Quora
www.quora.com
Any of you guys on it? The questions/discussions are of course of varying quality but it's a cool idea and I'm finding it rather more rewarding than eg. Yahoo answers.
Some background:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_quora/all/1
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
You ever went on Yahoo Answers? Have you no soul?
Hope is the denial of reality
Yahoo! Answers is the cure for having a brain, not having a soul. The internet in general is what cures one of having a soul.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
For now, then, the revolution in human knowledge will proceed at a decidedly modest pace. Cheever, for his part, says he doesn’t much care that there are so many gaps in the site’s coverage. He mostly wants to keep up with the traffic and maintain the Quora etiquette—everything else seems like noise. Ask D’Angelo where he hopes Quora will be when it celebrates its 10th birthday and he is anything but evasive or modest: “We’d like to get to the point,” he says, “and I think this will come in five years, not 10, when any question you pose to Quora will have been answered, and you’ll have confidence that it’s true.” But Cheever, asked the same question, teases back: “We tend to look two weeks out.” Ten years is 260 times too far to query.
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