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> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y Su…

> Today, it's been democratised enough to allow your racist aunt to ramble on Facebook about how Obama is actually an alien born on Pluto, sent to America to destroy Christianity. …

> Thanks, I removed fake news because I've the feeling that in US it is used by right-wing people It's a term used by both the left and the right. By politicians and the media. > I…

> Treat them with the same respect you would like to be shown when people are unhappy with you. Why do you think everyone deserves respect? I prefer the brutal honesty of the inter…

Especially considering medicine has a long history of being co-opted by money. There was a time when doctors were paid to push cigarettes by cigarette companies. https://www.adweek…

The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanit…

Great wars make great generals. People aren't great in and of themselves. They are great within an environment. So everyone is a "victim" of externalities.

No. This is as silly as vegans saying animals deserve the same rights as humans because we are animals too. Does that mean we have to prosecute a lion that kills a wildebeest? Or w…

What about HN's addiction to news about facebook? I thought after a year of relentless facebook spam, we were past this. Now the top two posts are about facebook. We have to kick t…

Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires. I'd even put geo…

It's funny how there are tons of negative musk articles lately along with tons of negative comments. If I was a cynical person, I'd say there is a targeted campaign against the guy…

> Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Ethical considerations are preventing us or at the very least limiting the speed of development. But mostly our …

Sigh. Here they go alternating from AI is a "super genius threat" to "it isn't that smart". Maybe an objective, honest and non-clickbait "Current State of AI" would mean they would…

I'm well aware of the theory. I used to subscribe to it myself when I was younger. I won't go into why reduce population wouldn't affect farm yields since back then, farming was a …

Black death didn't kill feudalism ( even if we could come to a consensus on what feudalism is ). The societal structure wasn't affected by the black death. Feudalism died as europe…

Why is the assumption always that AMZN, GOOG and MSFT doesn't want censorship? Especially when they have taken to censorship like duck to water. Why is the assumption that when giv…

Cybersecurity is something that I feel is best self-taught. Set up a small network at home. Go crazy with nmap. Set up a few VMs. Go crazy with gdb or windbg. The best way to learn…

> Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England. The highest suicide rates exist in countries without gun rights. https://en…

> That's only your opinion of what it means '[to be] bloomberg'. No. It's a matter of fact. He works for bloomberg. He gets paid by bloomberg. Hence it is bloomberg. Now if it was …

He's a bloomberg opinion writer. He is a bloomberg staff member. So it is bloomberg. There are people who highly regard matt levine. But there are also plenty of people who have a …

Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.

Simply put, options are an option to buy shares at a specified price sometime in the future. For example, a company can give you options to purchase X amount of shares at a ridicul…

Sure they do. If FB stuck to legal-based censorship then they wouldn't need to ban atheist or gay rights content because those content are legal in the US. But if they swing to mor…

Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand …

> The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. This is a classic case of the race to the …