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More of the neverending pro-censorship authoritarian journalistic nanny-style comments. If what you said was true, violent crime wouldn't be dropping so precipitously. https://www.…

Why don't they just support the growth of their own homegrown "WhatsApp"? With government support and financial support, india could easily have an indian "whatsapp". WhatsApp isn'…

I told you why your assumptions were false. And please don't use philosophical and logical concepts you clearly don't understand. > To give an example, if news A presents a factual…

You forgot other Pulitzer Prize gems. Pulitzer Prize winning news source : Nayirah, Yellow cake, assad syria chemical attack, Trump working for Putin conspiracy. But then again, Pu…

There is a difference between bad science and "not being a science" ( aka pseudoscience ). The difference is that in one you can formulate replicable science. In the other, by its …

1. I didn't say all news sources are "equally biased". Saying all news sources are biased is not the same as saying equally biased. Some are obvious more biased and more propagandi…

It's in a replication crisis because pretty much none of it is science ( no replicable testing possible - hypothesis, experiment, theory ). It's why Richard Feynmann associated soc…

HTTP is the Web. HTML is just the superficial face of the web.

Rather than being an honest game to reduce "disinformation", this game is simply defending mainstream media. It's message is essentially "trust mainstream media". Not that shocking…

It's called propaganda. Go back 4 or 5 years ago. The NYTimes, Bloomberg, WSJ, etc all ran the same stories back then. The comments were the same. Usually some "expat" living there…

Did the writers at the new yorker finally start their high school literature education? "'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158418 …

I didn't say HN was "all tech oriented". Please stop misquoting me. I said "There was a time when reddit, HN, digg, etc were all tech oriented. Meaning "HN was tech oriented", "red…

I suggest you read 1984 critically instead of repeating the nonsense you were told. Which "news organization" in 1984 was punished for reporting on topics that made the state look …

There was a time when reddit, HN, digg, etc were all tech oriented. The problem is that once a platform gets slightly popular, journalists, NGOs, PR, foreign actors, think tanks, e…

And just to think, facebook banned all cryptocurrency ads last year. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-announces-a-ban-on-cry... Clever girl. Considering that facebook has an a…

Newspapers aren't competing with google or facebook. No more than newspapers were competing against news stands. Newspapers are competing against each other and those that have the…

Not a serious attempt at social debate? Yes, calling 99.9999% of the people attempting a serious social debate "white supremacist" is why we can't have a serious debate. People lik…

WSJ didn't break the story. Other people broke the story. That story was "broken" on forums all over the internet. A WSJ journalist just collated the story and wrote a book about i…

High value news from the news corp owned wsj? No thanks.

It wasn't a book about prophecy. It was a book on his present. He just set it in the future since he couldn't afford to tick off the censors in britain. 1984 was inspired by his wo…

I didn't credit them with creating the world. I credited them with creating society, culture, etc. It isn't really a matter of debate. It's well understood the elites create societ…

Feminism is a symptom rather than the cause. The cause is the commoditization of humans into productivity and consumption units in a post-industrial environment where the state and…

"All Companies Are in the Tech Business Now" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-08/all-co... "Every Company Is Now a Tech Company" https://www.wsj.com/articles/ever…

If I remember correctly, the runtime keeps size of the array in the header of the object along with sync block, etc. If you have VS, you can view the object in memory to see the sy…

How could peak democracy be ww2? The only significant democracy in ww2 was the US. British Empire, Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, China, etc were not democracies. There was the US a…