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Basically, "fake news" happen when the messenger adds their color to the content. It's activist journalism.

It's "the President issued an executive order" vs "the President, in a Hitler-like move, issued an executive order"

Journalism was needed because people wanted to know what happened across the globe. Citizen reporting on twitter, Periscope, and YouTube erased that need. Journalists also didn't help themselves last year by being completely one sided. People noticed that.

"Fake news" is the journalism's last attempt to save itself. It's already dead from self inflicted wounds.

No

There are essential fatty acids, there are essential amino acids (protein), but there are no essential carbohydrates.

The "need" for sugar is completely manufactured, literally and figuratively.

Amazon: It's almost impossible to imagine any company filling the gap they would leave...

My local grocery and book stores?..

Some another cloud provider for hosting?..

It'll be very hard to replace the _combination_ of services Amazon provides. The separate services by themselves are hardly unique.

You're telling yourself a lot of things. You're also comparing other people's highlight reels to your backstage. You're much more normal than you think. You do seem to have a barrier that once broken will be gone forever. Usually it's achieved by meeting someone special or experiencing something special which will make you go "whatever I thought all my life is irrelevant right now because I'm enjoying this so much."

Stop planning and researching. Go outside and get in trouble.

Companies and people that are sitting pretty in SV will tell you that you absolutely need to be there to get anything of importance done. It's job security and protects them from most outside competition.

Freedom of speech and expression will suffer as long as all Western world's social media is controlled by a few city blocks in SF.

Choose SQL 9 years ago

NoSQL developers can command higher pay because there are fewer of them. Same with any other shiny new tech, really.