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by president 4y ago
This could be mitigated by not blocking access to the feature after the 2 years and charging for each use.
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by president 4y ago
The problem is that "jerk" is relative and very sensitive people will tilt the scale. Also, occasionally jerks will have interesting insights that you would miss if you blocked the jerks. It's a problem of whether your platfo
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by president 4y ago
Very odd article. This author is trying a little too hard to poo-poo the Intercept article but has lost the plot. The reveal here was that the US government has the ability to shape and influence what people think on private platforms. Yes,
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by president 4y ago
I think you're partially correct but the framing is a bit off. A country's interests and security comes first. We have seen China's values and goals obviously clash with western values so why would the west let them have thei
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by president 4y ago
I disagree. One is a hatred of a an immutable characteristic (race) whereas the other is a hatred of an action. There is a big difference. This is not a justification of hatred of actions but people seem to conflate the two.
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by president 4y ago
Racism as a catch-all term makes for really unproductive discourse. There's a difference between "I deeply hate people of a certain race from the bottom of my heart" vs "I generally hate the behavior I have observed of a
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by president 4y ago
Finally, this answers some questions about the madness of the last 5 or so years. Everyone knew this was happening to some degree but the abhorrent part is how politically biased the execution was.
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by president 4y ago
> Even free speech people don’t like speech that is critical of their beliefs This is like saying people that like apple pie don't like apple pie. Yes, there are liars and hypocrites out there but those aren't the true believer
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by president 4y ago
Sadly, communication and writing skills takes a backseat to algorithm interviews. I understand the company benefits massively from hyper-focusing on hard skills but quality of life suffers for your average IC mired by the daily failures of
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by president 4y ago
Some extra nuance is that there exists people who's entire lives revolve around work. These people's whole life schedule revolves around work and their social networks revolve around work people because they have no hobbies or oth
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by president 4y ago
I don't think it ever went away. You see people getting massively flagged or downvoted and called "Republican" for going against the grain everyday here on HN.
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by president 4y ago
There is a large multi-million dollar industry supporting DEI now. If there are people benefiting from racism continuing, it's people that work in this industry.
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by president 4y ago
It reminds me when my childhood friend's parents moved to LA so he could attend an inner-city high school so that his scores from a lower ranking school were more heavily weighted for college admissions. They were wealthy immigrants fr
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by president 4y ago
This assumes a utopia where all humans are friendly and all countries are at peace. Well-being is great but economic and capital is what gives you power and security. It gives you technology, defense, and weapons. In other words, when your
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by president 4y ago
If we all spent our collective efforts to make sure everything in this world is accessible to every single human being, we would have zero progress as a society. We are not even guaranteed the right to live in this world and yet you are adv
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by president 4y ago
Throughout the years I'm learning that all of our leaders and major institutions are corrupt and flawed. We're just lucky that there was enough wealth to go around to placate people in the past few decades but now we're reach
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by president 4y ago
I still remember YouTube ramping up ads starting at the beginning of lockdowns in 2020. It was the first time I was seeing double unskippable ads and 14 second ads.
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by president 4y ago
I work at a large Silicon Valley company and a portion of Directory/VP bonus is earned by ensuring hiring meets certain "diversity" quotas. There have been many internal stories of managers hiring based on race to make sure t
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by president 4y ago
It's not good intentions. Most of these policies are created because they sound nice and "compassionate" to your average good-hearted but naive voter. Unfortunately, the reality is that a lot of these problems require "t
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by president 4y ago
I shouldn't be responsible for someone taking out a $40k loan for their art degree in poetry and not being able to find a job that can pay it back.
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by president 4y ago
Maybe the colleges and universities that made big money out of all these loans should be paying off these student loans. Why do I and other tax payers need to bail out Jimmy's fine arts degree in 14th century calligraphy?
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by president 4y ago
Have spoken to some Chinese engineers in the Bay Area and most see Uyghurs as terrorists (they will point to terrorist attacks) and do not know about (do not believe) the camps or oppression.
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by president 4y ago
They have been threatening the island by flying military aircraft across the Taiwan air defense almost daily for the past year and have now surrounded the island and fired missiles over the island in a show of intimidation. What definition
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by president 4y ago
Nobody does until it affects them personally or unless they have some compassion for others in their country who don't have the same opportunities and skillset as you. Many of the drugged out people on the street without homes or a fut
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by president 4y ago
Fiduciary responsibility over moral responsibility is what killed America
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by president 4y ago
Doesn't matter what the actual number is if that is our perception, whether that is because of media or peer/cultural influence.
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by president 4y ago
We can look back at history and come up with a thousand reasons to support any cause that exists today. Asians were discriminated when they were brought in to work on the railroads, are we going to factor that into the admission process too
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by president 4y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted for your opinion. I think it's quite clear all we have are theories at this point and if anyone knows, it would be the Chinese government.
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by president 4y ago
Media now is just another "business" or "corporation" looking to maximize profits and shareholder value and/or influence politics. And when there's not enough wealth to go around, bad people extract wealth from
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by president 4y ago
Most likely this was something forced by their marketing team or their office of diversity. Given the explanation of the implementation (arbitrarily adding "black" and "female" qualifiers), it's clear it was just an

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