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by rStar 5y ago
google is so big nobody can get anyone else’s attention. so making a public stink, while very questionable otherwise, may get someone’s attention who’s able to fix this mess
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by rStar 5y ago
i’ve been in high stress situations, and angry, where I made a bunch of correct decisions, and a bunch of mistakes. in this case, especially since I’m not the one who is in the crosshairs, i understand her pain
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by rStar 5y ago
this lady is not going to have a problem finding employment. google is losing an asset, possibly a major one, for whatever reasons they have to do so
94.
by rStar 5y ago
in fairness, it’s easy to continue to be naive when you give the biggest corporation on earth, more or less, every possible benefit of the doubt
95.
by rStar 5y ago
ding ding ding
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by rStar 5y ago
don’t abuse your employees
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by rStar 5y ago
name and shame. only way to change
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by rStar 5y ago
nice golf course though
99.
by rStar 5y ago
Especially in the Bay Area. If you do, I recommend a move to some Pennsylvania farm country where you can have a good life and a good school district. No better life available.
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by rStar 5y ago
Nobody cares about stuff that’s good on hacker news, they want some new bullshit that will allow themselves to compete to attach themselves to a revenue stream to enable them to get into Elizabeth Holmes country club. Babynamewizard is a pr
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by rStar 5y ago
So glad I don’t have kids
102.
by rStar 5y ago
looks familiar to me also. was roblox also hacked?
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by rStar 5y ago
although i do love watching those fancy hydrofoil boats out on the bay
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by rStar 5y ago
tim cook was obviously lying in that instance, as is shown by the amount of heavy metals he personally has coaxed out of the ground in pursuit of plausible deniability, oh no i meant, planned obsolescence and the apple app store tax.
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by rStar 5y ago
i would. it’s who they are as people, not which jobs they had when.
106.
by rStar 5y ago
i was actually saying the opposite. somebody needs to know spreadsheets and not ego to run meta to the fullest.
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by rStar 5y ago
oracle could have not been morons and gotten the entire world stuck on java 11, but as we all know, oracle has one product, and it’s called vendor lock in.
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by rStar 5y ago
java 11 fo life yo
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by rStar 5y ago
it will be interesting to see what facebook turns into if/when they get a new ceo who is business success focused, like tim cook and satya nadella, who are just corporate mercenaries trying to run the most efficient business possible,
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by rStar 5y ago
well, the cogs aren’t cogs they are rational actors and they are responsible for their actions. but hey, at least they don’t have a desk an office a door or a moment to themselves outside a stall in the bathroom.
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by rStar 5y ago
i’m talking about being an actual sociopath. please take my words with my meaning, and you can feel free to express yours as tou have done.
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by rStar 5y ago
we don’t have a democracy. the will of the people no longer holds.
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by rStar 5y ago
which as a salesman i’m definitely in position to comment
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by rStar 5y ago
if we had a functioning government, and if all the rich republicans in california weren’t pretending to be democrats, we wouldn’t have this problem.
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by rStar 5y ago
fuck that it’s salesmanship, and salesmen make poor leaders.
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by rStar 5y ago
we have free speech in america, and i’d like facebook to respect that by not curbing anyone’s speech without a court order
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by rStar 5y ago
the dating example is stupid. when you assume you make an ass out of you and me.
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by rStar 5y ago
or, it could be a real thing with people and you should gfy
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by rStar 5y ago
theory: the notch is apples way to keep people from taping over the webcam, a few percentage points. who benefits from less tape, at population scale, on a little used but programmatically controllable camera?
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by rStar 5y ago
notch bothers me a lot. i was ready to buy, and i hope all you guys enjoy, but i’ll be sitting the notch out. it was one thing on a phone. this is just dumb.

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