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by lj3 10y ago
No, I think I'm done. You stopped engaging with my facts a while ago and switched to pure rhetoric. You've lost.
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by lj3 10y ago
Argumentum ad absurdum. I expected better from someone with your reputation here on HN. And now you're not even reading what I said! Spam should be filtered as spam. 'fake news' applies to so much more than just spam, as I ha
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by lj3 10y ago
That logic suggests we should ban free speech and only allow certain people and organizations to be registered as valid information sources, preferably after passing some sort of test that shows they're legitimate and trustworthy.
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by lj3 10y ago
Webspam farms are spam and should be filtered as such. The fact is 'fake news' is a separate term and is using separate filters because it's a completely separate concept that is political in nature. You claim this isn't
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by lj3 10y ago
Are you saying people who believe odd things no longer have the right to say them? Would websites covering the million man march in the 70's have been considered 'fake news' back then? Somebody saying the Dalai Lama endorsed
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by lj3 10y ago
You can say that until you're blue in the face, but nobody believes it anymore. This sort of block list has already been used to justify the blocking of completely legitimate (albeit right wing) news sites from Google. The fact of the
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by lj3 10y ago
Movies and TV yes (there's ample research to show it actually rots your brain). Books, no. There's also ample research to show it has several benefits, even if you're reading trash. The medium is the message, as Marshal McLuh
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by lj3 10y ago
> Couldn't it be the case that there is some local phenomenon happening that we do not understand that still manages to maintain conservation of momentum? Ever hear of the Luminiferous Aether? From what I can tell, it could explain
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by lj3 10y ago
Do you have some evidence to suggest that, or are you just trying to get the mods here to ban an entire site because you disagree with it?
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by lj3 10y ago
> Understanding why they voted for Trump might make politics more sane. How? This is the part where most of these conversations break down. Those on the left can't possibly fathom that those on the right don't consider being ra
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by lj3 10y ago
> To some degree, it will make it so that we no longer have "two Americas", where one part feels completely alienated from the other part. I don't see how you got there. What about simply understanding the right's pos
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by lj3 10y ago
To what end?
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by lj3 10y ago
Educating them of what, though?
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by lj3 10y ago
> Help me out. Where's my incentive to "help you out"? You ask, but you don't really want to know. You've already made up your mind. That much is obvious in how you phrased your question.
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by lj3 10y ago
> Get out of your bubble. > Hang out more on subreddits you don't agree with. > The divide is bridged one person at a time. It's amazing to me how such seemingly smart people can see what's going on and completely mi
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by lj3 10y ago
Is it? What value does criticism bring if there's nothing actionable in the criticism?
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by lj3 10y ago
It's the "let's add it to the browser by default" part I have an issue with. If people want to be able to see alternate opinions easily, they'll install it on their own. If they don't, no amount of forcing it o
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by lj3 10y ago
That's a dangerous idea. You seem convinced that you're right and other people are wrong. So much so that you want to force this idea of right and wrong on people by installing it in their browser by default?! This smacks of sovie
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by lj3 10y ago
> it's hard to pull people away from their news sources to something unbiased. We need to take unbiased articles to the people. > I am not interested in unbiased news sources. So, which is it? I think the focus on bias vs unbiase
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by lj3 10y ago
For whom? I think this is going to go very well for gab.ai. Obviously, not as well for Twitter.
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by lj3 10y ago
It wouldn't matter. One particular episode of Leverage featured an Irish loan shark. Everybody complained that the attempted Irish accent of the actor was terrible and couldn't they get an actual Irishman to play the role? The twi
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by lj3 10y ago
Wow, damned if you do, damned if you don't. From the right's perspective, Facebook and Twitter actively censors unfavorable political opinions. This goes way beyond just policing hate speech and is one of the biggest reasons the L
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by lj3 10y ago
Video game developers, video editors and graphic artists are the traditional professions where more ram is always better. But, in the days where nobody pays attention to memory usage, casual use can peg all of your ram and page the living d
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by lj3 10y ago
I hear this a lot in these kinds of discussions. While I agree with you that these might not be the best people to work with, the equation looks very different after doing these kinds of interviews for 6 months and you really need a paychec
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by lj3 10y ago
In my experience, your network will get you an interview, but after that it's the normal interview hazing as described in the article. Because there are so many random, subjective factors at play, it's impossible to tell if a netw
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by lj3 10y ago
And here I thought my jokes were wasted on hacker news. :)
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by lj3 10y ago
> It's not that installing Linux is a hassle. I just love a lot of the apps I can run on my Mac. I think that's a huge X factor a lot of the latest discussions are missing. People LOVE MacOS apps. They're beautiful. They
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by lj3 10y ago
It look like these jobs are all contractor roles through UpWork. Shouldn't this be on the freelancer thread?
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by lj3 10y ago
I flag anything related to the election. That topic consistently brings out the worst in hacker news.
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by lj3 10y ago
So long as Apple has iOS devs by the short and curlies, they'll have power users to kick in the nuts.

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