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angersock on Dec 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Interview

Flagged.

And in the comments here:

  "By jove, go out and buy it!"
  "Jolly good, and what might that cost?"
  "The low price of 5.99 pounds, my good man!"
  "Huzzah!"

I'm not going to say that this is all astroturfing and "organic sales hacking", but sometimes, it looks like a pretty big fucking shill.

patronagezero on Dec 24, 2014 [–]

Programming is popular now, so I guess it follows that the pop-gobbling consumerists that ingest propaganda hourly would start overrunning the hacker types. How I miss the pre-2003 slashdot type commentators and hackers in general.

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