davidreiss

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by davidreiss 9y ago
> This is an extremely frightening statement to me. It truly is to me as well. It's something you expect nazis to say. Imagine if the comment was "The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary mean
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Absolutely. How is this any different than germans throwing chinese tourists in jail for making nazi salutes? Or saudis throwing atheists in jail because they offended their faith. Or russians throwing lgbt people in jail for being "of
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Hint: Neo Nazis wish to return to the good old days of 1939 or so where Jews and people of color are either dead, outcast, deported, enslaved or stuck in camps while white men rule the land as is their god given right. Hint: In other w
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Germany arrested chinese tourists for making nazi salute. Should we do something about germany too? Do chinese and germans deserve free speech too or just thais? Edit: @0xfeba > That argument is convincing only on the shallowest level. O
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by davidreiss 9y ago
This is why I despise censorship and control. Even against people like daily stormers and neo-nazis. Chinese tourists gets arrested for making silly nazi salutes. Everyone celebrates it because that's german law. This guy gets arrested
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by davidreiss 9y ago
We are going to have to have regulation to reign in these companies. FB, GOOG, MSFT, etc all serve billions of people. FB's network has a 1 people more than china. The pro-censorship crowd wants to distract with "government vs pri
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Everything you wrote is why we have freedom of speech protection. > But more abstractly and insidiously, the value has mutated to give license to liars and manipulators of all kinds. It never mutated. The point of free speech is to give
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> and to be an unwilling vehicle for the Neo Nazi movement is something that no company should want to aspire to. Does that also apply to pornography? What about atheism? What about lgbt content? The concerted effort by the pro-censorsh
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by davidreiss 9y ago
As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can't believe this is what social media and the tech industry has become. And I can't believe there are people actually supporting this kind of censorship. What ever h
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> That said, I think crossing this content line for an infrastructure company is a big deal, and I hope it's not repeated. It's an incredibly terrible move. Such an arbitrary and biased move. What has happened in the past few y
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by davidreiss 9y ago
So-called judges once ruled that blacks were property rather than human. We have a long history of "so-called judged". Go read about what lincoln felt about judges.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
His daughter is jewish and his son in law is jewish, so that must mean he hitler.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Wasn't there a study that said CEOs tend to be overrepresented in the sociopathetic personality? CEOs of large corporations have no problem doing business with china or israel or russia or any other questionable locations.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Is there a reason for the love that some on HN have for Matt Levine? Seems like every finance related topic brings up matt levine. > Matt Levine says it best: Is that the really best?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
It is insane that we are allowing GoDaddy, Google and tech companies to be arbiters of free speech. As a kid, I used to associate google, yahoo and the whole of internet as a bastion of freedom. It is shocking to me that liberals ( a group
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Isn't a ycombinator blog dedicated solely for women sexist. Isn't "Ask a Female Engineer" sexist? If ycombinator only had "Ask a Male Engineer" wouldn't they be attacked for it?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> There is real harm done if women who work at a company don't feel they are welcome there. Using that logic, should every male feel unwelcomed because of the pro-female activity at google and in corporate america? Can't damore
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort Wow. That's blatant sexist bigotry. Can you imagine if someone said the same thing about women and what the reaction on HN would be?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
My uncle was diagnosed with cancer last july and died 3 months later. Left behind a wife and two kids. The holidays was rather depressing last year. He was an athlete who ran in marathons. Never smoked or drank. But cancer still took him. S
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> I'm still surprised more companies aren't doing it. Almost every major company has been doing it for many years. Especially large companies with tons of cash overseas. Instead of repatriating cash from overseas and paying tax
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Why is it that every article about china reads like a propaganda piece. "World domination"? Was our investment in AI about "world domination" also? It is strange how propaganda spins the narrative about the same thing so
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> I believe this program is a good complementary source of knowledge to become a better software developer. That's something you could learn on your own. But your knowledge of "technologies" are more valuable to employers
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Unfortunately, this is a pretty standard fluff piece with not much information. Imagine if you had to write articles everyday to earn your paycheck. Whether it is bloomberg or daily youtube vloggers, they have to put out fluff to make
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by davidreiss 9y ago
There won't be a snowden for china because china doesn't has pretenses for being "good" or "free" or a "beacon of humanity". China is open about their surveillance and they are open about their censor
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Depends on where you are in the world. In many places around the world, attending an LGBT parade will get you fired, arrested and even killed. I'm not saying they are morally "equal". I'm just pointing out why we have fr
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by davidreiss 9y ago
These people have to stop. They are the first to complain about doxxing and the first to label others as violent. But they themselves turn around and are violent and actively pursue doxxing. Can you imagine how outraged these same people wo
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Why is it annoying? Who told you that you need to feel bad?
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> It's commonly reported that Mongol soldiers were tasked with slaughtering the local population after taking a defended city. It was "reported" by the mongols to scare other cities to surrender without a fight. It was par
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> The level of destruction of people and centres of culture puts any praise of him beyond the pale. I disagree. If that was the case, then no man would be praiseworthy. > His army destroyed what was perhaps the most important city in
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Or the US flag and almost every statue in the country. A native american friend in college said the US flag represents the same thing to them that the swastika represents to jews. Should we take down all the flags? After a certain point, yo

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