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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by mock-possum on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:05PM (#38223816)
Wait why should social media mean less of a platform for our best thinkers? Sure social media provides not only additional platforming, but access to a far broader audience than Einstein could have possibly imagined?
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by trey-jones on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:19PM (#38223981)
Social media doesn't allow for well-reasoned discourse. 140 characters generally aren't enough to change the world. And the masses are on social media.
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by mathgeek on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:34PM (#38224145)
Twitter isn’t the breadth of social media.
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by ben_w on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:50PM (#38226116)
Even here on HN, there's a strong bias towards shorter messages. Phones, perhaps due to on-screen keyboards, seem to encourage shorter messages than laptops and desktops.
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by codpiece on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:33PM (#38226377)
not true
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by willis936 on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:33PM (#38224131)
The signal is 4 orders of magnitude below the noise floor.
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Re:Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people... by HPsquared on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:09PM (#38225209)
The dynamic range is very wide.
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