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by mg5150 6y ago
We used to have an entertainment industry. Now we just have Disney, Time-Warner, Comcast NBC/Universal, Sony, etc. There's nothing wrong with this that can't be fixed by coming down on these corporations the way we used to co
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by mg5150 6y ago
I'd say both. He took prevailing conservative groupthink of the Lee Atwater school and weaponized it to become one of the OG alt-reich trolls[1], to quote somebody who apparently plays too many JRPGs. > The man was a fucking demagog
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by mg5150 6y ago
IMO, anybody who takes Charles Murray seriously needs to be hit upside the head with a hardcover of Stephen J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man , which exposed race-and-IQ studies for the racist bullshit they are in the 1970s, years befo
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by mg5150 6y ago
There's a reason one of the first words every toddler learns to say is "no". It's the word that allows people to assert themselves and thus become fully human.
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by mg5150 6y ago
IMO, DMDs are the real professionals. They're passionate about getting paid, and they don't buy into HN's bullshit.
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by mg5150 6y ago
Have you considered getting together with some like-minded individuals and DDOSing Twitter into the ground? I doubt anything of value would be lost.
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by mg5150 6y ago
There's a movie you should see. It's called Network [1] and it was made in 1976. It deals with prime time TV news and how it is used to exploit people. [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/ > Ho
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by mg5150 6y ago
If Medium took away custom domains once, what's to stop them from doing it again ? Why do bloggers keep falling for Medium's bullshit?
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by mg5150 6y ago
They can, unless the kids have the guts to refuse to log their reading and their parents have the sense and decency to back up their kids.
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by mg5150 6y ago
News is entertainment and always has been. Since many people find sport entertaining, it makes sense to include sport in the daily news.
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by mg5150 6y ago
I'm not an Angular developer. I'm a generalist who uses Angular when necessary. Likewise for every other framework or language you can think of. I don't really give a damn what language/framework I'm using as long a
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by mg5150 6y ago
So if for some reason I wanted to find info on The Cure's 1982 album Pornography , the cops would get notified? What if I wanted to see if Anthrax had a new album coming out? Why do techies keep agreeing to work on bullshit like this?
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by mg5150 6y ago
I don't think there's any need to worry about whether Covid-19 involves premeditation; it's easy to suggest that many countries' leaders exhibited a depraved indifference to human life that itself makes the resulting dea
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by mg5150 6y ago
IMO, cookie consent should not be a website's reponsibility. It should be built into the user agent, which should block all cookies/analytics by default and prompt for consent when first visiting a site. Of course, this would mo
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by mg5150 6y ago
My day job keeps pressuring me to use video, and I keep fighting the temptation to replace my photo with a "SEELE 01 SOUND ONLY" graphic from Neon Genesis Evangelion . My coworkers might want to see me on video, but I'm used
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by mg5150 6y ago
> I don't see how Clubhouse can survive as is with the invite only system when their competitors can easily copy them to bankruptcy. Maybe if Clubhouse went all-in on being a virtual gated community where you had to pay for access a
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by mg5150 6y ago
Nobody's invited me, which suits me just fine since I don't have an iPhone and liked the internet better when it was all text.
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by mg5150 6y ago
I think this[1] is a good compromise between excessively brutalist websites like the one you mentioned or Zain Amro's site[2] and blogs pretending to be SPAs built with stuff like Bootstrap or Gatsby. Yes, I think React as a static sit
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by mg5150 6y ago
I've never trusted Facebook, and the only reason I still have an account is that my family insists on using it. They acknowledge that I'm right to be wary of Facebook, but they're familiar with it and my sixty-something par