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by sheensleeves 12y ago
Google has a secret natural monopoly, like Peter Thiel says are the goal of new companies. The secret monopoly is that they use humans as adjuncts in rating websites, not just algos. I saw this on a Quora Q&A one time. Such human input
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
Harder to count HN support for a political side, than to count people at a rally. (Sock puppets.)
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
The article: "This fact is applied to the offspring of great geniuses, who are supposed to be thinking of something else when they beget their children, and hence their descendants are often much below them in intellect." In a blo
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
Wikipedia: "Asymmetric recognition in this way is authority without responsibility, on the side of the Master, and responsibility without authority, on the side of the Slave. And Hegel's argument is that unless authority and respo
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
I'm reading _Battle for the mind: a physiology of conversion and brainwashing_ (William Sargant, 1957). His conclusion is that only the psychotic insane soldiers (very few) during the world war could escape PTSD, if the stress was sust
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
It's inescapable if they go to college. That's the only way I would have found out. There's a line on the FAFSA form.
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
The funny thing, is that to the naked human eye, being in a nebula would look like you are in a big ball of brown dust.
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
This reminds me of how CDROMs for PCs were hyped. The PC was then called a "multimedia" PC. It made me sit down and have a think on what a PC is good for. Playing video is one of those things. So what we have at this point is form
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
Scarface: "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women." Slashdot formula for startups: 1. Idea. 2. ?? 3. Profit. What I thin
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by sheensleeves 12y ago
A claim from a blogger on these issues: performance enhancing drugs in athletics widen the gap between the genetically gifted and the less so. Seems reasonable, but not intuitive.