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Re:We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by Whil- on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:19PM (#15573827)
Btw, speaking of algorithms, this post was at top 40 on https://news.ycombinator.com when my comment was added. Is that a global state or a personal state configured just for me? :-) (hoping for the former)
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Re:We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by 8x8squares on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:24PM (#15573843)
It is a global state. Random strangers from around the world are now reading your comment.
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Re:We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by systoll on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:23PM (#15573837)
It's global. Hacker News doesn't personalise.
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Re:We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by dredmorbius on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:50AM (#15583743)
Not algorically. It is possible, individually, to hide specific stories.

But otherwise, the front page is the front page.

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Re:We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by dredmorbius on Monday October 30, 2017 @07:00AM (#15584163)
s/algorically/algorithmically/
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