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That huge, complex social construct is called advertising and it is something HN users should know about seeing how most of their jobs is serving as much of it to as many Internet …

Yeah as I alluded to in this thread I believe most gamers have been female for some time, but somehow for many people (read: many men) they don't 'count' because they're mobile gam…

Alright I'll remove the snark. The question still stands though

My experience as well. People on this site tend to think everything goes back to hunter gatherer societies and genes (a field they generally know little about) when the most plausi…

Aren't the majority of gamers female anyway? [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/52-per...

"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"

I have a hard time believing that someone on HN, a crowd whose primary job involves using free software and whose primary hobby is reading Wikipedia articles , would just idly spec…

>I don't even understand how this idea survives concrete examples. Lol you don't understand how knowledge can be shared between two or more parties without one of them making a pro…

People are already making content without monetizing it, and have been for decades. As alien a way of thinking as it may seem to some, many human beings do not need a bizarre syste…

You're conflating 'no content at all' and 'cutting 95% of the Internet'. Honestly there's so much stuff out there that you wouldn't even notice even if 99.9% of the Internet conten…

'What about my business model' is not a valid argument. You are not in fact entitled to one. Personally I'd rather see 95% less 'content' on the Internet if it meant it were ad fre…

As far as I remember there was an Internet without ads. I don't think we need literal garbage stimuli for media to thrive.

Yeah that's the point. Fuck ads.

The world would definitely be better off without facebook. It's worse than useless. Seriously, how would your life change dramatically without Facebook?

I used to have a lot of respect for rms. Sure he was quirky but at least he was principled. Sure his last actual free software contribution was in 1995 but he did a lot of advocacy…

Self-driving cars aren't real. And ancient Egyptians were using tablets, I don't know if you chose this word on purpose.

You're right, people should eschew such debasing wordly pleasures for the noble task of checks notes tracking the living hell of anyone with an internet device to serve them with p…

There's a tweet from some prominent agriculture researcher pointing out that the fabled Food Computer is in fact a rehash of agricultural techniques used circa 2000. Forgot her nam…

>According to what bible/religion are "recreational drugs" (whatever the definition of that is) "intended to be" for fun, subversive and/or spiritual use? No bible but mere history…

Yes. By posting a comment on a HN thread I am literally forbidding people from doing drugs to keep up with their 70-hour work week at their local adtech startup. I'm that powerful.…

Lol no it's not. Mean age when having one's first child is 29+ among EU women: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D... Also keep in mind that this age is in…

It really takes a special kind of mind to take something originally intended to be fun, subversive and/or spiritual (recreational drugs) that's existed for decades or even centurie…

This is an American thing. I'm European, 27 and I'm regularly shocked after conversing with people my age on the other continent casually mentioning their 'husband' or 'wife and ki…