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• A comment on Talk: Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

  Dec 15 2011: Incredible. Very creative. A look into what creativity in the digital age looks like. The brilliance is the minute and seemingly insignificant interaction with the web where on a collaborative basis such scale of economy can be achieved. Inspired.
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the importance of building transparency in news media, and what would like to see? Any risks?

  Oct 28 2011: I think there is a slight clue in the wikileaks episode. We have activists across different fields who I am sure would be delighted to peruse through data and report out any inconsistencies or remarkable content. Since such activist groups are open to anyone for membership it is quite difficult to influence and corrupt them. It's the opensourcing of news. The web is the platform for something like this. A change in the regulations would go a long way.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the importance of building transparency in news media, and what would like to see? Any risks?

  Oct 28 2011: In addition to edited cintent and processed information, news media
  Should make the raw data and footage available to those interested on some platform.

• A comment on Conversation: What is the importance of building transparency in news media, and what would like to see? Any risks?

  Oct 28 2011: In addition to the edited and processed news and information content on news I think news media
  Should make their entire source data avalable on some
  Accessible platform. People who want to examine the raw data
  Should be able to do so.

• A reply on Conversation: Money doesn't exist, not really.

  Oct 28 2011: think we said the same thing.

• A comment on Conversation: Money doesn't exist, not really.

  Oct 28 2011: The base premise is quite accurate. I worked in banking and quit it after refusing promotions etc. I tried working for a large American bank and then moved to a smaller European one. But the basic structure and the mechanism of financial markets is so grossly corrupted that its near impossible to find any meaningful purpose to working in a bank. Not only that, the lifestyle of bankers themselves can be very correctly described as unhealthy. No question that they have failed in their basic deliverable which is to deploy resources where available to where most efficiently used. banking no longer does that and bleeds money to the economy. Raising the tax to 90%, i am not sure about, I do think its fine to reward someone for adding genuine value and for everyone to have whatever motivates them to excel. I don't see why an apple or google, or someone else should not be able to make any sum of money if they produce genuine value. Carrot is important.

• A reply on Conversation: Do you value nationalism? Why? Will national identity get diluted in the future?

  Oct 28 2011: Hi, I agree that nationalistic feelings are deeply engrained in us. Is my identity however closer to say doctors if i am a doctor, are my interests better expressed by other aspects of my identity. If I am an activist speaking out against my governments policies, my interests may be better aligned with other activists more than my own contrymen/women.
  
  Also, there is the danger of stereo-typing a person because of their nationality. Which can be quite inhibiting to the individual. If their true personality is very different from what the stereotype associated with their nationality.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you value nationalism? Why? Will national identity get diluted in the future?

  Oct 20 2011: I wonder if anyone else thinks nationalism is deeply engrained in geography. hard to conceive of a nation that is composed of territories spread over vast distances. Even during the clonal era, the colonisers never really perceived their colonies as another part of their own country, definitely not the population they had colonised.

• A reply on Conversation: Do you value nationalism? Why? Will national identity get diluted in the future?

  Oct 20 2011: interesting. secularism is a more open form of identity, but nationalism is something else neither entirely composed of religion or even race. thanks

• A comment on Conversation: Is the exploration of history worthwhile without practical applications?

  Oct 18 2011: To the first part of the question: Is history valuable in itself? Study of history is the study of evolution, a lot of what we do today has its seed in history. Including our architecture, art, science, religion etc. History can be seen as an extension of your experience lived or otherwise. if someone burnt their hand on a hot plate, we know from that persons history that it was a bad experience. Also if you extend history far enough it becomes evolutionary science and the big bang. Also a lot of people might just enjoy studying history.
  
  Second part of the question, should we concentrate on problem solving? well there's enough of us in the world to be doing all sorts of things. one doesn't preclude the other. in terms of degrees, i would personally look at problem solving first and see whatever we need to study to solve problems, if its the future so be it, but i think a lot of the time, it will involve studying the past.