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by effingwewt 10y ago
Anecdotal, but what here isn't now: I used to edit as well after noticing how incredibly wrong some of the less popular but obviously wrong articles were. Until one day I made some anonymous corrections with proper sources properly cit
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by effingwewt 10y ago
YARIP(Yet Another Remove It Permanently) add-on for firefox[1] and chrome does this wonderfully, it also easily lets me remove entire ad sections of websites for when I can't be bothered to block 10 ad windows individually, I can nix t
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Also, because the entire OP was ripped from Reddit right down to the title without any accreditation given.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
This is my favorite explanation of this, mind if I forward this to an old Astronomy Professor? I think he'd love this too.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
I took Journalism as an elective and fell in love. I use knowledge gained many times a day, and have much deeper insight into what I consume. I highly recommend anyone who hasn't do yourself the favor of taking a Journalism class. I fe
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Well said and well done! I think it's important to remember this could be ANY of us, given just one bad turn of events. How would we feel if programming, even new code, was totally automated overnight, how many engineers would be out o
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by effingwewt 10y ago
I feel at this point in our society the reverse proves true more often than not.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Ha! As if those things don't exist on reddit.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Every site has a hivemind of sorts, but HN really hates it being pointed out. I still roll my eyes at every source list that begins with [0].
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by effingwewt 10y ago
To be fair, based on the first paragraph you wrote, especially from a just-made throwaway, it's probably kind of hard to choke down just to get to the next par. I wrote a reply, most won't bother as it's another beaten horse.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
It's incredibly obvious you have a dog in this fight and are incredibly biased. It's well known almost every recording artist gets screwed, and that it's easier to fight fans than their bosses. Take what you've written a
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by effingwewt 10y ago
But most are clear about them, not lying. Also, let's not forget when they called themselves a bastion of free speech, where people can come to share ideas.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Then that is what needed to happen. Banks failed, therefore they should go away and be replaced with something else. It literally is that simple. By bailing them out we shifted away from capitalism. Which may not be bad, but let's call
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by effingwewt 10y ago
For the record, anything can be "evidence". Eyewitness, secondhand etc are all circumstantial anway. Ufology could easily be considered akin to bigfootology.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
You're being downvoted, but I heartily agree. I would have no trouble paying only for the "good" content, things I will like or know I want or feel a need to read. I really think some form of microtransactions are the way to
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by effingwewt 10y ago
I posted this on another article- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850870 -but it went unanswered, I'm hoping maybe this time someone will see this. It was in regards to google being brought a CA by advertisers
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Yea, not everyone has that luxury. If you said something along the lines of "I've been contacting my state representative to push for more reform, donating to 'X' to aid in public awareness, etc", I would have given
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Since we're being snarky- perhaps read the articles you toss out? It specifically says that a major cause was the merging of their sales/marketing/ads teams and installing middle management (between Marissa and Karp) who knew
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Not only that, but other employees had to watch this after losing their work-from-home "privileges". Was in all the big papers, caused quite the kerfuffle. http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-who-just-bann
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by effingwewt 10y ago
That made me cry I laughed so hard, I was sitting here curled in a ball, and had to show my co-workers when they came in wondering what I was guffawing at. Thanks for making this a GREAT morning!
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by effingwewt 10y ago
No, a decentralized node. But your attempt at oversimplification coupled with sarcasm was....so cute.
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by effingwewt 10y ago
You dig your hole deeper with every reply. Your fearmongering won't work here. Yes, they track and sell our data. Yes, many of them are ripoffs and "shill" sites. Your stating they aren't doesn't change facts at all
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Wow. The mental gymnastics here are astounding. Every time the ad blocker argument comes up, in pop you affiliate defenders, crying "If you block our ads, we will all disappear!". No, buddy- crummy sites that make bad decisions wi
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by effingwewt 10y ago
It's already been done, you're just too vehemently guarding your non-point to admit it. IPO. If these ridiculously over-valued companies ever went public, as stated MANY times in this discussion, they would get REALISTIC VALUATION
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by effingwewt 10y ago
Serious question- Would this have been possible if Google had put in their contract that all parties waive their right to a class action? Many companies do this now- Microsoft's xbox live, for example not only forces you to forfeit any