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by nir 16y ago
If you're trying to evaluate based on how useful it is, how cool, potential income etc you're missing the point. The goal is to flip this to the next sucker. A cool domain name, a celeb team, an app that's bound to attract media hype (look
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by nir 16y ago
Today I realized that PG was right: HN really isn't turning into Reddit. It's turning into Cosmo.
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by nir 16y ago
Any pointers to good Node.js code in CoffeScript?
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Beware Social Media's Surprising Dark Side, Scholars Warn CEO's(chronicle.com)
1 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I think you're both right. The best way is to watch/read many sources, keeping in mind each has its own biases. What gets me is that many here seem unable to accept that Al Jazeera is just like other sources, rather than some sacred source
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by nir 16y ago
Exactly.
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by nir 16y ago
>not backed up with any evidence I note Evidence for Qatar being an Emirate? For the Emir financing AJ? These aren't disputed, AFAIK. >You realise that Al Jazeera - not twitter or facebook - was a big driver of the recent political
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by nir 16y ago
:)
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by nir 16y ago
It's not a "rhetorical attack". Al Jazeera is financed by the Emir of Qatar, that's a fact. The Emir of Qatar is essentially the ruler of that nation, which is an absolute monarchy (ie, the king effectively rules the country). These are all
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by nir 16y ago
Nothing. Another perspective is always good.
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by nir 16y ago
atdhetv.net is an example of the net routing around censorship. Aljazeera.com just demonstrates that when you are funded by an oil rich emirate you can easily afford to provide "free and unlimited streaming options to all". If Oman bought C
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by nir 16y ago
When I want to know what's really going on in the world, I don't watch the government-influenced, corporate-financed mainstream western media. I tune into the Emir of Qatar's station, where centuries old traditions of democracy and indepe
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by nir 16y ago
Baby boomers actually have little to do with Neocon ideology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#History_and_ori...
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by nir 16y ago
Indeed, baby boomers have been famous for trusting the government. Especially on Vietnam.
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by nir 16y ago
Could you explain? I think the intention is that you earn from the housing market's growth while keeping your investment liquid?
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by nir 16y ago
That's exactly what I meant. I love music. I just don't think "people are breathlessly excited about X" means "X is valuable". A lot of people are excited about reality TV.
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by nir 16y ago
I think serious papers had them till the past decade or so. Totally agree about CNN. I think they are bad for the same reason quality of most products has been decreasing - short term, please-our-stockholders thinking.
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by nir 16y ago
This is really mostly MSM/blogosphere hype. These revolutions started when people set themselves afire, and risked their lives confronting the army/police. FB might have helped (Youtube probably even more, Twitter almost trivial) but in the
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by nir 16y ago
People had friends and met significant others before the internet. I'm not saying these apps are bad (they are both bad and good) but that in the bottom line the world isn't necessarily better or worse.
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by nir 16y ago
On the personal level I know almost nothing about these people (I heard a Mixergy interview with Hoy which was great). My reaction is to the notion that a big company necessarily improves the world more than a small one.
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by nir 16y ago
A lot of people are breathlessly excited about Lady Gaga. Does her existence improve the world? Maybe, for them. Would they be worse off if they never heard of her? Probably they'd find someone else to be breathless about. Note that the sma
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by nir 16y ago
Come on. How many of these companies improve anyone's lives? I doubt the world is any better thanks to Twitter, or Facebook, or Foursquare, certainly not thanks to the various clones, mashups and "me three" companies you see in TechCrunch e
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by nir 16y ago
Al Jazeera didn't invent the idea of foreign bureaus and local staff. Many organization have/had these. Unfortunately most have been forced to cut back due to budget constraints, since they don't have Qatar's ruling family footing their bil
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by nir 16y ago
It's easy to measure page views, hard to measure how a story resonated with a reader. Furthermore, it's now possible to measure per story, rather than copies of the whole edition (or ratings for the whole evening news). You improve what you
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by nir 16y ago
Conspiracies are simply a replacement for religion. Just as religious people see God's will in any event, conspiracy theorists on Reddit see CIA/Mossad/etc behind everything. By definition, you can't disprove them.
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Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock?(theatlantic.com)
98 points by nir 16y ago|30 comments
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by nir 16y ago
Define FU money. For me it's being able to support yourself and your family in a fairly comfortable western middle class quality of life. The FU part is that, if you're making this independently and reliably, you don't need to care about th
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by nir 16y ago
The whole point of this type of model is that you make you $10k/mo by selling something that people actually pay money for, which means you don't care what TechCrunch/VCs are excited about. They're irrelevant for you. $10k is your "fuck you
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by nir 16y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook...
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by nir 16y ago
Unfortunately language like that is probably required to get the story in the homepage in the first place.

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