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by hitekker 3y ago
Well-reasoned points. Nice job avoiding the extremely online argument where "relationship security" and "food security" apparently mean the same thing.
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The private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to any strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. I suspect more so than any supposed rationality; see atheists and religion. The article on Russell is actually quite relevant to the
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by hitekker 3y ago
This comes across as posturing around internet drama. The article's subject demolished a plagiarist for ripping off the community they're apart of; not bad at all! Then the subject gets an interview where they talk endlessly about
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by hitekker 3y ago
"Reorgs do not solve the underlying problem" is a sentiment I agree with. However, this article has no insights. It darts from point to point and does little digging (basic pro/con analyses). Despite referring to "resear
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by hitekker 3y ago
> attract existing techies and have a weird sheen of forced kindness about them. > If you're just chatting with other programmers under American HR communication standards, then how is it any different to work? > There's
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by hitekker 3y ago
This is especially true for religious art. Many think religion is not "apart of their culture" because they haven't learned their own history. A museum ought to show the newer generations the good parts of what came before; b
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by hitekker 3y ago
Your comments are great but your audience is inexperienced. Most of our experience is largely in pointless, online arguments and few serious real-life struggles. The latter scares the hell out of us so we run from the conflict and from our
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by hitekker 3y ago
What was top comment yesterday becomes a farce today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38313026 > Don’t piss off an irreplaceable engineer or they’ll fire you. not taking any sides here. One scientist's power tri
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by hitekker 3y ago
In my experience, LLM's are bad at generating concise & witty jokes. They can randomly generate but that requires the the prompter to be a funny person to begin with.
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by hitekker 3y ago
IIRC, that Microsoft employee was acting alone, trying to pick a fight with ReactOS. He backpedalled when the community asked if he was representing his company. My guess is that his management chain heard about the drama he was creating,
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by hitekker 3y ago
Apparently, even folks within Amnesty questioned the motivations of the report. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/04/ukraine-civili... > However, the head of Amnesty Ukraine’s office, Oksana
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by hitekker 3y ago
This paper reads as a conspiracy theory. No peer review, dramatic conclusions, logical leaps abound. A quick google search reveals the author has an axe to grind against the current government of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by hitekker 3y ago
This response is thoughtful, but I'm not sure why you're bothering. The other guy is playing the lazy "just asking questions" game.
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Fake job openings feels sketchy. Do you have a source or a link?
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by hitekker 3y ago
No idea why you’re being downvoted. Your answer sounds fine to me.
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Your blog posts rise on HN because, from what little I've read, you don't mince words and you talk about the issues directly. Other big-names play word games and rely on the "I'm popular with the community" shtick t
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by hitekker 3y ago
I might be dumb today but I think this parable is incomprehensible. Do you have a link to another version?
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Possibly. I was thinking more about Bay Area tech people who can't handle deep conflicts and outsource morality to their managers. But hey what do you know there is a Bible verse for this: https://www.biblegateway.com/p
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by hitekker 3y ago
Most internet community rules seem to spawn from a fear of authority. A mutual fear from the rank-and-file and the rulers. Endlessly debating a million little rules is safer than questioning each other's judgement. Authority resolves b
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by hitekker 3y ago
The author is not answering questions anymore so here's a link to the 2014 expose https://newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tech-i... . > In plain English, this roughly amounted to saying: I, [S
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by hitekker 3y ago
Did your cofounders forgive you?
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by hitekker 3y ago
At least one former associate wrote about the dealings of a few maintainers of Rust, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633113 . More reports likely don't emerge because of fear. Potential witnesses are afraid of th
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by hitekker 3y ago
Both your scenarios blame the new CEO instead of the old CEO. I'd wager the old CEO created a huge mess that the new one couldn't clean up.
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Their power to hurt the GP doesn’t excuse breaking an agreement made in good faith.
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The AI art seems pretty quickly generated. If they had paid someone to edit it or draw it, this piece wouldn't look so rushed.
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Interestingly, Ashton Cofer and Teddy Solomon of Fizz tried some PR damage control when their wrongdoing came to light https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/01/opinion-fizz-previously... . Their response was weak
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The latter two labels sound fine, but the first label sounds like a stereotypical VP punch-down. I've seen way too many people who actually do know better than their bosses, who actually step up to be responsible, and who are then told
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by hitekker 3y ago
Ouch. Google's SEO PR rep really messed up the damage control. So many non-answers and links that essentially say "I'm not an engineer but trust me, the engineers I talk with say you're all wrong."
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I'm not sure how useful this app is. Scanning the comments down-thread, the people preaching mindfulness seem to struggle to practice it. I thought the whole point was to help a person be self-aware, but I see resentment and rage bubbl
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by hitekker 3y ago
I think you’re right; the conversation was civil until the requestor started accusing the maintainer of extortion. Some people in this thread didn’t read that far, and now seem to be to twisting reality to defend their judgement.

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