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by tmuir 10y ago
It's not as if Donald Trump, or anyone else invented this tactic in 2016, or even the 21st century. Mass media has manufactured consent with those tools for as long as there has been a mass media. William Randolph Hearst was a master
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You can find a kernel of truth in anything and extrapolate it to your favored conclusion. After all, Bernie Madoff was the chairman of Nasdaq at one point. His marks were so convinced he was on the up and up, because their returns were so
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That's rich. The very paragraph in which I enumerate the examples that back up my assertion, you claim doesn't make sense. Let's keep the goal posts right where they are. After all, the audience left long ago. You can&#x27
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"because they let you" is the assaulter's excuse, not his absolution.
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Your top post shows that you can't see shades of gray. Every list of examples is proof that the examples are all equal. You follow it up with equating a smear campaign based on sensationalism and spearheaded by a charlatan, with jour
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Why is only the most important topic worthy of discussion? Why can you only see the other side's extremities? Trump's admission of grabbing woman by their genitalia was a conversation he assumed would remain private. Podesta&#x2
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You've chosen to see the world through a binary lens: Either you're with us or against us. The answer to every extreme is to race as fast as possible to the opposite extreme. Shades of gray are illusions. Balance is an illusio
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I think Greenwald disagrees with WikiLeaks firehose model of get it all out there, unfiltered. In the case of the diplomatic cables leak, that effectively exposed undercover agents.
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Equating means to show how two things are equal. Listing examples of various leaks is not equating them as equally damning or criminal. Stop extrapolating from singular data points to a preconceived conclusion. Put forth a falsefiable hypo
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The modularity of all human designed complex systems is a direct function of the fact that multilple humans need to be able to discuss the system intelligently. The designers themselves were only capable of performing the design because of
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That's moving the goal post. My point is that as technology marches on, unintended consequences are right behind it. What will be the unintended consequence of drones? Or the power grid connected to the internet, or driverless cars?
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Where there is nuclear power, there is a nuclear bomb. Where there is air travel, there are hijackings. Where there are smartphones, there are intelligence agencies vacuuming up their data. Where there is easy access to your own financia
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Here's a counter argument to all of your points: Superbugs have evolved to be resistant to all antibiotics. Industrial scale food production is a huge strain on the environment, and in many cases pretty terrible conditions for the anim
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1. 5 day old account 2. Wide array of feel-good details to check lots of boxes 3. Completely anecdotal and therefore unverifiable 4. Facebook-level knowledge of people you likely spent 10 minutes with 5. Glowing review of Uber Isn't Fe
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Isn't it ironic that anyone who could successfully parse this headline without looking up the individual components, probably already knew the information. Conversely, to anyone not deeply interested in SpaceX, this headline appears t
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Is the foreseeable future greater than 16 years? In 2001, the entire energy sector looked unrecognizable when compared to 2017.
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I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me, or proving my point by example.
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The internet has shown us how wonderful instant access to the world's information can be, and we've decided that everything is better with internet. Its an extremely coherent point to make, in my opinion.
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In other news: when you look at a complex, multidimensional problem on a single, linear axis, you arrive at misguided conclusions.
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I guess I look at it differently: Zelda games are so intriguing and enveloping for me, particularly the puzzle solving and tool usage, that the franchise stands alone, above any other, full stop. Outside of Zelda, I'm not a very big g
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You misspelled Ocarina of Time ;) It's on my list.
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They don't call them Zelda Boxes for nothing. I'll admit I'm biased, but I see nearly every Zelda game as easily in the top 3, if not the killer app of each Nintendo system. Legend of Zelda - NES Link to the Past - SNES Link
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Trump had several things going for him: 1. He is independently wealthy, and has no public office experience whatsoever. Thus, the normal pressures that cause every other candidate to end their campaign when sufficient controversy arises h
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Also not a lawyer, but isn't that where gross negligence picks up the slack?
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I see it as Trump, the master negotiator, knowing the one thing the media can't afford to point out, and then Trump the politician doing just that: Manufacturing Consent.
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Is anyone else concerned that tools like Alexa are making the whole automated home thing too easy? I see it as creating a bunch of automation "experts" out of people who don't truly understand the whole feature surface/
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Thank you. I can see now that my argument is largely equivalent to beating people over the head with logic, and simply shouting "logic!". My central point is that clickbait titles beat people over the head with what they were alr
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I will also give you the benefit of the doubt in this case. I guess I've been having some profound realizations as of late how the most important teenager in my life is utterly consumed by memes, and my fellow Americans are consumed b
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The inherent nature of employing logical fallacies is that the employer is pointing to a correlation, in the hope that they can convince you of causation. Causation is like a perfect happy path through a software application, whereas any si
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I fully understand that networking protocols are truly in the center of the main vein of subjects interesting to the community of Hacker News. But can we at least admit to ourselves that being endlessly enamored with novelty and lack of pr

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