HN user
Most submissions are probably good but I guess only a small percentage of users click the new link, and then they can only read a small percentage of submissions and up vote only an even smaller percentage of those. It would be easy for a great submission to fall through the cracks.
Naive or principled? Who knows in this case. Sad reality is that in many parts of the world you've got to factor bribes into your financials.
I'm about half and half. I look for the submitter, if they usually submit good stuff, or if I recognize the source I'll usually click straight to the article. Otherwise I just read the comments.
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That will learn me to only look at the pictures...
If I read the article correctly it pretty much says that you can distinguish the meat of a free-range cow from one that ate nothing but corn.
Used to be that both Japanese and Koreans preferred their products with complex feature sets - Apple are notable for what they leave out - perhaps this signals a change of heart for Japanese consumers?
I wonder if the person that threw them away didn't know what they were or knew what they were, but didn't comprehend the value of the photographs.