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"conformal" means "angle-preserving", not "area-preserving" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_map

FB is happy to sell ads that use President Obama's photo without his consent.

Google owns a large display-ad network.

a standard PDF is ugly to the 99% of readers who aren't going to print it out.

a post-it note is nearly impossible to hack -- only a high-value unsecured physical space can compromise a post-it note. Sniffing a password over the Internet/LAN is far easier.

The social status from a wedding -- is that a positive sum status game, or a zero-sum game?

> they incorrectly overestimate their ability spend the funds in profit seeking ways eg gamble the funds or use the funds towards seeking new funds. That's harsh on a startup news …

> After all, you would leave a company structured like that, which diluted down your equity or awarded an unconditional salary to the flagrantly unproductive. Not me. I am a selfis…

All people make small mistakes all the time, and usually can recover. Few of them involve falling into an abyss, but tasting meth or heroin or maybe crack are among them.

Parole exists, which makes prison times extremely flexible, The exception is mandatory minimums, which are generally only for murder and for handling drugs that non-white/rich peop…

AKA, every unsolved problem in science.

> That procedure is unfair to those who value reliably-sized slices. Those people can simply pay for the services of a liquidity provider. (Buy soda.)

"precedent" means "past experience", not "abstract theory". macroeconomics != microeconomics. http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html