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by luffapi 5y ago
This is racist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28592947
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by luffapi 5y ago
Literally overrun with racists then. I would think most people in their right mind would consider racism garbage.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I did flag it (I notice you didn’t even threaten that user with a ban btw). That does nothing apparently. It’s not “a few” bad posts. This site is overrun with this garbage. That thread has plenty of other comments that should be modded i
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by luffapi 5y ago
Instead of bugging people who don’t like Figma (on topic btw), how about moderating white supremacists off the site like this guy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28592947 https://news.ycombinator.com/t
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by luffapi 5y ago
> It's like asking your child whether we should buy a bigger house. "Yes! That would be great!" If my parents were billionaires, I would definitely assume they could buy a bigger house. The only $ missing are on your end
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by luffapi 5y ago
I really don’t think it’s that complex. Apple has a history of unethical, illegal and unsavory employment practices. That’s a given though. My comment was about how HN jumped on this aspect of the story as it loves to punch down.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> I’m not sure why having the money is relevant. Plenty of companies, people, and governments ‘have the money’. And they are beholden to the public that allows them to keep that money. The government should absolutely be doing more to
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s not a hard question at all. Apple has the money to easily accommodate all of their workers. It would even be a PR win. Tim Cook and the other execs are just anti-labor to their core and (don’t realize?) how clear their actions are bein
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by luffapi 5y ago
In this case Apple has all of the power and none of the moral character.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s not unreasonable at all. The person is deaf, Apple should provide any resources the employee needs to do their job. 1. It’s the right thing to do. 2. If Apple can afford multi-billion dollar toilet shaped offices, they can hire interpr
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by luffapi 5y ago
If HN allows racist content, they are responsible for it. It's absolutely within their power to ban people for regularly complaining about BLM or "critical race theory". They just don't. Whether that's because HN mo
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by luffapi 5y ago
I strongly disagree. It’s well known that this is one of the only technology sites that will allow racist and sexist comments. I’m not alone in seeing this. Remember ShitHackerNewsSays and #hnwatch? You need to clean up your house before le
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by luffapi 5y ago
I literally just listed historical facts. Point to my accusations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539652 There’s nothing “fun” about this site. It’s the embodiment of the worst of our industry. It’s literally spewin
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by luffapi 5y ago
Have you considered banning accounts that post racist trash like this instead of banning and censoring people who rightly call it out? You’re currently stewarding a white supremacist community and I have no idea how you sleep at night. This
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by luffapi 5y ago
At least it makes it easy to spot the white supremacists. Sadly this site and our industry are full of them.
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by luffapi 5y ago
The “other point of view” is white supremacy (aka the only people in the world concerned with “critical race theory”). The mods not only allow white supremacy on this site, they censor those who complain about it! I literally got downvoted
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by luffapi 5y ago
No. I’m talking about events that have shaped modern Western Society. We’re talking about Canadian schools. Again, are you saying that we shouldn’t teach the facts I listed?
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by luffapi 5y ago
You didn’t answer my questions. Are you suggesting we don’t teach those very real historical facts I mentioned because some sensitive racists may take it personally? Since when is that a reason to distort the truth? Edit: HackerNews has dec
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Once valued at $4B, Clubhouse now ranks 45 on App Store in social media(twitter.com)
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by luffapi 5y ago
This is absolutely an ethical issue (yes I’m American). Google knowingly violated labor laws to underpay workers. Hopefully the PR from this causes Google to lose billions (and for ethical people to stop working/applying at Google, whi
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by luffapi 5y ago
And the correct move there is to say: “Actually, I’m very close to going with this new offer. I really clicked with the team. If Google wants to counter, I can wait till tomorrow to make my decision”.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Yes, it’s equally ridiculous and anti-worker either way. Trust is the foundation for good management and culture.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Agreed!
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by luffapi 5y ago
Companies will pay what they have to. I encourage everyone too seek the pay they are worth.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Why would it matter if the offer was “real”? Google should pay what the employee is worth to them. I say “FB offered me 400k, what’s your offer?”, what’s the point of Google asking for proof? My value to them hasn’t changed. I’d withdraw my
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by luffapi 5y ago
I hope you’re teaching them the truth behind the origin of the technology and systems of our world. Otherwise you’re spreading ignorance. Complaining about “wokeness” is to be willfully stupid. Your kids will find out the truth, even if you
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by luffapi 5y ago
What does it mean for a civilization to be “successful”? The vast majority of our progress has been made off of exploration, slavery and war. The latter fueling the entire tech industry starting with the code cracking computers of WWII and
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by luffapi 5y ago
Of course not, but micromanagement is never the answer. I will say there are a lot more decent programmers out there than there are managers. Many programmers are motivated by curiosity, 90% of managers are motivated by ego. Wfh is going to
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by luffapi 5y ago
> whenever he ran into a problem, he'd stop, fold his hands, and sit back in his chair. And wait until the manager noticed this, would come by, ask what the problem was, fix it for him, and he'd then proceed. Certainly there
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by luffapi 5y ago
I’ve worked both and micromanaging is never good. For one, it doesn’t scale. It’s also indicative of poor process, communication and documentation.

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