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Has there been a time on HN when a nytimes article hasn't been spammed to the frontpage? Without fail there is a nytimes article on the frontpage every time I visit HN.

If we are being honest, Facebook easily gets most of the scrutiny here because of the rampant news hysteria. Google is a very distant second. But I agree that Apple seems to get a …

That may or may not be true, but Europe is more of a content powerhouse than a internet/tech powerhouse. Their content is a bigger money maker than their tech. So it is in their in…

They aren't two separate wars. They are two campaigns within the same war. You wouldn't divide ww2 into two separate wars because the germans and the soviets were allied in the fir…

I'm not so sure. I think poor quality sleep and proscrastination are a symptom of not wanting to do something. Poor quality sleep never got in the way of me doing the things I want…

I agree. And to add to your point, we are bombarded with the demographic problem message every day. So what's the solution from these experts? Are we supposed to continuously grow …

What does that matter? If we get it from directly from plants we eat or indirectly through meat, you are still getting pesticides.

Perhaps they should have used a better example than rotten tomatoes. RT is owned by NBCUniversal and is terribly unreliable as a movie ratings aggregator. At one point it was a ver…

And some of the comments on this thread is a master class of virtue signaling as well. All sides seem well represented here. Also, who is putting up walls? Be specific please. I to…

Is it just google or all business? As china gets wealthier and as they develop, doesn't that also erode our military advantage? Isn't the overall economic growth a greater threat t…

It might be natural or innate. Even young children associate taller with good and shorter with bad. I forget where but there was a documentary where children were asked to associat…

The NYT also enabled harvey weinstein and spread lies about yellowcake which caused an illegal war and countless dead middle easterners. https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harv…

The WSJ is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world. Why are you begging people here to buy a subscription? If you can't make ends meeet, why not ask one of the riches men i…

Renewable energy will grow for sure, but every national survey in the US and every international survey of energy use definitively shows renewable won't be anywhere near majority a…

Good point. But one way the internet is being decentralized is along national boundaries. The chinese, russians, south koreans, japanese and even the EU are now looking to protect …

I don't live in a bubble. Media and people who use the term "alt-right" live in a bubble. You have to live in a bubble to even use a term like alt-right. But you know that already.…

It's what the media and the extremist left call everyone who isn't extremist left.

More like someone does something for media attention. Isn't it funny how all of these things happen after the media started using pewdiepie for clicks? For years, pewdiepie went ab…

She quits social media and writes a public article in traditional media so that people can talk even more about her? Is this her idea or the idea of her mother who probably is frie…

You mean like the british royal family? Politicians? Movie stars? Which the news exploits for money as well? It's so funny how the media pushes neverending anti-social media storie…

How many WSJ journalists come from elite college? How many of them are sending their children to elite colleges? I bet most to both categories. Elite colleges aren't worth it if yo…

Aren't we helping britain, much of europe, australia, etc build orwellian states too? What about our firms, government and military helping build an orwellian state in saudi arabia…

But the progress of our system has been to go from diverse to less diverse. Ever since 1776, we have become ever more centralized. We went from state rights to federal power. From …

Or maybe they hire the best engineers who interview well? Being a great engineer and being a great interviewer aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. You can be both. Also, after 2…

We've had ghost villages since colonial days ( where native americans chased out of their villages or wiped out ) before being repopulated with european settlers, ghost towns from …