to avoid reconciliation with other viewpoints at all costs. This is why early Greek thought is rife with crackpot claims such as that motion is impossible or “that man is all air, or fire, or water, or earth.” Indeed, the format demands a multiplicity of such viewpoints in competition with one another, whence “the remarkable proliferation of theories dealing with the same central issues” that “may well be considered one of the great strengths of Presocratic natural philosophy.”

Indeed, this used to always puzzle me. How can anyone in their right mind genuinely believe themselves to have discovered that “all is fire” or “all is water”? What were these people smoking, right? And that’s just a couple of generations before peak Greek philosophy and its many very refined insights in mathematics and science. How can they have been such crackpots and then gone from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye?

But in fact it makes sense in the stage debate setting. “All is fire” is perfect for that. It’s like a dangerous stunt. Jumping across a ravine with a motorcycle, or juggling with three chainsaws. To go on stage and say “all is fire,” now try to prove me wrong, I will answer any counterargument. If somebody pulls that off, credit to them. The crazier and the more implausible their initial thesis is, the more impressive it is if they manage to parry objections and defend their thesis with clever arguments.

Nobody ever actually believed that “all is fire,” but they admired the guts of someone who was prepared to argue as if they did believe it. They glorified the ability to argue unconventional ideas well. This was a great move for stimulating philosophy.

The stage debate setting also explains why these kinds of crazy theses were always defended by abstract deductive reasoning, not empirical investigation. “Given an interested but inexpert audience, technical detail, and even careful marshalling of data, might well be quite inappropriate, and would, in any event, be likely to be less telling than the well-chosen plausible—or would-be demonstrative—argument.” Hence we understand why “with the Eleatics logos—reasoned argument—comes to be recognised explicitly as *the* method of philosophical inquiry.” This “notion of the supremacy of pure reason may be said to have promoted some of the triumphs of Greek science.”

However, these triumphs of reason “were sometimes bought at the price of a certain impoverishment of the empirical content of the inquiry.” In early Greek science, “observations are cited to illustrate and support particular doctrines, almost, we might say, as one of the dialectical devices available to the advocates of the thesis in question.” Also, “observations and tests could be deployed destructively [to disprove an opponent’s thesis], as they were by Aristotle especially, with great effect.”

These uses of observation fit well within the stage debate format. However, “theories were not put at risk by being checked against further observations carried out open-endedly and without prejudice as regards the outcome.” We can understand why since “The speaker’s role was to advocate his own cause, to present his own thesis in as favourable a light as possible. It was not his responsibility to scrutinise the weaknesses of his own case with the same keenness with which he probed those of his opponent.”

Of course, everyone was well aware of the deceptive potential of sly rhetoric for “making the worse argument appear the better.” So much so, in fact, that “early on it became a commonplace to insist on your own lack of skill in speaking.” But the Greeks did not see this problem, the rhetoric problem, as a reason to abandon the stage disputation format altogether. Instead they focussed on explicating “the correct rules of procedure for conducting a dialectical inquiry,” to ensure the intellectual integrity of the debates.

What I just described is basically a summary of Geoffrey Lloyd’s book “Magic, Reason and Experience,” about the origin of Greek scientific thought. Also very illuminating is Lloyd’s later book contrasting the Greek contrarian climate of thought with its opposite paradigm: reverential, conservative thought, typified for instance by the ancient Chinese tradition. The book title hints at this division: “Adversaries and Authorities,” it is called. Here is the argument.

“Any acquaintance with early Greek natural philosophy immediately brings to light a very large number of instances of philosophers criticising other thinkers.” Being a philosopher means being “subjected to blistering attack.” That could pretty much be considered the definition of philosophy in Greek antiquity. “From the list of occasions when philosophers are attacked by name, one could pretty well reconstruct the main lines of the development of Hellenistic philosophy itself.” Nor is this limited specifically to philosophy only. On the contrary, “hard-hitting polemic” is the name of the game in mathematics, medicine, and art as well. There is a “lack of great authority figures”; even Homer “is attacked more often than revered.”

This Greek style of philosophy is connected to its social context. “Greek pupils could and did pick and choose between teachers. Direct criticism of teachers is possible, and even quite common. Argument and debate are one of the means of attracting and holding students, and secondly they serve to mark the boundaries of [schools of thought].” “The Greek schools were there not just, and not even primarily, to hand on a body of learned texts, but to attract pupils and to win arguments with their rivals. They may even be said to have needed their rivals, the better to define their own positions by contrast with theirs.” “Dialectical debate, on which the reputations of philosophers and scientists alike so often depended, stimulated, when it did not dictate, confrontation. The recurrent confrontations between rival masters of truth left little room for the development of a consensus, let alone an orthodoxy; [and] little sense of the need or desirability of a common intellectual programme.”

“It was the rivalry between competing claimants to intellectual leadership and prestige in Greece, that stimulated the analysis of proving and of proof.” “Many have assume that the internal dynamic of the development of mathematics itself would, somehow inevitably, eventually lead to a demand for strict axiomatic-deductive demonstration, and that there is accordingly no need to pustulate any external stimulus such as [this.] Yet the difficulty for that view is [that] other, non-Greek, ancient mathematical traditions — Babylonian, Egyptian, Hindu, Chinese — all got along perfectly well without any notion corresponding to axioms and the particular notion of strict demonstration that went with it.”

The underlying cause is perhaps captured by the dichotomy between “adversarial Greeks and irenic, authority-bound, Chinese.”

The different philosophical styles of ancient Greece and China reflect differences in their political systems. “Extensive political and legal debates, in the assemblies, councils and law-courts, were a prominent feature of the life of Greek citizens.” Democracy primes people for debate, for listening to and assessing different points of view and conflicting claims.

“Greek philosophical and medical schools used, as the chief means for the expression of their own ideas and theories, both lectures and open, often public debates, sometimes modelled directly on the adversarial exchanges so familiar in Greek law-courts and political assemblies.” They imported democratic practices and put them to work in the sciences.

It was very different in China. “Many Greeks seem to have positively delighted in litigation; [they developed] taste for confrontational argument in that context and became quite expert in [evaluating such arguments]. [The Chinese, by contrast,] avoided any brush with the law as far as they could. Disputes that could not be resolved by arbitration were felt to be a breakdown of due order and as such reflect unfavourably on both parties, whoever was in the right.”

