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title: I bought a book
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date: 2012-12-22 15:20:47
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tags: [books]
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category: books
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I bought a book I didn't read before. On the Internet. Paying person I
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don't personally know, basing on his reputation only. Believing he would
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send me a paper copy of his words from the remote land I've never even
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visited. On the other hand he trusted me to write this review and gave
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me the discount for the very fact. And yet everything worked out pretty
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well. I transferred the money, got the book, read it and I'm writing the
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promised review right now. How is that possible ? How does people trust
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each other in this "trust no one" place of the 'nets ? [Liars and
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Outliers](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118143302/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1118143302&linkCode=as2&tag=cyplonet-20)
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tries to answer that questions. Is this a good read, breathtaking one ?
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No, I sometimes struggled to get through. Does it need to be so
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intriguing though ? Also no. It is a solid collection of examples on how
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does the trust work in our societies and where it did all come from. It
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tries to categorize the situations in which trusting is needed and
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provides a look into how such can be exploited by some. If you are even
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somewhat interested in the cogs moving the society, this book might turn
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some of your implicit, intuitive knowledge into explicit one.
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