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by unalone 14y ago
Heh, I wasn't even thinking of the anti-vaxxers! I meant more the "how should we pay for the things that make people less sick" front, which seems to the debate broiling up here.
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by unalone 14y ago
I'd modify your "people innately have rights" to "there are freedoms which benefit both individuals and the communities they're a part of, which should be treated as innate rights." A bit wordier, but useful in defining what, specifically,
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by unalone 14y ago
Negativity's to be expected when any controversial issue's brought up, and this is certainly a controversial issue on a number of fronts. The people-spending-lots-of-money front, the how-should-we-make-people-less-sick front, the are-corpor
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by unalone 14y ago
Oh, don't say that. Better for people to say stupid things and be debated over them and evolve their opinions than for people to politely say nothing at all and remain fools forever. Hacker News was a wonderful place for college-age unalone
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by unalone 14y ago
Oof. Well, in that case your dislike of them is wholly justified. Know at least that your company's partnership with them made one Superbowl ad-watcher happier for a couple of days.
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by unalone 14y ago
What you're describing isn't free enterprise Correct. Government is not free enterprise. To govern a body is to take control of it to a certain extent. We can quibble about how much control is too much, but that's the topic of this debate
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by unalone 14y ago
Theoretically, the government has an interest in seeing their dollars spent wisely, because if they don't, then people will get angry and vote them out of office. Currently, thanks to a generation of media exploitation, we have an ill-infor
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by unalone 14y ago
It's not about being a better person. Charity is not about being a better person. It's about helping people. And the purpose of government is to put systems in place that can give help to all the people who need it, as close to all the time
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by unalone 14y ago
Hey, don't go knocking CP+B. Their work for Domino's is top-notch, and their Volkswagen campaign remains some of my favorite advertising period. Meanwhile, while they've had the few early misfires for Microsoft, their work promoting Windows
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by unalone 14y ago
Being physically able to do something isn't the same as actually being able to do it. Mental/emotional contexts can make it very hard/stressful to change your eating habits, and often the stress isn't worth the end result. This suggests a
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by unalone 14y ago
By "extreme" I mean that paleo insists not only that certain foods will affect our bodies in certain ways, but that some foods are "natural" and some are "unnatural" using pretty iffy logic. It ultimately translates to "fewer carbs and less
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by unalone 14y ago
Forking's always fun. When I interned at Aviary the forked content was sometimes the most interesting. A word of warning, gleaned from Aviary's eventual failure in that market: forking has a tendency to reduce somebody's feed to a bunch of
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by unalone 14y ago
There's room for compromise between "adopt extreme diet" and "eat unhealthily". Paleo is one of the many philosophies I studied while I was developing my own eating behaviors, but there are plenty of foods I enjoy too much to fully stick to
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by unalone 14y ago
Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough to create a stream of new content for users. Instagram caught on in part because
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by unalone 14y ago
MetaFilter. When big news events pop up, enough information streams in through the (excellent) comments that I can keep informed about context and unfolding situations. When there's no big news, there are interesting links. The fact that an
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by unalone 14y ago
Yeah, but she's a blogger and Camper is a company worth millions of dollars. I don't expect good design from bloggers. If they say smart things, I'll read. I expect good design from people who theoretically want my money, because it's their
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by unalone 14y ago
Just what we goddamn need. More "user psychology" distilled down into a short list without any discussion of what it means to make good software, encourage good behavior, or contribute something meaningful to a user's life. Give 'em fucking
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by unalone 14y ago
Advertising student. Advertising's not in a bubble; some very rich and formerly successful advertisers are just doing an awful job at adjusting to the change in society that's now been twenty years in the making. Dumbasses. Here's how adver
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by unalone 14y ago
That's a simplification that might lead you to a mistaken conclusion. Some creative sorts thrive on strife, it's true; and these sorts look for people who operate the same way so they can thrust themselves at one another, grow heated, and s
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by unalone 14y ago
You can do the exact same thing without page flips. Headlines and pictures front-and-center? Sounds like almost every blog ever written.
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by unalone 14y ago
> I don't use foursquare or twitter even though my generation tends to, because I feel as though they're not necessary. > often it feels like each website is just another toy. I see no reason to commit to them. In between these two
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by unalone 14y ago
One more college student here. You make a few mistakes with your reasoning, but at the same time there's something valuable in your sentiment. The problem with your "baseline platform" is that it runs counter to both how culture forms and t
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by unalone 14y ago
It might come through a little, but there's a difference between comparing yourself perpetually to the people who used to torture you, and feeling sympathetic to a 14-year-old kid who's being tortured now because you remember what it was li
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by unalone 14y ago
That's the sort of "skillful metaphor" a group of high school kids would put in a Social Studies PowerPoint. It's funny that you think what you gleaned from the circles involved any sort of deep digging: the symbolism is as blatant as it is
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by unalone 14y ago
If it had been done well, I would agree with you. But it was fluff – visually simplistic, yet too generically symbolic to convey anything actually meaningful. What's more, the break between sentences disrupted my actually reading their thou
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by unalone 14y ago
No need to respond facetiously to valid criticisms.
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by unalone 14y ago
Very nice work, Kyro! I'm enjoying this Facelift series: you do a nice job of highlighting people's work you like while explaining why they could be doing it better. Refreshingly positive. This facelift was more interesting than the last fe
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by unalone 14y ago
A comments page but also a newsfeed to track the comments happening. It's a bit catchword-y, but I like the phrase "ambient social" to describe the appeal of Facebook in one key sense: it's not about directed conversations, it's about creat
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by unalone 14y ago
It might just be me, but when I see announcements so overly-styled, without the styling having much semantic relevance to the content, I stop trusting the site that made the announcement. I want to place my faith in no-nonsense services, an
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by unalone 14y ago
Interesting that people are doing this, but most people use Facebook for storage/sharing second, for social/commenting first. It's not about the photos, it's about the comments attached to the photos. And about the status updates and wall p

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