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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I advocate for my beliefs on public accounts as well as internally - this account just happened to be what I was logged into is all. The simple fact is these publications are promoted because they are popular, making no comment on accuracy.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> Youtube is a sewer giving outright conspiracy nutcases a platform, they continuously promote Breitbart, infowars and other despicable websites Well, glad you're not in charge, then. If these publications really are crackpots then
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Nah, I disagree. Capitalism is the most natural system because it accepts what we are - selfish beings in a competitive environment. If we didn't specialize and trade skills/products/services, we'd still be a hunter-gath
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The words aren't the problem (unless it's a rally to violence), the action is. Any culture that can pivot to genocide from being exposed to the written word has bigger issues.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Not easily, but I think it's the only reasonable stance. Anything else is too subjective and easily falls into slippery slope territory. Long term, I know harm will be minimised through free speech.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
No - the API :) Admittedly I've tinkered with building out a similar idea so it's always nice to see people being successful with RSS tech.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
I think you can stay absolutist (albeit, being a bit cold about the situation). The principle of free speech is that it's paid for in blood because it's the least worst choice. Edit: I personally think the reasonable limit is call
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Agree with everything you said. My only concern is the political aspect. I see mainly establishment media, elites and politicians are the ones pushing for the censorship because they're afraid of free dissemination of information onlin
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Self organizing doesn't work because everyone wants what's best for themselves. Every grassroots activity has figureheads and leaders. Hierarchy is literally older than civilisation and observed in most animal life.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Huawei doesn't need "backdoors" for the CCP, because they are CCP. The higher-ups are undoubtedly all party members.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Those don't make any money.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
An organisation the size of Google's probably fucks up thousands of times daily. I reckon <1% of issues are actually complained about, so yeah, I'd believe it's a mistake.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> I am sure there are whitelists (and blocklists). Off topic, but why is whitelist acceptable but not blacklist?
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Nice API! Out of curiosity, how much traction did you gain with it?
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
This reads like the people who want to use "womxn" because the normal version is a superstring of "men".
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Other than lack of refunds and poor support for a decade, Steam was still the most consumer friendly app store. They got everything else right .
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Thank you for the links - you've opened my mind a bit here. I still don't think that's necessarily worthy of the word "gassing" given we're in a global pandemic and people aren't being murdered. > Pleas
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Like it or not, Google is a part of the Open Internet. Example: AMP was created to protect the free flow of information which was being silo'd into apps. Consumers of news were abandoning the open (mobile) web due to the godawful perfo
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Eh... strikes me more as the Democrats shifted the Overton window far left. Twitter's only bias is in favor of dollars.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do. We're here and do pay attention. Plenty of Googlers write comments criticizin
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
They don't gas detainees, that's seriously unfounded. That's a lot of money, but still not enough to cope with demand. Not to mention there's constant pressure to reduce the budget just like because functionally under US
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
FFS, people who come to the US (illegally I might add) end up in a place like that because they're deliberately underfunded. That is not a concentration camp. Instead of making a rash, politically motivated decision, consider that havi
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Interesting. Are there any other fields which desperately need this cross culture?
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Yeah, Google's problem is they can't spend enough the money fast enough. Cost savings have marginal/zero benefit to the business long term.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Googlers can't use our workstations at home, but we can use our laptops for remote desktop/SSH. Everything else is processed in data centers which means great performance everywhere. We've also got monitors and office chairs
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
> For a lot of people including women housework is actually boring and they would rather have a fulfilling career. For the vast vast majority of people there is no fulfillment in a career either. > Perpetuating the idea that men shoul
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Both indeed, but what separates us from animals is not being slave to our instincts.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
Both men and women usually prefer men to be the breadwinner though - this isn't just cultural - it has biological roots. Breaking away from that on a mass societal-wide scale will not be easy. Thankfully humans are one of the few anima
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
There are many TVCs at Google for whom the free food is a non-trivial benefit. Think about cleaning staff or other low paid jobs.
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by throwaway45349 6y ago
The problem with going back to one income is cultural. Men want to be the breadwinner, so it's going to end up forcing women out of the workforce and back into the home. There's no way to have one income viable again without halvi

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