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He gave a few examples, but to be honest HN filters for quantity over quality with topic discussion. It cargo cults academia but isn't actually very academic or novel. Spread out y…

Yes. Queue inevitable responses that nitpick very small exceptions to the rule, or allude to some higher level ideal while completely ignoring practical reality and voting history …

Oh brother. >In today's times human attention is arguably the most valuable 'commodity' there is. No it isn't. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html You need…

>Here's why YouTube can go fuck itself I stopped reading. YouTube is a completely free platform. It will even pay you to host your content there if it's popular enough. You're free…

Anyone who's had to analyze complex systems at a high level will recognize that this is a pattern that often emerges in some form. The over all pattern happens in game engines, plu…

>We’ve been undergoing a 70-year long period of deregulation, and it’s been overwhelmingly positive. This is such a ridiculously untrue statement.

>Here's one situation where it is very different. It's not.

> I kind of wonder what parallel universe you come from. The one where I don't value bespoke development just because it's bespoke? The universe where I have to actually quantify w…

Yes. I don't know why HN likes to pretend they're exceptions to patterns and processes that came about for a number of reasons. In this specific case, the hand crafted HTML that I'…

This reads like script kiddies who became professional programmers and just want things done how they've always been done. Error handling in go is not concise, and calling it expli…

>the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. Yeah. There's no way way it's more complicated than this. If there are other effects not reflect…

Here's an exercise for the reader: * Why is this coming from "tulsatoday" * Why is the article written in a particular manner? * What biases and agenda is the publication attemptin…

Here is a rule: >Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Allow me to point out a few characteristics of …

We don't have direct democracy. We don't usually rely on any form of democracy for a large set of actions we take as a society. So I truly don't understand your confusion.

No. Not sure why you think you can so bluntly pretend I said things I didn't say. But again this is HN attempting to discuss civics so I shouldn't be surprised.

>if we assume that most people people are too gullible and dumb to live in a society Most people don't have the experience to properly discern information that they aren't intimate…

>NYtimes seems hellbent on convincing people that any information that is not vetted by other humans of authority (preferably themselves) is a danger to society that must be banned…

Have you considered the possibility that these are predicted but we don't elect people who will effectively listen to qualified individuals on these matters? And that the system cu…

>Netflix shows that there's an appetite towards paying for content Content that was originally created with advertising money (The Office). Whether or not Netflix will last the nex…

I think I can't read.

>Accidents like this don’t happen in the West/civilized world Surely you must be joking? Am I not reading this correctly?

> although the U.S.'s position is concerning It's certainly not surprising. >especially as a bastion of religious freedom I would not use the word bastion here. Maybe technically i…