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Ask News.YC: How difficult is it to break out of prevailing paradigms of the present?
22 points by fiaz 19y ago|33 comments
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by fiaz 19y ago
I think this is a very relevant article to the "Eternal September" story: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html What's surprising is that some of the group dynamics that contribute to the break down of online communities was identif
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A group is its own worst enemy...(shirky.com)
8 points by fiaz 19y ago|1 comments
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by fiaz 19y ago
Interesting.... The reference to that list of covert organizations was to imply the fact that there is a lot of snooping going around into people's activities in real life and that I like the fact that I can hang out with some people online
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by fiaz 19y ago
First of all: great response!! "...a lot of alarm regarding the content on the site." The fact that people are finding "fluff" to be "alarming" is what is concerning me more because this is the attitude that leads to mob mentality very quic
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by fiaz 19y ago
I'm sorry that you think I was subscribing to some sort of conspiracy theory in listing those organizations. The point I was trying to make is that what has been termed "fluff" is now "destructive trends", and worse it was somehow suggeste
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by fiaz 19y ago
Organizations that think like this: DHS FBI CIA DOD KGB Thought Police Please don't add YC.News to this list. It's one of the few places I enjoy on the net at the moment (and of those few, this is my favorite). I don't like the notion of
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by fiaz 19y ago
I have the following question for those that are advocating a tech/statistical/mathematical solution: How many of you are individuals who are in the process of creating a startup in the hopes of getting YC funding? The reason why I'm askin
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by fiaz 19y ago
NO. The question should be restated: Can Popularo become a better community than Digg? Digg is a community, not a technology solution. These two are different things completely. Popularo is trying to build a community, not a competitive
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by fiaz 19y ago
What is your argument then? I'm afraid that you are not communicating across your argument effectively...I thought the article above was a pretty good refutation of the post to which I replied. It is an amazing story isn't it?
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by fiaz 19y ago
News.YC is a community. Our individual behaviour taken as a collective is what constitutes the dynamics that emerge. There are benefits to both maintaining an organic element of letting the community choose for themselves and to having so
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by fiaz 19y ago
Sounds counter productive.... If I want to move forward and make progress, I should look back and think about the past. Perhaps the conditions of the past are no longer relevant to the conditions of the present. Furthermore, I would think
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by fiaz 19y ago
h34t, Please read the second paragraph in this article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1604891,00.... How different would the developed world be if he didn't persist in creating his own "Gubmarine" and listened to his co
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by fiaz 19y ago
APOLOGIES for making this post so annoyingly long, but I really hope you find value in the words below. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm going to first share a personal experience from my early tra
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by fiaz 19y ago
FWIW, a friend of mine recently showed me his Streamy account. Big apologies to the people of Streamy!
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Dean Kamen tests revolutionary prosthetics that closely resemble human motion(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Manager of The Kaiser Chiefs predicts major changes in music industry's attitudes(telegraph.co.uk)
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Bill Gates' vision of digital utopianism is no match for China's realities(arstechnica.com)
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by fiaz 19y ago
Yes good point, you are correct. I poorly worded that comment; thanks for making the distinction.
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DVD Jon's startup "doubleTwist" is releasing a service that makes it easy for consumers to share iTunes content(reuters.com)
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Economic confidence plummets in the UK according to poll(guardian.co.uk)
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by fiaz 19y ago
This thread is two days old, but I wanted to put some content in relation to the behaviour of "trolling" to my comment above. I would add being quick to judge as yet another dynamic that adds little value and can cause positive dynamics to
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by fiaz 19y ago
Damn, I wish I wasn't so skeptical in my earlier postings on this thread. The "tools" page link above seemed too good to be true; but it turned out to be true, so does this mean it is that good? I hope so... I have been playing with Peaco
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by fiaz 19y ago
I should probably do some due research/diligence before attacking: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/13/aviarys-incredibly-ambi... Apologies as well to the entire YC.News crowd for the trolling above...it's easy to be skeptical, and I mad
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by fiaz 19y ago
I have received your invite and I have logged in, and I DO owe you and your entire team a great big apology. It shows a great deal of integrity on your behalf that you took the time to register here and respond publicly. I really look forw
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by fiaz 19y ago
Interesting....I've been waiting for my invitation to "hatch" for sometime now. By all means, I hope somebody proves me wrong and I really do hope there is something to Aviary. But for some reason, their promiscuity in showing all of thei
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by fiaz 19y ago
That's the most insidious part: it is subtle. We cannot definitively say one thing or another, which is why I'm asking ANYBODY from a.viary.com to show the YC.News community something substantial. For example: send an invite to somebody of
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by fiaz 19y ago
I call vaporware. Another example of a concept site with impressive demos is streamy.com. I wouldn't be surprised if these were "honey pots" of sorts to collect email addresses of specific demographics (in this case it seems to be differe
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by fiaz 19y ago
Wow, this is awesome! Each time I had this issue of jumping spaces instead of the window I want within the app, I would spend about 5 seconds (which can seem an eternity) fixing things so it was just right, while at the same time telling m
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by fiaz 19y ago
I might get laughed at here, but here goes.... 1) Find out what she already does with her spare time. Her hobbies and interests in particular. 2) See in what areas she wants to grow. One thing older people tend to do is become set in thei

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