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So a good fraction of Stanford CS grads should never be allowed to work in a normal company again? They're in their early 20's and got swept up by the recruiti
by hkmurakami 11y ago
So a good fraction of Stanford CS grads should never be allowed to work in a normal company again?
They're in their early 20's and got swept up by the recruiting machine. It's like brandishing all Goldman Sachs analysts who joined the firm pre-2008 as having evil intent rather than just having been ill informed.
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agoOh I'd go much further. They should be judged like a Nazi German in WWII. If you are complicit in supplying technology to the surveillance state and have the knowledge that cowardly drone-operators are killing innocent[1] people around the world (while calling their children targets "fun sized terrorists"). Then they should not say "oh but I needed the job". Millions of Germans were also only doing their jobs during the holocaust. The difference is those who happily concur and support these sick systems and those that rise up and distance themselves from it or fight it. It is that black and white unfortunately. But only because current US legislation with their war on everything made it so. It is up to Americans to change it and as a non American I'd judge anyone who doesn't rise up and distance themselves. You should be on the streets protesting and not behind laptops and cowardly half-arsed remarks hiding yourself. Downvote me all you want I really don't care. [1] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ edit forgot to add the link
- Buge 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.