Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham
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"They call it the Jesus phone, so naturally I assumed it would have a little bit of Jesus. But after playing with it for a couple days, this phone has significantly more Jesus than even I expected."
The title should be as follows:
"My iPhone has pretty much replaced my penis as the default thing I reach for when I'm bored"
That should probably be good for at least 3,000 Diggs. You could probably even use a markov chain to randomly generate the rest of the text based off previous reviews. I doubt most diggers would be able to tell the difference.
I come to news.yc to read about hacking, business, and related topics.
I came to Digg to read about technology, and reddit to read about, well progressive things from a variety of areas.
The decline of reddit and digg was marked by many front page posts concerning reddit or digg themselves. I hope the decline of news.yc is not marked by many front page posts concerning news.yc itself.
I don't visit news.yc because I'm interested in news.yc - I'm interested, oddly enough, in Hacker news (with a business bent).
Then again, I fear that may have already happened - a post on news.yc on an article about 'hackers', that criticized the Morris worm was modded into oblivion for no other reason than Robert Morris later went on to found yc - though Robert himself has publicly expressed remorse for releasing said worm.
It seems news.yc is suffering from the cult of personality.
We're at #3 - religious veneration. We don't really have #2 yet (vilification of outside enemies), though we could get that pretty yet. I haven't seen much #1 (sex talk) yet, thoug Alex's comment of "My iPhone has replaced my penis as the default thing I reach for when I'm bored" might flirt with that.
It is mocking both the slow motion failure of reddit and the tendency for pg fanboys to dominate, for example, comment threads here on any of his essays.
It's quite funny, though it wouldn't be 2nd time around.
Do you stop reading the New York Times[1] because they shamelessly...shamelessly...hold forth the smoke-filled-room candidates as somehow legitimate?
Reddit has these little arrows that can be pressed up and down. The NYT has nothing but its coming bankruptcy to correct it.
[1] And every other rag.