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Connecting AI Agents to Every App(stytch.com)
8 points by jgacook 2y ago|0 comments
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by jgacook 6y ago
Federal immigration control almost exclusively focuses their attention on deporting and denying asylum to Latino refugees and asylum seekers. Last week it was uncovered that mass hysterectomies had taken place at an ICE facility in Georgia
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by jgacook 6y ago
1. I agree with you in as far as politicking that has nothing to do with your workplace can be a distraction, but as it pertains to Facebook the politicking is not abstract, but relates directly to Facebook's actions. It might be unacc
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by jgacook 6y ago
If you're being offered a $400K comp package I can say with a lot of certainty that you have not been dealt a hand and are, in fact, a highly skilled worker with a great many options for employment, so sincere congratulations on your s
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by jgacook 6y ago
Why are you convinced of that? Unionized protests frequently accomplish institutional change - why do you think Facebook or Twitter would be exempt? If anything a unionized tech force striking would have more bargaining power than other gro
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by jgacook 6y ago
Yes, but it's not a political end it's an ethical end. Facebook is being leveraged by political actors to cause harm in an unethical way - wanting to prevent this is not a political stance unless you believe that being apolitical
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by jgacook 6y ago
Well put! My parents are very much of the "no politics at work" generation and I really question why that cultural strain has carried itself into 2020 since it only serves company board members/executives and categorizes rank
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by jgacook 6y ago
Yes, and this is why nobody is going after, for example, Facebook HQ's janitorial staff for the moral responsibility of Facebook's actions. Their income remains static in spite of Facebook's quarterly profit so it would be un
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by jgacook 6y ago
Generally I try and shy away from being too alarmist, but I am so disillusioned with the kind of tech worker HN's userbase seems to represent. I think it's a feckless attitude to think that working in one of the best-paid, global,
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by jgacook 6y ago
This is untrue - different states have different standards by which mail in ballots will be counted. A postmark on or before Election Day is no guarantee your vote will be tallied, depending on where you live.
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by jgacook 6y ago
Direct election interference. Please call your elected representatives and demand action. There is no safe alternative to voting by mail in the middle of a pandemic that the Trump administration has completely bungled a response to. We are
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by jgacook 6y ago
Thanks for the link - the 6x in pricing is to enforce the monopoly on delivery of letters rather than all mail items. It only applies to (i) items weighing less than 12.5oz (ii) to the first 1.0oz of a single piece of mail. Certainly an en
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by jgacook 6y ago
The USPS would be profitable if it didn't have to pre-fund its pension obligations by an 75 years - an obligation no other government regulated entity must abide by. https://www.nonprofitmailers.org/four-usps-myths&#x2F
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by jgacook 6y ago
> The USPS loses a lot of money. Even ignoring the pension pre-funding issue, it's still cashflow negative. This is untrue - without its pension pre-funding requirement it turns a modest profit each year[1]. [1] https://w
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by jgacook 6y ago
I can find no evidence that private competitors must legally charge a higher rate than USPS. Do you have a source for that? My understanding was that USPS had to compete directly with private mail carriers.
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by jgacook 6y ago
Spare me the puerile libertarian arguments for a privatized postal service. There is no good reason for it to be privatized and many Americans lives will be negatively affected by such a change. 1) There are already private mail carriers (F
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by jgacook 6y ago
Eye-opening how many HN comments are framing this guy as a demented political extremist. He’s a whistleblower exposing one of the most frightening threats to modern democracy that exists. We are beyond the speculation point here. Facebook h
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by jgacook 6y ago
Quadratic voting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting
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by jgacook 6y ago
Interesting - thanks for the info! It's a good personal reminder to always vet my sources and keep reporting outlets accountable.
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by jgacook 6y ago
Not the first sketchy thing spotted at The Intercept. Read also this excerpt on Glenn Greenwald's spurious reporting of Michael Flynn's prosecution: https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/19/glenn-greenw
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by jgacook 6y ago
I often read about the divides between Zuckerberg and other decision-makers in the company, but I’m always unsure what the divides revolve around. Could anyone in the know clarify what the stakes are here? What is Zuck’s vision? What are di
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by jgacook 6y ago
Because the US regulatory framework and enforcement has been chipped away at by corporate interests over the past 3 decades to the point of non-existence. America went from filing >50 antitrust lawsuits in the 1970s to ~5 in the past 2 d
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by jgacook 6y ago
In the parent comment I'm referring to the commenter states that if you talk negatively about your employers employment practices (perform action X) you should expect to be fired (receive outcome Y). I get irritated by this kind of com
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by jgacook 6y ago
It's a form of ethical handwashing of the kind the American justice system is built on. It's much easier to point out that taking a certain set of actions will lead to a certain set of outcomes than it is to judge whether the outc
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by jgacook 6y ago
What on earth incentivizes them to not repeat this pattern of behaviour if they can rely on a no-strings-attached cash infusion? Middle class Americans are expected to have enough cash reserves to survive 2-3 months in case of an emergency.
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by jgacook 6y ago
Ah we begin the long journey of having a system so politically broken that the central bank must command its balance sheet to stop the rotten structure from collapsing, a la Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe. This liquidity isn't a life boat
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by jgacook 6y ago
Nice to hear! Background check is a little more understandable - thanks for letting me know
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by jgacook 6y ago
Is the drug testing portion of the application still in effect? I find the concept an invasion of basic privacy and while I'd love to work at USDS someday I can't see myself submitting to such a process.
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by jgacook 7y ago
I have been mulling cancelling my Facebook account for a while now. Today as I was browsing I saw several Scientology ads. I know Facebook doesn't have an agenda per se - you have the money, they have the adspace - but I was still stru
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Ask HN: How to think about working for extended stay/hospitality startups?
1 points by jgacook 7y ago|0 comments

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