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Re:Dash – A Governance and Privacy Coin on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:55PM (#15469170)
What do you expect when everyone and their dog is pretending to be quirky and "cool".
Re:How 4chan and The_Donald Influence the Fake News Ecosystem on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:46AM (#15410084)
As for overgeneralizing the community that is partially true, they do resist introspection and they're a ever changing group of anonymous people, but overall, everything the chans do is for lulz.

>In fact, because the aim of the chans is orthogonal to truth or accuracy, it’s a more fertile plot than any on which to grow disinformation.

Even if the above premise were true, and all info in the chans is disinfo, you still have the power to exercise your discretion on what to believe.

There's been several studies on memetics on viral spread of memes, the higher the emotional valence of the meme, the faster and longer it spreads. In addition, when the emotion elicited is anger, it spreads the fastest because the act of passing it along is one of the ways to provide catharsis.

For me, the problem is not inherently on the chans for producing disinformation but on the system that needs scandal and viral memes to drive clicks as a business model.

Re:How 4chan and The_Donald Influence the Fake News Ecosystem on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:51AM (#15407100)
The only ideology /pol/ and the chans in general subscribe to is being transgressors of norms, which leads to lulz.

It just so happens that our current cultural orthodoxy leads to hyperventilation of their adherents whenever it is violated which leads to incredible amounts of lulz.

/pol/ and the chans are just the jesters of the court, using humor to point out the insanity of society.

If culture was reversed to the extreme right wing, /pol/ would be making leftist memes just to transgress cultural norms.

>"have to be passionate"

That's just code for willing to take less pay.

>They also have large popular support.

Nah, we just got tired of doing dance-therapy protests on highways after 17yrs of trying to oust the communists. So most of the people how could leave, left.

Re:Ask HN: Is the CS job market tightening? on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @07:59AM (#13809966)
Without knowing the particulars about your situation. My best advice is to have a proven track record of being able to deliver code.

Easiest way is have OSS contributions.

A resume means nothing without some code to back it up

Re:Venezuela Is Falling Apart on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:52AM (#13285334)
What he means is that his retarded system collaped again but it's ok and he wants to try again because it wasn't real "socialism"

https://pics.onsizzle.com/when-your-retarded-system-collapse...

Re:Ask HN: Textmate and RoR? on Saturday April 02, 2011 @08:38PM (#2401388)
I'm still using txtmt after 3 years