Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion • Hacker News Board

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by Double_a_92 » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #5

kauffj wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for providing this. Please avoid clicking the OP link and giving traffic to a company that engages in gray/black web and SEO patterns.

Are you referring to The NY Times? I typically want to send traffic to the original content providers and creators.

The articles on NYT get paywalled after some time... So it's pretty useless to post them here without an archive link. I think the archive.is problem is with the ".is" domain and some DNS issue. It's recommended to share the http://archive.today/p3ZK7 link.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by necovek » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 2:51 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #5

kauffj wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for providing this. Please avoid clicking the OP link and giving traffic to a company that engages in gray/black web and SEO patterns.

Are you referring to The NY Times? I typically want to send traffic to the original content providers and creators.

I think it's a tough balance: I personally want to support original content creators but to discourage anti-patterns like showing different versions to different consumers (other than for usability purposes): that helps make search less useful. Eg. there might be better content from a smaller producer, but a big one like NY Times will shadow it.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by collyw » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 3:11 PM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #16

classified wrote: post #6

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It's not terribly hard to get around the paywall if you want to.

reader mode in firefox works and has the advantage of getting rid of lots of other crap as well. (Its the little "page" icon at the right of the address bar).

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by nailer » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 3:16 PM UTC

sanj wrote: post #5

kauffj wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for providing this. Please avoid clicking the OP link and giving traffic to a company that engages in gray/black web and SEO patterns.

Are you referring to The NY Times? I typically want to send traffic to the original content providers and creators.

I do too, but after the text pops up and I start reading it, I'm in some kind of (non-paywall) photo album about the people involved, I haven't clicked on anything, I'm just trying to read.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by asah » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 3:22 PM UTC

throwaway8291 wrote: post #2

Archived: http://archive.is/p3ZK7

downvote: this piece was well researched and a piece of art itself, and not just another NYT throwaway op-ed. If you don't want the world to be twitter rants and facebook meme reposts, we need to support pieces like this, and the publications that fund and publish them.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by wolco » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 3:34 PM UTC

I remember a simpsons parodity. Does anyone elsw share this memory?

I remember watching this at 35up and lower as a kid.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by v77 » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

Get frustrated with the Times a lot with their tech bashing and political homomgeneity but pieces like this are worth the price of a year's subscription alone. Wonderfully written and a clear subtle mirroring of Apsted's biography using the framing device of his series.

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by fortran77 » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 4:18 PM UTC

I've seen all the episodes of the "Up" series. And I think it's affected the way I approach and talk to people at my high school reunions. 30th and 40th were the most interesting -- seeing people at their peak maturity (in the 30th) and starting to decline (at their 40th)

Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by hazeii » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 4:20 PM UTC

classified wrote: post #6

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Sequence:-

1. Try private mode

2. Disable javascript and hit reload.

3. Use lynx

But then, this article is one of those rare ones where I'd like to be able to contribute more directly.

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Re: Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #23

tim333 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not terribly hard to get around the paywall if you want to.

reader mode in firefox works and has the advantage of getting rid of lots of other crap as well. (Its the little "page" icon at the right of the address bar).

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