Re:Google+ broke our trust
by compsci_mofo on Saturday June 07, 2014 @09:54AM
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Google is interesting. Choc full of academically bright people, yet collectively dumb as fuck. Shame there is not a phd for common sense or being down to Earth.
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Can you name one organization of 50,000 people that is collectively smart?
Re:Google+ broke our trust
by mnemonicsloth on Saturday June 07, 2014 @11:20AM
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Large markets are very smart.
Smart is not necessarily nice. Without nice, incremental returns to smart may be negative. Furthermore, the terminal goal of a market is to give some group exactly what it wants. Such groups are often large, and their wants are defined by how their members act -- usually when others are not looking. A market does not care what anyone says they want.
It's a wonder the damn things aren't banned.
Re:Google+ broke our trust
by pessimizer on Saturday June 07, 2014 @11:33AM
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I liked the original wording better. This is yet another failure of Congress, not google.
Sorry for posting libertarian downvote-bait.
I'm having trouble understanding the first part of your comment. For the latter I don't understand what you mean by 'smart'. Without some forms of regulation, people would blissfully poison themselves with dangerous foods (for example).