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by punee 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that Wittgenstein, while agreeing with your point about meaning being defined by use, would still argue that there's a lot of unspoken confusion that comes from calling the smartphone a smartphone. The first thing
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by punee 11y ago
That doesn't seem very logical. First, I think you mean "less valued". That's generally what happens when there's little demand for something, or when there's a good substitute at a cheaper price. Second, if al
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by punee 11y ago
People tend to rely on watching television commercials to learn about new products. So you should buy more TV advertising. Correct?
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by punee 11y ago
That's not a claim that will meet much opposition. However, to claim that marketing is inherently "manipulative", or that manipulative tactics are even a significant part of it, seems a little ill-informed. Y Combinator'
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by punee 11y ago
Which probably makes it improper to call it "product placement".
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by punee 11y ago
Where is that service if it's so valuable?
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by punee 11y ago
It's quite telling, but by no means surprising on Hacker News, that you completely failed to address the question. The question wasn't "What would you do if you were looking for something to buy". The question is: "
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by punee 11y ago
Yeah, it's just too bad you're the only person in the world to define advertising and marketing that way, I guess? At least among people who know what they're talking about.
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by punee 11y ago
The point is that those requirements seem redundant.
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by punee 11y ago
If the exam is intended as an assessment of your knowledge, then why should it matter how much time you spent acquiring that knowledge?
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by punee 11y ago
Presumably, if the exam is well-designed, you can't pass it without understanding the material, which you could learn over however many hours you like. Requiring both an exam and a mandatory number of hours seems redundant.
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by punee 11y ago
His comment sounds like a joke.
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by punee 11y ago
So you will upvote differing views that you find interesting. And they will be included in your "bubble". Tada.
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by punee 11y ago
An "airtight echo chamber" would be a situation where the only information I get is a restatement of something I already know. It's not even remotely analogous to what I'm suggesting, which is simply filtering out (some
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by punee 11y ago
No, I don't see any flaw. Am I supposed to carefully read every stupid comment from a poster that so far has only annoyed me on the off chance that he writes something insightful once in a blue moon? I'll ignore him and take that
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by punee 11y ago
How do you decide not to read a comment before you've read it?
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by punee 11y ago
I think you're missing the point. I'm proposing HN introduce a feature that exists on virtually every message board on the internet (i.e. blocking users). That's because its usefulness is well-recognised. I fail to see what b
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by punee 11y ago
So not thinking about things you don't like makes them disappear? That's odd, because I spend about 0% of my time thinking about dumb Hacker News comments, and yet I can see them right there, and before you know it, I've read
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by punee 11y ago
This stuff is why HN commenters are the Adolf Hitlers of the internet. Etc. Etc. P.S. Can we get a Hacker News ignore function? Is there a chrome extension that offers that?
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by punee 11y ago
Why/when should I use it over Intercom?
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by punee 11y ago
Why would they need an incentive when they already continue to work on their own?
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by punee 11y ago
The productivity of labor is also vastly different.
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by punee 11y ago
Okay, I really like this and have thought about creating something similar before... BUT. I think you're missing an essential piece of the puzzle if you don't provide, short of the syllabi themselves, at least the ORDER in which
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by punee 11y ago
Oh but the livelihood of software developers and startup owners also depends on advertising, or even worse gasp ... SALES (direct manipulation!!). They just can't admit it.
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by punee 11y ago
So you're saying The Martian's ad campaign wasn't as good as Star Wars's?
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by punee 11y ago
Yes, finding something that teaches you how to do something you want to do is useless. Unless it's something YOU want to do, of course! Then it's fantastic.
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by punee 11y ago
What happens to people's wealth when they buy products from Bill Gates's company?
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by punee 11y ago
> The sheer scale of the evidence is overwhelming. Really? Because your description sounds very flimsy. Can you really compare Japan and the UK without correcting for a bunch of confounding cultural variables that have nothing to do with
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by punee 11y ago
Oh wow, I'm sorry I missed your comment because for the last few days I've been wondering why no one was asking that. Why on earth is no one pointing out that the excessive influence of the rich on politics is a problem that has t
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by punee 11y ago
Yeah, it's just too bad we can't ask the (millions of) old Russian people who were around at the time and who got killed. Are you fucking kidding me?

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