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Post by nksjndfdf »

uhtred wrote: post #38

It's interesting that I was at an itunes free gig in London back in 2010 at the Camden Roundhouse (band was Bombay Bicycle Club and they were very good), and Stephen Fry made a pre gig speech (obviously paid by Apple) to say how marvellous the iphone was and how although some people criticise social media , it is a marvellous thing that helps people feel less lonely, amongst other things (and the iphone helps people…

If you read Stephen Fry you will notice that he goes back and fourth on many issues and most of his views aren't based in any kind of critical calculations or observations. Stephen Fry is _the_ celebrity intellectual, he writes whatever he thinks is 'good' to write at the moment. He also isn't very smart in that he doesn't know a lot about history and philosophy so most of his arguments and discussion end up as pure rhetoric.

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Post by iammew »

gus_massa wrote: post #89
takno wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you shared why it was relevant to the discussion and what it was people would likely be more positive

[Spanish speaker here.] This is a video of "La Cosquillita" by Juan Luis Guerra. I didn't know this song, so I listened to all of it. I'm completely clueless about why this may be related to the discussion. Bad autotranslation of the lyric: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... (It's difficult to translate because it uses a local variations of the spelling/pronunciation of the words. tl;dl:…

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Post by ChrisLTD »

0xffff2 wrote: post #151

>They couldn’t force me to have an online presence after all. I don't know where he gets this idea. Both the Comp. Sci. and Engineering schools at my university require that all students have a laptop capable of running software related to the coursework (financial aid is available specifically to help meet this requirement). The university also supplies plenty of computer labs. If I insisted on turning in all assign…

University itself is elective, no?

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Post by alxndr »

jgrahamc wrote: post #2

The other day I suddenly remembered the door of my college room. Since I was at university pre-Internet, pre-mobile phones there was a piece of paper and a pencil on the door so that people who came round to find me could leave a message... by writing on the door.

I believe that was the inspiration for Facebook's "wall" concept. (...which has since been folded into news feeds, I think?)

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Post by iBzOtaku »

drdrey wrote: post #157
darkclarity wrote: post #52

I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else. The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments…

Doesn't HN qualify as some sort of social media too?

The difference is, it's old school in here. The content, the people, the UI, it's all very different from the modern social media. I had trouble staying regular here when I first discovered HN but after a while, it feels nice to come and see people talking differently from the rest of the Internet. The closest thing to HN is a few reddit subs. This is what feels home now, not Facebook or Twitter like it used to.
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