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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The term "FAANG" is about prestige (originally stock growth) more than actual quality of life.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Yes because improving quality of life is as simple as legislating it. You really think those drivers wouldn't be out of a job for charging 3x?
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Some are medically exempt. This mask-or-else culture pushes those people out of society, totally unfairly.
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Google Health Announces “Care Studio” (EHR Search Engine)(health.google)
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Agreed, a lot of tech might be data harvesters, but they don't sell location data to bounty hunters.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Is this purely a US phenomenon? I don't see this much at all from people who live here t(the UK), but we're really starting to feel the effects of social media censorship hit hard, and I know a lot of people are really angry about
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
EU market may be big, but the UK is too valuable to just give up on entirely.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Because work is a huge part of my life? At the end of the day, I choose the job that's best for me, not the other way around.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I would guess a sizable fraction is regional policy, legal and marketing teams. The whole point of Uber is to operate everywhere and you simply can't run all of that in Silicon Valley without access to local knowledge. Not to mention t
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
This is terrible. I've never seen a Googler get thrown under the bus so publicly by one of their own. Just doesn't fit the company profile.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Ah, well, I'm not exactly a proponent of lockdown in the first place, but the big difference is Covid spreads faster. it's already a social norm to stay away from grandparents when the flu rolls around.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I was lucky to be in your position only months before the pandemic (though I never went to college), so I built up a reasonable set of friends before WFH (both at work and outside of work). The biggest factor in your decision should be ease
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
What I mean is that WFH employees will still demand perks, just of a different nature (maybe higher salaries). As long as the market dynamics we have today stick, employers will still be spending money on perks. Just as employers can now ac
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
You call it time theft, I call it work life balance. If I'm struggling with a problem, sitting on my ass for 5 hours is not going to make the solution come quicker. Going for a walk, playing video games, or calling somebody are a great
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> If covid is dangerous enough to lock down society yet is only x5 as deadly as bad flu seasons open offices are literal murder. Flu is only deadly for a very small segment of society, though.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
When I commuted to work, I was already in the centre of a huge city with lots of social opportunities after work (with friends who are nearby in other jobs). If I wanted to socialise daily it's likely I'd be doing something akin t
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I live in the UK - very few places in London will have the space for a separate home office + space for family. It will get incredibly expensive if we all need to buy more space (and I'm not having my office setup in my living room for
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Very few companies have on-site gyms, snacks and child care. These are competitive advantages, and as long as top-tier SWEs are a sellers market, these businesses will have no choice but to spend money to attract talent. The cost of those t
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Except that in-person forums are illegal right now :(
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I mean, that's fine, but I take issue with one party having this massive megaphone to the world, with the other side having theirs completely snuffed. Either ban them all, or ban none of them.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Why? Both are a disenfranchised voice complaining with violence. One might be more valid than the other, but that doesn't mean one is inherently better.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Worth noting that Valve is one of the few companies that makes a conscious effort in favor of freedom of speech. They refuse to moderate for ideological reasons and not just cost.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
We live in a post truth world because of social media algorithms, which made that content successful. I think we need to heavily regulate those ASAP.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The deplatforming has been going on for years, since at least 2016 when Trump was elected in the first place. In Twitter's case[0] they went after smaller users (edgy "russian bots") until ~2018, when they really ramped thing
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The capitol stuff was organised on Facebook, not Parler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776225 What about the Summer violence from BLM? Dozens of people died, with Twitter being used as a communications hub to attac
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I get it, companies do not legally have to provide these services to right-wing groups persecuted off of Twitter. I'm saying that it's _morally_ wrong to deplatform. Not necessarily because I enjoy having this speech hosted, but b
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Thank you.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Using a throwaway for anything political is just safer. I can comfortably talk about this with friends or colleagues, but I wouldn't broadcast it to the whole world with my name attached.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
If you saw the amount of left-wing content calling for the execution of politicians, calling for communist revolutions, you wouldn't be asking this question. Twitter is just as toxic as Parler, except one is left-wing and the other is

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