trevize1138

The whole story gets more and more interesting and complex over time as we uncover it. No single "missing link." No simplistic story of homo sapiens coming in and wiping out neanderthals. A recent documentary I saw painted this very messy picture of migration in-and-out of various parts of Eurasia, back to Africa, back out and a general genetic mixing all-around. Overall modern humans out-competed neanderthals but also bred with them and that DNA shows up in many of us today.

Sounds like they were trying to emulate the early days of FB some people pine for where you had to have a .edu email address to sign up. I know a few friend were hopeful that Google+ meant they would no longer see posts from their racist uncle or gullible aunt. Start out with that same kind of exclusivity and hopefully it builds this exclusive mystique so when you open it up to everybody you get a flood. Perhaps the big difference they didn't factor in is FB did this when relatively few people were on social media so they couldn't help but grow whereas Google+ needed to recognize they were trying to enter an already saturated market.

I thought I heard 40% of Amazon's employees are not US citizens. This all makes me think Toronoto is the #1 pick.

The issue I always take with people's first reaction to "criticism" is it somehow should only be negative. I see people who only provide negative feedback being, at best, lacking in their ability to truly analize something critically. Positive feedback isn't touchy-feely niceties to save someone's feelings. A lot of brilliance can be absent-mindely lost or discarded if the author isn't made aware that it's brilliant.

If someone creates something and only gets feedback about what's wrong with it they could be lead to conclude the entire work is worthless and throw it out. However, if you say "this part right here, though, is great and for these reasons. Keep it and do more of that" you've actually helped someone's creative process a whole lot more than just "this sucks, get rid of it."

If anything it takes more critical thinking and analysis to point out what's good about something than just ripping apart what doesn't work. 100% negative feedback is about as helpful as someone telling you "Yeah, I liked the story. It had some spelling and grammar errors but other than that it was good!" Great, you didn't tell me at all what you liked about it but then continued to tell me what spell and grammar check already did.