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by seneca 6y ago
I'm not sure that's true. In 2019 there were many articles in mainstream news outlets about Amazon's counterfeit problem, including a major (front page, I believe?) article from the Wall Street Journal [0]. They also received
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by seneca 6y ago
This strikes me as a tone deaf move for Amazon. They're increasingly losing consumer confidence and are starting, anecdotally at least, to be regarded as closer to a flea market or eBay than a trustworthy retailer. They really need to
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by seneca 6y ago
> Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product. Producers managed to improve products for thousands of years without violating the privacy of their customer. Equating
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by seneca 6y ago
The US was a wildly more homogeneous place before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act [0]. For all of the benefits draining the rest of the world of their most ambitious brings, it also destroys social solidarity, trust, and cooperatio
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by seneca 6y ago
It has nothing to do with "nice". It's just cultural activism making a power grab. They'll be happy when no one is allowed to say anything that doesn't fit their agenda, just like any authortarian group.
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by seneca 6y ago
I'm always baffled when I see things like this. The people who are actually creating and sharing being forced out by finger waving moralistic censors who somehow manage to take over leadership positions is a trope that threatens open s
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by seneca 6y ago
Adam Smith, the man who literally wrote the book on Capitalism, warned of the danger of monopoly power and urged State regulation to prevent it.
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by seneca 6y ago
They don't get the info from your previous employer, they get it from your previous payroll processor. Many payroll processing companies happily sell your financial history, which is made available to your new employer via most backgro
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by seneca 6y ago
They are called Struggle Sessions[0]. > Struggle sessions were a form of public humiliation and torture used by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) at various times in the Mao era, particularly during the years immediately before and after
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by seneca 6y ago
Rackspace was sold to a private equity company in late 2016. Most of their senior staff has jumped ship since then, and services have been decreasing in quality. It's essentially a different company, and not one I'd host anything
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by seneca 6y ago
Believing in God is not the key part, but believing in some unifying idea is necessary. People are extremely tribal. You need something that defines an "Us" for people the rally around.
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by seneca 6y ago
It may have something to do with age. I would wager I'm older than the average HN reader, and the steady decline of competence and quality has been pretty obvious in my lifetime. I've had discussions with friends in my age group a
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by seneca 6y ago
And what would happen if the communists you hate so much were the ones deciding what gets censored?
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by seneca 6y ago
They're building a propaganda machine the likes of which Joseph Goebbels couldn't even have dreamed. It will certainly be fascinating, so long as you can ignore the unprecedented levels of damage it does.
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by seneca 6y ago
Twitter has shown they have an extreme political bias over and over. It is insane to trust them to identify and censor "misinformation". This is just another censorship campaign hiding behind the current flavor of "think of t
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by seneca 6y ago
Robert Putnam did research on this. Search for his name and "The downside of Diversity".
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by seneca 6y ago
> Your kids might just be eager to get away from an abusive household. This kind of comment is wildly uncalled for.
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by seneca 6y ago
I think you have causation backwards. Homeschooling is a huge burden on a family, people take that on because they have a low opinion of public schools, generally.
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by seneca 6y ago
I would agree with most of that. I'm not a collectivist, and have no interest in sacrificing my children's well-being for collectivist goals. I will do everything in my power to give them an advantage in life, equity is explicitly
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by seneca 6y ago
A common joke in the home-school community is: "I was worried my kid was missing out on the socialization of public schools, so I beat him up and stole his lunch money". People have very anachronistic views of home schooling. A ge
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CloudBee's CodeShip Critical Security Notification(codeshipstatus.com)
16 points by seneca 6y ago|2 comments
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by seneca 6y ago
> Now if you feel like your power as a citizen has dwindled and you can't meaningfully enact change through democratic means, it makes sense to try and "weaponize" your job, especially if you work for a powerful company an
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by seneca 6y ago
> I'm sure there will be many applicants, but they'll all be sociopaths. This is the exact kind of tone Coinbase is ejecting from their company. You thinking this is the wrong move is exactly the point. People don't want t
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by seneca 6y ago
> I don't see this press release as forbidding debate. It specifically does: > We won’t: Debate causes or political candidates internally
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by seneca 6y ago
The announcement from Coinbase specifically says that issues concerning working conditions are in bounds: > Of course, employees should always feel free to advocate around issues of pay, conditions of employment, or violations of law, fo
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by seneca 6y ago
> What once was a culture of skepticism in the US seems to have devolved into a culture of mistrust. I wonder what has driven this apparent shift. I spend time with both elites (academic, professional class, government bureaucrats) and w
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by seneca 6y ago
> Free speech is the right to not be arrested for speaking. It's not the right to not be punched in the face for saying stupid things (there is a separate law for face punching). No, the 1st Amendment is the right to not be arrested
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by seneca 6y ago
Article is fair and well reasoned. I used to donate a fair amount to WMF multiple times a year, but over the years they have fallen prey to activist editors that have really tainted the value of a lot of articles. I recognize that it's
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by seneca 6y ago
> What's wrong with being kind and speaking to people with respect while you disagree with them? The problem is that people intentionally manipulate what "being kind" means to try to silence others. The tactic, as far as I
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by seneca 6y ago
> Free Software is an extremely left wing philisophy That's revisionist history. Free software, and the greater "hacker" community, has historically been libertarian. It's only recently that authoritarian leftism took

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