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by eighthnate 9y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. I gave up smoking a while ago and now think smoking is a terrible and costly habit/addiction, but I still miss smoking a cigarette while enjoying a nice cup of coffee. I wonder if the metabolization benefi
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> What did you think 'citizen' means? A member of a state/nation. For example, I am an american citizen, not a new york citizen. Citizen has historical etymological roots to ancient greece and their city-state but the word
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Then why are you on hacker news - a social media site? I've never had a facebook account. Not a fan of facebook or zuck. But doesn't mean I going to spam social media with "I hate social media" articles.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Didn't know you could be a citizen of detroit... Why not just say detroiters?
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by eighthnate 9y ago
The past 3 months, there hasn't been a single day on HN without a post attacking FB specifically or social media in general by news organizations or other "journalists/writers". Not only that, we get the same generic &qu
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by eighthnate 9y ago
We already have technology to control dissent. Why do you think every country has media sector, education system, etc? But direct manipulation of the brain itself rather than through your senses via propaganda is on another level. It introd
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Guinea is also an offensive derogatory term for italians in the US.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Agreed. Seems like everything is being tied to productivity. As if the purpose of our existence is to be "productive".
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> For a government to extort companies to give up their IP is to steal, no mincing words. That isn't stealing. That is negotiating. You act like companies have a right to the chinese market. > Chins wants to be competitive at som
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's curious how when certain countries or topics come up, you invariably get the same comments. China, Russia or even elon musk, there must be a standard template somewhere... > The Chinese art of selectively enforcing their laws t
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> What bothers me the most about these tech giants is the complete about face on free speech. Do they have a choice in the matter. The elites have the government and old school media attacking and pressuring them every day now. I don&#x2
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> When America was founded, the fourth pillar of government was the free press, i.e. the gatekeepers of information. The free press wasn't a pillar of government. When America was founded, the "free press" was pretty much
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> The phrases "avoid data silos" and "we want single source of truth" have been used repeatedly about Excel misuse/abuse/overuse for 20+ years. Yep. Even if they get centralize data via RDBMs like SQL Server
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I would argue that the most commonly used programming language is Excel. I wouldn't say Excel is a programming language - unless you are referring to VBA attached to excel. Excel is a spreadsheet application. It's no more a p
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Is 2017 for Facebook what 2009 was for BlackBerry and Nokia (when they were still getting record profits and revenues - they were already toast, they just didn't know it yet)? The only way the comparison works is if 2009's Bl
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Don't we complain when china "de-ranks" western propaganda abot tianamen square stories or tibet? Don't we complain when russia "de-ranks" propaganda they don't like. Don't we complain when the iran,
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth. And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensiv
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Apparently google and the traditional media ( nytimes, wapo in collusion with the government/cia ). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748579
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I've been watching the censorship and manipulation in r/Bitcoin (and bitcointalk forum) for a few years now. It was pretty obvious that sub was created to shill for bitcoins and to manipulate people into buying bitcoins. It&#
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by eighthnate 9y ago
I could have sworn this same article was one the front of HN a few days ago...
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by eighthnate 9y ago
I use both daily and both are fine when it comes to speed. Where chrome shines over firefox quantum is in blocking ads. I use uBlock Origin on both and yet I see some sponsored ads on firefox while I see nothing on chrome. It's not a d
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by eighthnate 9y ago
More like battered by constant media propaganda, americans are more worried about climate change.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Sounds like Xi Jinping is really gearing up for possible re-education of college students with communist ideals and more importantly, party loyalty. Why should they be any different from anyone else. Look at the re-education that is ha
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of news/media/publishing. They have to publish something to get paid. So they come up with "studies suggest" and other nonsense like it. Wasn't there an article a while back about how
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> But school has been transformed from an important social institution into a jobs project. Children & teachers are both trapped. One purpose of mass public education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was to get kids out of t
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> So the headline and intro are fairly misleading, IMO. Pretty much Bloomberg's modus operandi when it comes to their select few pet projects.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Considering that we want to eliminate any gaps between the genders, why are educated women limited to educated men of their own ages? Biologically and evolutionarily speaking, men want younger and more fertile women to mate with. Women
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Anyone else think this article was going to be about chess? Man HN has my mind so warped I thought this article was going to be about women and chess.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
C# is a more polished and "prettier" Java. It has done well with it's incorporation of functional programming, generics, dynamic programming and syntactic sugar in the last few releases. Too bad it's pretty much confined
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by eighthnate 9y ago
>This is why human editors are necessary for journalism. What difference would a human editor make? There is an exorbitant amount of news people on social media trying to convince everyone that they are needed.

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