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> Is it a known/named phenomenon? I think it's just called "journalism" these days. I find it hard to find publications without clickbaity stuff like this.
I'd say it's marketing/business rather than journalism, the journalism takes something of a back seat - like the role of music in hit factories.
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I did a similar thing with recruiting ads, I added a line of "If you are interested in this role, please reach out to me starting with 'Heyyyyyy I am XXX', thanks!" in the middle of the JD. And I simply ignore 99% of the reach out because they didn't start with that line. It's just like the brown M&m thing Van Halen did. Works way better than I expected.
I always read job listings top to bottom, but I would never in my life send out an email in a professional setting starting with "Heyyyyyyyy". I don't think this idea of yours is as clever as you imagine it to be
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Twitter is poison. It amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms, aided by the fact that the largest userbase on twitter seems to be political extremists of both left & right. It's created an environment where making a comment like "mathematics is merely a white supremacist social construct" is now somehow acceptable to the left. The platform literally exists to make things look lik…
> It amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms, aided by the fact that the largest userbase on twitter seems to be political extremists of both left & right. It's created an environment where making a comment like "mathematics is merely a white supremacist social construct" is now somehow acceptable to the left. It is like unleashing a neural net that amplifies whatever it sees in…
The vast majority of the world never sees or hears any of it.
It causes delusions of grandeur across the userbase.
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If only you had read the sibling comment and my answer there...
Do you mean the indieweb comment? I can't see any more. Indieweb is a good idea but again, difficult set up for the average person.
Automattic made its fortune by developing and hosting Wordpress for people who are not tech savvy and wanted to have its place to write.
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Do you mean the indieweb comment? I can't see any more. Indieweb is a good idea but again, difficult set up for the average person.
No, I mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269124 Automattic made its fortune by developing and hosting Wordpress for people who are not tech savvy and wanted to have its place to write.
I agree, there's a market for something that plugs the gap. But if it's not as easy as social media, it won't get the adoption these days.
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And is it available for Firefox?
Not as far as I know, but he's really big on the "increase SNR" thing so I could ask him to write it.
If anyone knows anything else similar then I would like to know about it
When I first learnt to program the thing that I really enjoyed was learning to make a terminal app that took in the users input and used it as a conditional. I’d make all these little toy apps where my family had to type in the right word to continue. Eg “Who is the leader of the autobots?” => “Well done. Transform and roll out!!” It strikes me we could encourage better discourse with one word locked comments that th…
That would be fun to implement in election voting worldwide. I still don't get why you have to pass a test before driving, healing and working at your profession, but not before changing how your society works.
After all, if you're a politician, you want to get re-elected - so appeasing voters is much more important than appeasing people who can't vote. And appeasing demographics where 90% of people can vote is more important than appeasing demographics where 50% of people can vote.
So any type of testing to be allowed to vote - high school graduation, reading, IQ, current affairs - would be quite detrimental to the people who don't get to vote.
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> It amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms, aided by the fact that the largest userbase on twitter seems to be political extremists of both left & right. It's created an environment where making a comment like "mathematics is merely a white supremacist social construct" is now somehow acceptable to the left. It is like unleashing a neural net that amplifies whatever it sees in…
It scares me how much people on twitter believe that what they see trending on there from the news and other sources is being seen and blown up worldwide when it's not. It's being blown up worldwide ON TWITTER. The vast majority of the world never sees or hears any of it. It causes delusions of grandeur across the userbase.
I've seen commenters here claim that the majority of all human communication and interaction takes place on and is controlled by a few social media silos.
Yeah I'm gonna go subscribe to the journal for €100 a year before I comment... Right.
Out of interest, how many lines even of the article did you read before you decided to post this? Because it can't be many.
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If you don’t have the patience to digest the article, what give you the authority to write on the topic?
> If you don’t have the patience to digest the article, what give you the authority to write on the topic? ... your common sense, your sense of logic, your spidey sense to detect BS trained since long time ago, your previous experience, or the fact that you are yet a expert in the topic. Or just your curiosity and desire to participate in the conversation, that is the correct motivation. To take a chance to improve y…
Consider how accurate the senses of a person that speaks without observing are. Existing is not license to proliferate otherwise there would be no notion of a cancerous cell, these would simply be another part of the organism. Uninformed opinions are the cancer of public discourse. Uncontrolled growth of irresponsible and subjective thought.