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troughway on Feb 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomb...

Underrated post. This should be the thinking process whether it’s a candidate (or news) we like or don’t.

Sadly HN for all its intellectual brow beating is just as susceptible to basic psychological manipulation as everyone else.

dang on Feb 16, 2020 [–]

Basic psychological manipulation, if it works, works because of human nature. I try not to lose sleep over aspects of HN that are true of humans in general.

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