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Twitter API Rules →
We’re in the age when what people says to the public on the internet should be authorized and verified. Similar to the rules that had emerged on non-internet media.
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If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
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It's not just a Hollywood movie →
Interesting Hollywood movie reviews with some philosophical background behind the story.
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Spontaneous order is the spontaneous emergence of order out of seeming chaos; the emergence of various kinds of social order from a combination of self-interested individuals who are not intentionally trying to create order. The evolution of life on Earth, language, and a free market economy have all been proposed as examples of systems which evolved through spontaneous order. Naturalists often point to the inherent “watch-like” precision of uncultivated ecosystems and to the universe itself as ultimate examples of this phenomenon.
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So you think Batman is the greatest superhero ever? Awesome. We are definitely friends. →
I remembered when some of my facebook friends (facebook is where I found out about their fandom) are so in love with the Joker in the Dark Knight.
I don’t know what’s wrong or what’s going on with their head. Probably they’re just those people who tend to follow “trends”. This may also be caused by the Heath Ledger popularity in that movie.
I still favor Batman over Joker in any given situation.
Oh I’m a huge Batfag. I have boxes of old comics, all Batman. Batman is totally the greatest superhero ever. He has the most interesting story-lines, the best villains, and he’s the epitome of what humanity can strive for. Not many people really think about that, that’s why you always hear the…
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Where’s LinkedIn in this graph?
Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph
(via ztaylor)
Drawn by Brad O’Neill for his post “Is There a Magic Zone of Narcissistic Utility?” This seems like a pretty reasonable unified field theory of social software to me. In my opinion, for example, Twitter has come to achieve a near perfect balance of the two axes, while Foursquare is going to have to shift themselves further to the right on the utility axis if they’re going to grow and have an appeal that outlasts the narcissistic appeal of their game mechanics.
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Your high IQ will kill your startup →
I think there’s a missing thing in the linked article: IQ != good grades.
Depending on the school system, those with high IQ could be great at doing few things that require their brain power. While they could be very bad at things that require more social skills, physical coordination, or maybe artistic.
If the school is designed to measure grades on multiple aspects of intelligence, this person with high IQ may not have good grades in overall. They will get bored with the mundane tasks of school, and wander around with other things outside school. This kind of people are usually very great at few things, but very bad at other things.
When they’re in college, they will face similar issue. They will only focus on courses that they felt are aligned to their way of thinking, and ignore or being lazy with the rest.
At work, they could have the potential to be bad at teamwork, because they may have less tolerance for different way of thinking. They will choose to work alone, to eliminate those “interruptions”. They could be very good as a freelancer or working in small teams, while they will perform badly under large organizations. Inflexibility is their enemy.
So, I don’t really think high IQ will kill startup. In fact, it may help a startup to innovate, if they are assigned to the right task.
But, what I agree with is, those who could get away easily with good grades at school tend to be underperforming, when they’re outside.
Very few of these underperforming people will choose engineering or any type of work that require persistence as a career. Because engineering requires hard work, and cheating doesn’t always work.
So, my conclusion is IQ != grades != performance.
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Marxism describes human culture as being subject to a dominant ruling class culture, in this sense all human culture is currently “bourgeois” culture. However, in a more precise manner, a set of shared cultural mores have been attributed internationally to the bourgeois, many having their apparent origins in the shop culture of early modern France.
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