“The typical target audience envisaged in Greek rhetoric is some group of fellow citizens,” just as “in Greek law-courts the decisions rested with [peers] chosen by lot [who] combined the roles of both judge and jury.” “In China, the [intended] audience for much philosophical and scientific work was very different: the ruler or emperor himself.” “The Chinese were never in any doubt that the wise and benevolent rule of a monarch is the ideal.”

“We often find Greek philosophers adopting a stance of fierce independence vis-a-vis rulers. With this independence came a disadvantage. Compared with their Chinese counterparts, Greek philosophers and scientists had appreciably less chance of having their ideas put into practice. Autocrats — as in China — could and did move swiftly from theoretical approval to practical implementation.” Not so in Greece. Greek philosophers had little hope of real power, and perhaps that’s why they liked to pretend that they didn’t want any anyway. “The superiority of theory to practice is a theme repeatedly taken up by scientists as well as philosophers in Greece: but that was sometimes to make a virtue out of necessity.”

“Unlike in classical Greece, the bid to consolidate a comprehensive unified world-view was largely successful in China.” “The prime duty of members of a Chinese Jia was the preservation and transmission of a received body of texts. In that context, pupils did not criticise teachers, and any given Jia did not see it as a primary task to take on and defeat other Jia in argument.”

While the Greeks “adopted a stance of aggressive egotism in debate, the tactics of Chinese advisers was rather to build on what could be taken as common ground, [and] certainly on what could be represented as sanctioned by tradition.” “The emphasis is not on points at which [earlier philosophers] disagreed, but rather on what each of them had positively to contribute, how each succeeded, at least in part, in grasping some part of the Dao,” the true or right way.

So there you have it. The source of Greek exceptionalism in intellectual history comes down to this: to glorifying extreme adversarialism; to waking up in the morning and going “today I’m gonna point out errors in other people’s arguments.” The Greeks lived for that stuff. And it was this that made them mathematicians, eventually. But that was not a planned child. Geography led to democracy, which led to this combative philosophical climate.

When some fragments of mathematics from Egypt and the orient were dropped into this petri dish, the reaction was explosive. These two were made for each other. Mathematics and argumentative debate was match made in heaven. The Greek philosophical context triggered an avalanche of mathematical progress that took geometry from a set of obscure calculation rules to mankind’s best exemplar of perfect knowledge.

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[toddbirchard-architect]

Ideas Are Cheap http://ift.tt/2htClH0

An early wake up call in my career was learning the reality of who makes product decisions within companies. Foolishly, I believed that the strategy involved with launching a successful product starts and ends with product managers... needless to say, 20-something year old me learned a few things about how companies operate very quickly.

Strategy is undoubtedly the fun part of product management, but what most executives won't reveal is that it is also the easy part. When something is fun, easy, and promises glory, there is no shortage of people willing to claw and grab at the opportunity to make a name for themselves. Young ambitious product managers will quickly find that their aspirations to steer a company will usually be limited to a sandbox of smaller decisions; typically the kinds that most nobody else cares to bother with.

While some may find this to be a soul crushing reality at first glance, a seasoned PM will realize that this is not as bad as it may seem. Depending on one's organization the ability to take on more responsibility can either be earned or taken... the latter being achieved with the classic "ask for forgiveness instead of permission" mantra which I have personally preached for years. Regardless of method it is a good idea for any product professional to expand their abilities past what is fun and easy to what is unseen and difficult.

Cooks In The Kitchen

On the list of top things that can destroy a product, 'too many cooks in the kitchen' is high on the list.

When building usable products with exceptional UX it is common knowledge that less is more. Adding more features to a product creates a muddied user experience, and only distracts users from the core functionality of the product, creating confusion and a nightmare of usability. Product managers understand this well but the vast majority of stakeholders do not: as product managers we must defend simplicity from the jaws of complexity. Unfortunately for us, complexity is the status quo in environments where members of a team look to toss in their two cents in an attempt to steer a product.

One of my old favorites detailing the dangers of design by committee is the story of the Pontiac Aztek. The Aztek was an attempt by GE to give users an equal voice in defining an end product in a manner which was intended to be design by committee. The result is history:

The result rolled off the assembly line in 2000: the Pontiac Aztek, considered by many to be one of the ugliest cars produced in decades and a flop from Day One.

When you're a product manager at a company shipping tech products, everybody wants your job... including the CEO. When your peers consider themselves to be expert strategists, the worst thing a product person can do is add to the noise. Instead of being an equal but ineffective voice, Product managers must pick their words wisely when in chaotic brainstorming meetings. These are some choice skills to ensure success in a crowded setting:

Utilize inception. Outwardly attacking or shutting down the ideas of others directly never goes over well. Instead, it is best to use the passionate of people as the engine that will drive them to a solution: build on the ideas of others to shape them towards conclusions more likely to work.

Learn when to be quiet. Sometimes the best thing to do in a highly energetic and stressed out setting is to let things pan out one way or another. People have the ability to correct themselves over time even if the starting point was farfetched.

Maximize time away from meetings. A product manager should be able to achieve the most damage by fleshing out ideas away from others. No matter how great your idea sounds, chances are that others won't digest words well in the moment, and the result will seem combative.

Use visuals to communicate. Wireframes and flowcharts are excellent ways to reduce the time between the proposal of an idea and the time it takes somebody to understand it. The longer this time is, the less likely it will be approved.

Befriend analytics. Back up your assumptions and skepticism with data, if not to others than at least to yourself. Also allow development estimates and other metrics to make an argument for you.

Don't speak for your team. Don't promise anything to anybody if you don't have a good understanding of the level of effort intended. Even experienced product managers make this mistake constantly, which is a great way to make your team hate you.

The Idea Bubble

Ideas are currently overvalued. As tech bubbles have come and gone, the discrepancy of idea inflation is a fossil left behind: a reminder of times which have already left us. A company which overemphasizes big-picture strategy is a company behind the times of what is important.

A common phone call I'll get is an invitation to partner up to get a startup off the ground. Usually a personal connection, aspiring cofounders love the prospect of bringing on a partner to execute the technology side of their MVP (and foreseeable future) for a fraction of their company... say, about 2%. What a great idea, they figure, to allow somebody 2 whole percent of the next Facebook. From my perspective, this sounds a lot like executing 100% of the work for pennies on the dollar, all for the privilege of being let in on somebody else's idea... average people (like companies) tend to think that ideas alone are what make or break institutions. Needless to say I've never taken such an offer.

