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Ah, a classic! I remember reading this as a kid thinking it was sincere and just getting madder and madder as I read
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People are often surprised at how similar HN is to all other forms of social media. The only thing saving it is the quantity of people who don’t know about it. It is 100% always a waste of time and I’m literally wasting time right now when the other screen in front of me has the thing I should actually be doing.
People become surprised when they see something different from the norm. If they are surprised, it tells you that the norm is different. And look at that, the comment in question is now dead. That’s the system working.
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The other, important, difference being that I am not required to fund the billionaire. If I object to the actions of a billionaire, it's not my money that's being misused.
I’m not? How should I stop using Comcast for my Internet? What other internet browser could I use in the 1990s besides IE on an ActiveX page? What other phone can I use besides a Google or Apple phone? How do I avoid giving Nestle or Unilever money? By avoiding a massive list of thousands of brands? These are just a few examples of the negatives of capitalist consolidation.
Netscape? Opera? Lynx? All of which predate IE.
>What other phone can I use besides a Google or Apple phone?
A dumb one. Or install something like LineageOS. And if your complaint is that they're not as nice, well, they're not required to be. Philosophical positions and moral boundaries have a price, and convenience is a small one to pay.
>How do I avoid giving Nestle or Unilever money? By avoiding a massive list of thousands of brands?
Yes. That's exactly what you do. With the exception of certain pharmaceuticals, the vast majority of the stuff they sell is not necessary. If you don't want to support billionaires, don't be suckered into the consumerist trap. It's not hard to live with, and want, less stuff.
Honestly, the sibling comment about billionaires capturing critical infrastructure and monopolizing it is a much better argument than this. But you're not even trying to look at the issue from my perspective. If you object to the way your government is spending its money, as many citizens have done over the past twenty years, what can you actually do about it? The consequences of withholding your money from the tax man is much more severe than doing so from Bill Gates or Charles Koch.
>If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never so…
Is your son or daughter safe from the Russian menace "Tetris"? Some common symptoms include them attempting to organize their room into well fitting shapes such as neatly fitting boxes. True Hackers use Compuserve or Prodigy.
"Did you know that Tetris was originally written in Haskell?"
"Really? I thought that it was originally written in Russia?"
Even better - you can now troll Bill Gates by reminding him that Linux was both more successful than and outlasted his marriage:)
I come to Hacker News to avoid garbage like this.
Is your son or daughter safe from the Russian menace "Tetris"? Some common symptoms include them attempting to organize their room into well fitting shapes such as neatly fitting boxes. True Hackers use Compuserve or Prodigy.
Prodigy offering $400 off a $399 computer at Best Buy if you signed up for a 3 year service agreement was why I had my first modern computer.
One of the finest trolls Adequacy.org produced, and that's not a small pool nor an easy race to call.