anticonformist

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by anticonformist 6y ago
More rich women and rich black people joining the VC network would not solve the problem. And yet that's the conclusion this thinking leads to. It's the author's solution as well and doesn't address the real problem at a
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Her experience is the same. Zero funding is zero funding. Your experience cannot be worse than "received no money" when it comes to raising money. It is a binary outcome. She's receiving equal treatment. But she's expect
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Many white male founders have had the exact same story with VCs. If they were black or women they might have assumed it was a matter of VCs being racist or sexist. But this is probably wrong. Because of these three attributes, one is not li
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by anticonformist 6y ago
That number is wildly inaccurate but even so, it's no doubt very different from the bad old days: Certain private universities, most notably Harvard, introduced policies which effectively placed a quota on the number of Jews admitted
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Ask HN: Thoughts on Corporate Spyware on WFH Laptops?
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Remember that it is not "your" team but that you are just a member of the team, in good standing, with the relevant experience, that is volunteering to take on some additional responsibility. Focus on the job at hand. Don't g
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Reforming the H-1B to do what it was intended to do would mean eliminating 99% of the visas that are granted. It turns out that the entire H-1B program has been a massive scam. It was created and promoted by American Big Tech companies to m
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by anticonformist 6y ago
The author seems to have missed the true root cause here here. Which was exposing VNC and NoMachine to the internet in the first place. These services should have been accessed through ssh port forwarding (or using a VPN). Password auth sh
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Police are doing a very different job than any other service worker likely to interact with a dog (as I explained in the other comment). The general public has very little interaction with police officers at all. A random member of the gene
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by anticonformist 6y ago
There is no equivalence between a meter reader and a police officer's situation. Some subset of police interactions may be similar but many will be very different. A police officer's interaction is much more likely to be heated, u
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by anticonformist 6y ago
I think police should have better procedures in place to try to prevent shooting dogs. It definitely happens more than it should. That said, bites are incredibly dangerous and not something to downplay. This is pure ignorance. No infectious
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by anticonformist 6y ago
That is cool but now you're relying on some random third-party app developer for your security/privacy. Even if they're good people, there's nothing to stop them from selling it to some jerk that will enable their own ap
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by anticonformist 6y ago
I'd recommend you abandon this idea. What attracts most people to YC is money, connections, and advice. It doesn't sound like you're in a position to offer these things. If you need help figuring out to work on, Startup Schoo
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by anticonformist 6y ago
"You can write Rust shockingly similar to Go." This applies in any case where one language is more complex than another. You can write almost any style of any language in C++, for example. The problem is that every team ends up wr
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by anticonformist 6y ago
It's not any particular feature that makes a language a mess. It's the interaction between the features. It's a bit like mixing paint, it's very easy to end up with greyish poop. Go was designed by very experienced progr
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by anticonformist 6y ago
This is the main issue I have with app security. It would be great if one could deny network access to apps. I would be much more willing to install many apps if I knew they would keep the data local and not be able to send my data to some
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by anticonformist 6y ago
They started a fire through mild negligence, denied the fire existed, and only put out the fire when the entire neighborhood started yelling. It was a forgivable-but-negligent decision to write/approve that code in the first place. It
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by anticonformist 6y ago
The only problem I have with this extremist campaign is that it's about controlling other people. Disagreeing with their narrative publicly means risking their attempt at cancelling your livelihood. You couldn't even disagree with
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Exactly. Just because someone claims something is anti-racist doesn't make it so. Almost all organized evil is done in the name of something good. Look at how laws like the The Patriot Act are named. The people behind these bans are
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by anticonformist 6y ago
The public square is owned by private companies and they're enforcing anti-first amendment principles. One can't even argue that these banned people can move to another platform if they're all coordinating. Leftist extremists
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by anticonformist 6y ago
American universities sell out their limit capacities to foreign students for huge amounts of money. This forces out huge numbers of American students from attaining the educations they need to get the jobs many H1B workers take. Space at t
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Since I'm disagreeing with the majority here: I have nothing but love and respect for people of all countries. I also happen to disagree with the groupthink on the H1B for reasons that have nothing to do with being bigoted. 1. The H1B
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by anticonformist 6y ago
It's actually very insidious the way HN (and Reddit) control what we see though. There is almost no transparency, accountability, or oversight. Moderators make mistakes and we never even know it. We don't know what we don't k
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by anticonformist 6y ago
So what if they're the only two black people he knows? And so what if he only gets confused by black people? There is nothing racist about it in any case. Person A has illiberal views on race but is very good at recognizing black peopl
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by anticonformist 6y ago
What is currently causing huge divides and limiting progress is the incredibly flagrant accusations of racism where none exists. There is nothing racist about confusing two people for each other based on them having the same skin tone. A tw
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by anticonformist 6y ago
These protests are going to result in the deaths of thousands of people. They are clearly irresponsible during a pandemic. Gathering in large groups with no physical distancing is tantamount to conspiring to commit mass murder. The problem
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by anticonformist 6y ago
The ethics are the issue. If protesters were unable to stop the extremists, that would be one thing. They're unwilling and uninterested in stopping them, and that is the ethical issue. This is exactly the same reason police officers ar
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by anticonformist 6y ago
Just because you claim it to be false does not make it false. You could be wrong. So what exactly does someone "deserve" for expressing a contrary opinion?
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by anticonformist 6y ago
"This is the kind of thoughts I had when I was 15, I don't even know what to reply to that anymore." And this is the kind of insult I used until I was 12. Either address the argument or don't. Bless us lesser beings with
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by anticonformist 6y ago
It's not a false dichotomy. It's an ethical double standard. If you don't live by your own ethics, how can you judge someone else for not living up to them as well? Police are just people. Protesters are just people. Every on

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