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This website is full of people doing "productive" things like building the next wave of surveillance tech (social media and adtech) or gambling (blockchains and
by mark_edward 8y ago
This website is full of people doing "productive" things like building the next wave of surveillance tech (social media and adtech) or gambling (blockchains and mobile gaming) complaining about the the pay of teachers. I hope they can see the irony.
- dang 8y agoThat's not an accurate description of this community. Pick any point on the opinion spectrum and you'll find some HN users there, just like with any large population sample. But it doesn't generalize. We know this because the generalizations people come up with are wildly contradictory, except in one way: you can guess a person's own views from the generalization they come up with.
- mark_edward 8y agoHey dang, you like to comment and assert community values. When the fund that runs this site is busy trying to kowtow to China [0] and is surveillance and authoritarian technocracy, how does that make you feel? [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/y-combinator-is-going-after-chinese-startups-with-its-first-official-event-in-china/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/y-combinator-is-going-afte...
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