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by dictum 10y ago
I looked at a list of OSS project leaders and other programmers recently and was surprised at the popularity of the hammer and sickle symbol in their bios. Upside is that I now know who not to listen to when the next tech drama pops up.
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The funny thing is that the alt right (at least from the Trump campaign onwards) is based on the idea that if you're not an extremist, you're a "cuck" . So, while it isn't a clearly defined ideology, it is a group
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by dictum 10y ago
In other words, Twitter gives the Information They Don't Want You To Know badge to a group that already thrives on such framing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961185
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> In Massts. it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men "What has been will be again, what has been done will be
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by dictum 10y ago
This is a needed debate, but as I suspected, it's a bit of an orchestrated talking point: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-facebook-fake-...
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I see — I just think that aside from barring use of their ad platform by publishers of fake news, there's not much Facebook can do that would be effective. A "verified news" (fact checked or otherwise endorsed) scheme could b
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by dictum 10y ago
> Are you now in favor of fake news just because Trump won? Pardon my tu quoque , but isn't that equivalent to "Are you now against fake news just because Clinton lost?"
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by dictum 10y ago
To be honest, considering how no one (or very few commentators, that I missed) was talking about the fake news phenomenon before, this debate does feel like a talking point being propped up.
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Google and Facebook are a bit more future-oriented than most other BigCos, perhaps because their valuations (especially for FB) take into account future growth.
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I wouldn't call it propaganda, but as a foreigner it was amusing to read the NYT front page on election day. There was no attempt at neutrality whatsoever. (The NYT has no obligation to be neutral and I'm not complaining about the
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by dictum 10y ago
Who isn't? * * * This election and its aftermath have been an amazing opportunity for Americans of all leanings to be in denial.
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> Using Twilio to get around the verification may be obvious if you are a HN reader, but most people have no idea what Twilio is 4chan isn't a bunch of computer illiterate folks, either.
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> Really makes me wonder what npm install is doing Pattern matching. For every dependency listed in package.json , npm install downloads and tests every JSON payload publicly available on the Internet until it finds one that produces th
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by dictum 10y ago
Interesting point — it seems that right-wing misinfo is usually of the reactionary outrage kind (e.g. group X is doing this, this is outrageous, that's why we need [some variation of a return to morality]) while left-wing misinfo is
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by dictum 10y ago
There's an even bigger incentive to control the narrative (political, cultural, economic etc.) which could greatly benefit an enterprise in the long term. Running ads for shady publications improves your quarterly results, but in the l
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I wonder if that's part of Peter Thiel's plans.
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"Sam Biddle wrote an article [on] the clickbait phenomenon" Well, leave it to the experts.
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by dictum 10y ago
Ah, memories. http://blueprintcss.org/
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Thought experiment: who/what is the 2016 equivalent of circa-2013 Peter Thiel considering a candidate to endorse in the next election ?
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It is a good a idea to reduce the damage surface now. Conversely, that damage surface would be significantly smaller, and less of it would remain now that it can only be shut down in haste, had it been reduced back when the administration i
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It's the downvoting your comment because I disagree with an opinion you don't hold, but recognize as being held by some people of media commentary.
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> Who defines what groups are a "hate group?" From what I've observed, every publication has the Southern Poverty Law Center as the arbiter — and then you end up with things like this http://www.theexmuslim.com&
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by dictum 10y ago
10h uptime here and Activity Monitor is reporting 28.7GB written.
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A tech industry conversation (2015)(joreteg.com)
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I doubt their watermarking can survive the analog hole and multiple reencodes.
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I'm more aggrieved by the marketing (from day one) being a variation of "techies too busy to cook for themselves" It's not even a suggestion to drink it once in a while, when you're indeed unable to eat something el
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Enteric disruption is a growth market.
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I can't speak for top HN authors, but that recent post about Pornhub bypassing ad blockers with websockets had me intrigued. So many comments were fawning over the porn industry — how fun it is to be a developer of porn sites and how i
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I'm younger than the OP (going by the modem speed etc) but I've been experiencing the same apathy for a while (coupled with similar feelings about visual/interactive design), but I'm slightly more comfortable with it no
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> you must must must find a place in the internet world that you can stay at That's why it's no longer fun. It's no longer a choice, an improvement over some baseline. It's an obligation.

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