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by hussong 19y ago
Excellent article, though the headline looked a bit flamebaity at first. The author's main point: the growth of a network's value can be better approximated by n log(n) than by Metcalfe's n²-n. Looking at online communities and social netwo
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by hussong 19y ago
double post, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157705
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by hussong 19y ago
I share your love of typography. At some point, we might even see more aural typography (sound fonts) in screen readers. Imagine the difference between a text read out loud by Christopher Walken vs. Audrey Hepburn...
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by hussong 19y ago
The original article contains a few more arguments: http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/28/communications-wh... The comments at slashdot point out the underlying economic trade-off: cost of reliability vs. cost of downtime.
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by hussong 19y ago
They do, but only if they are commoditized. Once you get a sufficient amount of differentiation, you can (and should) "price information according to its value, not its cost".
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by hussong 19y ago
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese :-)
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by hussong 19y ago
I think people disagree mainly for two reasons: 1. rational objection 2. bad feelings For rational objection we have a great system (logic) in place to work it out and come to a conclusion. This can be very hard and take a lot of time,
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by hussong 19y ago
I think there's more from Schopenhauer than just a list of methods. In his Eristic Dialectic, he described a system of stratagems, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristische_Dialektik (unfortunately, this hasn't been translated to englis
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by hussong 19y ago
It was also a wise person who said: "Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Seasoned trolling pros are usually very good at this. I think it helps a lot to look at their underlying motiv