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right. human being gets laid off. Has this ever happened before. It does seem like SV folks have an elevated sense of purpose. Which is maybe fair to a point b
by _xlxy 3y ago
right. human being gets laid off.
Has this ever happened before. It does seem like SV folks have an elevated sense of purpose. Which is maybe fair to a point because of SVs inclusion in our online lives. But really, it seems like people in high paid jobs getting laid off isn't so much news for anyone, in general.
Maybe if there's some juice about how to order the world's information, but then they'd get sued for saying no doubt.
- dsr_ 3y agoNot everything on the Internet is aimed at you. Sometimes it's aimed at friends and family who the author doesn't see every week.
- _xlxy 3y agoDid I imply that it was, no, so why imply it. That's what social networks and email is for, not broadcasting it to the wider world, see, you're on Hacker News, me you, them and everyone in general.
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- janfoeh 3y agoWell, at least I for one feel better now. plonk
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- janfoeh 3y ago> Perhaps you're still looking for the 'blast far and wide' angle. Consider the idea that there is no angle here at all. What if you are simply witnessing people communicating with other people? No angles, no channels? You read this, and your takeaway was that "SV folks have an elevated sense of purpose". That is only true under the premise that they wrote this with the intent to .. I don't know, self-market. To get reach, clicks, whatever. The usual imaginary Internet points. What if they didn't? What if we just stumbled upon part of a genuine conversation that simply isn't directed at us? I'm sorry if I sounded aggressive earlier - because I was. I grew up on a different Internet, where the vast majority of stuff was in some form genuine, even if it was psychotic, moronic or simply mundane and boring. You might disagree, but my bullshit detectors tell me that this is genuine. Which is rare these days. And because I miss that stuff, I am somewhat protective of it. Sorry for lashing out. PS - "autistic" as code for "retarded" is, you know, like, so totally 2018. PPS: > Your position is ridiculous about keeping a situation private, while it's on the front page of hacker news. Give yourself a reality check about intentions. If somebody else posts a link to something I wrote to some link aggregator, that neither says nor changes anything about my intentions when I wrote it. That much should be, in your words, "self-evident". This is not about privacy. Just because you can access it in a browser does not make you the target, just as being able to listen to a conversation in a subway does not make you a party to it. Again, self-evident. PPPS: After that "moron", I'll take back my apology, thank you very much,
- geodel 3y agoTrue. I think it is news in same sense that they got hired for jobs that paid hundreds of thousand dollars. Maybe a those truck drivers making 50K/ year really want to know about SV's best and the brightest. After all once truck divers, warehouse workers, paralegals etc finish their PhD in machine learning they will be working right along with valley folks.