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A perfect testament to all that’s lost, yet cannot be measured, when small, local institutions are replaced by online oligarchs. Amazon has/had its benefits. F
by shaki-dora 8y ago
A perfect testament to all that’s lost, yet cannot be measured, when small, local institutions are replaced by online oligarchs.
Amazon has/had its benefits. For me, it opened the world of English-language books my local bookstore had trouble procuring. But who knows if I had ever developed the wish to read foreign-language books without that bookstore, now gone, that did readings for kids every Saturday afternoon?
- coldtea 8y ago>A perfect testament to all that’s lost, yet cannot be measured, when small, local institutions are replaced by online oligarchs If it can't be measured, most of HN types wont acknowledge it exists.
- dorchadas 8y agoComments like this always bring me back to one article that fundamentally changed how I see HN. The title of the article was 'The World isn't an Engineering Problem', and the top comment was 'the hell it isn't', with everyone else saying we just had to quantify everything... Not everything can be measured, or measured objectively, and that comment (and others like it) really shifted my view of this place and the people who frequent it. Not in a bad way, as I'm still here and finding good discussions, it just made me a bit more aware