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by chasing 9y ago
"So what of China's billion-plus citizens who are not members of the free-speech elite? Although an average citizen could privately express sentiments similar to those published by Li Rui, if an average person had written and priv
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by chasing 9y ago
I don't believe you that normal people would fire an employee for saying "free speech should apply to workplaces." I believe there's some other idea that you're talking about expressing and then defending by saying
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by chasing 9y ago
A company has to continue to employ you no matter what dumb things you say at work? (Also, no place worth working for will fire you for saying “private citizens should have the right to free speech without being fired.” What is the controve
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by chasing 9y ago
You're going to have to be more specific. What kind of controversial opinion are you worried will get you fired?
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by chasing 9y ago
'More recently, I’ve seen credible people working on ideas like pharmaceuticals for intelligence augmentation, genetic engineering, and radical life extension leave San Francisco because they found the reaction to their work to be so t
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by chasing 9y ago
> Speaking as a conservative: When Obama was president, I got told the same thing about the ACA. The world will end, the sky is falling, America is finished. But eight years later, here I am, nothing's that much worse. (You need to
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by chasing 9y ago
The head office, not the teams. And almost all of the income comes in via the teams.
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by chasing 9y ago
No, non-profits tend to underpay simply because they often have less money. Well-funded non-profits probably pay at-market rates. Or higher.
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by chasing 9y ago
You're misunderstanding the term "profit" in the legal phrase "non-profit." I'm not defending high salaries at all non-profits. Yes, some people are overpaid despite being at a non-profit. But don't be con
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by chasing 9y ago
That's a very pejorative and mostly inaccurate way of putting it. "Non-profit" doesn't mean people can't earn good money -- it means the organization exists for a purpose other than profit and, therefore, gets some
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by chasing 9y ago
Aetna's CEO is an employee of Aetna. So in your tale he's part of the labor, not the person who wants a house built.
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by chasing 9y ago
Directional decisions aren't the only important decisions. And, yes: Non-C-level execs make directional decisions all the time. Especially in a company the size of Aetna.
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by chasing 9y ago
Yes it does. Aetna employees almost 50,000 people. Aetna owes some success to their CEO. They owe most of their success to their employees.
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by chasing 9y ago
You should check out Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me." It's an interesting discussion of the above -- and somewhat more nuanced than would be possible in Hacker News comments. https://www.goodreads
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by chasing 9y ago
The 500-ish of years of systemic impoverishment and using skin color as an indicator of class and human worth has caused that strong racial divide. Not the relatively recent trend of politicians trying to correct that social injustice.
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by chasing 9y ago
Remember that time that guy walked into a church and killed a bunch of people with a semi-automatic gay marriage? Neither do I.
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by chasing 9y ago
> ardent "liberals" Yeah, I mean those aren't necessarily popular opinions. So if you express them you might find a bunch of people who will vigorously argue against you. If that's upsetting to you, I don't kno
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by chasing 9y ago
If you said that at work I'd think you had your facts mixed up, but unless you're in the medical profession I have a very hard time believing you'd get fired over it. (Unless you acted on that belief in a way that hurt a cowo
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by chasing 9y ago
What kind of heinous political views do you hold that you'd get fired for discussing them?
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by chasing 9y ago
You wouldn't even have to be sneaky: Get control of Comcast (for example) and simply block everything you don't want people to see. And block places where people would complain about it. "The New York Times doesn't load
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by chasing 9y ago
I never called him evil. I doubt he is, but I don't know him personally. What he did, though, is he supported something specifically aimed at curtailing someone else's freedoms for no good reason. It's weird that people on Ha
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by chasing 9y ago
I won't speak to Damore's essay except to say that I thought it revealed Damore to be somewhat intellectually immature. But Eich supported something that actively aimed to rob people of the right to pursue their own happiness thro
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by chasing 9y ago
Doing this right after your employees unionize makes you an asshole. Especially if you're a billionaire. Especially if you delete the archives. But. He's a Trump supporter. So he's probably firmly of the belief that the littl
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by chasing 9y ago
That's paying for a service, not rent-seeking.
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by chasing 9y ago
It's a private space and they want to promote a certain kind of discussion. It's not cowardly at all.
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by chasing 9y ago
"Censorship by moderators" How about: "Curation by moderators"
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by chasing 9y ago
This is a terrible click-bait title. It is, as far as I can tell, completely factually inaccurate. "Amber Rudd set out her intention to change the law to increase the maximum penalty from 10 years." https://www.bbc.com&
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by chasing 9y ago
All startups are not like that. That e-mail is 100% amateur hour: 1) It's not really the employee's duty to sacrifice vacation time or pay because the company he or she works for is hurting for money. 2) Regardless, CEOs can'
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by chasing 9y ago
Yup. If you want money, you need leverage. Unions provide that.
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by chasing 9y ago
Electron, which means it's heavy and feels like a website rather than an app. But worse, the features just don't seem compelling enough to move away from their existing native app.

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