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Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable
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#12> . So basically, “don’t worry about other companies eating into our profits because there’s still sleep to deprive people of.” That’s not something to brag about, Reed. Sleep is a crucial component of good health, you parasite.
As someone who currently owns five turntables.. shut up. God.
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#13I kind of feel the opposite. I'm a music nerd and enjoy listening to records, but I never watch movies or TV. This is the most difficult barrier I have with interacting with people at social events, because people talk about television instead of music. If anyone brings up a popular reference, I likely don't understand it and immediately have to drop out of the conversation. The best way to fix this is to watch just…
Just talk about other things lol. Watching TV just so you can understand pop culture references sounds pretty depressing.
I just read IMDB synapsis for the popular titles. It proves sufficient for keeping up with conversation or even engaging in a mild debate on show's merits.
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#14My dopamine hit: I read HN instead of checking Reddit, FB, Twitter, etc. I am addicted to HN.
Same here. My HN addiction got really worse, so I started to block HN at day and use Reddit instead. Somehow it's less addictive for me and some subs are super funny. Still a time sink.
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#15Truly evergreen content: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
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#17Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one of this dude's submissions are posts from his blog.) This shouldn't be another vector for self-promotion, this should be a forum in which the most insightful and/or conversation-generating content is organically sourced and ranked. My opinion, of course.
I'm not sure, I feel like that's always been pretty common on HN and I also don't see the problem. HN is not very anti-commercial in nature, after all.
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#18Truly evergreen content: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
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#19Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one of this dude's submissions are posts from his blog.) This shouldn't be another vector for self-promotion, this should be a forum in which the most insightful and/or conversation-generating content is organically sourced and ranked. My opinion, of course.
Posts still have to get upvoted to be seen, however they are submitted.
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#20I kind of feel the opposite. I'm a music nerd and enjoy listening to records, but I never watch movies or TV. This is the most difficult barrier I have with interacting with people at social events, because people talk about television instead of music. If anyone brings up a popular reference, I likely don't understand it and immediately have to drop out of the conversation. The best way to fix this is to watch just…
I'm the same about sports, which I generally don't follow, but that often puts me at a serious disadvantage in group converstations, which (among men) seem to focus on sports pretty reliably.