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ethbr1today at 10:14 AM2 repliesview on HN

We're already post dead info.

The only solution is to find recipe books that were printed in previous decades.

Which is ironic, given that Google's entire value proposition (to users) was extracting signal from noise...

... and now it's come full A/B-advertising-optimization to being useless at that, when the need is greater than ever.

Imho, Google's greatest failing was missing how its own incentives warped creation of new web content, and failing to account for that strategically -- it turned the web into something it can't itself usefully parse.


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taudetoday at 1:01 PM

What kind of insanity are you all talking about? Plenty of cook book authors out there with good recipes, tested, big-personal brand, etc. no need to go to prior decades for good books.

bsenftnertoday at 12:20 PM

We have a distinct poverty when it comes to secondary considerations and long term ramifications - which used to be manageable when progress was slower. Now, we're on a very steep acceleration/progress curve, and any shortsighted mistakes cause extremely large ramifications. Which are then compounded by both more short sighted non-fixes and our rapid acceleration/progress curve layering in additional confusion, misunderstandings, omissions of critical information.