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by uniqueid 6y ago
I feel like I told him he had a "Chaplin-like moustache" and then your comment paraphrased my comment as "Hitler-like moustache." They may be similar moustaches, but the latter would neither be what I actually wrote, nor
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It sure seems like much of the nonsense sweeping the world is rooted in the technical design on the web. The internet we have punishes educated, honest, kind, good actors. The internet we have rewards ignorant, dishonest, malevolent, conniv
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> (too) publicly played favorites lately. So what? Why is that, of itself, bad? My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that makes the world a worse place to live. Places like Gab or Voat have their
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, but it’s not the moderation here I have an issue with. It doesn’t bother me at all that programmers write and submit posts about medicine. What I would like to see is our peers submitting and up-voting more articles by experts. Exper
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I still trust HN content more than other sites. The average age here is probably a decade older than Reddit, and people here value rationality, even if we sometimes fail to exhibit it.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Do you see any substantive issues with the content I'm a programmer. An article about epidemiology could be riddled with substantive issues, and I would know none the better.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
This is not a great place to start... > I’m a software / site reliability engineer > based out of Santa Barbara, California. Given the stakes, we should have a preference for Coronavirus articles written by experts.
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by uniqueid 7y ago
> Moving beyond text matching was > what made search truly useful. PageRank is what made Google more useful than its competition. They had it since the beginning, and I like it. What I don't like is to search for
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by uniqueid 7y ago
I’m uncomfortable with your use of “mere.” It might connote that what Google Search does now is an improvement.
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by uniqueid 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
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A new way to make quadratic equations easy(technologyreview.com)
177 points by uniqueid 7y ago|94 comments
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by uniqueid 8y ago
What's the point? I reckon some years down the road, everything on the internet today will fit on a thumb-drive. Fit in your pocket, and also be available to whole world, including terabytes upon terabytes of leaked private data from G
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Does Apple even care about computers anymore?(qz.com)
6 points by uniqueid 8y ago|3 comments
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Despite Crackdowns, Neo-Nazi YouTube Videos(propublica.org)
11 points by uniqueid 8y ago|26 comments
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Does Duolingo Work?(thecut.com)
2 points by uniqueid 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Is SteemIt a scam?
2 points by uniqueid 10y ago|6 comments
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by uniqueid 10y ago
Again? 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908115 493 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018464