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My profession's technology is simple, easy, well understood, logical, and clean. Your technology is evil, changes too much, and is very confusing.

philipov 6y ago
> Your technology is evil We've got ad-tech; you've got an opiate crisis.
- dannyw 6y ago
  A limited number of biomed researchers are involved n opiates. A very significant, arguably a plurality of developers are involved in and tech, either directly writing it or their business being paid from ads.
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    "arguably a plurality" No, come on. That's the imaginary world where everybody is in SF and works for startups or Google. There was a recent thread about enterprise software that discussed SAP and there were all these people who were like "what's THAT??" It's like thinking of everything being made in China because all that you notice day-to-day is consumer products. Edit: I thought about the word "plurality" some more, and technically, anything can be a plurality if you fragment all the other categories enough, I suppose.
  - pietrovismara 6y ago
    Are we seriously doing a contest for the worse worker? This is a war between the poor. Can we PLEASE realize that behind any of those issues there is just a handful of profit hungry capitalists?
- perl4ever 6y ago
  There was something in the news about how (part of) the opiate crisis was basically caused by ad-tech. Doctors were using free software that used dark patterns to get them to prescribe more painkillers, but the actual scandal was that the people making the software were getting kickbacks for it. Sorry I don't have the link handy, but I probably read about it on HN.
  - jimmaswell 6y ago
    > Doctors were using free software that used dark patterns to get them to prescribe more painkillers This sounds interesting and I don't see a reference on google, have any links about it?
    - the_pwner224 6y ago
      This is a dupe, original linked there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168960
  - pietrovismara 6y ago
    Guess what, instead of blaming one industry or the other, we should look up and we'd see immediately that it's all a result of profit motive in an immoral society.
    - bad_user 6y ago
      You must be fun at parties.
      - pietrovismara 6y ago
        I'm definitely more interesting than you at parties Edit: also this is not a party but a place where you discuss serious topics Also your comment is unsubstantiated, obnoxious and adds literally nothing to the discussion. I seriously wonder how did you get so much karma here.
        bad_user 6y ago
        Why, do you want some karma? :-) Don't worry, moral outrage will get you there. Also, your comment did not add anything to the discussion either.
- pbourke 6y ago
  You misspelled “surveillance capitalism”
- protomyth 6y ago
  I wonder if they consider that their problem or blame it on doctors/pharmacists?

philipov 6y ago

> Your technology is evil We've got ad-tech; you've got an opiate crisis.

dannyw 6y ago
A limited number of biomed researchers are involved n opiates. A very significant, arguably a plurality of developers are involved in and tech, either directly writing it or their business being paid from ads.
- perl4ever 6y ago
  "arguably a plurality" No, come on. That's the imaginary world where everybody is in SF and works for startups or Google. There was a recent thread about enterprise software that discussed SAP and there were all these people who were like "what's THAT??" It's like thinking of everything being made in China because all that you notice day-to-day is consumer products. Edit: I thought about the word "plurality" some more, and technically, anything can be a plurality if you fragment all the other categories enough, I suppose.
- pietrovismara 6y ago
  Are we seriously doing a contest for the worse worker? This is a war between the poor. Can we PLEASE realize that behind any of those issues there is just a handful of profit hungry capitalists?
perl4ever 6y ago
There was something in the news about how (part of) the opiate crisis was basically caused by ad-tech. Doctors were using free software that used dark patterns to get them to prescribe more painkillers, but the actual scandal was that the people making the software were getting kickbacks for it. Sorry I don't have the link handy, but I probably read about it on HN.
- jimmaswell 6y ago
  > Doctors were using free software that used dark patterns to get them to prescribe more painkillers This sounds interesting and I don't see a reference on google, have any links about it?
  - the_pwner224 6y ago
    This is a dupe, original linked there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168960
- pietrovismara 6y ago
  Guess what, instead of blaming one industry or the other, we should look up and we'd see immediately that it's all a result of profit motive in an immoral society.
  - bad_user 6y ago
    You must be fun at parties.
    - pietrovismara 6y ago
      I'm definitely more interesting than you at parties Edit: also this is not a party but a place where you discuss serious topics Also your comment is unsubstantiated, obnoxious and adds literally nothing to the discussion. I seriously wonder how did you get so much karma here.
      - bad_user 6y ago
        Why, do you want some karma? :-) Don't worry, moral outrage will get you there. Also, your comment did not add anything to the discussion either.
pbourke 6y ago
You misspelled “surveillance capitalism”
protomyth 6y ago
I wonder if they consider that their problem or blame it on doctors/pharmacists?