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I just moved all my email accounts to China.

Politics. People use whatever they can to take each other down at that level. Which is why they get paid so much. For their mindless ambition and to put up with each others mindles…

Ya right. I have wasted many years of my life dealing with Debian/Ubuntu audio packaging. Here's the 20 step process for the layman if audio doesn't work - https://help.ubuntu.com/…

I guess Bourdain didn't have anyone around him who could say 'how are you' right?

So you think the like counts don't have negative effects on people's beliefs and behaviours? Please read Nudge by Richard Thaler to understand how easily misguided the herd is when…

Adults in my book are those you automatically/instinctively turn to when life throws you in the deep sea. It's not really about age but what they have gone through in life. They ar…

You haven't heard of the game called religion?

Once upon a time the network, storage and data center guys thought Facebook/YouTubes one to many broadcasting of content would never scale too. Now they fall over themselves to wor…

His point is we know how to keep a large part of the global population constantly touching their devices like well programmed guinea pigs the whole day, negatively effecting themse…

There the govt builds the controls. Here Twitter, YouTube and Facebook do. No big difference in my book. In terms of outcomes, only clowns get propped up either way.

> don't make any sense unless they're decentralized Things that make sense decentralised to service freedom have a track record of becoming centralised to service convenience. Sour…

You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through appropriate reward …

Ah the 24*7 auto polarising, meme and outrage generating factories built on top of social media attack social media. It's a nice time to be China :) Have fun guys!!

Well ever since social media converted the US into the United States of Meme Generators & Consumers, it is not really possible to go back without mass lobotomies.

Yup. Everything has been reduced to generating memes/outrage and reacting to them. Only exit from the trap is turn off the internet.

He should resign. Or this bullshit will keep repeating. As it already has too many times. Tech/Engineering folk are totally unfit to run social companies of the scale of YouTube/tw…

The amount of global bullshit they have enabled in so many spheres of social life is going to take generations to repair. Can't wait for heads to roll at Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. …

Can't wait for Sheryl Sandberg to write a new book now on garden soil or something.

HN used to be a daily source of nourishment. But today it is a source of "informed bewilderment" like everything else on the web. Google the term. Understand it's consequences on y…

A sociologist would point you at social stratification theory.

Hardly matters what groundbreaking research the US does if it's happening neck deep in a celeb worshiping, engagement metric obsessed culture. Unless you are an Elon Musk type P.T.…

There are no good outcomes in the current noise. People on both extremes will misread and misuse it. Silicon Valley's achievement in the last 10 years is to make sure ambiguity is …

I don't think there is any asymmetry unless you are American. Where are the Chinese branded products on American shelves? This story plays both ways.

Thanks for the link. Interesting read. Had no idea about the gear and work involved.

You are not trying hard enough. I was at Trinity College Library, Dublin a few months back. There are few spaces that are more peaceful and inspiring to work in than that one. You …