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  • Why I Only Read HN

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    I used to read everything.  BBC News was my go-to for international news.  Then the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes. For a while, I visited TechCrunch and Mashable daily. I used to get a lot of news from Facebook and Twitter. I followed reddit religiously. I used to think that reading as much…

  • Judge This

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    Judge This

    For some reason, when a judge does something particularly scandalous, we find it so much more shocking than if, say, a congressman were to do something just as bad.  In this case, a judge was found to have posted sexually implicit images on his private (or so he thought) website, including “a photo of naked…