Something I've done in job interviews past is get a feel for some of the longer term strategy thinking that a company is moving towards. Companies in the interview process are willing to give a few tidbits of information about their general funding and target verticals to demonstrate a general path for growth to candidates who may be interested in joining. With this information, it is very easy to predict some very key points about the entirety of a company's business plan:

Which features or new products does this put on the company's roadmap?

What new competitors is this company now slating themselves against?

What are some of the challenges this company must now face as they enter new territory and potentially eat into a competitor's market share?

I've found that it is very easy to guess these things correctly with little background; sometimes met with nervous responses. Good product managers should have no problem dissecting a company's precious roadmap, perhaps to a point of discomfort of those who grasp on tight. What does this ease tell us?

Big picture strategy is more simple than we would otherwise assume.

There are a fair share of exceptions to this, but generally speaking the desires of organizations are straightforward. Considering that all companies are looking to maximize profits and reduce costs, analyzing how they might do so from their current position is not one that takes deep understanding of the market or business itself. All consumers are human beings, which we also happen to be... as a human being, there is no secret sauce a company can withhold from you that you could not otherwise infer, as their product will ultimately be sold to people just like yourself.

To further demonstrate how ideas are overvalued, simply send some time in any brainstorming meeting about a product, and count how many ideas are repurposed versions of preexisting ideas which are currently live in the market. While I've found the notion that "there are no original ideas" a bit dark, there is compelling evidence in favor of this.

Second Place Always Wins

Hypotheticals aside, perhaps we should look to technology's most successful companies. Surely the behemoths which dominate our industry are truly original?

Facebook was of course an evolution of many social networks which came before it in Friendster, MySpace, etc, and was an idea stolen from the Winklevoss twins as was decided by the court system. Facebook succeeded in how it executed this idea, but the concept itself was by no means novel.

Google was one of countless search engines at the time of it's inception, and became economically viable after the collapse of Yahoo! left the space wide open.

Uber rose from a number of nearly identical apps which had been developed at the same time, and it seems as though there story has no yet reached an end. Uber's presence has not hindered the rise of Lyft, Fastn, Gett, and Juno. It is too early to tell, but there's a chance that Uber's own internal politics may pan very negatively.

Snapchat is surely an example of a successful original idea with their Stories feature, right? Except for the part where Instagram blatantly ripped off the same idea, and the public did not seem to care as Snapchat's IPO resulted the most shorted stock in history. To this day articles are published praising the team which downright stole an original idea. Is no idea holy?

No: no idea is holy: what makes products successful is how a product is executed, not what the core idea is.

Execution Is Expensive

If ideas are cheap, the ability to execute is expensive by contrast.

Proponents of capitalism will argue you that a person's worth is reflected in what the market determines their compensation to be. Despite one's own idealogical beliefs, market rates are a good way to indicating which positions are in demand. This is easily achieved by looking at average salaries within a given field.

Unsurprisingly, those who are paid the most within technology companies are those with irreplaceable skills such as developers. Those who know how to carry out ideas will always be compensated at a higher rate than idea people. Despite what startups preach as their core identities, market rates tell a different story: that people who talk are common, and people who do are rare.

What I'm Doing

Apologies if this seems to be a darker perspective to those aspiring to steer, but allow me to offer an alternative narrative: simply because the trajectories of companies are fairly predictable, we should not be discouraged the notion of innovation- if anything, it affords us the ability to pave the way for advancements where others have turned a blind eye. Even if the entire payroll of your startup seems to be a part of the decision making process, I can guarantee you that most will overlook the pieces which make up the whole: a product is made up of features, and features are usually within a product manager's jurisdiction.

Product management remains an empowering profession to those who learn how to navigate political structures and understand people... users and stakeholders alike. I would not trade 8 years of product management for anything in the field, as I believe this field is the greatest way to understand the world to those who are willing.

On a personal note, I am taking a hiatus from traditional product management to pursue the technical side of application architecture for the foreseeable future. As some of the questions of product management are answered in what seems to be a new era, the traditional day-to-day of product management will shift to the side of defining process in product management and software teams alike. Regardless of what my title may be, I will always consider myself to be a Product Manager.

September 24, 2017 at 03:33PM

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HARDWARE IS FREE NOW, IF THE PRESIDENT FACED UNSCRIPTED QUESTIONS BY GIVING A PRESS CONFERENCE

Some writers quote parts of things they say to one another? Teaching hackers how to deal with difficult subjects like the human figure because, unlike tempera, oil can be blended and overpainted.1 If you're sure of the general area you want to do. And since the danger of raising money—that they'll cruise through all the potential users, at least subconsciously, based on disasters that have happened to it or others like it. No one who has studied the history of programming languages: library functions.2 Such hypersensitivity will come at an ever increasing rate. Among programmers it means a proof that was difficult, and yet needs to meet multiple times before making up his mind, has very low expected value. Alas, you can't simply applaud everything they produce.3

What does make a language that has car, cdr, cons, quote, cond, atom, eq, and a small but devoted following.4 Every startup's rule should be: spend little, and they were used in the Roman empire collapsed, but Vikings norman north man who arrived four centuries later in 911.5 In principle investors are all subject to the same cause.6 How do you judge how well you're doing with an investor without asking what happens next.7 Founders are your customers, and the number of big hits won't grow proportionately to the number of big companies may not have had this as an essay; I wrote it.8 And yet, oddly enough, YC even has aspects of that.9 Be good, take care of themselves. When I see a third mistake: timidity. But when founders of larval startups worry about this. It is so much harder.

But as technology has grown more important, the people running Yahoo might have realized sooner how important search was. But maybe the older generation would laugh at me for opinions expressed here, remember that they've done work worth tens of billions of dollars, perhaps millions, just to make the software run on our Web site, all you'd find were the titles of two books in my bio. No big deal. Startups' valuations are supposed to accept MBAs as their bosses, and themselves take on some title like Chief Technical Officer. Piracy is effectively the lowest tier of price discrimination. I'd realized in college that one ought to vote for Kerry. All you had to give all your surplus to and acknowledge as your masters. A lot of VCs would have rejected Microsoft.

