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The problem is that these teens want to watch tougher, mature stories like prestige TV stuff or the movies Variety cited and then complain that there's sex on it. If they are not comfortable watching sex they should stick to basic mainstream stuff, which became completely aseptic after the Superbowl tit incident. Not everything has to be for everyone.

And even for those with better intentions, the low stakes interaction will become high stakes as attraction and expectations increase. When rejection almost inevitably happens at some point, bringing feelings of innability and jealousy, it will be tougher to deal, specially for the less experienced following this path.

In this sense hookup culture can relieve such pressure and allows for decoupling the sexual needs, and romantic ones even - personal note: I think it's weird how people online talk as if it's mandatory to mistreat/abandon the people you hook up with. I build a small but nice network of "friends with benefits" which for me are simply friends who enjoy a specific activity. Like, exactly the inverse of what everyone is recomending and it worked for me.

The conclusion from the music analysis is off because of changes in media consumption and chart calculations. When a top (or even a mid) act drops an album (so, every week), the entire album is listened on the apps by many people and it is not unusual to have all songs in the top 100 that week.

I do not get the link between the quote and the accusation

I seriously doubt ABBA, who stuck with the Disco sound through most of their careers, has more "sonic variety" than Katy Perry's genre salad albuns like 'Prism'.

Fleetwood Mac changed their sound a couple of times and they are at the bottom of the ranking as well. Just shows how hard is to measure stuff like this

These post-grunge bands of early 2000 presented a powerful combination of witless lyrics with the cheesiest riffs and hooks a guitar can produce. Nickelback is far from the worst of those, but they were the most popular.

The rock guys in my HS lab would sit at the only PCs with speakers and blast it loud to everyone else's misery. They did the same with Evanescence/Nightwish, bands for which I developed gratitude from sparing me of those guys same deep raspy voice.

After all the work I had sketching a penis I got hit with the paywall without even seeing a single result

Cookie (Informatique) is always the daily most viewed page in french, and by large margin. This does not seem to be the case for any other language. I wonder why

Brazil had the same inflation problems and adopted a plan very similar to Cavallo's plan. Brazil also had a lot of corruption and trouble reducing public spending, but came out of it comparatively better. Ultimately, the crux of the 90's failure was the obsession with the dollar running top to bottom in society (caused mainly by the politicians misleading the people about the viability of the peg) and the refusal to de-peg when it was the obvious way ahead. And off we go again...

the "temptation" was caused by a massive speculative attack that moved billions of dollars out of the country, a depletion of reserves and the complete collapse of society in December 2001.

A 20 year old person is already old enough to use Social Media, smoke and drink. By 2 years at least. Y'all insane.

Real never really gained value this way, the government defined the value of the bands. It floated up and down inside the bands, but the government was acting behind the scenes to keep the bands (essentialy a peg), mostly burning reserves, selling companies and cutting programs. It helped controlling inflation and was a good approach even in hindsight, the duration of the measure is the problem. In 1997 it was clear to everyone that the peg was not sustainable and should be removed, but the government postergated until past the (re)-elections. But that's Brazil, and then there's Argentina...

In the 90's both Brazil and Argentina pegged their currencies to the Dollar in some way to control inflation. In Argentina the peg was an 1 to 1 conversion. In Brazil, the Central Bank would define a band in which the Dollar would float and the band would be periodically changed like the interest rates.

But the main difference was that in Brazil it was just a Government policy that could be removed in a whim, while in Argentina it was a law, enshrined by Congress vote. When the Mexican crisis hit in 1994, it was clear that such measure had limited effect and would become poisonous to the nation's economy. But the Argentinian middle class went balls-deep into the illusion of a cheap dollar (unlike their Brazilian counterpart) and any depegging suggestion was political suicide. Brazil eventually depegged (later than they should, also for political reasons, but it was an obvious decision). Argentina depegged too, but only after the whole nation imploded.

Nostalgia for that illusion is one of the things fueling this vote.

the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

I definitively get videos of people getting killed/maimed on my instagram feed despite using the "not interested" option every time they show me this stuff.

peak Hacker News

you're such a laugh

Kaczynski was a middle-class Western academic who tried to literally cancel the lives of those he deemed unacceptable, which included people from both camps.

Thank god there's a divide, otherwise I would be obliged to agree with you.

Sadly, it seems that for one to be taken seriously as a thinker, it takes minimal coherence, median compatibility of ideals with the readers and maximal violence in advertising yourself.

"Dennis Schroder is an all time top 10 point guard"

Considering how 'tanking' for talent acquiring has become a strategy in american sports, I hope at least we get to see this scenario with both teams trying to score own-tds/baskets/etc and fiercily defending the opponents goal in a match

Didn't click surely LGBT people have less than 10% approval on this unless its a pre-misstep Milo Yannopoulos type

This is often correct here on HN, with the complication that some here think many complex areas are banal (e.g. architecture, social sciences etc) therefore no humility is needed at all.

ublock origin > my filters > twitter.com##article:has(svg[data-testid="icon-verified"]). Simple mass removal of tick tweets

Lebron famously uses the free version of Spotify. Maybe he just does not see the value of paying for the blue mark.

the carbon cost of this crap

It's basically the powerful people's version of an academic symposium. I watched a lot of panels last week on youtube and the discussions were informed, interesting and very down to earth in regards to real problems and plausible solutions (not utopic, naïve, or extremist ones). Collaboration between governments, states and business, etc. Stuff that actually have a chance to achieve something. In particular I felt they were on point about the Amazon and the reception the new Environment Minister of Brazil, Marina Silva, a person I absolutely trust about this matter at least, was a great signal the WEF is an org I can trust, even if I disagree with some guests (natural since it's politics and I don't want it all to be in line with what I want).

I like Davos and the WEF. Most people against them these days are far-right nutjobs and some don't even know they are becoming like that. Populism is a hell of a drug.

I like it but I wish I could still have the available languages on the left column instead of having to click a button at the top. It would be great to pick some languages to be displayed on the left if there's a version available.

HN is sometimes guilty of something like this when commenting on themes other than computer and engineering stuff, so I believe this is a much more common failure of reasoning rather than a Gladwell or a journalism thing. (And uhh Pinker may be guilty too)