iDoneThis blog: The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren't Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect SATs -
Google has long had a reputation for being a place that’s near impossible to get a job if you aren’t a Stanford or MIT grad. They not only asked you for your college GPA, they even asked you what you made on your SAT as a pimple-faced high schooler.
Recently, that’s all changed.
Google’s…
Old fashioned Keynesianism, as practiced by the likes of [Paul] Krugman, resembles a set of religious dogmas, not scientific propositions. Austrians view economics as a science, a body of theory and application that helps us understand the world. Keynesians see economics as a set of political tools useful to rationalize and justify an a priori faith in unlimited government. Krugman, like Keynes himself, dislikes businesspeople, consumers, and especially entrepreneurs and investors, and prefers a world in which an elite cadre of intellectuals and bureaucrats controls most investment, production, and consumption decisions. Fine, everyone has a right to his personal belief system. But let’s not pretend there’s anything scientific about the multiplier, the marginal propensity to consume, the liquidity trap, and the other relics and sacraments of the Keynesian religion. — Peter Klein (via laliberty)
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The Internet seems to really like our math curves lately. Do you know what else the Internet likes? Pokemon.
So here’s a list of all the Pokemon-like curves we have. More are on the way!
Tomb Raider (2013) and Tomb Raider (1996).
look at this. technology is so amazin. we have eveolved from triangle titties to round titties. 2013 we did it
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(via Cats leave their mark on centuries of books)
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In Christian tradition, there’s the concept of “The Original Sin.” It’s believed that human beings, by nature, are bad. Socrates wrote about the body and soul. The soul, due to its origin, is good. The body, due to its origin, is bad. In the Muslim and Jewish traditions, the body and soul aren’t good or bad. It’s what you do with them that matters. — Tariq Ramadan (via tariqramadan)
The Unbelievable Photos Taken by the Crazy Russians Who Illegally Climbed Egypt’s Great Pyramid
How to control bitcoin (via reddit)
AK 47 creator.
If you want total security, go to prison - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The ideal engineer is a composite… He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. — Nathan W. Dougherty, Former Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee (via reddit)
Censorship, governments and corporations enemies of The Internet -
Let’s just ban governments