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by to_bpr 9y ago
>And yes, I am afraid of (some of) "these people." I am far, far more afraid of you and those who share your viewpoint.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. have a pretty beefy track record in very selective censorship. Why would you expect anything else from them?
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Outrage-driven censorship isn't anything new, unfortunately. While I respect Google's rights to host whatever it wants as a private business, I can't help but feel these actions merely serve to prove certain groups right and
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by to_bpr 9y ago
>why are you then commenting on a story whose main source (the document) you haven't read? Because they're outraged by what they've heard about it and demand that someone (almost without question) facilitate that outrage,
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by to_bpr 9y ago
calling out virtue signalling isn't really signalling in itself though, beyond an expression of disapproval obviously.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Many are becoming fatigued with the unrelenting virtue signalling that's going on these days.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
I've a casual worry that $SNAP will hit the bricks and trigger something significant (and negative) within the industry in the near future. Is this worry justifiable?
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Is there any other professional industry as politically divided and toxic as tech has become? Is there any other industry in which private companies shove their "values" down the throats of their employees in the manner we experie
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by to_bpr 9y ago
It definitely is. It's a more thoughtfully written "haters gonna hate" status post. That said, I do sympathize with her for the things she talks about having experienced. I'm not even successful by HN's standards, j
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by to_bpr 9y ago
That's what I'm thinking. The smartphone could be left home turned off, only to be brought out when I need the GPS or similar. As such I love the thought. It's nothing a dumb phone can't offer right now, but the convenie
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Opportunities for new jobs as well as opportunities within your existing job.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
>There is a reason he's known as the "most hated man in America". Because that title sells clicks, much like every other piece of hyperbolic clickbait spewed onto the internet these days? If he truly is the most hated ma
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Technology isn't the reason work-life balance is diminishing. People are the reason, technology has only enabled these people and the solution to problems with people will not lie in technology.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
I'd invest the time in golang. I never hear of Elixir outside of HN but golang appears to be dramatically increasing in adoption and interest, so if I were to put my time into either it'd be Go simply because I feel as though ther
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Was anything made public over what happened on the 31st?
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Snapchat's value prop has nothing to do with connecting with one another. It originally lay in its proclaimed transient nature and ability to communicate off the radar from parents/relatives which at the time had begun to "in
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Very interested to see how he/they propose to expedite the boring process.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
He's absolutely a hero, if only an accidental one. His actions thwarted a large scale cyber attack on some pretty crucial services, so he definitely deserves recognition for it. Let us also not forget that these are allegations again
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by to_bpr 9y ago
If the current climate is anything to base predictions on, I would put my money on the answer lying in hard-coding them to adhere to that which is deemed politically correct.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
No, the content between the covers is essentially irrelevant in the mind of the OP. They're asking us to judge a book strictly by its cover, and to reject it should it not meet their strict criteria of having not been written by a whit
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Perhaps because virtue signalling has never been more popular? In an industry where we all earn well, have similar qualities of life, similar careers, etc. virtue signalling (often wherever possible) appears to have become the perceived fer
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by to_bpr 9y ago
The fact that the majority of refugees arriving to Europe these days seem to be pushing to get to Germany, Britain or Scandanavia despite being able to "survive" in Turkey, Greece or Italy seems to refute your point a little.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
Disparaging certain demographics, namely white people and men, is trendy these days and there's no shortage of self-loathing people in Canada with an apparent eagerness to provide a platform to enable and facilitate that/those tre
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by to_bpr 9y ago
I keep reading this "Canada draws strength from diversity" line but I've never seen anything to substantiate it. Could you please give it a shot? Because I'm an immigrant living in Toronto. The diversity here, while &quo
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by to_bpr 9y ago
>This reason alone he will never get my vote. Would you like people to hold an off-the-cuff comment made at the age of 20 against you for the rest of your days? I've many issues with FB, Zuckerberg and the rest of the cohort, but a
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by to_bpr 9y ago
we've an extremely weak, hyper image-conscious liberal government... what are you expecting?
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by to_bpr 9y ago
reddit.com/r/politics
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by to_bpr 9y ago
What an incredibly toxic, and factually incorrect, mindset to hold.
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by to_bpr 9y ago
I share your outlook on the future of society with regards to its relationship of the mass with technology and privacy. If anything the last decade has shown us, it's that the average person will readily sacrifice freedom and privacy f
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by to_bpr 9y ago
>The feed will include news stories from a variety of publishers, to avoid the so-called filter bubble effect, where people follow only content aligned with their pre-existing point of view. >"To provide information from diverse

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