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The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

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Re: The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

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The horizontal scroll actually isn't that bad, but what killed it was using italics for the entire text. What the hell???

yeah I like weird layouts sometimes, but italics was a pain, especially since this is just text.

thanks for the feedback :), we will consider to change that

Re: The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

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"Race" is just how you look to other people and how that ties to your status. Its categorization is very much country dependent - Hispanic people are often not considered white in America, while no one would be making that distinction in Europe. On the contrary, Europeans often don't consider Arabs white, even though they often look white. The US and Europe have things like 'white', 'black', 'asian' but Latin America…

> Its categorization is very much country dependent - Hispanic people are often not considered white in America Hispanic is not a race. Latin american history is complex and a lot of mixing happened. You do have hispanics who are predominantly european and are considered white in the USA, and they're appropriately called "white hispanics". > while no one would be making that distinction in Europe. Where do you get th…

If you keep doing flamewars on HN, including race war, we're going to have to ban you. If that's what you want to do on the internet please find somewhere else to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

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post #73

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The horizontal scroll actually isn't that bad, but what killed it was using italics for the entire text. What the hell???

i think you’re supposed to click on the links which open up more info written in standard font. in that context, the italics is sort of like how you might get a summary in italics at the start of a book chapter.

you got it!
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