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> Sorry, I'm simply not convinced that monetizing and marketing people's attention is all that much of a social ill. There is nothing about Facebook that's in any way worse than th…

Another day, another bullshit piece about facebook. There has been daily hitpieces on facebook for months now.

That's pretty much how most countries made money. Opium wars, slave trade, etc.

The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.

> Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc. It really isn't. It's a tourist trap, especially with the completion of the High Line. The food isn't good an…

"Conquered".

> Cumulative return for the S&P 500 over the past 9 years (conveniently leaving out the 2008 crash), with dividend reinvestment, is equivalent to a YoY gain of 16.25% That's a bit …

Tesla didn't pioneer nor kick off electric cars. The only thing they did is market well. They are the kings of marketing.

We get these type of fads every decade. Cholesterol was bad for you then fats were bad for you. Then it was running. Then hiking. It never ends. My grandparents lived well into the…

Europe is fairly backwards when it comes to free speech. A guy who made a silly video of his dog doing a nazi salute is getting charged in britain. Someone who criticized the turki…

> I'm on the fence on this one. What's there to be on the fence about? It's terrible and a infringement of free speech. But reddit has the right to ban it as a private company. It …

> Are they? Yes. > If you distribute movies and media to the public, you normally are breaking laws. That's not what we are talking about. You can transform any public image for pa…

> Same thing that happened to PCs. What happened to PCs was market saturation followed by people choosing smartphones over PCs. It is inevitable that smartphones sales will stall a…

It's really sad how little we are taught about the opium wars. It is easily the most important war in the last 500 years. The wealth that was taken from china as a result of the op…

It's amazing how these greedy people destroyed millions of lives and they get to live the life of luxury. Sell weed and you are a felon. Peddle addictive opiates to the masses and …

> The most significant to me is that all the death destruction and suffering was all to further enrich some 5ish rich dudes. The opium wars were about more than enriching 5ish rich…

> I think there's good intentions by Google here. There isn't "good intentions". It's almost pointless to talk in that terms when it comes to multinational companies. Corporations …

> The eternal human obsession with death explains our intense interest in the experiences that come as close to it as possible. You could argue that "existential crisis" is the fun…

That's a form of appeal to authority. Something you are taught as a freshman not to do.

And what caused the mass hysteria? The greedy news media out for clickbait ad money. Just off the top my head, I can list a few hysterias caused by the news media just in the last …

The long answer. Nope. The short answer. No. Wish they would work to find the evidence first rather than asking History Channel style of clickbait questions.

What's the point of this article? Is it news? Is it interesting? Is it HN material? It's not hard to quit amazon prime. I only sign up for amazon prime once a year during christmas…

> European colonisation was about exploiting the natural resources of the Africa and the Orient, not the women. I meant for the entirety of european colonization ( its duration ), …

> The media in the US has historically been 100% controlled by rich people, and all major media still is. Things have gotten worse as capital consolidated all the industries. Now w…

> Allies are no exception. Absolutely. As Robert E Lee eloquently said: "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." In war there is no good. It's…