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by adjkant 6y ago
> which is extremely international Racism against Africans can be found internationally, but in this case we are talking specifically African-Americans. Being international does not mean diverse in this specific way, it just means divers
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by adjkant 6y ago
I think it's helpful here to examine the conception of a racist. Most racists don't identify as such and have a racist agenda they consciously act on. In these cases, it's baked in through various experiences into the subcons
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by adjkant 6y ago
Full disclosure, I'm personally a bit more motivated than most about what the company that I work for stands for, but to me, you made the answer clear with this: > I do already have a (very) good job, so I don't "have&quot
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by adjkant 6y ago
No. We have played this argument out and I'd love to get over beating this dead horse, here and all over the tech industry. Go look elsewhere in the comments. Fantastical conspiracy webs ("trying to ruin their livelihoods") r
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by adjkant 6y ago
> The message was I can't believe people made comments with the points above. Again, where was that said? Disbelief is expressed nowhere in the post. Even if that was the message, what in the world is the reply adding here? The post
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by adjkant 6y ago
I disagree from my interpretation of what we do know. They could have made the case about that specifically if they wanted to, but they decided to deflect with a blanket policy on politics. To say we can't determine anything is silly -
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by adjkant 6y ago
Then they made their choice - their employees believed their company was not supporting them as people and forced the issue. Coinbase then chose its side. Is there anything more to say?
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by adjkant 6y ago
We can only speculate on the numbers, but it can always be a both/and situation. This culture/environment itself can be part of the reason for wanting that life change. But forget number speculation, we have concrete proof of this
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by adjkant 6y ago
Many companies regularly work within mainstream political action such as LGTBQ+ rights, data privacy, homelessness, local housing or public works, and children's orgs such as Big Brother Big Sister. While these vary in controversiality
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by adjkant 6y ago
Very well said. People seem to be trying to apply a criminal prosecution level standard for proof/evidence, one that is almost never applied to other companies on non hot button issues or generally on HN. You highlighted the specific h
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by adjkant 6y ago
> Coinbase's stance there is fair, reasonable and moral The 60 people who left makes it clear this is not agreed upon. HN has already played out this debate on the original post so I'll save going into it here, but it's di
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by adjkant 6y ago
I personally spend a good time with these large philosophical questions, so here are some notes off my experience: First, I think it would be naive to think there's any sort of formulaic approach that works for all large questions or i
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by adjkant 6y ago
CAPTCHAs being american-centric, ableist, etc are all valid criticisms here, but I think people in tech fail to understand the value of them. Being "robot-friendly" still doesn't mean it's a walk in the park, and it&#x27
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by adjkant 6y ago
And what's the use of that point? If people say X and many understand it means Y, even though by a dictionary/older meaning it can mean Z, being pedantic and trying to fight the natural language shift doesn't really help anyo
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by adjkant 6y ago
Know this mostly isn't looking for an answer, but I think HN typically means something along the lines of: "one with a significant development arm of their employees/business that is crucial to the company's success&quot
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by adjkant 6y ago
OP said: > I've largely stopped using twitter due to the incessant politics, pretty much what you described above but just in a different flavor I'm not saying there aren't crazy takes in many corners of Twitter, but OP ma
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by adjkant 6y ago
> pretty much what you described above but just in a different flavor I'd love to see what part of twitter would be merely a different flavor to "Jews are secretly lizard people manipulating the elections". There's an
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by adjkant 6y ago
And until you have that, you're going to assuming the unlikely, unproven, and unprecedented side from a president literally known for lying and questioning the results of the past election baselessly, finding no evidence in 4 years of
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by adjkant 6y ago
> Apparently people have been caught submitting dozens of ballots in the names of people they didn't have any right to. You'd think there'd be evidence for that somewhere, but you're just parroting die-hard Trump supp
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by adjkant 6y ago
It seems reductively easy to see that the basic premise is incredibly flawed here: that ballots are uniformly shuffled in all states. Some very basic things that would cause those exact shifts in the data witnessed: 1. Mail vs Drop Box coul
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by adjkant 6y ago
> we have a city where getting a job is a solved problem. This is the case for the tech industry, not categorically. Important distinction there.
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by adjkant 6y ago
It's sad I had to scour Twitter and replies here to find this on the third page. The irony of HN upvoting comments that do the same op-ed ranting on their own issues and haven't seem to have thought critically about the article in
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by adjkant 6y ago
Quote the original piece: > "In your first six months, you’re gonna be useless anyways. You’re going to be drowning in new information and context and it’ll take you a few months to learn how to swim." Useless is their word her
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by adjkant 6y ago
I like your summary a lot better, and much of this info is buried. Something that speaks volumes is reading the first sentence part of each paragraph in that section, you get exactly zero of these points. The storytelling flow of consciousn
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by adjkant 6y ago
> OP's ability to put his learnings into words Reading this gave me the exact opposite impression - the amount of work it takes to extract takeaways from this writing is IMO one of it's biggest failures. It felt like pulling te
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by adjkant 6y ago
What percentage of ants that exist are studied? They absolutely study some, but the vast majority of ants won't ever be acknowledged by a human. That seems like a relevant factor here if the assumption is that humans are like ants in b
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by adjkant 6y ago
OP here, I was very much referring to the last period, not periods in general.
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by adjkant 6y ago
If you look at the previous pieces of the author, it becomes clear that this is not about the people involved here but the larger narrative the author wants to write about, with is cancel culture. You can see this with another piece, asking
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by adjkant 6y ago
The article in this case seems to be a very bad source for the actual details and is much more concerned with painting a macro picture of woe. Reading the actual twitter thread and email exchange[1] plus this pretty helpful Westervelt threa
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by adjkant 6y ago
I think you misread - I don't have Whatsapp, and Facebook is a good part of that reason personally :) You're 100% correct though - if you use an app for this, you also need to trust the app owner!

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