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Some nice images of a hexagonal version here, along with a python script to create your own: http://hexnet.org/content/hexagonal-number-spirals

W-word is "wetback", I think. I've never heard anyone use it.

Raise your rates!

I knew this was suspected but I thought it was officially denied. Apparently it's acknowledged by the Saudis. This quote from a recent FT article [0] surprised me:

  After the Iraqi city of Mosul fell to a lightning Isis offensive in 2014, even 
  the late Prince Saud al-Faisal, the respected Saudi foreign minister, 
  remonstrated with John Kerry, US secretary of state, that “Daesh [Isis] is our 
  [Sunni] response to your support for the Da’wa” — the Tehran-aligned Shia 
  Islamist ruling party of Iraq.

[0] https://next.ft.com/content/876a971c-0644-11e6-a70d-4e39ac32...

Right, this will naturally happen for most people, but if you're mindful of this effect you can work to curb it if you choose.

There are people in the top 1% who "feel poor" - because they live in expensive homes, drive luxury cars, feel the need to send their kids to the most expensive private schools, and have friends who own yachts - and there are millionaires who basically live like they make $80,000. I would aim more toward the latter (although obviously going too far in that direction can be unhealthy too).

> found the lower end much harder

Same, although I think I overcompensated for the tendency to see patterns everywhere and generally guessed too low for R < 0.5.

Already well underway. From a patent held by Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc [0]:

http://i.imgur.com/bPz5i7A.png

[0] http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454

> "What happened when I tried to install Linux on my leather shoes!"

I, for one, would definitely click through and read this.

Thanks for the link. Here's Ray Dalio's note on linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dangerous-long-bias-end-super...

Or worse, stacked them: http://i.imgur.com/a7app8J.jpg

Can you elaborate on the 'hypnotic' lights? I've never seen or heard of this.

A Sony patent for mid-videogame advertising:

http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454

It's really quite a gem.

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> If the CIO/CTO etc are perfectly wiling to disrupt core functions to shave off some costs - you have to wonder about the strategic abilities of these highly paid morons who cannot think past the next quarter.

Agree, but isn't this a broader issue with the system of incentives in a publicly traded corporation? The drive to sacrifice core capabilities in exchange for short term profits seems to be a widespread recurring problem.

Excellent advice. I've learned to do this over time and it's really been a win-win approach.

Their 404 page gif is still their best work, but this is a close second.

Indeed, I was surprised that didn't make the top of the list.

No reason to apologize when it is only "combatants" who are killed, by the administration's definition.

"[...] Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent." [0]

So in the official language, a "military-age" male Afghan or Yemeni who is killed in a drone strike instantly transforms into a combatant by merit of being in a strike zone. Great.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...

Precisely. I understand it like this: if the United States has some $18tn of debt and it has to pay this back in dollars that are more valuable than they were when the debt was issued, that debt load quickly becomes unserviceable. However, if they successfully inflate away some significant percentage of the value of the USD, the nominal debt remains the same but it becomes lighter in real terms.

Pippa Malmgren - correctly, I think - describes this inflating away the value of the currency (and by extension, all outstanding debts) as just another form of default, and one that has been used many times in history. It's just more stealthy than saying "we can't pay, so we won't pay" or something similar[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBU59sY2erA

That seems an unfair way to frame it: there is an important distinction between actively seeking to deny someone something, and being hesitant to spend a considerable chunk of your resources on it.

Not quite as convenient, but at least you can still find the links here:

https://github.com/superherojs/superherojs/blob/gh-pages/ind...

Moviebarcode [0] provides some nice visualizations [1][2][3] of the color palette of movies and other things.

[0] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

[1] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/104685404787/transformer...

[2] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432016573/traffic-2000

[3] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/8951346287/tron-legacy-2...

Nice, I'll try that. Here's my bookmarklet for highlighting recent comments (subtly for <1h old, less subtly for <10m old):

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Same issue here, same browser, Windows 7.

I think you're being a bit optimistic that "most?" people are on the same page and aware of media manipulation, hegemony, etc. Just because this kind of knowledge is passé to you doesn't make it passé for someone thinking about it for the first time, be they 15 or 40.

I agree that the more crucial questions are around what we (can? should?) do about it, but those questions are far more difficult to actually answer. In the meantime, I think work like Curtis' is helpful in inspiring people to at least begin to construct a framework with which to approach these big questions.

Great thoughts in this tread, thanks.

In Battlefield 3 and 4, DICE chose to implement the latter option (aiming and hit detection are clientside, no questions asked). The tradeoff - and I'm sure you'd agree there is always a tradeoff no matter how we deal with latency - is that as the person being shot at, you'll frequently die some fraction of a second after getting behind solid cover, because you weren't behind cover just yet on your opponent's screen when he shot you.

This is certainly frustrating and frequently complained about, but I think it's the lesser of various evils for these particular games.

Nicely done! Good idea and execution, congrats.

Yeah, some work has been done in this area, but I only know about it in passing via a mention in one of Jacob Appelbaum's talks. This seems like it might be a decent place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0Ta9h62_E

It's a saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)

For me (Chrome, Win7), the gaps are explained by "PageSpeed Insights Reporting" and "SASS Support" wrapping down to the next row for all but a small range of horizontal viewport widths.