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by throwaway45349 6y ago
No, The Donald moved off of reddit and there were 0 posts for months. Reddit banned them anyway, clearly politically motivated.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Anything conservative. The Donald was a hotbed of whackjobs, but it was also the biggest Trump forum online. They should be allowed to talk freely so the rest of us can laugh, rather than persuing the censorship route so advertisers don&#x2
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
You can be on-call and still do other things -- it's not all or nothing. My workplace has tiered SLOs for on-call, some being as relaxed as O(30 minutes) for first response.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Don't most companies also provide workstations at desks for engineers? I know many who only use their laptop for meetings (until WFH) and it always seemed like a huge waste.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Baseless HN conspiracy theories about privacy never cease to amaze me.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
For sure, this is a big reason. I'll be 21 when this is over, this year of youth is never coming back.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Can you explain more? This is such a foreign concept to me but I'd love to try and understand.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I'm going to go against the vibe on this site and agree with him. The next Apple or Google definitely will not come from a remote working startup, and there's undoubtedly a lot of value from in-person collaboration. In a bigger co
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Really? It seems to me that you're not understanding the average user at all. Everyone who gets a new computer starts by opening Edge and typing "Chrome download" or less often "Firefox download". Normal people know
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Speculating, but more of an "assumption".
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> Drivers want benefits and better pay Are you sure? California seems to be speaking for these people. I would like to see a middle ground where drivers can explicitly mark Uber as their job and get benefits. Either way, as an Englishman
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Isn't that the whole point of branching off with Alphabet? Seems like a failed experiment if it didn't create a model for new startups to exist under GOOG.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Retired, I presume. Sometimes people just want to spend time with their kids and not have to work all the time. And I'm sure he talks to Sundar Pichai all the time, Alphabet/Google was his baby afterall.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> Easy to block ads Bingo. If you're blocking ads, then you're probably not going to get much attention from the Reddit team.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Liberal arts aren't a solid education for survival. I'd rather the major/minor system to allow people to study these things while getting a useful qualification alongside.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
US has crony capitalism, not capitalism. A social safety net is completely viable within the capitalist philosophy, and not considered "socialism". Real socialism is dangerous and people are scared of it for a reason.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Not really, it's just life. Unions are a horrible solution and should be avoided at all costs because they're a competitive disadvantage and will sink the company long term. The better solution is to pour money into creating more
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Lol if you think kids will peer pressure other kids into doing their "FPS maths homework" then you're seriously out of touch.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
They can't legally enforce it because the BBC guy has no special power to inspect your telly set and it's not technically a tax (as long as you don't consume BBC content). They also include YouTube/iPlayer consumption of
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The actual org is small, but it's caused thousands to pull their license fee, which is no small sum of money for the Beeb. It's not like they're rolling in profit.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
At least include the full quote, which is far more reasonable in-context: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wr
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> The problem with Republics is that “one man one vote” does not translate into the majority getting what it wants. This is not a bug, it's a feature. Otherwise you let the big cities stomp over the towns and countryside.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Why would anyone abandon their home/nation to jump ship into a culture they know nothing about -- except for government policy? Only in the US with it's state system is what you're descr
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Except for the Defund the BBC movement that's going on right now... I'm skeptical any government funded broadcaster is sustainable when it just turns into a propaganda outlet for the establishment.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
As long as the courts are fair, there's no problem here.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> CNN also promotes conspiracy theories and outright nonsense Yeah, I do. These outlets are all as bad as each other. The only difference is a right-leaning individual is biased in favor of Breitbart propaganda and a left-leaning individ
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
AFAIK you're missing a crucial point - they're trying to require G/FB to pay out billions to old (read: dying) media publications, which will crush small publications. On the Open Web, ABC News should get the exact same treat
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Colloquially, worth remembering: "exams don't get you jobs, they just prevent you from getting jobs."
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Promotion of any content results in the suppression of other content (inventory isn't infinite). If you were in charge of the algorithm, what would you promote? Considering half of America views CNN the same way you view Breitbart, do
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Post hoc rationalisation, but okay. My non-technical friends know exactly what a whitelist/blacklist are but none of them have ever heard these new politically correct terms.

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