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I'm pretty sure that Wittgenstein, while agreeing with your point about meaning being defined by use, would still argue that there's a lot of unspoken confusion that comes from cal…

That doesn't seem very logical. First, I think you mean "less valued". That's generally what happens when there's little demand for something, or when there's a good substitute at …

People tend to rely on watching television commercials to learn about new products. So you should buy more TV advertising. Correct?

That's not a claim that will meet much opposition. However, to claim that marketing is inherently "manipulative", or that manipulative tactics are even a significant part of it, se…

Which probably makes it improper to call it "product placement".

Where is that service if it's so valuable?

It's quite telling, but by no means surprising on Hacker News, that you completely failed to address the question. The question wasn't "What would you do if you were looking for so…

Yeah, it's just too bad you're the only person in the world to define advertising and marketing that way, I guess? At least among people who know what they're talking about.

The point is that those requirements seem redundant.

If the exam is intended as an assessment of your knowledge, then why should it matter how much time you spent acquiring that knowledge?

Presumably, if the exam is well-designed, you can't pass it without understanding the material, which you could learn over however many hours you like. Requiring both an exam and a…

His comment sounds like a joke.

So you will upvote differing views that you find interesting. And they will be included in your "bubble". Tada.

An "airtight echo chamber" would be a situation where the only information I get is a restatement of something I already know. It's not even remotely analogous to what I'm suggesti…

No, I don't see any flaw. Am I supposed to carefully read every stupid comment from a poster that so far has only annoyed me on the off chance that he writes something insightful o…

How do you decide not to read a comment before you've read it?

I think you're missing the point. I'm proposing HN introduce a feature that exists on virtually every message board on the internet (i.e. blocking users). That's because its useful…

So not thinking about things you don't like makes them disappear? That's odd, because I spend about 0% of my time thinking about dumb Hacker News comments, and yet I can see them r…

This stuff is why HN commenters are the Adolf Hitlers of the internet. Etc. Etc. P.S. Can we get a Hacker News ignore function? Is there a chrome extension that offers that?

Why/when should I use it over Intercom?

Why would they need an incentive when they already continue to work on their own?

The productivity of labor is also vastly different.

Okay, I really like this and have thought about creating something similar before... BUT. I think you're missing an essential piece of the puzzle if you don't provide, short of the…

Oh but the livelihood of software developers and startup owners also depends on advertising, or even worse gasp ... SALES (direct manipulation!!). They just can't admit it.

So you're saying The Martian's ad campaign wasn't as good as Star Wars's?