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by mahranch 10y ago
Appealing and persuasive aren't the same things; Trump is "appealing" to a certain demographic and mindset of the U.S population and that's how he bulldozed the GOP - he was charismatic to the right group of people at th
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Sure, there's a certain stigma attached to anyone who enjoys Japanese culture -- older white men included. But even then, one of the words that pop into my mind when thinking about said stigma isn't rape. It's weeaboo, nerd,
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> it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation. I take serious offense to this. I am a moderator on reddit and the communities I help out in are amazing. He paints all of reddit with the same br
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My father is a truck driver; He says he's not worried. There's too much other stuff to consider before robots replace him. Like the maintenance that needs to be done during the trip. That can't be automated. This might be goo
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by mahranch 10y ago
Your comment presumes an equal education (that rape is equally "bad"), it presumes that both cultures are taught the same thing. They are not. In fact, it is currently legal to rape your wife in India. http://www.cnn.co
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> You make it sound like Apple can easily move out of China. And you make it sound like cheap labor only exists in China.
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by mahranch 10y ago
Sure, those are facts. But here's another fact: Just because you have a large population doesn't mean your economy is destined for greatness. It doesn't mean you're destined to overtake the U.S and it doesn't mean y
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by mahranch 10y ago
> In fact, you cannot have a success with socialism without a large number of wealthy (or well-off) people to tax, and a society cannot tax itself to prosperity. And you can't have success with capitalism without a healthy and prosp
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Are you saying that "troll" now means I think the overall meaning of his comment is basically "Languages evolve." And I agree with him. It's as inevitable as death and taxes.
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> Maybe it's time for a new kind of journalism without journalists or ads, with a focus on primary sources, and empowering interested communities to report and verify for other readers. It's unlikely to emerge from old media th
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> t's like I'm saying "moderating reddit is easy, I barely see any spammers or trolls there" (as a user). Except since I have 6 years experience, I truly can get a feel for what their "before" looks like jus
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by mahranch 10y ago
Speaking of engineering, why not either place the motor in the seat/seat-post itself which would obscure those infrared cameras (as the heat would look natural) or insulate the area around the motor and let the heat exhaust through the
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by mahranch 10y ago
Only 70k comments a day? As a someone who has been a reddit default moderator for 6+ years (I help out in more than 1 default subreddit), I'd say they're still small time. It's so bad over on reddit that even with a fully act
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by mahranch 10y ago
Lobbying was made legal because it was (and will) happen regardless of legality. With legality, it can be documented and the details publicly released. If we made it illegal, it will just go back to being an "under the table" thin
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by mahranch 11y ago
Black and white thinking. Content creators still need to get paid. I'd be quite upset if my favorite sites had to shut down due to the rise of ad blocking and non-viable alternatives to ads (like "subscriptions", etc...)
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by mahranch 11y ago
How is this a story behind "China's" camouflage? It's clearly a small blurb about the history of digital camo (or "texture match" camo") in general. The U.S has been using this for a long time, as well as
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Other services and models will take their place. You're missing the point. You fail to grasp the scope and size of the reach that ads have on the internet. I saw what the internet was like before the masses arrived, I was here onl
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Allow me to point out that you have just posted this comment on the future reddit. Hah, this place is not the future reddit. Not remotely close. This place has been around just as long as reddit and has never tried to be reddit. In f
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by mahranch 11y ago
> If making money from ads is the primary motivation for a site or app, then it shouldn't exist. So you're saying anyone designing a website or an android app needs to be creating their wares purely altruistically? And if not,
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> but that still doesn't refute the argument that you're selling your audience to someone else without their consent You watch the big bang theory and they play an ad during the commercial break for colgate. Did you get sold s
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> Lots of people say that if we all start blocking ads, then lots of content will go away. I'm perfectly fine with that Except it's more of a butterfly effect than people realize. Not just "article" type content, but
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by mahranch 11y ago
> But then the notion of earning an income on ads came along That's unfair, and almost flat out wrong. Content and ads pretty much evolved hand in hand. Sure, there was some content up before ads came along, but ads came up almost i
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> I want high quality content, and I'm willing to pay for it. Now if only the other billions of people on this planet felt the same way. That's why I don't like this sentence. Every time the topic of ads come up here or on
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I think many of these problems could be minimized, mitigated or some completely eliminated if millennials would actually vote. But they don't. And I don't foresee that ever changing. It was the same problem with my generation, gen
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> Microsoft spends over $1B/yr on maintaining and improving Bing. So yeah, search does cost a fortune I doubt that figure, but even if it is true, you're still talking about a final product (not a new start up). It's a f
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And what about user experience? It's times like these where I do not feel guilty about using an adblock, despite being a publisher myself, and hosting google ads on my website. Is it hypocritical? Probably. But I would think the issue
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> Nor could it: those things cost hundreds of millions of dollars per year to run and maintain. I vehemently disagree. The early web crawlers and indexes did not cost hundreds of millions of dollars to run. Granted, there is significantl
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> Lubin supposes that the system could propel crafts to an "unheard of" 30 percent the speed of light. > " There is no known reason why we could not do this " Yeah, no. There is a known reason. What do you think
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> Why would you have to be a nationalist to post about China? Because the guy I replied to said: " Surely, you're more likely to submit a post about your home country " I'm an American but my grandparents are from Ire
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But would that really work in this case? China is the number 2 mentioned country and while I don't have any demographic information, I find it hard to believe that there would be that many Chinese on HN. Well, not just any Chinese, but

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