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Didn't HN decide to not allow AI submissions? This is quite explicitly one in that the operator of the site declares to "automate investigative journalism" and launched the site wi…

>So McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac? yes, that's called a differentiated product in economics and it confers market power the same way any other monopoly does, Sony contro…

>So how is your argument supposed to work? My argument's pretty straight forward. Manipulation on the platform isn't profitable for Mark Zuckerberg. What's profitable is selling ad…

I think they'd give you some leeway if you fired up gas plants to not freeze in the winter, I want to see their faces when you tell them you turned them on because you wanted to ge…

when it comes to commerce it isn't because it makes doing business impossible. How is this practically going to look, Canonical, Red Hat and open source maintainers are going to sh…

>Zuck built an empire purpose built to damage democracy and the mental health of children to suicidal levels, for money. That may have been the result of those platforms and he pro…

>But I should not have to hide my sexuality or identity, nor my politics You shouldn't but you can't and will never be able to know what the future looks like. You could be in libe…

>tinitus sure as hell isn't my friend. what the author is advocating for "befriending tinnitus" is a well established form of therapy (Acceptance and Commitment/ACT), it's generall…

As the paper points out that's accounted for in the analysis, because shockingly enough to most internet commentators researchers know that they need to control for confounding var…

>but above all fiction has to be entertaining As Neil Postman points out in Amusing Ourselves to Death that is an artifact of modern mass media. In the Abrahamic traditions idolatr…

develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom instead of promoting a commercial culture whose logical ter…

I'm not sure what that's supposed to imply because if Ursula von der Leyen manages to be less corrupt without being elected by the people that has some uncharitable consequences fo…

the STEM academic world in the Soviet Union was extremely meritocratic. largely shielded from outside influence and maybe the best talent pipeline anyone has ever invented to produ…

>The concentration of deaths is entirely implausibly described as "suicides", The article talks about 19 people. Given the size of those organizations that's statistically elevated…

>Aldi - these brands prove that catering to poor people is more profitable than catering to rich people At least here in Germany Aldi isn't even really limited to the poor, it's fa…

it contained significantly less extreme content. There's studies on kids as young as 12 routinely being exposed to sexual violence, practices such as choking or degrading activity …

>Do YC CEO's dress in all white like Boss Hogg? No, of course not, they're your friends. They even have a ping pong table and a smoothie bar. It's like in the Soviet Union, everyon…

>The modern American standard of life is based on global integration The United States is virtually the least trade dependent country in the world[1] which is why you frequently se…

>He's so evil but the vast majority of Americans can't give up his products? Is he forcing people to login to Instagram or Facebook? People are perfectly fine with him making produ…

>You think the standard of life you enjoy today is because of the triumph of local parochialism? My standard of life involves democracy and self-determination. Americans are 'pathe…

>the American way of life our child’s will inherit is going to mean something very different than what it meant for us. I'm fairly certain the American way of life is exactly what …

>I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? How is this our problem? We make the rules, the obey them. If they can't they ought to be shut down. If they want to argue …

>It's impossible to have expensive real estate no it's very possible because in an aging country people relocate to a handful of cities. 50% of South Korea's population now lives i…

>An LLM just solved 10 top tier math problems this week and 30 years ago a computer beat Gary Kasparov, if you'd listened to Hans Moravec you wouldn't be surprised that the first t…

>For the most-dominant military power in the world Russia kept saying its the second most powerful military in the world and now it's the second most powerful military in Ukraine. …