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Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me.
Very good article ! I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For example this HN news thread: France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update [1]. Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
Different people will react to different things.
Very good article ! I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For example this HN news thread: France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update [1]. Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
As much as it burns my nose hairs to admit this ... HN is not a hivemind. Different people will react to different things.
Note that people who are outside the American madhouse, those who live in developing countries like the Philippines or China, very much want to adopt American customs. Few of them want to live a monastic or back-to-nature lifestyle. These people can learn from Americans' experience, yet there is no mass movement to adopt the good part while staying relaxed, centered, and happy. I'm not saying that they prefer employe…
I know they want this because they see it in tv shows because they tell me; it's considered 'being rich' to act and look like that. People who are complaining all the time to us that they cannot possibly pay the next month rent have huge flatscreens and DID buy another game console or phone with christmas. I don't know about the Philipines or China, but this is southern europe and it's very real. I think it's more or less the same there; you see people 'having fun' (it's a sitcom yo!) and believe that kind of wealth is something to go for.
I'm not saying we have to go back to nature; internet, mobile devices etc is fine. But to think that 2 SUVs, a huge house (what's on the top floor again? yeah no-one goes there ever) or two, almost certainly living on debt (it's one of those things designed to buy perceived happiness in exchange for money for the MAN) will make you happy is a delusion which is set forth by the media. If media for some reason would not put some much positive weight in consumerism, a lot of people here would be content doing what their parents/grandparents did. Now they are not; they have a hardpush drive to 'get what Americans take for granted' without really knowing why they want that.
Note that people who are outside the American madhouse, those who live in developing countries like the Philippines or China, very much want to adopt American customs. Few of them want to live a monastic or back-to-nature lifestyle. These people can learn from Americans' experience, yet there is no mass movement to adopt the good part while staying relaxed, centered, and happy. I'm not saying that they prefer employe…
And why is that? Where I live most of the year, on a mountain in nature, I see young people moving away all the time and their parents and grandparents wanting 'something better' for them. What is that something better? If you ask them, they all, without fail, come with examples from American tv shows on how they want to live or how they want their offspring to live. Nice suits, phones, cars, houses, etc. Why do peop…
Very good article ! I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For example this HN news thread: France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update [1]. Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
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As much as it burns my nose hairs to admit this ... HN is not a hivemind. Different people will react to different things.
I agree with this, but I have the feeling that some people have mixed feelings regarding this problem. Hence my (rather precise) question: Can someone that like this article AND dislike [1] explain me.
At the same time, I will never accept the idea of internet-content being filtered at the ISP level. I want 100% of the web-content to reach my computer. There, I will make the decision of what I want to see.
Happiness, health and stability are not core objectives of our society. The production of wealth, as measured by GDP, or by the stock markets, or consumer spending, is our yardstick of success. I hope that in the remainder of the century we can can transition to better forms of society where the health and happiness of the general population is more important than the efficiency of our economic structures.
If you force me to be happy, I will be very sad.
It's amazing to me how much expense comes out of fear. For example, one of the reasons why Manhattan real estate is so expensive is that people feel a need to live here in order to keep up their professional status. Not to limit their commutes, but because the really evil law and financial firms stop promoting you as soon as you move off the island. So they spend $5 million on a house, as opposed to, for example, not…
Are you just making this up as you go? You're completely wrong. Getting in/out of Manhattan is painful from just about anywhere. It's usually a minimum of hour door to door. If you're working 10-12hr days, you'll pay for the easy subway commute. However, there are plenty of very successful people that do commute from NJ, CT, and Westchester. The solution to expensive Manhattan real estate is better mass transit. Imag…
The solution to expensive Manhattan real estate is better mass transit.
That would be a huge win.