Tuesday, February 05, 2019
What makes us feel good about our work? | Dan Ariely
This guy confirms my perceptions, however faulty, about my own attitudes towards work... and the value (so utterly underestimated) of intangible elements of work life. Also interesting is that he's an Hispanic... speaking to an Hispanic audience. In other words... maybe passing through history is like running a gauntlet... that, once a moment has informed us, we can never go back.... we have less chance of making the same mistakes again (i.e., Hispanics are riding a little higher up the learning curve now that Euro-Plebs have tread that path). Rupert Sheldrake is all about this; though, admittedly more high-falutin'; where he formally believes in a "field" theory of understanding; which was more eloquently (and more humbly) presented by Terence McKenna... where the Universe is an engine of increased Novelty. The Universe is an intellect; an organic whole; and, in the famous congregation of words by George Bush... "fool me once.. uh... won't get fooled again!"
Fasces - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interesting trivia that adds flesh to the root of the word, "fascist."
Submarine communications cable
The NSA whistleblower below, William Binney, said something to the effect of... "if the U.S. was intending to only monitor calls with foreigners, then they would've placed their intercept equipment on the nodes where foreign telephone traffic entered the U.S." My understanding prior to this was that satellites had taken over this traffic long ago. Of course, I was way off...and of course, you already knew this :P But, I wikied it and got the exact numbers.
Wikipedia... "As of 2006, overseas satellite links accounted for only 1 percent of international traffic, while the remainder was carried by undersea cable. The reliability of submarine cables is high, especially when (as noted above) multiple paths are available in the event of a cable break. Also, the total carrying capacity of submarine cables is in the terabits per second, while satellites typically offer only megabits per second and display higher latency. However, a typical multi-terabit, transoceanic submarine cable system costs several hundred million dollars to construct."
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