As is not uncommon here on HN, it is bemusing to read such a cogent and persuasive summation of accomplished engineering, blessed with admirable clarity of tho

As is not uncommon here on HN, it is bemusing to read such a cogent and persuasive summation of accomplished engineering, blessed with admirable clarity of though, explicitness of reasoning, and concision in expression, and wonder WTF the author would put their obvious talents at the service of a company whose behavior has now for far over a decade has been so irredeemable, so indefensible, and so destructive, as to make this choice itself indefensible. Yes, I know it's a "great culture" and let's not forget, the pay is off the hook, but FFS look around, looks what the consequences—social, political, cultural, psychic—are of a firm which has amassed such profound reach infludence and capital both figurative and literal, in a fashion utterly untroubled by the common or individual good, utterly at the service of surveillance hence profit at every cost. Oh I know, in polite company in this industry we don't call out the shit on someone's shoe. Sorry. This politiness has led us to a profoundly fucked state of civilization and things are getting rapidly worse.