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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by starpilot on Friday September 07, 2012 @12:15PM (#4489809)
> It's been 5 years, and I've changed.

I think this is true of every "kids these days are less worldly" article and the oft heard "favorite music/newspaper/other media isn't as good as it used to be." The world hasn't gotten dumber, you've just gotten better taste, and better at spotting bullshit that has always been there.

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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by evincarofautumn on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:37PM (#4490230)
Making the claim that everything is objectively worse, back in my day everything was golden, get off my lawn, &c. seems to be easier than introspection for a lot of people. We are not impartial observers, nor are we immutable—we tend to forget that.
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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by tripzilch on Friday September 07, 2012 @09:15PM (#4491889)
I don't have a citation for this (maybe someone else can help out there), but apparently there's ancient Egyptian scriptures with people writing about the youth those days were going to be the end of society, or something like that.
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