Comment: Matters of Privacy, by Margaret Talbot

From The New Yorker app

http://bit.ly/13UzSJl

What was often used to justify this paradox was obeisance to marital privacy. In a North Carolina case from 1868, State v. A. B. Rhodes, the State Supreme Court declined to enforce charges against a man who whipped his wife "with a switch about the size of one of his fingers (but not as large as a man's thumb)." It did so not because it was upholding the husband's right to chastise his wife "but because the evil of publicity would be greater than the evil involved in the trifles complained of; and because they ought to be left to family government." 

What are some of the most ridiculous proofs in mathematics? - Quora

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-rajan

Ghost Stories

I never took a fancy to ghost stories. I wonder if it was fear or if it was the bad stories we had in India. Even know the scary part is not what is more interesting. Benevolent ghosts are what draw me in. hmm maybe it was the fear .... :) 

Innovators dilemma

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all

I liked the part where she talks about 

Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail. It's not more than that. It doesn't explain change. It's not a law of nature. It's an artifact of history, an idea, forged in time; it's the manufacture of a moment of upsetting and edgy uncertainty. Transfixed by change, it's blind to continuity. It makes a very poor prophet.

Another part from the book that struck a chord was the point about 

"two models for how to make money cannot peacefully coexist within a single organization."

Looks like there is a rebuttal that I havent read yet. 

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-20/clayton-christensen-responds-to-new-yorker-takedown-of-disruptive-innovation

[fifa14] Brazil 3 - 1 Croatia

Good to see him scramble to 2 goals in the opener. Oscar was truly good in the first 20 mins that I watched. Croatia really looked good though. Brazil's defense has always looked so open to me. Oscar's goal was a bit of an embarrassment or croatia though. I hope I get to see the replay later tonight :)