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Tag Archives: communities
Delusions of Grandeur
Wikipedia.org has two articles that seem somewhat related — one is about “delusions of grandeur”, the other is about “grandiosity”. From the latter: A distinction is made between individuals exhibiting grandiosity, which includes a degree of insight into their unrealistic … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, communal, communities, community, culture, cultures, group, groups, life, personal, psychological, psychology, share, shared, sharing, societies, society, sociological, sociology, succeed, success
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Names vs. Words: Strings for Identity vs. Strings for Information
There is a long-standing tradition of distinguishing names from words — although it is not formally codified (even language itself is not “set in stone”, but rather is undergoing constant evolution — much like a living being), it can be … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged communities, community, describe, description, descriptive, domain, domain name, domain names, domains, evolution, evolve, information retrieval, language, name, names, natural, nature, search, specification, specifications, specify, technology, Wisdom of the Language, word, words
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Your Money or Your Life
Oftentimes, when I tell people that I don’t vote for (or against) politicians or political parties, they act as though this meant I weren’t a “free person”… or as if I were giving up some of my democratic freedoms. Quite … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged binary, choice, choices, choose, communities, community, decide, decision, decisions, democracy, express, expression, expressions, free, freedom, opinion, opinions, organization, organizations, political, politics, ultimatum, voice
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Kant’s Big Mistake?
In my previous post I referred to Kant’s “Categorical Imperative”. Here, let me entertain the following suggestion: That Kant made a big mistake. Kant wrote a lot. If he was consistent in his thinking, that would mean that he wanted … Continue reading →
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Tagged big data, Categorical Imperative, collaboration, collabortive, communities, community, cooperation, cooperative, development, dystopia, dystopian, economic development, economy, employment, goal, goals, happiness, happy, Immanuel Kant, information, job, jobs, Kant, language, languages, life, literacy, literate, money, online communities, online community, purpose, retard media, utopia, utopian, web development
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Are You Wasting Your Time?
I think the vast majority of people use the Internet to waste time (they might, for example, visit websites like bored.com … that is, if they aren’t “hanging out” / “killing time” on facebook.com). The often play games, chat with … Continue reading →
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