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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Writing standards have really taken a dive since news went digital, which is the opposite of the world I'd hoped for when I was evangelizing the internet back in the 90s :-( Writing standards haven't declined or increased. I
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"Paul Graham compared him to Stalin. Both Altman and Graham believe, like I do, that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy." Good god. It's crazy how politically driven people immediately demand nobody talk about po
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by eighthnate 9y ago
One of the moderators said that news organizations like wsj and nytimes were "standard" on HN. So they get special treatment - even when the articles are behind paywalls or post clickbait nonsense.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
All jobs for almost all people are "dead-end" jobs after the age of 35. Given the pyramid structure of corporations and the workforce, unless you are a select few who are on the track to upper management/executive positions,
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> But then if you earn $200 million per year, you still only pay 50% tax - If you are making $200 million, then you are most likely paying 20% in taxes as you probably have incorporated and you are being taxed at a capital gains rate. He
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> The GPL license meant that improvements were shared rather than squirreled away in various proprietary spin-offs and thus lost when whatever company was behind them folded (generally, exceptions going both ways surely exist!). I'v
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Used to shop through Amazon because it was consistent and easy. Now it's like shopping on Ebay. All the hassles and searching would be worth it if the prices on amazon weren't so horrible. Especially their scammy amazon pantr
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's so funny that every topic on veganism, you are always to be found. > I'm dead serious when I say that if you can demonstrate this, you'll be handed a PHd on a platter. Possibly a Nobel prize. Are you dead serious? &gt
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> The concept of "nuclear winter" is a great example of science gone wrong. It's not science gone wrong. It's an example of politics co-opting and exploiting science because science has the credibility that politics d
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> Bitcoin is too big for a few "whales" to have a sizable effect on major price trends Bitcoin is tiny as currencies go or as industries go. What is it $100 billion "market cap"? > Whales are not gods. Sure. But in
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People have been saying that forever. But it's so entrenched now that it'll take a gargantuan effort to get rid of it.
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It's not a fad. Veganism is like a cult. Vegans are starving their infants to death for their "religion". https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wjqbem/judge-convicts... Plant-only diet is terr
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> The health benefits of a whole food plant based diet are astonishing No. The health benefits of a balanced diet is astonishing. Vegan diets are just as bad for humans as meatatarian diets. > and the whole missing vitamin mineral thi
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Shoenice. It's quite a thing to watch someone down a fifth of vodka, whiskey, gin and all assorted forms of liquor within a few seconds. Also, street fights, paparazzi videos and just going down the youtube rabbit hole and seeing where
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> If needed you can add another index or run a subquery first, but the answer to this question can be found out in < 10seconds in the real world more quickly by testing it than even spending the time thinking about it. This is true f
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Their current excuse is so thin it hurts. It's thin to the educated few. But for the uneducated masses, they think government is doing this to help them. The easiest way for a government to get people to accept tyranny is to scare
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's relentless. I've never seen anything like this. Everyday the media has an attack piece on social media and tech companies. Just a few hours before this story, we had one titled "Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
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> I hate writing C# or Java in emacs because there's no intellisense/code completion. Agreed. The quality of the IDE/tools is such a huge factor in the quality of one's experience writing code. Can't imagine writ
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> in March and made about $1000 from sponsors. That's one sponsor per episode at ~$200 each. I've heard that sponsors pay more for podcasts than they do for youtube videos. Any idea why?
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's due to alphabet altering their "algorithm" to favor established companies and sources ( aka fight "fake news" and clean up the "interwebs" ). Google stopped being a faithful reflection of the internet
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by eighthnate 9y ago
If anyone is interested in "zombies" in nature or parasitism, david attenborough did a documentary on wasps and their parasitism. There is also something called hyperparasitism which are parasites that prey on other parasites.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
This is an interesting topic in the world of psychology, neuroscience and behavioral sciences. For all of human history, the elite has been able to control human behavior through propaganda which target our eyes and ears primarily. Comparin
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> This gives these media companies way too much credit. I'm not giving it any credit. > If they had this much self-awareness and intelligence they wouldn't have been caught out by the rise of social media in the first place.
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Almost everything the media writes about japan is exaggerated clickbait. This is true of all "exotic" cultures ( china, india, middle east, africa, mexico, etc ) but for some reason, it's especially true of japan. It's a
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Your last paragraph frankly makes your first nonsensical. How? > You're trying to have it both ways. No. I'm explaining why all governments and all propaganda organizations want to control social media. It's why china
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> How is this news? It isn't news. It's propaganda. NYTimes and WaPo have been spearheading a political/propaganda campaign against social media ( fb, reddit, youtube, etc ) to reign them in. The last thing the nytimes wa
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> But a few guys literally built a communication tool (WhatsApp) to be used by billions of people. So maybe in the old world you could pick 2x as much corn, But the problem is that anyone can build whatsapp. It's not technologically
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Reddit, HN, facebook, etc all had the founders generate content via lots of accounts until the sites became popular enough that they didn't need to generate content anymore. Reddit founders even discussed it on many interviews and of c
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Pretty much any brute force pentesters will check for exposed endpoints of any kind or anything open/accessible on a network and/or a particular server/desktop/system. Security software are pretty thorough nowadays.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
No. It threatens media/propagandists control over information. That's why russia, china, europe and now we are working so hard to control social media. It's threatens russian establishment propaganda. It threatens chinese est

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