tossmeout

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by tossmeout 6y ago
I think it's perfectly valid to point out that improvements in technology are beneficial to the poor. Technology is the reason why most people would likely prefer to be poor in 2021 than rich in 1547. It's not just iPhones. Even a
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by tossmeout 6y ago
The spread of this narrative is fascinating, given how easy it is to find counterexamples. I attribute it to a lack of education around business. One of my good friends is a highly-paid engineer at a tech company, and he told me, "Busi
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I see your point now, but your comment above (MLK's quote) comes across as saying the opposite. It sounds like it's saying that Trump et al are okay, they're just exercising their right to speak, and if people are violent in
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by tossmeout 6y ago
The variables here are: * where your boundaries lie along the spectrum from self-serving to doormat * your propensity to be generous to people on the good side of your boundaries I myself trend close to what you'd call a stoic. Probabl
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by tossmeout 6y ago
What's disingenuous is assuming people who disagree with you (and who present supporting arguments) are knowingly bad actors. Actually, they're much more likely to be normal people with sincere beliefs. And we all know that nobody
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by tossmeout 6y ago
Comments like this are useless, bc you're declaring someone is wrong without any explanation of (a) why they're wrong, and (b) what's actually correct. The result is that I have no reason to believe you, or to even understand
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by tossmeout 6y ago
> It's not interesting. It's not interesting to you . Not every comment needs to be interesting to everyone. > Every major thread on HN has at least one comment trying to force the America Bad angle into the conservation
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I think it's an interesting comment and see no reason America deserves some special shield from criticism, trope or not. It should be responded to on its own merit, just like anyone sharing any other opinion on HN.
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by tossmeout 6y ago
What makes it not terrorism? Because the target was government-run facilities instead of civilians, or something else?
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by tossmeout 6y ago
Why not just downgrade your lifestyle to be in a cheaper situation? Easier said than done obviously, as that initial downgrade feels like a big hit. And ofc you might have extenuating circumstances that prevent it. But otherwise, I've
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by tossmeout 6y ago
No, workers are supposed to be silent about it AT WORK . They can donate to whichever party they want outside of work. And, presumably, if the company is making political contributions to help it accomplish its goals, I'd imagine work
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I came here to ask the same, @tkiley. It seems the main benefits of your CRUT are (a) deferring your capital gains taxes until later and (b) allowing you to make deductions for charitable giving. But ofc those come at a cost, namely that yo
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by tossmeout 6y ago
Software engineers don't run these companies, executives do. Even if you have security training, that won't do you much good if leadership doesn't value security. If your company stores highly-sensitive data, you need teams d
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by tossmeout 6y ago
In a perfect world, sure, but in the real world this would obviously be ripe for misuse. Hard to tell if you're being serious or not.
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by tossmeout 6y ago
There should be fines big enough to bankrupt the companies who fail to secure data this kind of data. Is there some other way to convince them to take the issue more seriously?
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by tossmeout 6y ago
Standard for investments in tech startups, no? Although I'd assume less standard for biotech startups like Theranos.
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I worked for a CEO who did this once (the frequently-bombarding-the-team-with-new-ideas thing, not the expecting-applause part). He was a good guy, and talented in many areas, but he wasn't a great product leader. He would let his exci
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by tossmeout 6y ago
On the surface it looks like two tribes having a petty squabble. Beneath the surface, these are two industries competing. Tech represents an existential threat to the media. The media has always controlled distribution channel, and enjoyed
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by tossmeout 6y ago
This is ironic, because it's exactly the journalists who are doing what you accuse the VCs of doing. The second they get any criticism whatsoever -- whether it's on Twitter or on Clubhouse -- they immediately play the victim and w
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I fail to see how any of the quotes you provided are nasty or lack self-awareness.
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by tossmeout 6y ago
The implication isn't that being Chinese makes one likely to be a hacker. It's the other way around. It's that being a hacker makes it unusually likely that you're Chinese (or Russian). Similarly, being a Nigerian doesn&
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by tossmeout 6y ago
Sure, but there are degrees of offensiveness, and racism is a great deal higher on that totem pole than nationalist stereotypes (archetypes, really) like "Mexican druglord," "Chinese/Russian hacker," and "Nig
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by tossmeout 6y ago
> This isn't really true on it's own How is this not true? Genuinely curious. > In an America where rural Asian-ethnicity people are facing discrimination because of covid being called "Chinese Virus…" That's
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by tossmeout 6y ago
You're incorrect. Chinese is a nationality, not a race, which means this isn't racism. An accurate description would be that this is stereotyping on the basis of nationality. As such, a more accurate comparison than "black ma
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by tossmeout 6y ago
This is one of those comments that seems interesting and believable because it's so confidently stated. But is any of this speculation actually accurate? I agree with the second half of the comment. Facebook has been capricious, and th
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by tossmeout 6y ago
I can only speak to my own experience, but as a 20-something male (now in my early 30s) living in SF, there were a lot of societal norms pushing men to have more sexual encounters. It's somewhat of a badge of pride to achieve a "+
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by tossmeout 6y ago
> Without items being registered on a blockchain, sure you can have gamers throwing down $20 bucks here and there, but you're never going to have university endowments and state pension funds allocating some of their investments in
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by tossmeout 6y ago
This is very classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem thinking. Its prevalence in the cryptocurrency and blockchain communities is why I'm extremely bearish on both.
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by tossmeout 6y ago
You'd make your point more effectively using logic and reasoning rather than an emotional outburst. Otherwise, as a genuinely curious reader looking to learn from "both sides," your side comes across as motivated more by emot
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by tossmeout 6y ago
This is what happens to every charged label. 1. People realize the label is powerful. 2. They begin applying the label to as many things they don't like as they can get away with. 3. This changes the definition of the label, causing it

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