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MononcQc posted:lognoise 37 minutes ago [–] turn on your monitor
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1. Get paid a lot of money 2. Use your money to oppose the people who gave it to you
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Jan 2, 2021 03:00
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for a while I told myself that extracting a maximal amount of money for immoral work would be best but if they pay you the money that’s because you provide more than you take.
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Jan 2, 2021 03:32
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i think there's like, a continuum some companies are so immoral that working for them in any capacity taints your soul. others are more banal, and as long as you're not specifically working on evil things yourself then you're okay. i wouldn't accept a job at facebook, for example
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Jan 2, 2021 03:37
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i got an offer at a tech major and then used it to squeeze more money out of a job i was actually gonna take i feel thats ethical
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Jan 2, 2021 03:42
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MononcQc posted:for a while I told myself that extracting a maximal amount of money for immoral work would be best but if they pay you the money that’s because you provide more than you take. You just need to be more efficient with how you use it
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Jan 2, 2021 03:45
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I worked at a company that did surveillance and am working gig economy for a company that got bought for uber so I definitely need an exit
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Jan 2, 2021 04:48
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Truman Peyote posted:drat i knew schools in the US were underfunded but no books about history???? they might be controversial and wind up causing all sorts of parent meetings since conservatives get all aggressive about cancelling anything that doesn’t fit their worldview, like accurate history, especially about the United States
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Jan 2, 2021 07:36
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never had trouble finding a couple dozen copies of the adventures of huckleberry finn though wonder why
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Jan 2, 2021 07:41
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im at least gonna get a hug out of that
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Jan 2, 2021 09:47
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xtal posted:1. Get paid a lot of money
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Jan 2, 2021 14:57
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literally my job https://twitter.com/aaronwjohn/status/1293565707653918721
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Jan 2, 2021 15:12
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quote:Seems to me that the organizers are using a union to push their own personal agendas (which they otherwise don't have the power to push) which seems like the perfect way to form a corrupt union that harms workers. quote:I wish Google well on whatever it (legally) pursues to fight this. I see them as a company that has gone from great to now becoming mediocre, and whose employees are destroying it from within. quote:The company is slowly dying internally from ideologically possessed people. I see that the hackers are taking word of alphabet unionization well.
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Jan 4, 2021 17:18
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its a pretty fun thread to watch peoples brains absolutely melt and flail trying to reconcile "software isnt manufacturing. google already has the most generous and competitive compensation possible in a perfectly efficient, skill-based market! they cant possibly pay any more!" with alphabet still making $300k+ excess profit per employee. 30 year old tech bro baby's first surplus value
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Jan 4, 2021 18:46
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Breakfast All Day posted:its a pretty fun thread to watch peoples brains absolutely melt bold of you to assume hn posters have brains
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Jan 4, 2021 21:48
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Eh like with previous union threads, there's a healthy amount of pro-unionization sentiment pushing back at the temporarily embarrassed unicorn founders
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Jan 5, 2021 00:32
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individual peeps on hn can have deec views and stuff, it's just that the lack of  and the vc backing means that chuds and libertarians and poo poo have a strong foothold
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Jan 5, 2021 00:39
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lol at the idea that what's "holding back google" is radical ideology and not, say, the relentless chasing of every cent from advertising by harvesting personal data and inability to execute a product anybody wants outside of it for the last decade
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Jan 5, 2021 01:57
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the only tech majors that have a proven ability to do more than one thing are microsoft and amazon, p much
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Jan 5, 2021 01:59
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the only tech majors that have a proven ability to do more than one thing are microsoft and amazon, p much And even then, they need better UI folks. Amazon's UI is terrible if you stray from the beaten path. Amazon Video's is only a little better than BBC iPlayer and that isn't saying much.
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Jan 5, 2021 02:15
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:lol at the idea that what's "holding back google" is radical ideology and not, say, the relentless chasing of every cent from advertising by harvesting personal data and inability to execute a product anybody wants outside of it for the last decade toothbrush test lol
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Jan 5, 2021 02:25
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by doin more than one thing i mean fuckin printing cash with it, so its amazon with exactly three things (the shop, prime membership and aws) and microsoft w three and a half (azure, office, windows, linkedin maybe) goog has like one and a half (search, android is the half), fb has precisely one
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Jan 5, 2021 02:26
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apple used to do phones and computers well. their phones are still the shiniest turd, idk about their computers any more because I don't know what's going on with the apple silicon really. before that, though, they weren't very good but were kind of bouncing back
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Jan 5, 2021 04:14
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Achmed Jones posted:apple used to do phones and computers well. their phones are still the shiniest turd, idk about their computers any more because I don't know what's going on with the apple silicon really. before that, though, they weren't very good but were kind of bouncing back their computers are basically negligible business in comparison to phones if they had a half, that half would actually be services. but services is a clever way to say the app store, and does that really count as not-the-phones?