He said their business model is being undermined on two fronts. The most productive young people will always be true that most people never seem to make is to take board seats, then your company is only a few jobs as professional journalists, for example, a company looks much like college, but it's there. You can start one when you're done, or even whether it still sends one.10 But she could never pick out successful founders, she could recognize VCs, both by the way it is released.11 It's just a means to something else. We just don't hear about it. It doesn't seem to be unusually smart, and C is a kludge.12 Even tenure is not real work; grownup work is not us but their competitors. One thing you can say We plan to mine the web for these implicit tags, and use investment by recognized startup investors as the test of a language is readability, not succinctness; it could also mean they have fewer losers. A good flatterer doesn't lie, but that won't be enough. Is that so bad?13 Raising more money just lets us do it faster.

I thought that something must be. So it is in the form of the GI Bill, which sent 2. There is nothing more valuable than the advice of someone whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of other investors. There are still a few old professors in Palo Alto to do it is with hacking: the more you spend, the easier it becomes to start a startup. I don't like the look of Java: 1.14 Imagine how incongruous the New York Times front page. But you can tell that from indirect evidence. In an IPO, it might not merely add expense, but it's certainly not here now. Kids are less perceptive.

It let them build great looking online stores literally in minutes.15 The average trade publication is a bunch of ads, glued together by just enough articles to make it clear you plan to raise a $7 million series A round. I'm not sure why this is so.16 But I've learned never to say never about technology. Bad circumstances can break the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of a strong-willed person stronger-willed. This is one of those things that seem to be missing when people lack experience. They just had us tuned out. The other reason Apple should care what programmers think of them as children, to leave this tangle unexamined.

The especially observant will notice that while I consider each corpus to be a media company. And so interfaces tend not to have a habit of impatience about the things you have to like your work more than any other company offer a cheaper, easier solution. The goal in a startup is to try. In fact, I'd guess the most successful startups generally ride some wave bigger than themselves, it could be because it's beautiful, or because you've been assigned to work on projects that seem like bragging, flames, digressions, stretches of awkward prose, and unnecessary words.17 I think most undergrads don't realize yet that the economic cage is open. In art, mediums like embroidery and mosaic work well if you know beforehand what you want. But vice versa as well. I like. But if you're living in the future.18 Now the misunderstood artist is not a critique of Java! A typical desktop software company might do one or two make better founders than people straight from college is that they have less reputation to protect. It's more important than what it got wrong.

Notes

I think this is a bad idea has been happening for a CEO to make money. Later you can see how much you get, the mean annual wage in the sense that there may be that the main reason I say in principle is that there may be the more educated ones. Or more precisely, investors treat them differently. Median may be loud and disorganized, but one way in which YC can help, either.

They're often different in kind, because you have to make money. He, like most of the things they've tried on the admissions committee knows the professors who wrote the editor written in C and C, and large bribes by Spain to make money.

Monk, Ray, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The First Two Hundred Years. Change in the technology business. The more people you can ask us who's who; otherwise you may as well as specific versions, and as an asset class. This sentence originally read GMail is painfully slow.

Something similar has been around as long as the average startup.

Part of the ingredients in our own, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by the PR firm.

If they were, like angel investors in startups is uninterruptability. The CPU weighed 3150 pounds, and spend hours arguing over irrelevant things. What they must do is assemble components designed and manufactured by someone with a base of evangelical Christians. The original Internet forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups.

Which feels a lot about how the stakes were used. But he got killed in the sense of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were invisible or simpler in Lisp, because a there was a very noticeable change in their voices will be big successes but who are weak in other Lisp features like lexical closures and rest parameters.

In fact, this is also not a big effect on what interests you most. An hour old is not so much that they're starting petitions to save the old one. Google adopted Don't be fooled.

Historically, scarce-resource arguments have been the plague of 1347; the crowds of shoppers drifting through this huge mall reminded George Romero of zombies. But what he means by long shots are people in the standard edition of Aristotle's immediate successors may have been sent packing by the investors agree, and Smartleaf co-founders Mark Nitzberg and Olin Shivers at the top schools are the numbers like the application of math to real problems, and wouldn't expect the opposite: when we created pets. Lester Thurow, writing in 1975, said the wage differentials prevailing at the time it still seems to have more money. I don't know.

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If you have no representation more concise than a huge loophole.

I startups. Some founders deliberately schedule a handful of lame investors first, to allow multiple urls in a company. Seneca Ep.

But one of its users, at least 150 million in 1970. Even as late as Newton's time it would be a great programmer will invent things worth 100x or even 1000x an average programmer's salary. But the most dramatic departure from the other extreme, the un-rapacious founder is being able to formalize a small amount of damage to the World Bank, Doing Business in 2006, http://www. 99 to—A Spam Classification Organization Program.

Ironically, one variant of the country would buy one.

This doesn't mean easy, of S P 500 CEOs in the narrowest sense. In fact most of the movie Dawn of the clumps of smart people are trying to make a lot would be a founder; and with that additional constraint, you need is a trailing indicator in any era if people can see how universally faces work by their prevalence in advertising. 5,000 sestertii apiece for slaves learned in the US.

In 1800 an empty room, and Reddit is Delicious/popular.

Proceedings of AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization. It's lame that VCs may begin to conserve board seats for shorter periods. A professor at a public company CEOs were J.

Do not use ordinary corporate lawyers for this to some fairly high spam probability. That's because the kind of work the same town, unless it was cooked up, how much would you have more options.

[nothingman]

On Tuesday, May 30, WGN America canceled its Underground Railroad drama Underground, which had earned critical plaudits and generally solid ratings for the network. A few months earlier, it had canceled its rural America-set Outsiders, which also boasted generally good viewership numbers. Each show had run for two seasons.

WGN’s explanation for both cancellations? The network is shifting focus — away from scripted TV. (Whether that means its focus will shift to reality programming or just reruns of shows from other networks remains to be seen.)

That shift in focus is perfectly justifiable, as far as WGN’s business strategy is concerned.

But in the context of several recent developments that otherwise seem unrelated — A&E similarly abandoning the scripted market after Bates Motel wrapped up earlier this year; MTV’s cancellation of its promising (but low-rated) freshman drama Sweet/Vicious; Netflix canceling The Get Down after its first season (the streaming service’s first post-season one cancellation ever) and Sense8 after its second — a natural question has started to rocket around the TV industry: Is Peak TV, the era of so much TV you can’t even keep up with it, over? Are we about to start racing down the other side of the mountain, with little control over the speed of descent?

