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It's the only way the news industry stays in business. Not just in the US but around the world.

Has nothing to do with monetizing or social ill. Otherwise, soda, food, gambling, movies, etc wouldn't be allowed to advertise. And we'd ban most newspapers and cable news for bein…

You don't know soros but you think your mind has been hijacked by 4chan, the_donald, etc? No offense, but you comment sounds like something a fan of soros would write. Considering …

> It usually ends up either me aborting because of some dependency hell trying to get all the old versions in sync, or I get the system up, take a pleasant trip down memory lane, t…

Logins for news sites was tried in the 2000s and it failed miserably. The only ones who could survive such a strategy are news institutions with a large subscriber base like WSJ or…

It's already begun. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15347067

> The guardian certainly has a strong editorial position, but I've never found its' reporting to be anything other than honest, well researched, and written with integrity. You got…

> I put on some science video and walked away recently... came back latter and the autoplay had navigated itself deep into k00ky flat earther stuff. That's the point of youtube aut…

> (I haven't made an extensive study of this, but my impression is that the American right wing is prone to conspiracies about people or events, whereas the left wing is prone to c…

> The world before complex algorithms generating clicks on the Internet was pretty biased and stupid The way the news has been ranting about social media, you'd think it was respon…

Don't all DB servers "JIT" and then cache query plan?

> Youtube’s ‘related videos’ algorithm has given rise to a generation of Flat Earth believers. That's nonsense. There have been flat earthers long before youtube and there will be …

locusmag is a decades old magazine dedicated to scifi. It is a far better source than the nytimes on this matter.

You forgot the elephant in the room. Money. Everyday these writers have to make up the most outlandish "story/fake news" to get you to click to sell you ads. "statistically useless…

> Point 2: There's no country with more money and infrastructure than the US. Except our money and infrastructure is going into other sectors. China has chosen to direct their reso…

> I would argue that the EU is, generally, more progressive than the US when it comes to immigrants and trans folks. Is this is the same EU where people of turkish descent who live…

> As would be expected given the size of the US population. How about california innovates more than germany or UK combined? How about massachussetts innovates more than France? Wo…

"While the United States is busy talking about making itself “great again” by demonizing immigrants and trans people while it continues to decline as a world power, Europe and Chin…

> Even then... Where are you going to start in reading references? A random syscall or function a day? Sure. Or browse through a bunch of them? > think it is far more useful to e.g…

And my point is that you are just offering simplification that has no merit. It's a cheap ploy I expect from silly journalists, not on HN. Regulation isn't why there is a biotech b…

> Instead they have an awful terminal console, an oddly verbose shell language, and a slow case-insensitive programming language. The terminal is absolutely horrible. If you are go…

> This is the opposite of what they should have done. Shows just how much of an echo-chamber Facebook has become. News itself is an echo chamber. Don't see how that is facebook's f…

> Well, it seems logical that biotech would boom in a country with less regulation than the US. If that was the case, biotech would be booming from the congo to nepal. Biotech is b…

> Most people new to a topic want an instructional manual or guide, not a technical reference. Man pages and tables of syscalls are decidedly the latter, and therefore primarily in…

> This book is not about OS dev but rather systems programming: "The Linux Programming Interface", https://nostarch.com/tlpi You can also look through the man pages for free. https…