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Almost like... subreddits!
Maybe more like how lobste.rs allows you to filter out topics you aren't interested it.
It looks interesting, but, what is it?
HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
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Re: HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
#262I have a theory that "upvote for visibility" instead of "upvote because it interests me" is when any up-vote-down-vote arrow community crosses a line that cannot be easily uncrossed. Every "awful" subreddit is a place where a bunch of people upvote a story because they want other people to see it, in some form misguided activism. And this is everything that is "wrong" with those communities. The community is boring t…
I'm sure the whole gaming of HN has been talked to death. But it's not ever that clear to me as to what an 'upvote' actually is. In my mind a submission upvote means 'Interesting', and with comments it's less clear. Does it mean 'I agree', 'Interesting angle' , or what
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> that the NSA story was not a revelation, that it wasn't even news I still disagree on this (but wouldn't downvote you for expressing that opinion). I now design and review systems with the assumption that the GPA (global passive adversary) is real. It's not a political thing; it's an observation of technical reality. To explain why that is a shift in thinking, note that basically every web-site password reset mecha…
How recent do you think this shift is? I don't remember when I learned how juicy a target international telephony is, but it had to have bern the late 90s. Certainly defense contractor salesmen have been treating the hotel telephone with great suspicion for a long time.
Well, since Snowden. Name a site with secure password reset.
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