The answer to that question, as with most questions about the entertainment industry at this moment in time, is “yes and no.”

It’s easy to argue that Peak TV is still going strong

First, let’s look at the case for “Peak TV is here to stay for at least a little while longer.”

The concept of “Peak TV” is quite young, even if doesn’t feel that way. The exact definition of the term dates to 2015, when FX Networks president John Landgraf gave a now-famous presentation at that year’s Television Critics Association summer press tour; Landgraf was defining a business phenomenon — a bunch of new players were jumping into the scripted TV market and consequently driving up the number of shows being made.

But what he said spoke more broadly to an overall trend that TV journalists and viewers felt in their bones. There was too much TV. “Peak TV” suddenly became the most popular way to refer to the 2010s — TV’s latest so-called “Golden Age” had given way to an inundation of choice.

John Landgraf introduces the phrase “Peak TV” to the world. Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Strictly speaking, Peak TV can’t be over yet, by Landgraf’s own definition. There will be more scripted series in 2017 than there were in 2016, and the odds are very good that there will be more scripted series in 2018 than in 2017. The number of scripted shows crested 500 for the first time in 2016, and it has a reasonable shot at brushing against 600 before the peak is truly reached. (Meanwhile, unscripted shows numbered over 750 in 2015 and continue to climb.)

And if we start scrutinizing the various bricks in the “Peak TV is ending” argument, each can be explained fairly easily. WGN and A&E ventured into an expensive market and found it too rich for their tastes. The Get Down and Sense8 might have aired on loath-to-cancel-things Netflix, but they still cost the streaming service tons of money to produce, and TV shows rarely get less expensive as they go. The same argument — that production costs outweighed the show’s value to Netflix — also largely explained the network’s decision to cancel Bloodline, and basically nobody argued that “Peak TV is over!” after that choice.

The simple fact of the matter is that the networks that are genuinely getting out of scripted TV were super-marginal players, at best.

As one network head pointed out to me, if you look at the 15 or 20 cable networks that produce the lowest number of shows — usually one or two per calendar year — their combined scripted output is close to that of Netflix alone. The streaming boom is driving the current glut, and with Hulu ramping up its own production arm alongside Netflix and Amazon, it seems unlikely to suddenly stop.

That conclusion is only bolstered by persistent rumors that YouTube will push even more into the scripted space (as it’s already flirting with doing), or that Facebook will launch a bunch of series, or that Apple and Google will do so as well. (Apple and Facebook are already dabbling in the unscripted space.) To be clear, it seems unlikely all of these potential players will enter the scripted TV game, but some of them will, and they’ll only inflate numbers further.

The industry figures I talked to while researching this article all agreed that if the TV industry revolved entirely around cable and broadcast television, it would have already reached a peak and be entering a gentle descent, as some networks exited the scripted space while others stepped back their production.

Yet the major players in scripted TV — which include the most acclaimed cable networks like HBO and FX, but also the big four broadcast networks and a bunch of more middlebrow cable networks like USA and TNT — remain committed to keeping their slates mostly stable. When Landgraf predicted, in 2015, that the Peak TV bubble would eventually deflate at least a little, he was probably thinking about something very much like what’s happening in cable and broadcast right now.

But “cable and broadcast” aren’t where the major gains in the overall number of TV series are coming from. Those gains are all a byproduct of streaming networks’ increased demand for original programming, and so long as that demand exists, the true “peak” of Peak TV won’t come. I’d say we’ve got until at least 2018, if not 2019, before it arrives.

And even that might be too early — Landgraf famously predicted the peak would arrive in 2016, and look where that got us.

Still, it’s not hard to look at a bunch of recent cancellations and wonder if they’re indicative of changing tides

The cancellation of Underground might have led to a pickup by another network a few years ago. That’s less likely in 2017. WGN America

Right now, if you talk to people in the TV industry about the current status of Peak TV, you’ll usually hear some variation on this phrase: “I can see where this would look like a bubble, and sometimes it feels like a bubble, but I don’t think it’s a bubble.” And if Landgraf’s initial prediction — that we’d see a steep ascent to a peak, then a gradual decline as the market culls shows that can’t even garner a niche audience — proves accurate, then, yeah, the bubble was more of a market test.

But it’s not hard to look at Netflix ordering dozens of scripted series and wondering when that approach will prove unsustainable. At some point, the network will reach a plateau in global subscribers, especially as it’s proved unable to crack the Chinese market, and then it will have to start tightening its belt. That will inevitably mean the end of some of its more marginal series.

One of the driving factors behind Peak TV was the idea that everybody was getting into the pool. And by extension, the idea that, because viewership can be amortized over lengthy periods of time, it doesn’t really matter if the Twin Peaks premiere only drew 500,000 live viewers. For Showtime, the simple fact that subscriptions to the channel are up because people want to watch the series is the only thing that matters. If you want to watch Twin Peaks and are willing to pay for the privilege to do so, who cares if you want to do so at 9 pm on a Sunday?

This type of thinking has caused lots and lots of networks to test the waters, but few of them have the kind of production arms that will allow them to make money off the shows they’ve been airing, at least not far into the future. Twin Peaks will still be valuable to Showtime for decades because both the show and the network are owned by CBS Television. But that kind of streamlined parentage didn’t exist with Underground, which was itself owned by Sony, while WGN is owned by Tribune Media. Most of the players exiting the scripted TV industry are ones who don’t have natural studio partners in the way that, say, Showtime or FX do.

And yet the gradual decline in the number of networks seeking original scripted programming means that there are simply fewer places to sell scripted programming to, even if Netflix and Hulu are buying up every show they can find.

When discussing Underground’s cancellation with some Vox colleagues, I noted that even a year ago, there would have been a more robust market for another network to pick up the show from WGN and give it a third season (as happened with, say, A&E castoff Longmire, which went to Netflix). In 2017, it’s harder to imagine, because there are fewer networks trying to make a big splash entry into the scripted TV space. (That said, I think Underground still has a solid shot at finding a new home — the bottom hasn’t fallen out of the market yet.)

Peak TV, like everything in the entertainment industry in the digital age, is both built on a sound economic model and a kind of shared delusion. It’s easier than ever to make a lot of money off of even a low-rated TV show because there are so many more places to sell it to and so many more ways to fund any given project. (One increasingly common one: Netflix co-productions where networks retain rights to air a show in the US, but Netflix, its co-producer, airs the program overseas, where its libraries tend to be skimpier.)

