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Maybe it's not a bad thing to let social media die. Everyone already knows how damaging they are. If people stop using social media, it won't matter what stat

Maybe it's not a bad thing to let social media die. Everyone already knows how damaging they are. If people stop using social media, it won't matter what state laws require.

mikewarot 3y ago
And suddenly ...*poof* Hacker News ... disappears
- klyrs 3y ago
  ...causing a productivity boom across the tech industry.
  - mikewarot 3y ago
    ... for about a week.... then with the disappearance of Wikipedia, YouTube, etc... people start debating canceling their internet service. ... then tech stocks crash, and the land values in California plummet to historic lows ... and a lot of former programmers find themselves doing agricultural work in the fields
    - buggy6257 3y ago
      …what are the downsides then?
      - 6510 3y ago
        you are not suppose to ask here. At least not now.
    - klyrs 3y ago
      > a lot of former programmers find themselves doing agricultural work in the fields Boom, productivity.
    - tekla 3y ago
      Nirvana
  - 6510 3y ago
    Hardware demand outstrips supply as everything grinds down to a halt, buttons that use to respond in 0 seconds get multiple progress bars with accurate percentages calculated by machine learning reporting partialEventProgressStatus back to their respective motherships in real time. Then we finally crack the code and perfect eyeballs on ads and talk about nothing but tokens per conversion.
Finnucane 3y ago
That's no excuse to allow bad laws to stand unchallenged.
- avmich 3y ago
  How would you challenge bad laws if the Supreme Court doesn't care about issuing contradicting rulings?