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by yakitori 9y ago
> Have you ever met a teenager? Yes. And we've all been teenagers. >Almost literally zero percent of them think (or need to think) about this stuff, with the possible exception of some of the very oldest teenagers (ie, people in
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by yakitori 9y ago
>"Look at all these rich beautiful people with millions of followers sailing around the world on their yachts." How is this any different than society at large? How is this any different from TV and newspapers? > Ten minutes
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by yakitori 9y ago
Thank god for our daily "social media" is evil propaganda. I hope one day someone looks into who is pushing this and why. It would be very interesting. At this point, all the outrage and propaganda really comes off as manufactured
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by yakitori 9y ago
> (I am squeamish!) Then why'd you go on a safari? > Nature is cruel. Nature isn't cruel. Nature is ambivalent.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery? It's where the money is. Onlin
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by yakitori 9y ago
Wasn't forbes banned here because they had malware in their ads which infected a bunch of people and because most of their stuff is behind paywall?
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by yakitori 9y ago
Why doesn't theguardian bosses read newspapers so much? Because they are too busy running the company and trying to make money? Do I get to write an article for the guardian now? The obvious reason social media execs don't use soc
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Where does it say that they don't though? It doesn't. > Make it sound like the article is just about bashing social medias Every day the media releases propaganda against social media. On HN, we get a "social media&#x
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by yakitori 9y ago
There are 3 nytimes article on the frontpage already. 2 of which are questionable HN type of articles. Do we need a 4th? Who keeps bumping nytimes articles to the frontpage?
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by yakitori 9y ago
But isn't the sheep's head delicious while the shark tastes rancid? At least that's what I heard.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> I would never let my manager into my Linux systems, just to make an analogy. I give my manager a report on what's going on but I'd never let them in. I'm not sure about the chain of command in your company but in most co
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by yakitori 9y ago
Most of the news industry is unionized. LA Times was an anomaly.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> I have an intense personal dislike of smoking. If you ever lived in an apartment with a neighbor who smokes, it turns from intense personal dislike to pure hate. I will never understand how people can smoke in their homes. It literally
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by yakitori 9y ago
> This is some fantastic clickbait. That describe almost everything on HN now.
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by yakitori 9y ago
Half black man. His father was european and his mother was a black slave. Though he may be socially/culturally black, he was genetically half white. But I don't expect much integrity from the atlantic. That out of the way, it is b
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by yakitori 9y ago
Sometimes it's so hard for me to determine whether half of the stuff on HN is real news or just advertisement. A news feed for 300M is child's play when you consider that the content is pretty much static. "Go and RocksDB and
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by yakitori 9y ago
> The identity of those who help you achieve those goals doesn't matter as much (very few people care about the skin color of someone who saves their life). This is not true. Color lines were reinforced in ww2. It didn't recede
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by yakitori 9y ago
No comments on such an important topic on an anonymous hacker news forum? "Feminist Majority Foundation" should be careful about what they wish for. Because feminism has benefited tremendous from anonymous discussion and anonymous
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by yakitori 9y ago
I think you have an idealized view of journalism and media that doesn't align with reality. Kick backs, side deals, "back scratching", etc has always existed in journalism and media. And it's not just journalists. The ow
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by yakitori 9y ago
> It's worth remembering that MK Ultra was officially running until 1973 and broke exactly the same rules as the Tuskegee trials. It isn't just scientific experimentation. Forced sterilization without consent was carried out in
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by yakitori 9y ago
Has nothing to do with phones or being present. It has to do with the fact that someone has a knife. Unless you are armed with a gun, you also won't do anything against a guy with a knife. Go read about the knife attack on van gogh or
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen? The difference aren't that great. The most heavily surveiled society on ea
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by yakitori 9y ago
Who buys $1000 sunglasses? Who buys $1000 jeans? Who buys $500 sneakers? Dumb people with too much money.
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by yakitori 9y ago
Just like NFL/NBA owners. Threaten to take the team to another city.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Building tunnels under a river isn't simple. It's fairly simple as it is a 200 year old technology. It's not rocket science. What's not simple is how to divide the taxpayer money between the elites.
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by yakitori 9y ago
Why are you being downvoted? What you said is true.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math This is historically not true. Sure we get terms like "algebra", "algorithm", etc from the arab world, but the arab world didn't invent these
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by yakitori 9y ago
> But why? It'll lower oil prices? Boost manufacturing in the US and around the world. It's buttresses the stock boom and keep the economy growing? At least for the short term. Internationally, it'll continue to put signif
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Or do you simply hope fascist ideas don't take hold? Free speech exists to protect speech when fascists take hold. It's why no matter who is president of the US, we can spew all the hate we want. Unlike in germany where speec
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by yakitori 9y ago
That's only modern times and it only applies to societies with contraception and women's right and most importantly, women's education. For most of history, women weren't educated and there wasn't reliable contracep

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