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absurdo

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    Comment #44440398

    If you don’t adhere to the guidelines we’ll send mean and angry emails to dang.

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    Comment #44440383

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    Comment #44438274

    How many cuils are we talking about?

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    Comment #44430783

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    Comment #44430622

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    Comment #44426610

    Another article where discussion is engineered. If the article is in any way provoking you to question it in any way and to go down those rabbit holes with preconceived talking poi…

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    Comment #44426347

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    Comment #44426170

    It’s an article whose discussion points are engineered. It’s not in good faith, and it’s a more frequent problem with articles in general.

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    Comment #44425761

    This is a bait article. Avoid.

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    Comment #44424866

    Sounds like we are blaming the lads once again! Oh well.

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    Comment #44423411

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    Comment #44419356

    I’ve commented on this topic recently, and go figure Haidt is brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402475 I’m of the opinion there’s very little (not nothing) wrong w…

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    Comment #44413037

    Empty comment from me but thank you for being more nuanced than most about what constitutes an addiction. It’s tiring to listen to the HN wringing in some performance of outrage of…

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    Comment #44412952

    Please for the love of God don’t get a dog. Recent related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44223212

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    Comment #44410125

    As expected a lot of the comments here are anecdotes. I’m assuming there exists a class of highly technical articles that get posted regularly that incite ancillary discussion, but…

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    Comment #44410088

    That has been the case for a very, very long time. Classical music is basically one big orgy of wealthy people. Musicians born into families of musicians that were well off. Same g…

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    Comment #44410068

    Maybe I missed it but which FPGA did they use for this? I’m interested in learning FPGAs but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of freewheel documentation or software out there, it’s m…

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    Comment #44405623

    > It's about scaring the world so that the world stops criticizing primarily israel. You should back up this assertion with facts and evidence otherwise nobody will take it at face…

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    Comment #44402475

    I’d like to see a proper study on this that can be replicated before I jump on this train. And I’m a supporter of Jonathan “the kids are not alright” Haidt but let’s not kid oursel…

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    Comment #44384497

    This theory about Edward Bernays and the lucky strike being some PR mastermind striked me as bullshit and still strikes me as bullshit. People have convinced themselves of how this…

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    Comment #44371286

    > so they're well-aware of the usual 30-second critiques that come up in this thread. Succinct description of HN. It’s a damn shame.