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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by II2II on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:55AM (#12999107)
It may also be a question of how you use sites like HN. I've found that this site is useful for learning when I simply click on the headlines and ignore the comments. Yes, the comments are informative. On the other hand, I have found that reading comments is a behaviour that I have adopted to procratinate (rather than to gain deeper insight).
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by erichocean on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:50AM (#12999402)
I primarily visit HN for the comments. My usage is as follows:

1. Scan headlines for a topic I'm interested in, say, geometric algebra.

2. Rapidly scan the comments for people linking to other media (books, blog posts, libraries, etc.) that are related to geometric algebra.

I get vastly superior pointers to useful material this way than any other approach I've tried, and I'm extremely good at research anyway.

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