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leovan

Re:Reddit on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @07:17PM (#8398435)
great insight wrapped in ad hominem douchery

loop

Re:The downfall of Quora (2013) on Sunday September 28, 2014 @01:43PM (#8380360)
a meritocracy is a resource allocation system and functionally equivalent to an economy for considering your proposition that reputation based systems lead to bad allocations; i'm questioning that proposition.
Re:The downfall of Quora (2013) on Sunday September 28, 2014 @12:38PM (#8380162)
this is an intriguing criticism but assumes a corrupted reputation economy. wouldn't a perfect meritocracy be a reputation based economy?
Re:San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:25PM (#8365063)
you are right and judging from the regressive and reactionary fears this project is generating from the "professionals" the man is onto something.

good luck doc, you have everything it takes to start moving history in the right direction, right now.