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by theyx 5y ago
US is a weak democracy, simple as that.
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by theyx 5y ago
Also, industry-leading research? Those leaked internal data about instagram are worse than an undergrad term paper. Look at those n values, for something as big as Fb that’s not even serious research.
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by theyx 5y ago
> tower pcs are often heavy to carry Well, that’s why we have portable computers . This is like saying buses are bad for your physical health, because being ran over hurts you. Who even carries tower computers?
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by theyx 5y ago
You are right, but we don't know how "successful" people got where they are. Look at E. Musk, for example. Widely taken as the pinnacle of success, with his education, fortune, "achievements" literally built either
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by theyx 5y ago
Everyone knows why they applied, but for the benefit of employers, we have created a society in which it is not acceptable to say "I'm only here for the money, I literally do not care about your company."
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by theyx 5y ago
Exactly this! I cannot believe someone is naïve enough to think total strangers will start caring about some company's progress, profits and reputation just because they are being paid minimum wage. Sorry, literally 99% of people who a
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by theyx 5y ago
> caring for your own career. It is often the problem that employers equate "caring for your career" to "caring for my company's profits".
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by theyx 5y ago
Because some people convinced themselves that government is bad, even though democratic governments were the GOAL of almost every nation in the pre-independence days. If people cannot trust the institutions that they themselves built, it sa
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by theyx 5y ago
And watch what their family has done to put them in the condition they are today. Most rich people are rich because of inheritance.
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by theyx 5y ago
Interesting distinction between east and west coast! Could it be because academic fields are less influenced by “looks and impressions”, while SV/technology fields are easily manipulated by people who appear to be experts? As in: in ac
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by theyx 5y ago
You are right about HN folks. I asked this question prompted by a topic discussed here during the past week, in which many people were commenting and sounding like experts. But because I knew deeply about it (having written my Master’s thes
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by theyx 5y ago
You are right. We run the risk of building a society (or at least an online environment) built upon the confidence/mistakes of the loud fools.
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by theyx 5y ago
Should this affect our trust in news sources/online media (blogs, op-eds, articles)? If so, where do we draw the line between content worth reading and meaningless opinions?
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by theyx 5y ago
The desired yeah, but unfortunately from my experience people don't like being corrected online, for -- as far as they know -- I may as well know nothing about what I am talking about. Plus, devoting the time to type out so many replie
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by theyx 5y ago
Any data to back up the claim about zoomers? I am a zoomer and none of the people around my age I know are anti-sex. If anything, we are all for (safe) sex without the constraints of social pressure/puritan morality.
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by theyx 5y ago
Exactly. We live in a society with severe social stigma around sexual content/nudity. Even in the 21st century, or more liberal places like Europe, nakedness or sex are not to be shown as “daily human things” like cooking, for example.
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by theyx 5y ago
Organizations like the Gates Foundation often bypass national governments and nationally-established health systems in order to push forward their own governance principles on health and healthcare. This often de-stabilizes local, on-going
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by theyx 5y ago
That’s exactly this!!! Thank you very much. To what extent you think this should affect our trust on news sources/websites like Hackernews?
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Ask HN: Are people only smart until they talk about things you know more about?
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by theyx 5y ago
If he had burned the money there would NOT be a huge favorable popular opinion about his "good deeds" (note the quotation marks, because they are only good for people unaware of their consequences). So I don't think he would
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by theyx 5y ago
Not providing proof and just anecdotal experiences won’t do your argument any good. Especially because that’s exactly how Ad companies/agencies got here in the first place, by saying it works without clear, verifiable ways to prove it:
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by theyx 5y ago
I am not saying this is the cause, because I’m not American, but maybe Americans use it in a more “harmful” way. Where I live people mostly use Facebook to buy used stuff on the Marketplace and to post memes in their hometown groups.
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by theyx 5y ago
> Your experience doesn’t match mine and I’ve been in the software business for 40 years, both finding jobs and filling them. OP could say the same. Their experience does not match yours, making your experience irrelevant to them, since