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Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Re: Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Post by kajecounterhack »

ivankirigin wrote: post #9
culley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just spent 2 hours learning about whole empires that I had never heard of. Joys of a great american education.

"Joys of a great american education." I learned about all of those listed in a public high school AP European History class. The generalizations about American education are a bit broad. It's fair to say it is extremely unevenly distributed. It's also fair to say the US has the best university system in the world. Just look at where people try to go to study.

I agree, I learned all about these in school.

I also learned about a fair number of them from church...

Re: Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Post by theoneill »

dkasper wrote: post #13

Question: Why is this on hacker news?

"The focus of Hacker News is going to be anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

Re: Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Post by eru »

yters wrote: post #10
ivankirigin wrote: post #2

For some reason, content like this makes a periodic appearance every few months. A tutorial by IBM on how to better utilize command line tools is another. Just one step from collections of interesting pictures. Here, all context is lost. History without context is rubbish.

Some people are little more than karma bots (or maybe they are bots) - skim all the top articles from the major sites and reintroduce them randomly at semi-regular intervals (proportional to ranking at reintroduction). I would say this goes for major news organizations too. - EDIT - Aha, it isn't a bot!

Perhaps you can write a bot like this. And then sell your karma-drunken account to a PR company.

(Obviously this would not work on our enlightened side - but only with the unwashed masses of social news.)

Re: Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Post by edw519 »

dkasper wrote: post #13

Question: Why is this on hacker news?

Great app. Simple, probably not that much behind it, but conveys a lot of data directly into the user's reptilian brain. Makes me wonder how I could incorporate a technique like this into my own apps.

Oh, and the content was interesting, too.

Re: Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

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Post by yters »

eru wrote: post #18
yters wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people are little more than karma bots (or maybe they are bots) - skim all the top articles from the major sites and reintroduce them randomly at semi-regular intervals (proportional to ranking at reintroduction). I would say this goes for major news organizations too. - EDIT - Aha, it isn't a bot!

Perhaps you can write a bot like this. And then sell your karma-drunken account to a PR company. (Obviously this would not work on our enlightened side - but only with the unwashed masses of social news.)

I'd vote it up, sounds like a useful thing. But then I'm just a fool like that.
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