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WTF man? Not everyone has read everything already...
It’s been out for decades, surely spoilers are expired now by any reasonable time limit
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People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook
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#82WWF is all fake. Why not the WWW?
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#83Is anyone out there simply unaware of the "fake news" phenomenon. Are we so inured that we cannot differentiate BS from the real thing and need to be protected? I don't think so. Everyone KNOWS. People aren't that stupid. Why wasn't lying us into the Iraq war considered fake news?
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#84It will be interesting when the election cycles start to cross over into eachother. For instance, start lining up primaries for an election 5 years away. We could be in a permenent election, with people slowly positioning themselves to be elected sometime later. Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives. Two months before it's time for new politicians to take over, they would draw names, and do…
>Then, we can finally give up and just draft our representatives.
This is called sortition. It's basically what we do to select jurors already. Athens did this to select their officials (though people had to opt in to be selectable) and they thought it was obviously better than elections.
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#85Is Hacker News fake news? Many times people post things that would make a real expert roll their eyes. There are some smart people here but also lots of inaccurate information.
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#86For those interested in how small differences in data lead to large outcomes check this out: https://bit.ly/35mtZZj
It is a download link for an installation wizard for an advanced computer optimization tool. VictoR works by parsing file storage size through a neural net and then tweaking minor settings which leads to faster computer speeds.
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#87On Facebook you would mostly encounter such people if someone you know shares their posts. Comments are buried too deep to have a widespread impact. If a fake person writes the post and your friend shares it, or a guy named "Joe the Plumber" writes it, does it really make a difference? It is also in the realm of possibility that a group of folks is "false flagging" these profiles to make the other side look disingenu…
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#88What age demographic still really uses facebook? American's 35+? All my friends us Messenger and the rest is on other social media platforms for content. edit dont know why this got downvoted, it was a legit question because everyone knows who the primary age group of votes is, so Im wondering if there is data on age demographics of actual FB use.
I'm 42. Anecdotally, most of my peers at least have an account. Many use FB periodically for checking in with older family. It's also used for events and "meetup" stuff. And the market place (with various local for-sale-or-trade groups) has largely replaced Ebay and craigslist, because access to those groups can be somewhat controlled. Craigslist and Ebay are both a dumpster fire of scammers, low-ballers, and overall shady characters (which is saying a lot when FB is increasingly patrolled by "Russian" bots).
Basically, FB was the first massive social network, and so far, nothing better has come along (that has enough membership to entice people away).
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#90Did anyone stop and consider these aren’t fake people but people who value anonymity? I have 20 friends who use such tools and tech to hide their identities. Yes they lean right, slightly but they do. They all do this to avoid being found by employers and other. One of my friends is a prominent person in a legal field, another one is a member of a three letter group. Other than my real name - My Facebook profile has…
Why are they all, in unison, spreading political bs? Don't be naive. These are not accounts for privacy minded people, this is orchestrated bad-faith people attempting to sabotage elections.