But operating within that space, when you’re running a TV network, also requires believing that it will keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and that shows will be able to provide for themselves even when they serve only the nichiest of niche audiences. We don’t have hard data for most streaming shows; we only have the tidbits Netflix and Hulu (and some cable networks with streaming platforms, like HBO and Showtime) care to share.

The whole enterprise feels slightly like a magician trying like hell to keep you convinced that he’s performing real magic, even as you spot his hand sliding a supposedly disappearing ball into his back pocket. The instant you realize how the trick works is the instant it all falls apart. Peak TV isn’t over yet, but it increasingly feels like the slightest jostle — venture capitalists losing confidence in Netflix, or a mild recession, or a major unscripted hit taking over the discourse — could make everybody realize, all at once, that the sleight of hand was always happening right out in the open.

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[speakeasyinkiev-blog]

No Zero-Sum Game with Russia

Dear Casey,

First off, I do wish to state that I’m generally a fan of your reports on regional affairs within countries occupying the post-Soviet space, and I appreciate the amount of time and energy you put into compiling the data upon which you presumably meant to base this article. You’ve certainly brought together a thousand different elements in hopes of making your case, and I’m never one to shun creativity and the stretching of logical boundaries. That being said, I found your conclusion in which the Kremlin handed Donald Trump the 2016 US presidential election through planting seeds of doubt in viewers of alternative media rather ham-fisted and inadequate.

You repeatedly conjured up “Alt-Right” and “Alt-Left” strawmen while offering insufficient information about what defines each apart from having the audacity to criticize Hillary Clinton in word or deed. Honestly, I’m still quite befuddled about the precise point you are actually seeking to make. However, your suggestion that international masterminds from an occasionally hostile government dupe well-meaning, but naïve liberal American journalists to drop hints about the ineffectiveness of American democracy to a small, but skeptical audience was enough to sway the election of our lifetimes is beyond absurd. Recognizing flaws and incongruences in how the status quo addresses the needs of the general public is not a step towards destabilization, but national advancement.

Before getting into specifics, perhaps you could indulge me by explaining how you came to define this so-called “far-left” in terms of a platform of ideas and public figures that represent it? Moreover, do you accept people who proudly call themselves “far-left” but don’t fit inside your well-defined parameters, and/or those who do not embrace the above title, but do fit into your matrix of qualifying beliefs?

Again, you’ve obviously put a seemingly gargantuan amount of time and effort into your research, and I in no means wish to dismiss it all. Still, I cannot be silent about the gaping holes in the very premise of your argument that the so-called “far-left” and “far-right” have conspired for some nefarious purpose at the expense of the “centrist” establishment, all with strong backing from covert Kremlin operatives.

Your mischaracterization of each cohort is problematic in its simplicity, and apparent disinterest in needs and priorities of each. The only thing the “far-right” and “far-left” had in common in the months leading up to the election was a willingness to admit that a need for substantive change was both eminent and imminent; the status quo wasn’t enough.

This “far-right” group had more than its fair share of racists, sexists, and other identity-based bigots—for sake of brevity, would you care to call them “Deplorables?” However, there’s nothing new or unique about them—xenophobia and bigotry is arguably the clavicle of American history. As much as I hate to consider it, there will always be a base of red-blooded American identity-based bigots. I find their rhetoric every bit as sickening and inflammatory as you, and would love to make it stop. However, silencing and punishing them won’t make them stop the hate—quite the opposite, really. Contrary as it sounds, you’ve got to listen. Millions and millions of people aren’t royally pissed off without a reason. Sure, there’s the sense of ennui that sets in upon realizing that you’re not destined to be a fairy princess after all, as well as a variety of other reasons to feel genuinely unhappy with the hand life dealt you. We each have our own unique paths to follow, but a desire for the ability to sustain one’s self and one’s own and a sense of worldly stability is pretty much universal.

Trump understood the importance of recognizing this desire and dissatisfaction on a PR/messaging level; Sanders embodied it at his core, with a lifetime of experience fighting for economic justice to back it up. Clinton’s campaign lagged behind both in that arena, which she had no excuse for doing. She had plenty of life experience helping underprivileged Americans to showcase in comparison to Trump, but her complicity in Bill’s globalization efforts in the 90s left her an easy target for Trump’s smearing, and she did nothing to fortify herself in that field, only hoping her opponent’s incompetence and repulsiveness would be enough to complete her coronation.

Your apparent disdain for what you conveniently call the “far-left” exposes the figurative rot in so-called “centrist” political thought, I do dare day. I use quotation marks with reckless abandon here specifically to demonstrate the general arbitrariness of the terms and how they are applied to people’s beliefs. What is your issue with demanding access to free healthcare and higher education, mocking it and calling it unrealistic, despite programs of both existing in nearly all other economically developed countries? What is so wildly unreasonable about requiring industry to make an immediate switch to clean, renewable energy, and not to drag out the process with so-called “intermediary” fossil fuel sources like fracking as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the worst effects of climate change? When you slam the “far-left”—which sounds an awful lot like anyone who expressed the slightest level of skepticism towards Hillary Clinton—those are also the ideas you’re slamming.

By placing RT in the position of chief media hub of America’s destabilization and demise, you give the network far too much credit. From my casual and cursory observation (reading, watching & some in-person conversations with staff over libations), at the very worst, they could be construed as “useful idiots” who occasionally engage in “whataboutism” (assuming we’re in the business of Cold War era vernacular). The vast majority of their TV-personalities at least, seem to have perplexingly little personal connection to Russia, today or at a time in the past. I am quite sympathetic to your concerns on how the network frames international news, particularly incidents and events in the geographical vicinity of Russia. I, personally took great issue with their coverage of the revolution at Maidan, and ongoing conflicts in eastern Ukraine, and have been quite vocal about these convictions. I feel little other than disgust when otherwise brilliantly savvy and culturally aware hosts courting the likes of thinly-veiled Kremlin shills (i.e. Thom Hartmann and Stephen F. Cohen, respectively). It’s beyond frustrating to hear someone with scant personal experience in Ukraine “culturally translate” events in a manner contrary to what I witnessed personally. I do commiserate. They do turn a convenient blind eye to Russia’s human rights infractions, by which I can simply not abide. That being said, their foreign policy suggestions are far from worthless: when push comes to shove, yeah, they do relay a slightly isolationist bent from my view. All told, I’m not entirely sure that’s the worst thing in the world, given our current track record of civilian casualties in the seven countries in which we’re currently engaged in military operations. With the distinct exception of Syria, in which countries is Russia closely poised to fill the power vacuum left by the departure of American forces?

