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Confused of Calcutta
confusedofcalcutta.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Confused of Calcutta is a personal blog on technology platforms, Facebook, telcos, copyright, and artificial scarcity.
What HN saysHN links it for essays on platforms and Facebook's role, and commenters quote the discussion under its post on predicting the future.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The best way to predict the future is to prevent it3 people · 78 points · first shared 2010 · 24 comments on HN
- 2Why Platforms Leak: The Impact of Artificial Scarcity2 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Facebook - The new new telco2 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 4On pasta and music and copyright1 people · 28 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
- 5The Death of the Download?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 6Walls and bridges: even more on Facebookisation1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Musing about artificial scarcities and abundances1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8Permission espionage and peer-to-peer spying1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9The Maker Generation in the Enterprise1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Reconstructing my (JP Rangaswami's) Grandfather1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11We're all living in a village1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 122010: The Year of Platforms1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Why it's over1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Continuing with the Internet of everything1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Is there a Gresham's Law for information? (2006)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
saimiam · 2017-07-08
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 right - even my cofounder and I felt a little uncomfortable being mules for others even if the item being sent was totally innocent.
The one and only delivery we made successfully was from Toronto to London via New York for the then CIO of British Telecom. He loved the idea so much that he covered it here http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/12/02/hauling-bits-around/ on his blog.
hga · 2010-05-05
Maybe 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-predict-the-f…
"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...."