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by kgog 5y ago
Because that's not what HN (and its ideological libertarian crowd) does.
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by kgog 5y ago
Exactly. I love Lorenz's work (flawed as it may be[0]) in dismantling or at the very least shining a light on the hypocrisy and double-standards of the SV elites[1]. [0] I dare anyone to point me to a flawless employee regardless of th
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by kgog 5y ago
Might it be time to support LJSA? https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7640
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by kgog 5y ago
This x1000. Although on HN, the core message is "media bad, cos good" so I doubt that people will want to understand how media orgs actually work.
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by kgog 5y ago
Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.
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by kgog 5y ago
> Stories they have been fed by the media and have accepted without thinking Seems like you would rather drink the kool aid given to you in press releases by companies! Good going! > Tech companies are the only inspiring institutions
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by kgog 5y ago
Unsurprisingly, vast majority of $ traded in Energy and Industrials is by GOP, and in tech is by Dems. Then there's this: > Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Mark Green, alone, accounts for 99% of the stock purchases in oil and gas
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by kgog 5y ago
> How does Coinbase ever manage to justify a valuation this high? 100B.... How is Doordash "worth" ~$50B? We're all in a delusion when it comes to public markets . We're not ALL in a delusion, but market movers certa
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by kgog 5y ago
Probably Facebook and Youtube. :)
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by kgog 5y ago
At a minimum, that's a signal for the future of cryptoCURRENCY. :)
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by kgog 6y ago
I'm trying to come up with a word for that.. I think it starts with a M and ends with a Y and has a onopol in the middle somewhere.
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by kgog 6y ago
I bet you also think grocery workers are dumb for agreeing to work while demanding better working conditions and fair pay. They are not dumb decisions. An indie artist HAS to sign with labels if they want to make it in the industry. That&#x
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by kgog 6y ago
maybe you need borg with borgbase.
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by kgog 6y ago
> The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements worth billions of dollars made by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told C
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by kgog 6y ago
> It wasn't that long away that we were reading stories about how food delivery services were providing restaurants an opportunity to keep their doors open during COVID lockdown. Can you link to some stories? I didn't see any i
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by kgog 6y ago
At this point, it's hard to make a case for why Facebook is NOT a criminal enterprise.
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by kgog 6y ago
The names are already public record in filings. My gut says that if they left the names out, people would be yelling that there's a conspiracy to protect individuals.
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by kgog 6y ago
To me it sounds like they went after the symptoms and not the root cause. Which doesn't sound too bad to me.
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by kgog 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what you find bizarre about it?
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Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say(theverge.com)
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by kgog 6y ago
> Today, in Silicon Valley, work life balance has become sacrificing Work for Life - not a balance. Young people want it all - they want to get promoted quickly, achieve economic independence, feel fulfilled at Work, be home early, not m
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by kgog 6y ago
Yes. I do very aggressive blocking on my Android TV and less so on my work laptop.
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by kgog 6y ago
I have not used this list but I do block fb and ig servers in pi-hole. Though I will now move to using this list: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
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by kgog 6y ago
Is that a yes or a no?
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by kgog 6y ago
Imagine writing 3000 words - while simultaneously decrying that you're censored - because you're mad at someone's tweet.
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by kgog 6y ago
To me, the bigger story (like the one NYT actually published) is around content moderation. Clubhouse has risen fast - in terms of users and valuation - but has done very little vis-a-vis moderation. Every single social platform started out
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by kgog 6y ago
Does that mean your employer should fire you for your HN comments and tweets from personal accounts?
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by kgog 6y ago
So when he posted back in June, his GME holding was $121k. According to his YouTube video from then, that represented ~2% of his portfolio. That puts his portfolio at ~$6M. So much for "poor people fighting back" LOL.
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by kgog 6y ago
Hi Vivek - Is your packaging also going to be sustainable? What I find annoying is when I spend 3x on a "sustainable" product that comes wrapped in 2 layers of bubble-wrap in a plastic-paper envelope. Plastic recycling, as I hope
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by kgog 6y ago
Beyond E2EE and being Swiss-based, how is FM different from ProtonMail?

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