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ethnomusicolog

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About ethnomusicolog

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social relativity theorem: At a certain speed, capital is equal to information.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #12388168

    I don't want to go into the details of this specific case. I just want to point that what you call rational is in itself a set of values someone has to suscribe to. It is a moral d…

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    Comment #10966555

    It's an open secret to management . It buy you so much from your employees (ideas, loyalty, goodwill, money, initiative,...), for so little that I am kind of puzzled so few people …

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    Comment #10630815

    I don't know but I used to have a kind of contrarian opinion on early einstein work and I just want to share it for the sake of the discussion. When I was a child and the concept o…

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    Comment #10565008

    I wanted to join but it seems you can't do it with your twitter account alone. Is there an obvious reason I am missing?

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    Comment #10525276

    one thing that has always fascinated me is how the spread of "civillisation" is often akin to some "auto-domestication" in the traits that appear in a general population.

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    Comment #9961308

    what are your thought on building a business model around that trend ?

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    Comment #9919436

    I think algolia might count soon given their last funding round.

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    Comment #9618471

    At this point matter is almost a supersition and it's exciting.

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    Comment #9181552

    I agree with you and I made a provocative comment I knew was going to be downvoted. But at least I expected some people to voice a contratrian opinion. Thank you for you straightne…

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    Comment #9181395

    YC is fast becoming a tumor on the whole startup scene.

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    Comment #8464114

    I am not trying to argue how the game is played. But take the google founder. Here is the son of a computer science academic migrant, who kind of hacked his way into corporate powe…

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    Comment #8463770

    Yes, but the demographic constituency who can play the game is expanding. It's getting easier to hack your socio-economic status.

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    Comment #8431223

    What you are saying is exactly the point of Peter Thiel. Basically he is saying that Google is a search company, with a monopoly in search, and they try to pass as a an advertising…

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    Comment #8020002

    greatest comment ever

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    Comment #7898662

    I am going to say something totally non-PC, and I apologize for that. Find a bunch of people you would consider not very bright (from your POV) and do your best to hang out with th…

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    Comment #7681123

    I am thinking about this a lot and I would love to start a discussion ! I am sending you an email.

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    Comment #7648999

    pretty useful

  18. story
    Rfs 11: kill YC

    Everything is in the title

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    Comment #7597637

    It's a neat tool ! But the pricing is a bit steep. Considering that for a bootstrapped startup the alternative is free (google and some rapportive hacking). maybe a plan with a lim…

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    Comment #7585172

    I just got the mail , exactly what I was looking for, all they need to add is the same results in the web interface and the ability to play with it. -- Is there a way to edit one's…

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    Comment #7582520

    Thanks, just signed up. I'll have to wait to see what it can do.

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    Comment #7582510

    I have tried it, but there is not enough granularity

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    Comment #7582148

    Every sunday: Product Idea: a gmail app that shows me a graph with the number of mail I sent/receive a day , by person, group,...

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    Comment #7131421

    useful project! it would be great if there where some additional parameters on the search page.

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    Comment #7011019

    There should be a place where I could shout my "love" for it. For years I have played with notes, lists, mindmapping software. Sometimes I think it was not created but "discovered"…