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Religion is a subset of ideology, and both are a mechanism to recruit labor to fight and not the reason for conflict. Material isn't cheaper to buy, the "owner" of the material has…

It's not that deep, he's not even writing it

OK. Tesla Trailing P/E: 390.70 Apple Trailing P/E: 34.11 Ford Trailing P/E : 11.74

It's influencer marketing. These 'ego battles' are a show to keep their brand in front of you. It's engaging like reality television. This is very valuable, especially for companie…

Yes, it was crazy. $2/hour in 1997 dollars! Agreed… I think only Pubg has come close to replicating the intensity of emotion in PvP (which was my main interest in playing)

I got into programming through MUDs, have the fondest memories of those times and deeply appreciate their role in my life. I ran up a giant AOL bill playing Dragon's Gate that I ha…

The free encyclopedia is an advertisement for a nonprofit that does a lot of things: https://wikimediafoundation.org/what-we-do/ . They manage costs of producing the encyclopedia b…

His keen eye and intellect - valuable traits as a laborer in a knowledge economy.

It is an advertisement.

No, that was just good advertising in an era where there were few entities that could afford to broadcast at scale.

HN is an advertisement for Y Combinator. You and I contribute content to advertise our identity and ego.

Any information that comes to you for free or is on a screen is an advertisement. All of it. That's the point. Do you think people spend millions and billions of dollars creating a…

One thing I find interesting about reading is that it's done in the voice of the reader, not the writer. Shame and manipulative high-pressure sales tactics... interesting perspecti…

FWIW, I enjoyed the hundreds of hours I spent with dart:mirrors to automate serialization, and the code-generation heavy approach always felt like kind of a bummer. But I feel like…

I'm talking about my current experience, not the delta over time. I've been using Spotify since 2011.

I'm reading these comments and I'm thinking "are we using the same Spotify?" I don't see any AI music, I don't get Podcasts pushed on me, the UI is fine, playlists are fine and I g…

The author provided data and graphs to highlight the problems in America he believes are being caused by a root problem of society having low expectations for men. He doesn't provi…

I can appreciate this perspective because I used to have it. I even wrote a similar blog post 10 years ago - it was on the top of HN and the comment section was a beautiful shitsho…

I’ve found that I’m at least more willing to make quick typo fixes and deploy them when I just have to make the change locally and do a single push. This is especially true (for me…

Awesome and congrats. We started using MkDocs for https://aqueduct.io/docs/ , and have since used it for a ton of projects. Some things that we found really useful were that it ind…

Ditto on generic methods both changing the game for Dart and being necessary. I spend most of my time in Dart, Swift and ObjC, and I've built serious applications in Erlang and Jav…