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Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/F
by BrandonSmith 11y ago
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaking an effort to change content creation and consumption, to make their own platform less like the rest of the Web for their own gain.
- digbyloftus 11y agoLet's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaking an effort to change content creation and consumption, to make their own platform less like the rest of the Web for their own gain.
- rpgmaker 11y agoI think the joke got lost on the HN crowd. +1
- tyre 11y agoFor those who got lost, this is a play on US Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio at the last debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OZ8xHTX7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OZ8xHTX7c
- fwn 11y agoI thought the joke is that we behave like if we were on Reddit - except we aren't.
- mercer 11y agoI'm sorry to be a bit negative, but is there any way we can keep these things on Reddit? It's not that I don't enjoy it; my late-night Reddit session was all the more enjoyable yesterday because of Rubio and what came from that. But I specifically like Hacker News because it generally avoids or downvotes this kind of stuff. I just don't see how making HN more like Reddit is good for anyone :-/.
- Kluny 11y agoYeah, I'm with you. This stuff is fun on reddit, but this isn't reddit.
- mercer 11y agoIndeed. I'm actually completely serious about enjoying this stuff immensely on Reddit. It feels like a guilty pleasure at this stage of my life, but after six years and a while before that on Digg, Reddit at this point is part of my (internet) life, my identity even. I just have this other identity that is HN, and my fear, however unfounded it may be, is that the two will intermingle too much and that I'll have to find yet another new place. And I'm already starting to feel to old for such a move...
- benaiah 11y agoMost probably got the joke, but that doesn't necessarily mean most thought the joke was helpful to the conversation.
- danieldk 11y agoMost of us on the other side of the pond probably didn't get the joke (I didn't). And frankly, it's annoying. I like HN especially because it has insightful comments and not a lot of nonsense, memes and whatnot. Let's keep it that way :).
- lqdc13 11y agoLet's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaking an effort to change content creation and consumption, to make their own platform less like the rest of the Web for their own gain.
- jerf 11y agoHaving seen this now several times, I find myself wondering if people are aware that it should either be "dispense with once and for all the fiction that..." or "dispel the fiction once and for all that...". To "dispel with" is to use a thing to dispel, such as "Let us dispel the fiction that the sky is green with this spectrograph result." (although that is still so klunky I'd never say that).
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- plorg 11y agoThe phrase is a meme that comes from an actual (repeated) quote. In the context of that original quote there have been plenty of people who have commented on its grammatical errancy, but in the context of the meme it perhaps would make less sense if you fixed it.