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I'm mostly here for the technology / programming stuff, but I do appreciate the entrepreneurial factor. It seems to bias the content towards ideas that are potentially disruptive, as opposed to press releases and unfocused technophilia.


"potentially disruptive"? Please elaborate. I find that the ideas mentioned here stem from other ideas mentioned here in a mostly positive fashion.


"Disruptive" here is being used in the sense that Schumpeter called "creative destruction" the engine of capitalism.

In other words, an idea that has the potential to change the world, probably in a way that will break somebody's rice bowls (while quite likely creating some new ones).

Like what Craigslist and eBay have done to newspaper classified advertising.





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