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The nytimes they are a-changin'

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Re: The nytimes they are a-changin'

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Wow, I had no idea the ads were so huge and invasive. It made me wonder how much Ralph Lauren spent to have their ads take what seemed to be over 50% of the on-screen real estate.

Just to be fair, many of the most intrusive ads I saw there were interstitials - they show for a few seconds then disappear.

Re: The nytimes they are a-changin'

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The pace of news is the pulse of the day

Counterpoint: "news" is the lie that something important happens every day.

Depends on what you define as "important", but with 6.5 billion people on the world, there are certain to be remarkable or notable events with great regularity and frequency.

Re: The nytimes they are a-changin'

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It's interesting to see the typo fixes and how long different stories last. At 2:11 a story relevant to us all. I wonder (with regards to his point about things disappearing forever) if a distributed effort among "tech people" to catalog a lot of websites would work, different people run nodes that are given tasks. Would be neat to keep a track of the top 1,000 article driven sites for a year (not just news, reddit, hn etc.)

> Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour

This has happened to me a few times. Recently I had accidentally collected over 100,000 copies of a website over a 3 month period after forgetting the thing was running.

Re: The nytimes they are a-changin'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: "news" is the lie that something important happens every day.

Depends on what you define as "important", but with 6.5 billion people on the world, there are certain to be remarkable or notable events with great regularity and frequency.

Important to whom? What people find remarkable and notable varies wildly. What may be notable to one group (say the residents of X-town may find the mayoral election notable) might not be to another (Y-town doesn't care).

Something remarkable or notable may happen every day, but it's not necessarily the case that something remarkable or notable to a specific person happens every day.

Re: The nytimes they are a-changin'

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If they collected the html and not just screencaps, it would be interesting to see a word-cloud evolve and change over time too.

Too bad there isn't an annual follow up for every major story.

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