Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895581

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> OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.

Their technical specifications state:

> Cellular: 4G + 5G with dual nano-SIM and global roaming modem configuration[0]

Is that implying "global" is actually not global?

[0] https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

Although polymarket would do the best at "attraction" towards the average uninformed consumer because the bets and how to place them are far more understandable than the various option trading strategies.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482380

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> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

> That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Surprised this hasn't been posted within a comment yet :)

The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith. The way you are framing this is that nearly all journalists are acting in bad faith, which makes me believe the arguments of the parent ("The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative") more so than the argument you're making here.

Paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/5/3/281/659...

Analyses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEYe65eDdw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKFK4-HNmk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690911

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(I have attempted to study Swedish briefly, but I feel like I need to do more sustain discovery of content to consume in order to keep me engaged long term)