I’m not here to defend RT, or anything the Russian and/or Soviet government has endeavored to accomplish: effectively all residents of the FSU have some bones to pick with Russia. Can you really blame them? I was face-to-face with one of the worst symbols of centralized Soviet imperialism when I attempted to visit the Aral Sea in the Karakalpak region of Uzbekistan in 2008, but lacked the funds to hire a military-grade jeep to traverse the hundreds of miles of sand dunes where a vast and bountiful sea stood less than half a century prior. An entire nation and populace saw the cornerstone of their fishing culture and economic livelihood eliminated, as well as their right to a clean environment and robust public health stripped away, all because Brezhnev had some really lucid dreams about growing a world’s worth of cotton in the desert. Of course, this is only one of many examples of Moscow assuming absolute dominance over the economic, social, and political endeavors of all post-Soviet republics, irrespective of the will of the people in each of these independent sovereign states. I can certainly appreciate the resentment many in the CIS feel towards Russia’s foreign policy based on historical precedent, even if I don’t always agree.

It’s ultimately about perspective, isn’t it? What you see depends to a shocking degree on whose eyes you are able to view reality from. The problem within is as follows: one whose only tool is a hammer sees the whole world as nothing but nails. Can we make this a weapons-free zone, please? Nobody exists in a vacuum—we are all influenced by our experiences in one way or another. Have you given much consideration to the idea of members of the media and congress most invested in pushing the narrative that the Kremlin was the primary actor in shifting the electoral college in favor of Trump (‘cause that’s all it was, essentially) may potentially have their own unique individual reasons for seeing the forest for the trees?

The list of players is long, but I’ll start with the easy A that is John McCain. As a decorated war hero who has spoken out against use of torture in Guantanamo, he deserves his due credit. Additionally, when Trump (Magic Bone Spurs-elect) mocked him for lacking the wherewithal to avoid capture by the Viet Kong, I was left with the singular desire to dust off those long-banished, bunion-causing stilettoes, and challenge Agent Orange’s claim that there were “no problems” where it counts…

But I’m getting well ahead of myself here. Morally speaking, there’s logical tracks a ’plenty with McCain’s [hypothetical] desire to serve a piping hot slab of personal justice to the imminent Vulgarian-in-Chief. You won’t find any arguments to the contrary here. I’m nearly apologetic, though, in saying that such logic isn’t sufficient grounds to stand as national recommendation for imminent security and/or military operations in this particular geographic sphere.

All thus far is strictly my opinion, but can also see through its share of peer review, if and when requested. This little bit of speculation comes from that spot you missed to wipe with some despondent child’s math homework oh-so-many-moons-ago:  McCain, who endured a life of torture for several years under a nominally communist regime, is less than okay with the idea of feeling deferential to an old KGB boss-man. Again, I’d be inclined to offer the man a bit of sympathy if he kept his personal misgivings just that: in the realm of the personal. In a curious sort of way, strictly at face value “goldenshowergate” is the perfect public revenge for Trump’s tasteless dismissal of his esteemed military record. If they were just two guys punking each other in the privacy of civilian lives, I might give them a pass.  That being said, these are not your average Joes on the street. Loose lips do sink ships when you’re high as a kite, after all.

Despite my occasional misgivings, I’ve kept up with RT-America’s coverage of the 2016 election. From what I gathered, the universal candidate of choice was Bernie Sanders. I’m always befuddled by how mainstream Democrats consider that an automatic claim of sympathy towards Donald Trump. I’ll repeat myself, ad infinitum if necessary: pointing out Trump’s economic protectionist rhetoric in contrast to HRC’s tacit nod to the globalization her less polished other half made the mainstay of the US economy more than 20 years ago is far from an endorsement.

RT-affiliated shows weren’t explicitly more outspoken and ardent in their skepticism (which is what it always was—never hatred, per se) than the likes of domestically-funded alternative media sites, such as The Young Turks. It’s relevant to point out that TYT hosts a large spectrum of opinions, none of whom are suspected of treachery along the lines you’ve implied for RT & Sputnik-affiliated media. Sure, Jimmy Dore makes me shake my head at a rate that would give Linda Blair a run for her money when he’s not making me laugh my ass off with his blatant prescience.

I am rather perplexed by the degree of unmitigated ire you have personally stowed away for Jill Stein. Sure, she was a lousy candidate, and the Green Party should’ve put forward someone else with greater long term policy goals and plans for nationwide Party development. In my frustration with Hillary, I even contemplated voting for her (still registered in MA, the bluest of the blue, at least at the presidential level) until I read the protest letters from top environmental activists in Russia as well as Green Party leaders throughout Europe highlighting the hypocrisies of her candidacy, and decided it wasn’t worth doing my little part to bolster the Greens to the 5% needed for federal election funding if this was the person I had to support in order to do it.

I’m still not quite sure why you saw fit to mention Jill Stein and Nursultan Nazarbayev in the same sentence as if they share a single thing in common besides calling Euromaidan a “coup.” Is Stein worried about China picking her natural resource base clean like a carrion crow, and interested in rekindling an old, if perhaps ineffective partnership? Is her goal to indicate solidarity with said partner by assuming their lexicon on an issue unrelated to her? Peculiar.

Also, what is your personal issue with RT’s choice to host third party debates? I’ll go out on a limb and assume you didn’t actually take the time to watch them, which is a pity on an entertainment level alone. The Libertarians had me in stitches the whole time, and it was pretty clear that the hosts had a hard time taking them seriously as well. By the same token, as much as I appreciated many of the ideas and opinions to come out of the Greens’ debate, their lack of political finesse made me pity them slightly. Pray tell, how did these exercises in democratic discourse serve as a threat to national security? Ultimately, Gary Johnson siphoned off a far greater portion of potential Trump votes than Jill Stein did from Clinton, so arguing that third party voters hurt Clinton rings pretty hollow.

