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Independent journalism maybe. But corporate journalism isn't a check on government or corporate power. The NYTimes doesn't check power, it represents power. It is power.

I think it is time people stop pretending news companies are any different from any other media companies. The NYTimes was created by one of the wealthiest bankers for christ's sakes.

This is one of the problems with money in politics. As money becomes more important in winning elections, politicians' interests align more with the "moneyed interests" rather than the voters or even the public.

The house of representatives should serve as a bulwark against "moneyed interests", but even they are being targeted and bought by money. What good is democracy if a small group of people buy all the politicians?

Thank you.

This is simply historically false. From Galileo and copernicus to even the scientists positing germ theory in the 1800s, mavericks who fought against orthodoxy have been persecuted. Even today, in our colleges, "mavericks" are punished and attacked. Our most famous maverick, Socrates, was forced to commit suicide.

It's true bill gates wouldn't have amounted to much had he been born in 1950s china because china was heavily undeveloped. But had he been born later in the 60s or 70s with china opening up, he could have been a Jack Ma.

I wonder at what point the relations are so tightly correlated that we can safely say it is causative. At this point, can't we say the link between energy consumption and wealth is pretty much causative. Or at the very least, energy consumption is one of the necessary causative conditions for wealth and rising living standards.

From the US to Japan to Germany to China, energy consumption is the most glaring predictor of rising wealth and standards of living. I suspect this is also hold true for India, ASEAN and Africa in the coming decades.

Either they are going to start consuming a lot more energy or they are going to be stuck in poverty. I don't see how can justify keeping billions of people in poverty.

How did you learn? Is there a youtube tutorial? I tried to cut my hair once and things turned so bad ( uneven, botched, etc ) that I just ended up shaving my head.

I'm not the one being disingenous here. And that's not journalistic integrity. They initially stood by their false slander and only changed it after significant backlash.

Journalist integrity would be the economist not lying and smearing someone who they disagree with in the first place. To call an orthodox jew an "alt-right sage" means the people working at the economist are lazy and incompetent or they are liars smearing a jewish individual for ideological reasons. You could follow the thread. You could probably also find the deleted tweets by the economist and their editor too if you want.

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1111301001359904770

To label a pathetic smear campaign by the economist as "journalistic integrity" just shows the terrible state of journalism today. And the only reason the spineless cowards at the economist apologized is because Ben Shapiro has a big enough following to fight back. Otherwise, they would have stuck to their lies and slander. And I have to disagree with your last statement. The economist is most definitely one of the "rags that are purely motivated by partisan ideology.". But we are all entitled to our own opinions.

That's interesting but how do we know it due to smell rather than sound or other senses? I've read that dogs and other animals can also anticipate earthquakes because they can hear or feel the earthquake earlier than humans.

That reminds me of the housing boom from 2003-2008. House values doubled or tripled in many areas. Then the financial crisis put a hurt on the housing industry. I can't help but feel that necessities like housing, food, transportation, etc shouldn't be speculation tools. Frankly, I think the housing, food, transportation, etc should decline in value, but that's another discussion altogether.

The "northeast" isn't much more affordable. I guess it depends on where in the northeast as the northeast is a big region, but housing values near NYC, Boston and even philadelphia has increased dramatically in the past 10 years.

That's the problem with all media, not just social media. Pretty much every diet fad and health recommendation you get from traditional media has been debunked.

The only difference is that traditional media doesn't allow for counter arguments. At least on social media, people can counter quackery. In traditional media, their quackery can't be disputed until they decide it is in their financial interest.

If there is no substance behind the enthusiasm, then it can't last because it has no legs to stand on. I agree that there are tons of fake nonsense on all media, not just social media. But that doesn't mean everything on media is fake.

Of course online content is generated. My point is whether that generated online content gains actual traction. Whether that generated online content has legs and real enthusiasm behind it.

An easy way to tell is if politicians can draw crowds to their speeches. You can measure online interactions between actual people and their enthusiasm. For example, if a politician has tons of online interest and he can draw big crowds, then we can assume that his online interest is real rather than fake. If a politician has tons of online interest but can't draw any people to his speeches, it's like his "enthusiasm" is bought for and has no traction.

It's because the crowd here is very old. I think the average age is in the 40s or 50s. It's essentially CNN's demographic and a significant number of journalists and media people here. There really is nothing "Hacker" about hackernews. It's pretty much "news". How often do you see the irreverance, humor or anti-authoritarianism of hackers here?

"Western" disease is caused by high intake of processed foods, soda, etc. It isn't the vegan diet that helps. It's removing processed food, soda, etc. You can be an omnivore or a carnivore and remove processed junk food and reduce "Western" disease. And you can be a vegan and eat a ton of processed vegan junk food and succumb to "Western" disease.

Processed foods and overeating is the true problem in the western diet.

If the interest is artificially generated or fake, it will fade quickly for sure.

But I wouldn't say we shouldn't trust online phenomenon. Online phenomenon is why Obama and Trump got elected. Trump has effectively bypassed the traditional media's stranglehold on the american mind via his use of twitter and social media. And online phenomenon is why we have occasio-cortez.

As the internet gains more mind share, we have to start taking the online space more seriously.

Doesn't every tech worker face burnout before they reach 30. Especially in silicon valley or the startup scene. Why should it be any different in china.

It's pretty much high risk, high reward. The startup I worked at, we all slept in our offices working 24/7 to reach milestones every few months. The point work hard and get the company sold off within 10 years and retire.