“We must have the same sources,” Roger said agreeably. “How much do you pay them?” “I say things to them in return. It is called having conversations, and for some it is payment enough.”
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Schlagwort: Tratsch
Contradersation.
Kuscheltratsch.
According to Dunbar’s hypothesis, then, at some point in our evolutionary history, we traded much of the intimacy of grooming for the efficiency of gossip, which was necessary to allow our ancestors to live in larger groups.
Gossiping Cats.
Many common decision problems about gossip graphs can be reduced to checks of NetKAT equivalences.
Publove.
Liaisons were supposed to be announced when they were formed and when they were dissolved. It was a way to curtail gossip and intrigue, which could so easily run rampant in a math.
Neil Stephenson: Anathem
Urbahrnheit.
"There is an urban legend that ..." is usually self-fulfilling.
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