throwawawathrow

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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
That huge, complex social construct is called advertising and it is something HN users should know about seeing how most of their jobs is serving as much of it to as many Internet users as possible. You wouldn't think HN users would
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
Yeah as I alluded to in this thread I believe most gamers have been female for some time, but somehow for many people (read: many men) they don't 'count' because they're mobile games, or casual games, or not real games
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
Alright I'll remove the snark. The question still stands though
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
My experience as well. People on this site tend to think everything goes back to hunter gatherer societies and genes (a field they generally know little about) when the most plausible explanation (advertising) is something they know a lot m
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
Aren't the majority of gamers female anyway? [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/52-per...
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that someone on HN, a crowd whose primary job involves using free software and whose primary hobby is reading Wikipedia articles , would just idly speculate about things against the most blatant contrary evid
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
>I don't even understand how this idea survives concrete examples. Lol you don't understand how knowledge can be shared between two or more parties without one of them making a profit? Am I reading this right?
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
People are already making content without monetizing it, and have been for decades. As alien a way of thinking as it may seem to some, many human beings do not need a bizarre system of 'market-based incentives' to get anything don
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
You're conflating 'no content at all' and 'cutting 95% of the Internet'. Honestly there's so much stuff out there that you wouldn't even notice even if 99.9% of the Internet content were removed overnight.
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
'What about my business model' is not a valid argument. You are not in fact entitled to one. Personally I'd rather see 95% less 'content' on the Internet if it meant it were ad free. I'd rather have no Facebook
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
As far as I remember there was an Internet without ads. I don't think we need literal garbage stimuli for media to thrive.
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
Yeah that's the point. Fuck ads.
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
The world would definitely be better off without facebook. It's worse than useless. Seriously, how would your life change dramatically without Facebook?
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
I used to have a lot of respect for rms. Sure he was quirky but at least he was principled. Sure his last actual free software contribution was in 1995 but he did a lot of advocacy afterwards. Sure he was very annoyingly intransigeant but h
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
Self-driving cars aren't real. And ancient Egyptians were using tablets, I don't know if you chose this word on purpose.
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
You're right, people should eschew such debasing wordly pleasures for the noble task of checks notes tracking the living hell of anyone with an internet device to serve them with personalized ads. Much achievement, very world-buildin
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
There's a tweet from some prominent agriculture researcher pointing out that the fabled Food Computer is in fact a rehash of agricultural techniques used circa 2000. Forgot her name but the remark struck me. There should be a periodi
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
>According to what bible/religion are "recreational drugs" (whatever the definition of that is) "intended to be" for fun, subversive and/or spiritual use? No bible but mere history and tradition. That's
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
It really takes a special kind of mind to take something originally intended to be fun, subversive and/or spiritual (recreational drugs) that's existed for decades or even centuries, and turn it into yet another tool to boost your
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by throwawawathrow 7y ago
This is an American thing. I'm European, 27 and I'm regularly shocked after conversing with people my age on the other continent casually mentioning their 'husband' or 'wife and kids'.