rarefied

Hmm. let's see some of the things you've said: > ... rarefied "breed" of pure mathematician earning a > salary is as much of a waste as if billions were spent > on buggy whip boys.

Both time and attention being the most rarefied resources nowadays.

The basis for the plaintiff's suit no doubt consists of rarefied lawyerese, and the plaintiff has probably added no value to the world.

That said, there is a wealth of consumer apps that don't have massive market shares either so the market for learning these lessons is pretty rarefied

You may exist in a rarefied stratum of the economy that gives you this freedom, but to claim that this is the case for most users is bizarre.

I read this and thought: spot on. Smart enough to do well in life but not be isolated through rarefied levels of intelligence, or excessively burdened by awareness of the world's troubles, probably makes for a happy individual.

The computer store as rarefied design-temple cum chic-hangout-spot is all-Apple and a real innovation.

The Olympics are a rarefied, global, multinational corporation that demand governments bend to their will with respect to their trademarks if they want the games.

In a post full of deeply questionable logic, this little gem takes the cake for me. I suspect some anecdotal evidence from otehr commenters will back this up or that there is a bevy of statistics to prove that this is true, even in the rarefied atmosphere of web companies.

What you get in a typical thin smear is a range of population densities, from a clumpy mess of cells crowding and overlapping each other, to rarefied lines and clusters of cells spaced widely apart.

But lets not elevate classical music to some rarefied pedestal; the vast majority of the good classical music contains "loud sounds and nakedly manipulative melodies".