Re:Solve your first world problems
by Rinum on Thursday December 27, 2012 @11:26PM
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He definitely got the joke. The point is that you could apply this to anything. Most of what we have now went through some kind of value-add process. Isn't that how evolution works? That smallest "value-add" could make room for bigger change later.
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You're not seriously comparing the usefulness of automobiles to Instagram, are you?
I am not. It's more like comparing the second iteration of the windshield wiper to Instagram.
Gilette Razor. NOW WITH SIX BLADES.
The Gilette Singularity
The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the
real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to
get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you’d need
godlike super-technology to do that.
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