[HN Gopher] Shaquille Zuckerberg
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Shaquille Zuckerberg
Author : toricalea
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-05-14 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| SnowHill9902 wrote:
| Height is just much more obvious than intelligence. In fact, very
| intelligent and socially-able people will be coy about their own
| intelligence.
| saeranv wrote:
| The argument actually understates the work Shaq put into becoming
| an elite player. Shaq's physical gifts obviously give him a huge
| advantage, but there are plenty of 7-footers in the NBA that
| don't do as well as him. Shaq learned actual skills (shot-making,
| agility, footwork) that other big men tend to ignore because they
| can get by on their size.
| llaolleh wrote:
| He learned everything except for shooting free throws. Xd.
| schroeding wrote:
| Completely OT, but what does this website do? I tried to find out
| in the last 15 minutes and got more and more confused. Why are
| there only GAN-faces? Doesn't that clash with the subheader
| "Accountable Posts"? Or is this satire?
|
| What music is being played to get tokens[1]? And what tokens,
| like blockchain-tokens? Or is it a internal server-side currency?
| Why is the music reversed? Why this weird combination of a music-
| listening website with "public soap box"?
|
| What does "proof of music"[2] mean? Especially this part:
|
| > With this token, you can vote for laws, elect politicians,
| change personalities, swap images, mate people, chat, stake, buy
| stuff and more. The world is constantly expanding.
|
| ... "mate" people? Like... "mating"? Does that also have another
| meaning I'm not aware of, like "become best friends"? And "change
| personalities"? What does that mean?
|
| I'm very confused. No offense please, but is this satire or maybe
| an art project? ^^
|
| [1] https://celody.com/ Site is linked in the footer of
| stakedy.com
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| [2] https://celody.com/about.html
| ALittleLight wrote:
| I've also been looking at this website. Their "About"
| article[1] describes an interesting idea for a forum.
|
| As I understand it - You earn tokens by listening to music on
| Celody. You can then create posts and when you do you stake
| some of your tokens. Other users can up or down vote your post
| by staking their own tokens. The amount of tokens staked up or
| down, and some kind of algorithm, determine whether the tokens
| you staked are returned to you or forfeit.
|
| The idea is that if your argument convinces people you should
| be rewarded and if not, well, not. Perhaps if this runs for a
| while you will find that people with a lot of tokens tend to be
| persuasive or insightful or maybe just uncontroversial. Their
| "About" page specifically says that controversial views will be
| "slashed" (i.e. have their stakes taken).
|
| 1 - https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html
| ozarker wrote:
| If I understand that correctly it sounds like a recipe for
| echo chambers even worse than Reddit
| credit_guy wrote:
| I don't buy it. In fact, I think almost the opposite is true:
| given a fresh start and Zuckerberg is as likely to become a
| billionaire as O'Neil is to become a top NBA player.
|
| The thing is, O'Neil was good at one thing and one thing only.
| And not just good, but freakishly good.
|
| But Zuckerberg went from a little php script written in his dorm
| room to the founder and CEO of one of the 5 letters in FAANG. He
| had to face thousands of different challenges along the way. He
| had to learn quickly and solve the problem and move on. What
| Zuckerberg has and others don't is this ability to learn quickly
| and solve a completely new problem. Lots of these problems were
| technical, but lots were human interactions, legal ramifications,
| accounting and governance issues, PR, content moderation, you
| name it.
|
| I personally don't have, or plan to have a Facebook account. But
| you have to give the man what's his: he is a very tough nut. In
| any parallel life, he would do more than well.
| rufus_foreman wrote:
| There are a very small number of young men who are over 7 foot
| tall. And a surprisingly, almost astonishingly high percentage
| of those men end up playing in the NBA.
|
| What tiny, like 0.07 percent tiny, percentage of people would
| you put Zuckerberg in where you would say of course he ended up
| where he did?
| arinlen wrote:
| > _I don 't buy it. In fact, I think almost the opposite is
| true: given a fresh start and Zuckerberg is as likely to become
| a billionaire as O'Neil is to become a top NBA player._
|
| I'd add that NBA players are renowned for being prone to going
| broke after their pro stint. Wikipedia points to a source
| stating that an estimated 60% of NBA players are bankrupt
| within 5 years of retirement.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finances_of_professio...
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| Shaq managed to not only not go bankrupt but also significantly
| grow his NBA wealth.
| TheDudeMan wrote:
| Based on title, I was hoping for an image morph of the two.
| instance wrote:
| Yea, that title is quite something. I thought this was some
| long lost brother or sister of Mark that has now appeared.
| Ecco wrote:
| I read this as a way to remind successful entrepreneurs that luck
| was a significant factor of their success.
|
| It would be interesting to know what fraction of them genuinely
| believe it's the case.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| This never mentions the fact that Karen Kempner (the mother of
| Mark Zuckerberg) is a psychiatrist. In my opinion, an exceptional
| understanding of the human psyche is a necessary condition for
| becoming successful with a social product like Facebook.
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