InternetUser

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by InternetUser 8y ago
There's long been a saying that "Once it's out there (on the Internet), it's forever," but I used to save links in a Microsoft Word document, and I went through them a few years later and almost none of them worked
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by InternetUser 8y ago
Backup copy: http://archive.is/wKjbx
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Wall Street Erases the Line Between Its Jocks and Nerds(wsj.com)
2 points by InternetUser 8y ago|1 comments
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by InternetUser 8y ago
Take my own changing habits, for example: over a span of 15 years, I "migrated" from MySpace to Tumblr to Reddit and a few news websites. I have only ever used Facebook except to promote a website. I think tens of millions of peop
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by InternetUser 8y ago
YouTube, launched in early 2005, actually instated the 10-minute limit in 2007 or 2008; I remember watching plenty of full TV shows in the first couple of years, and I remember that one of the most popular and constantly recommended were ep
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by InternetUser 8y ago
> [YouTube is] incentivised to make what they're looking for as difficult to find as possible so that they'll spend hours and hours binging vacuous addictive content looking for something but never quite finding it and getting
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by InternetUser 8y ago
Why don't you just do what I do: when you buy something in-person with cash and there's change, count the paper money and then just hastily count out the change, knowingly giving more then the exact cent amount, and say "Keep
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by InternetUser 8y ago
> tons of weight and bulk What is your height and weight?
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by InternetUser 8y ago
> At one point in my life, a long time ago, things could be purchased for a penny. What were 3 or 4 such things?
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by InternetUser 8y ago
> /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. I know it feels good to just breezily generalize, but I just looked through the 2 subreddits you named, and of the
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by InternetUser 9y ago
How many people, let's say specifically 18-29-year-old in America, keep up on national and/or world news every day? Consider that just about 100M of 236M eligible voters did NOT bother to vote [0][1]; that is 42% of the eligible e
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by InternetUser 9y ago
If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures--and it's not like the posters use their first and last name as their username or anywhere in their post--so hopefully that'll keep
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by InternetUser 9y ago
I suppose it all depends on how much user attrition you would say constitutes a "mass exodus." How many millions of former users would that be? Or what percentage from what high-point? By these following reports, there's been
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by InternetUser 9y ago
Excellent post.
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by InternetUser 9y ago
For the like pixel art, click here and scroll way down: http://noirlac.tumblr.com/archive
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by InternetUser 9y ago
This was the major revelation that hundreds of millions of people made when the Snowden stuff was released years ago. Not to imply that the "FAANGs" are pure-minded and fair entities, but you are already required to be identified,
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by InternetUser 9y ago
Excellent, excellent points. What country are you from, if I may ask? Also, I'd rewrite your opening rhetorical question for clarity: Was TV, as a homogenizing force that entertained and dumbed people down to what big-money publishers
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by InternetUser 9y ago
It's not about the content matter itself, it's about the activity: staring silently and passively at a screen for many hours every day, and the fundamental difference that Facebook makes people feel they are carrying on relationsh
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by InternetUser 9y ago
What are 2 or 3 of the "4channish/the_donaldish" media outlets you are referring to, other than 4chan and The_Donald?
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NYT coverage of the crypto-crime revolution and the fentanyl overdose revolution
1 points by InternetUser 9y ago|0 comments
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by InternetUser 9y ago
> Web searches are a pretty low-frequency, low-importance action for me. Web searches are a very high-frequency, high-importance action for me--I do dozens of searches every day--and Google Search, whether for text, images, videos, or ph
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by InternetUser 9y ago
> news that nearly noone disagrees with Well, in a country where 30 states voted for Trump, 20 states voted for Hillary, and 100 million people chose not to vote (and that's 42% of the eligible electorate[0]), who shall be arbiter o
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by InternetUser 9y ago
Here's my theory, and I think it's quite obvious: Zuckerberg, as someone with a reported $74B in net worth[0], is actually a Republican, and strongly supports Trump and is pushing for his reelection. All the apologizes and damage
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by InternetUser 9y ago
Here are the "peers" that I have reviewing what I hear from politicians: the salary on my paycheck, the tax figures on that paycheck, and the prices at the gas station and supermarket. I don't need to pore over news editorial
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by InternetUser 9y ago
> education won't fix echo chambers. No fewer than 6 of the coveted "swing states" switched from blue to red[0], and many counties across the country flipped as well. What persuaded hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
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by InternetUser 9y ago
That first video is awesome, thank you! As for the second type of postmodern-art-hater you quote, do you ever think that someone can be making a valid point about the valuelessness and meaninglessness of someone's creations that have b
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by InternetUser 9y ago
Would you have said the same if his comment was "It's a wonder he's still struggling, his art is very good."
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by InternetUser 9y ago
> For example, how many people did this guy influence The fantastic site WikiArt includes influences, as seen here: https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustav-klimt
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by InternetUser 9y ago
"cake," you say? https://www.google.com/search?q=Van+Gogh+cake&rlz=1C1CHMO_en...
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by InternetUser 9y ago
As a corollary, is there no such thing as 'art'? Are you someone who would you say "anything can be art"?

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