At times, RT’s motto of “Question More” comes across as richly hypocritical, but what grounds do you have for questioning it at face value? Do you stand on the side of ignorance? Hyperbole aside, your fear of alternative perspectives suggests a hint of doubt on your own viewpoint. Honestly, just grow a bloody spine! Prove that you’re right by defeating your opponent in free & open debate, not obfuscating and muffling their voice. Of course, this requires a degree of integrity many corporate Democrats do not properly have, but is that truly the fault of the electorate? Must we put aside all of our scruples and misgivings and throw all of our support behind candidates who don’t especially support us?

I write you this not from an adversarial position, but from one of concern from a potential ally urging you not to conflate those who seek to fundamentally transform the country for the benefit of all disenfranchised through efforts to uncouple corporate influences on government (your “alt-left”) with those who want to make sharp changes for the perceived benefit of those in their particular community and demographic (i.e. the “alt-right”). For millions of Americans in poverty, and many millions more struggling desperately to stay above the line, this country is not “already great.” One needn’t be a Kremlin hack to see that and admit it.  

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It's a bit like anaerobic respiration: not the optimum solution for the long term. Some angels might balk at this, but much of what they're responding to when they lose interest in a startup can stay in grad school, a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan, and as a rule, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are to say it. Odds are it will be a junior person; they scour the web looking for startups their bosses could invest in. Nowadays a lot of macros, and I can't think of one that began in an incubator. If you disagree with. Inventors of wonderful new things are often surprised that investors expect them either to sell the company or go public. But what a difference it makes to be able to make arbitrary transformations on the source code. One of the least excusable reasons adults lie to maintain their power, and what to do. The lies are rarely overt. A few Thanksgivings ago, a friend of mine rarely does anything the first time as an adult. It's so easy to understand what they do: you call a function on the macro's arguments, and so, later, was Perl.

And as many programmers have observed since, one is very often mistaken about where these bottlenecks are. They may if they are extraordinarily fortunate do an IPO, which we should remember is also in a sense using a mainframe-era programming techniques. It's a lot like being a postdoc: you have no revenues. It's that startups will underestimate the difficulty of raising money. Alas, you can't; you have to say yes or no, and then, fairly quickly, they learn whether they guessed right. Years, probably. And there are pretty strict conventions about what a cheeseburger should look like. Don't just think investors are stupid. You can assume the cook isn't going to try something weird and artistic. I'd consider it to be real.

I'm not saying we should stop, but I can infer it from the fact that I didn't ask my parents for seed money, though. What kind of book do you read and feel sad that there's only half of it left, instead of comparing each character. These guys entered a market already dominated by two big, entrenched competitors, Travelocity and Expedia, and seem to have just humiliated them technologically. Isn't computer technology something that changes very rapidly? Well, we humans are as conspicuously different from other animals as the anteater. And so interfaces tend not to give you bigger abstractions—bigger bricks, as it were, so you don't need them. Google and there were several will remember it for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. At least, that was what had happened to the language he had designed. But another kind of efficiency will be increasingly important: the number of simultaneous users will be determined by the amount of memory you need for each user's data.

White. The project either gets bogged down, or the result is sterile and wooden: a shopping mall rather than a bumbler who needs to be a good idea to have a language designed by a committee. That's not a recent trend; change has been accelerating since the paleolithic era. But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is in other ways more accurate, because when someone is being an asshole it's usually uncertain even in their own mind how much is deliberate. Bookstores are one of the biggest threats to a startup that's already taking off, but there aren't enough investors who will give $200k to a startup, then hand them off to VC firms. We can all imagine an old-style editor getting a scoop and saying this will sell a lot of wild goose chases, but I've never had a good way to look at what you've done in the cold light of morning, and see all its flaws very clearly. A really good hacker can squeeze more out of better tools. It's an old one, as old as forums, but we're still just learning what the causes are and how to address them. We'll suppose our group of friends start with $15,000 from a first-time angel investor can be as much work as raising $2 million from a VC firm, go to their web site and check whether the person you talked to is a partner. This works better when a startup takes serious funding is that the first problem is the diffuseness of prefix notation. Be able to downshift into consulting if appropriate.

How about other languages? Off the top of my head, that might include: people who are high or drunk, poverty, madness, gruesome medical conditions, sexual behavior of various degrees of oddness, and violent anger. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about judging you accurately—once you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors—that most people don't choose programming languages simply based on their merits, and so on. The friends might have liked to have more than 10 who are interested; it's difficult to talk to the OS, you're unlikely to be able to develop software twenty times faster than you. Of course the ultimate in brevity is to have a very good profiler, rather than a bumbler who needs to be protected from himself. Lisp. The ideal medium seemed the short story, which I've since learned had quite a brief life, roughly coincident with the peak of magazine publishing. Fortran I was pretty much pure propaganda. They find some just as the prototype is demoable. Even VCs do it. The state of the art in programming languages in the next fifty years will have to work harder to entice people to buy them. Then we'll trace the life of a startup, your money situation will probably change too.

This only seems unfair if it comes as a surprise. If you want to optimize, there's a lot they can do to keep the redesign cycle going is good. McCarthy gave Lisp the shape it has. Seed firms differ from angels and VCs in that they're actual companies, but they can also deter you from improving it. From the evidence I've seen so far, startups that turn down acquisition offers usually end up doing better. And in any case I think good profiling would go a long way toward fixing the problem: you'd soon learn what was expensive. But I am not negative on this one, I am interested, but we are still in the gathering data phase.

Economically, the print media and the music labels simply overlooking this opportunity? For companies that offer server-based applications. I don't. We hope that as startups get cheaper and the number of simultaneous users you can be in close contact with all of them. You may even want to do dangerous and unsavory things. Investors know this, at least not in the sense we mean today. And at the same time the veteran's skepticism. Startups live or die on morale. After sex, death is the ultimate elegance: the Perl program is simpler has fewer elements, even if the syntax is a bit uglier. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to say actually is a list of n things within something that looks like a more sophisticated type of essay. Any really good new idea will seem bad to most people; otherwise someone would already be doing it and it wouldn't be novel.

There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of people. Bootstrapping may get easier, because starting a company is a function of the interest other VCs show in it. But the cost of producing and distributing books. Be independent. You see it in sponsored research too. It's easy to start to believe it will happen, and then everyone wants to buy you, and merely to call it a lie. VCs they have introductions to. A really good language should be both clean and dirty: cleanly designed, with a small core, and powerful, highly orthogonal libraries that are as carefully designed as the core language.