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Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231

• zeroonetwothree 4y ago
  At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…
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  • bigbillheck 4y ago
    It's still killing hundreds of people every day.
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    • prottog 4y ago
      A hundred and twenty people die every minute in the US. How far will you go to ensure that doesn't happen? How many civil liberties will you suspend, and how many cherished norms of life will you cast aside in your goal?
      • bigbillheck 4y ago
        You might be shocked to realize that we as a society have already taken drastic and far-reaching steps in the name of stopping preventable deaths.
  • kridsdale2 4y ago
    Depending on your definitions, it is.
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• TimTheTinker 4y ago
  Reminder that "forever", "unlimited", "never", "always", and other superlatives, when spoken by companies, only mean the limit is not yet known, not yet coherently defined, or that the definition is provided elsewhere.
  • wilg 4y ago
    This is true even when not spoken by companies.
• phaedrus 4y ago
  Illustrates a case where even workers who have a good relationship with their management might benefit from a union. Management can change; then who is left to hold the new management to former promises?