To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a NYT reporter to understand something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it.”
Or more precisely, when the number of clicks their articles get depends on them not understanding it.
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Or how they suggest a sexual sense in the title
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It's one of those weird situations where making less effort makes things work out better for you, like Microsoft making their OSes reliable enough for other SW cos to write apps on, or people writing critical theory papers so that it's clear what they're saying.
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The current war of words between NYT and SV reminds me of this quote: "Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced."
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And still unanswered is if any of those clicks are real (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19903799 …). I think Chartbeat and Parsely are NY though (and tbf I think NYT also rolls their own analytics).
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