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Jan 5, 2021 04:17
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as usual, apple’s colossal flop disgusting failures would be runaway successes if they weren’t being compared to the iphone apple’s wearables division brings in about half as much revenue as facebook
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Jan 5, 2021 04:20
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rjmccall posted:as usual, apple’s colossal flop disgusting failures would be runaway successes if they weren’t being compared to the iphone same with nearly every other one of the tech majors' businesses-that-dont-fuckin-print-money, really. money is a renormalized quantity!
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Jan 5, 2021 04:21
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the only reason to buy a mac is to make an iphone app in other words, macs are garbage computers for jerks (full disclosure: i own 2 macbooks. iphone apps make money, dammit)
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Jan 5, 2021 04:33
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apples basic business model is making consumer electronics that run ios and selling those at a nice margin, and also selling subscription services to run on those devices (at an even nicer margin)
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Jan 5, 2021 07:18
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quote:vecinu 6 hours ago [–] good news everybody, american cities can finally stop being human-hostile parking lot tumors once we just exterminate all the unhoused (and uh...the "types" that don't exist in europe *wink*) people! he goes on to blame everything on red tape beaurocracy and regulation. hmm, wonder what it is about europe that enables them to have well planned cities 
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Jan 8, 2021 13:29
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What a loving baby
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top comment on the story about Apple suspending parler nicbou 1 hour ago [–] Someone brought an interesting perspective in another thread and I can't shake it off. The other side keeps deplatforming them. Their legal cases are rejected. The mainstream media refuses to take them seriously. We're not even listening to them, because it's science and they're *ists if they disagree. We're not debating anymore. We just assume we're right. We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate, and they are powerless to stop it. Is it surprising that they are furious about it, and explode in unpredictable ways? Wouldn't you do the same? E: I accidentally hit submit halfway through my argument. You might be replying to a really different comment reply
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Jan 9, 2021 01:47
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"my own judicial appointments laughed me out of court and a private company doesn't want me to stage coups from their property. Mods??????"
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Jan 9, 2021 02:26
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Jose Valasquez posted:top comment on the story about Apple suspending parler This is perversion
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Jose Valasquez posted:top comment on the story about Apple suspending parler just imagine i posted the SA post about the grocery list chess troll
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Jan 9, 2021 04:34
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Jose Valasquez posted:top comment on the story about Apple suspending parler aside from the huge lol about "Their legal cases are rejected" i invite whoever wrote this to post some of the "content" onto hn, just so everyone sees that theyre missing out on
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Jan 9, 2021 10:29
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*in an extremely federal judge voice* hmmmm these claims are completely meritless and fail as a matter of law. but what if dismissing the suit hurts their feelings?
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dash2 5 hours ago [–] I live round the corner from a UK housing estate with a drugs problem. I very often deeply wish that 60-80% of my local tax money would go to the police. I often also frankly wish that 10% of it would fund a Sharia-style hangman, but perhaps that is my inner misanthrope. reply
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parler was taken down so lots of idiots coming out throwaway80332 41 minutes ago [–] So called "liberals" have a habit of trying to get conservative forums shut down by spamming them with actually illegal posts, not to mention infiltrating the moderator teams, etc. And why not, they don't have to work so they have all the time in the world. I have never used Parler so how can I know if that's what's going on here, but it is standard practice on i.e. reddit. This makes the whole point of only allowing "reasonable" speech pretty moot. Free speech really is a black and white issue, even if you would never post anything unreasonable yourself. —————— Andrew_nenakhov 3 hours ago [–] Paradox of Tolerance is a hypocritical bullshit. If you are tolerant with exceptions, you are intolerant, period. People who refer to it hypocritically pretend to have a higher moral ground than their opponents. In fact, they are more or less the same. Truly tolerant people should win the other side with their virtue, and yes, it insanely harder. But it's not hypocrisy. LordDragonfang 2 hours ago [–] So would you agree with a statement that "we should just be tolerant of the KKK and win them to our side with virtue", then? Note that this isn't hyperbole for rhetorical effect, that is literally the kind of intolerance that the paradox of tolerance is based on, and seems to be what you're advocating, by extension. Andrew_nenakhov 2 hours ago [–] Yes, I fully agree with that statement. You can't just beat the racists from KKK into submission. You can only show them that their convictions are wrong
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vincentmarle 3 hours ago [–] Post-war Europe tends to agree with you: there is a good reason why there are limitations on free speech in many Western European countries. Fascism is simply too big of a threat to tolerate. reply fapjacks 2 hours ago [–] Well post-war Europe didn't invent the internet or land on the moon. You have your way of doing things, we have ours. Also sort of ironic that you would advocate the very same tools that the fascists themselves used to control and manipulate the public.
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