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a blog about information
Personal blog · confusedofcalcutta.comwebculture
a blog about information is a personal blog at confusedofcalcutta.com about web and culture. Since 2008, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Why Platforms Leak: The Impact of Artificial Scarcity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2007 post on predicting the future, quoted in a thread via a commenter's point about a software version of Moore's Law. The comments don't judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
a blog about information
Most-linked posts?
- Why Platforms Leak: The Impact of Artificial Scarcity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-21
- The best way to predict the future is to prevent it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-05
What Hacker News says?
Well, there's obviously that but since we built this on your FB graph, you'd be delivering stuff from either friends or friends of friends at worst. I feel Walmart is doing this and worse by asking neighbors to deliver your stuff. In fact, I often carry stuff for my compatriot coworkers and friends to/from the home country. This was just a more regularized and systematized version of that. All said and done, you're…
Comment linking /2009/12/02/hauling-bits-around/
on “Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?”Submitted The best way to predict the future is to prevent it as a story · 72 points
HN discussionMaybe it's not quite so bad; here's the beginning of one of the more interesting comments ( http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/03/the-best-way-to-pre... ): " Dave Brown says "JP, If you take the long view I’d argue that there is an equivalent to Moore’s Law in software. This law is that each year it becomes slightly easier to create a service that does something for a customer.... "
Comment linking /2007/11/03/the-best-way-to-predict-the-future-is-to-prevent-it/
on “The best way to predict the future is to prevent it”Submitted On pasta and music and copyright as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best way to predict the future is to prevent it as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Platforms Leak: The Impact of Artificial Scarcity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Download? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walls and bridges: even more on Facebookisation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Permission espionage and peer-to-peer spying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Maker Generation in the Enterprise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musing about artificial scarcities and abundances as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there a Gresham's Law for information? (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuing with the Internet of everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On habanero dosas, platforms and makers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're all living in a village as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An unGoogleable question? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it's over as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reconstructing my (JP Rangaswami's) Grandfather as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Platforms Leak: The Impact of Artificial Scarcity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new new telco – confused of calcutta as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook - The new new telco as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musing about 2011 and an un-national generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does the web make experts dumb? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2010: The Year of Platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musing about downloads in the UK as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is being “connected” becoming a “sense”? as a story · 1 points
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