Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already

Re:Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already by im2nguyen on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:12PM (#15829014)

If the value is in "search engine that uses the PageRank algorithm", then theoretically you can take that idea and execute it to get the same value.

The difference isn't in the idea but the execution - hence the value.

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Re:Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already by brucephillips on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:15PM (#15829035)

I'm sorry, I don't follow.

EDIT: Oh I see what you mean now. By "you", you actually mean me. No, I couldn't, because Google has parlayed their initial good idea into a monopoly based on network effects, specifically the accrual of proprietary data (clicks) which I have no access to.

The idea was valuable in 1997. It's no longer.

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Re:Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already by im2nguyen on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:24PM (#15829088)

If the value is in the idea, then multiple execution of the same idea should result in the same/similar values. But... this isn't true irl, therefore the differences in value isn't in the idea but the execution

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Re:Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already by brucephillips on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:27PM (#15829108)

Your error is in concluding that because execution matters, ideas don't matter. But that's erroneous. Both matter.

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