Sociology

Human nature Many cultures around the world, if not every culture, perceives obedience as an attribute of human behavior. This is due to several origins. Whether societal or upbringing-related, people have made sure over centuries that the concept of obedience is seen as something positive, and most of the time…

TL;DR: jacob’s concept of Hyperstructure not only applies to the blockchain, and there are many human ideas that are hyperstructure that has shaped human history. Blockchain itself can enforce these hyperstructures more clearly and quickly such that peer-to-peer trust is maximized when value is exchanged. In the article Hyperstructure, jacob…

Understanding Scrat, the running gag of the Ice Age media franchise who went on to become the mascot of the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios, can either be incredibly easy or incredibly difficult. Since the first Ice Age movie in 2002, Scrat never had any complex relationship with any of the…

Whilst I am sure it was not creator Andrey Ternovskiy’s intention to create a platform full of men furiously masturbating at their webcams in the hope of impressing some exotic match, back in the 2010’s that’s exactly how the platform was used. As bored teenagers, the cheapest laughs my friends…

Superfluous preamble Words can refer to entities or relationships. Different kinds of words typically refer to either of them. Thus, nouns typically refer to entities (including people, objects and ideas) while verbs, adjectives and prepositions tend to refer to relationships. This correspondence, however, is not perfect. For instance, nominals derived…