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Why would you do something so immoral?
by qmr 3mo ago
Why would you do something so immoral?
- jvanderbot 3mo agoTo get paid, obviously. We're all self interested actors here.
- ubertaco 3mo agoSame reason people lobby for fracking or sell mass surveillance software.
- qmr 3mo agoNuremberg defense. I thought the HN crowd at least pretended to be somewhat better.
- t-writescode 3mo agoOh definitely not. Many of us work in tech. Many of us are the people that wrote the code that other people on this website complain about as anti-patterns, dark patterns, etc.
- esterna 3mo agoBe here long enough and you will find people bragging about their captcha solving services, or how they found a clever loophole in anti-gambling laws. Posts about certain unmentionable topics are flagged minutes after being posted, post titles are changed to protect in-groups, and human rights are sometimes up to debate. The rule is that you have to be polite about it all.
- jvanderbot 3mo agoGGP didn't break the law (in fact he conformed wtih it), he just didn't disobey his orders (risking his salary) in order to go the extra mile in order to make a negligible positive impact in the world. Seems rational. Ever speed on the way to/from work? That's a worse offense than a strictly-compliant website - you're increasing danger for yourself and others and breaking a law, precisely for your own benefit.
- jdashg 3mo agoWe are not all selfish actors here. Who have you surrounded yourself with in your life, that you would end up believing that we're all self-interested actors here?
- nashashmi 3mo agoYou should ask that question to the workers at palantir
- inigyou 3mo agoThey're asking it right now to a worker at a newspaper site
- nashashmi 3mo agoNothing wrong with working at a newspaper site.
- inigyou 3mo agoSpecifically the one who disabled the cancel button in places that don't legally require it.
- nixon_why69 3mo agoThey commented upthread that they actually enabled it for the two states that legally require it.
- inigyou 3mo agoThat was harder than enabling it for all states. They went out of their way to ensure that users from 48 states could not cancel.
- nashashmi 3mo agoActually they went out of their way to make sure someone in California could cancel (a lot of work) online. They only restricted use of the feature to a subset
- aczerepinski 3mo agoIt used to be nobody could cancel online, and after my commit two states could. I think you may be overreacting here.