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While I was homeless, I began getting really concerned about people knowing so much about my life and my physical location. I wrote about that in a piece called
by DoreenMichele 4y ago
While I was homeless, I began getting really concerned about people knowing so much about my life and my physical location. I wrote about that in a piece called Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide. Excerpt:
While homeless in Fresno, I began identifying myself online as "in California" and sometimes as "no longer in San Diego" but I intentionally did not actively advertise the move. A lot of people continued to believe I was in downtown San Diego well after I had left San Diego County entirely and my stress levels began to go down as people mistakenly assumed I was somewhere else.
While homeless, I generally did not tell people where I was camping, either online or offline. I felt this was a safety issue. I didn't want people to know where I was camped.
I am not a fan of Elon Musk, but the HN standard is to take a charitable interpretation of things where possible. The charitable interpretation is that he's socially awkward, overly in the limelight and learned a lesson the hard way about how online information about your whereabouts is potentially very dangerous information and decided to use his experience to inform company policy.
As a footnote, I really, really like the way this was presented, showing the old and new policies side-by-side and highlighting the pertinent changes. Kudos to whomever put this together.
- fzeroracer 4y agoSorry, but I don't understand how you could take a charitable interpretation of Elon Musk's history when it comes to privacy. This is the same guy that hired a detective to try and investigate someone he disliked (the whole 'pedo guy' incident). He's been unmasking low level employees as rage bait for his Twitter crowd. He's shared sensitive information with far right individuals.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoNo one is a monolith and once someone has a "bad reputation" for a particular thing, good luck reversing it. I saw some tweet with him saying (rather stupidly) that he is so committed to free speech that he will not take down @elonjet and it was, of course, mocking the fact that it was now down. His previous position was dumb -- just like I was initially dumb to be sharing so much information about myself online, which brought out the worst in some people. I wasn't a "bad person" to be oversharing. I was naive. I had lived a very private life and it was really hard for me to figure out how to negotiate a relationship to the public. It was painful. I imagine that for a lot of things, such a wealthy man gets a lot of deference in face-to-face stuff. That can make it hard to get a good idea of what's real and what's just ass-kissing bullshit and that's not how the world really works. I wish HN would keep its dignity even if Elon Musk cannot seem to do so. And giving no room for any nuance in the discussion is not it.
- ModernMech 4y ago> I imagine that for a lot of things, such a wealthy man gets a lot of deference in face-to-face stuff. That can make it hard to get a good idea of what's real and what's just ass-kissing bullshit and that's not how the world really works. The affluenza defense never ceases to get a belly laugh out of me. Thanks for that.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoYou think Doreen is using "the affluenza defense"? Seriously? One, she's one of the most thoughtful, honest people here. Two, of all the people least likely to be impressed by wealth, she's probably close to the top of the list. Maybe consider taking her post at face value also?
- ModernMech 4y agoI don’t really know who the poster is, so I’m sorry if I’m missing some context you have. She said men who are so rich can’t get a good read of the world due to how rich they are. At face value, that to me reads “affluenza”. Willing to hear another interpretation.