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As opposed to the incredibly skilled engineers who... steal your personal data (or enable others to do that)? I would love to read an interview with someone wh
by edent 4y ago
As opposed to the incredibly skilled engineers who... steal your personal data (or enable others to do that)?
I would love to read an interview with someone who applied to work for, say, Facebook. After all the news about their complicity in trying to set the world on fire - what drives them?
- markus_zhang 4y agoMoney (and a chance to apply what he learned at a much larger scale)? It pays very well and you can FIRE in less than 10 years. Especially when FB is much more legal than say stealing cars.
- whimsicalism 4y agoI don't think critics of Facebook have even decided what they want their critique of Facebook to be. My opinion is most of the negative reaction that people have to Facebook is intrinsic to websites where lots of people socialize online.
- asdff 4y agoWhy stop there? On HN you no doubt have engineers whose line of work is in mass death.
- l33t233372 4y agoCould you be more specific? Military industrial complex?
- asdff 4y agoBingo! But there are plenty of other harmful industries that exist today that are on the wrong side of history, but depend on skilled engineering to wreak the havoc they do on our people and our planet.