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by zajd 6y ago
Nazism is pretty popular on HN, comes with the territory when most of the board's users are well off westerners. Doesn't hurt that the mods are way more concerned with anti-capitalist rhetoric. Not surprising considering who owns
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by zajd 6y ago
I'm not saying that it's exclusively people below the median/mean, I'm saying that due to the content the site focuses on the board is going to skew towards the more wealthy in whatever market they live in. Obviously I d
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by zajd 6y ago
Well off westerners would definitely be more accurate. > a lot of the American userbase on HN are not "well off" Oh come on, get serious. This is a board focused on Tech, an industry where our the median/mean is well above
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by zajd 6y ago
It's not really amazing, HN is incredibly xenophobic, just look at literally any thread that happens to mention China, even tangentially. I guess that's what happens when the majority of the userbase is well off Americans.
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by zajd 6y ago
> If you have a truly liberal economy, without central banks, no poverty or economical problems should arise, especially in the tech era. What do you think a "truly liberal economy" means exactly? Liberalism is a political ideo
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by zajd 6y ago
Never forget that Meritocracy the term was created to mock the idea of it even being possible, now it's become a mainstream accepted thought. Usually the tragedy comes before the farce, I guess this time is different.
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by zajd 6y ago
> "Hope they [ie, Celtic supporters] all die. Simple. Catholic scumbags ha ha." This is non-violent political speech?
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by zajd 7y ago
Destroying humanity would probably also disrupt society, just a thought
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by zajd 7y ago
> Why can't HR be what they purportedly say they are Because the owners pay them, not the employees
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by zajd 7y ago
> They have gone though the whole plane with a fine toothed comb, Identifying any other potential problems. It will probably be the safest Boeing in the sky. More like they've done the bare minimum to get the planes back in the air.
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by zajd 7y ago
Yes, global companies should not be able to give away products or operate services at absurdly unprofitable rates (see: Ridesharing, a myriad of other Google services) just because they have billions to burn. It's horrifically anti-com
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by zajd 7y ago
Easy, stop letting them dump other services for free on the backs of their other businesses. Search can stay ad-supported. Youtube, Gmail, Drive, Cloud, Stadia, Android, News? Should all be broken out into their own businesses and forced to
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by zajd 7y ago
Where exactly do you think the money is going to come from? These people are taking $2k and making trades that are losing $500k. They never had $500k. Robinhood is still out of that money, regardless of their guilt or whether they are convi
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by zajd 7y ago
Who said anything about hard science? Just because something is well-understood by a group of people doesn't mean it has to have some sort of scientific basis to have any validity.
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by zajd 7y ago
Hmm, I wonder what the ideology he's battling is? Could it possibly be the hypercapitalist ideology promoted by the sorts of people who own the site? You know, the white billionaires who own and control Google, Facebook, Twitter, AirBn
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by zajd 7y ago
> You were banned, but many others who say much more offensive things never get banned. He made the mistake of being critical of a white person in power on HN. Combined with critique of a multibillion dollar tech corporation. That stuff
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by zajd 7y ago
Do you really think anyone is naive enough to believe this sort of thing won't become the norm? It's pretty clear GitLab has drank from the poisoned well. Your CFO is making these sorts of decisions, not developers. Good luck with
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by zajd 7y ago
What decline? Are you talking about your own personal perception or like actual data about the site and the way its used? Personal anecdote: StackOverflow continues to be one of, if not the, best sources for solving programming problems, an
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by zajd 7y ago
> Better workplace protection for whistleblowers and protection from sexism and company retaliation seems like a good thing for google. You're delusional if you think these are a "good thing" for the people who are in cont
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by zajd 7y ago
> The US has anti-trust laws to prevent centralized control, consumer protection agencies, and the free market. The consumer ultimately always has the freedom to choose another option. You had me going until this, nice satire
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by zajd 7y ago
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poison... > Young children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of lead and can suffer profound and permanent adverse health effects, parti
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by zajd 7y ago
It's called due diligence. The guy had a conviction on the record for underage prostitution. This isn't mom and pop's corner gas station, this is MIT, a well respected institution. You don't get "well I had no idea
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by zajd 7y ago
I think this is his point. You keep hearing about "There have been punishments against professors who question the progressive/extreme-left movement. (losing tenure, being brought up that they're "violence-inciting"
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by zajd 7y ago
There is no such thing as a free market. The sooner Americans accept this maybe we can move forward towards a society where we don't allow businesses to engage in predatory practices under the guise of "free market ideology".
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by zajd 7y ago
It's not what a war is, but I don't expect most people living in first world industrialized countries to understand what a war is, it's been completely outsourced to third world countries. This isn't even about nationali
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by zajd 7y ago
The ship of Theseus isn't a fallacy, it's a thought experiment.
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by zajd 7y ago
This might be the best post-mortem I've seen. Bravo Matrix.org team, informative and inspires confidence in your process.
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by zajd 8y ago
Because rich white people hate public transit
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by zajd 8y ago
The governments have access to Google's data and Google will be more than happy to help send you to prison.
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by zajd 8y ago
What does TFA stand for? Also the article does mention race fwiw > Across the four cities and the thousands of users, consistent patterns around age, race, and education level emerge. White men and Asian women are consistently more desir

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