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		davidw on June 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: (Why) I quit Hacker News (2010) This tweet really expresses one fundamental problem of sites like this: https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521 "The bullshit asymmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

dasil003 on June 3, 2014 [–]

There should be a corollary about Internet trolling, and why analog trolling never really scaled in the same way.

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