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Flock is a YC company. I don’t think the resistance will be organized on HN in spite of its ostensibly hacker ethos
by an0malous 6mo ago
Flock is a YC company. I don’t think the resistance will be organized on HN in spite of its ostensibly hacker ethos
- michaelsshaw 6mo ago[flagged]
- estimator7292 6mo agoLot of faux-intellectual buzzwords in there, bud
- michaelsshaw 6mo agoSuch as? Was it "shit" or "dickriders"? Or was it "anarcho-capitalist", a well-defined concept? Sorry if I'm not receptive to waxing poetic about mass surveillance and the fact that you can't skip a move in chess.
- adi_kurian 6mo agoAn aggressive polemic, but faux-intellectual is a tad unfair, perhaps even patronizing, I may say.
- b00ty4breakfast 6mo agoI can't speak to years past but HN is an off-shoot of a VC firm so it's not too surprising that the culture here is based in the California Ideology milieu.
- michaelsshaw 6mo agoBut it isn't the VC that brings the users here for the most part(I'm literally assuming this, but it seems reasonable), it's word of mouth. Did you join because you love YC, or was it because you thought it was an interesting website at some point?
- junofan 6mo agoJoined because I loved yc, sv, and it’s my home. There’s a guy running around my neighborhood beating people with a pipe. I hope something like Flock can deal with it. I don’t know why people get on here and post agitprop.
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- BLKNSLVR 6mo agoGenuinely not sure if serious.
- spacechild1 6mo agoThe HN community is not a monolithic entity. Yes, there are many libertarian SV folks, but there are also plenty of people (like myself) who despise that culture and push back on a regular basis.
- loteck 6mo agoWhat is libertarian about funding, building and defending government mass surveillance for money?
- spacechild1 6mo agoJust as much as voting for a narcissistic pathological liar and sex offender is Christian. Turns out people are not very consequent with their supposed values when it gets in the way of their personal interests.
- vrganj 6mo agoHypocrisy is the key libertarian value.
- tomhow 6mo agoJust a few days ago: “Regardless, it's acceptable here to mock climate deniers, capitalists (landlords, CEOs, Billionaires), SUV or truck drivers, religious fundamentalists, various flavors of conservatives…” [1] Both these positions are examples of an effect that dang called the “notice dislike bias” [2]. From reading the discussions here every day for years, there’s more criticism of Flock, Musk and major tech figures/companies than there is support. Regardless of that, it’s not cool to sneer at things on HN, including the rest of the community. This is a site for curious conversation, not intellectual strutting and preening. Curiosity and humility are intrinsically linked. Not everyone plays chess but can still benefit from learning about its concepts, even if you feel it’s beneath you. I’ve been in tech for many years and had never heard that knowing all about chess was inherent to the “hacker ethos”. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932456 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike%20bias&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoThere are enough normal people here it is still worth trying.
- gehwartzen 6mo agoWhen it comes to Flock in particular I’ve been seeing a lot more in terms of resistance and pushback in local Reddit communities. At least in my cities sub I see posts regarding anti-flock messaging or related activities at least once a week now.
- davidw 6mo agoYeah, where I live, one guy was like "You know what, I've had it". He then started organizing within the community and got a big crowd to show up at a city council meeting, and we ended up getting rid of the Flock cameras. Yay!
- notfromhere 6mo agoWell yeah, YC is a tech incubator plugged pretty deep into the SV hivemind, and the leading figures of it seemed to have decided that fascism is a better alternative to any kind of regulation on their activities.
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