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by vanusa 5y ago
Just because they take no outward "position" ... doesn't mean that internally they are not perfectly aware of what is happening in Xinjiang - and of the moral dimensions of their complicity in it.
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The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible(nytimes.com)
2 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
So is the position of Intel that slave labour in concentration camps is an acceptable means of production? You read correctly. That is exactly their position. Not that they are fans of slave labour or of what is happening to the Uyghur p
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well, bummer, and best of luck to you then. At least you know you did everything you reasonably could and didn't just give up like the "vaxxed and done" crowd.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Are you ... boosted? A double vax from back in April or so would have substantially diminished protection by now.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Same here, and you shouldn't be downvoted for this. Flying is just gross.
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by vanusa 5y ago
We aren't talking about FizzBuzz here; but rather the fashionable practice of subject people to 4-6 hours of grilling on "medium-to-hard" problems that you absolutely cannot fail, or even be slightly halting in your delivery
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by vanusa 5y ago
A real Googler can perhaps comment better than I. But in my hazy recollection, there did seem to be a time, long before the Andy Rubin payout, when the "Don't be evil" slogan was not quite the perverse caricature that it has
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by vanusa 5y ago
Altruistic expectations, no. But I seem to recall a time (up until perhaps 15 years ago) when Google would not have been expected to engage in such blatantly Machiavellian tactics as placing fake op-eds. Nowadays though, I don't put an
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‘If not us, then who?’: The landmark push for reparations for Black Californians(theguardian.com)
8 points by vanusa 5y ago|3 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Regarding argumendum ad dunning-krugerii : https://oliverbeige.medium.com/how-citing-dunning-kruger-sho...
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by vanusa 5y ago
Hmm - by and large this seems like FUD-based reasoning (an in my view, deeply flawed). E.g. "the measures aren't as effective as we hoped" doesn't mean they're completely ineffective. "The data aren't as
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by vanusa 5y ago
If a major superpower falls ... I don't think you can say there's a general "rule" like this, throughout history. If anything the cases where these powers become straight-up subjugated from the outside (absent outrigh
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by vanusa 5y ago
Minimalism can work, if you like minimalism. Plainly the author, from his writing style, does not.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Good catch, thanks
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by vanusa 5y ago
No one wants to return to presenteeism or exploitation. Actually it's plain that the author does (at least as far as presenteeism goes), going by the title she chose. She's just being a bit wishy-washy about it. One company di
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by vanusa 5y ago
It's time to accept that this is endemic and not make Covid the center of everyone's existence any longer. I agree that we're all pretty fed up but you aren't offering any constructive guidance whatsoever. Not even &q
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by vanusa 5y ago
I'd argue the opposite, if the US government ceased to exist, the electrical grids in North America would collapse shortly thereafter, followed by the Internet and Bitcoin. No, there will just be temporary outages and prices these th
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.fo/RhGxU
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by vanusa 5y ago
Can someone boil this down?
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by vanusa 5y ago
No, don't do this. You don't have to respond at all to threats of a lawsuit -- not even to letters from a lawyer, threatening to sue you. But again you definitely need to get a lawyer (which if you have a FT job you should defini
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by vanusa 5y ago
So it will delight many in the blockchain industry to learn that Kasparov, easily one of the smartest people alive, is now a champion of cryptocurrency. Delight it shall. But it doesn't change the fact the fact that, tragically, hist
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by vanusa 5y ago
This sounds like an awful experience, and it must be cause you a great deal of distress also. So you have my sympathies. Unfortunately you don't have much (if any) leverage here (at least to get the money you feel you are owed). And
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't think it's fair to assume that startup founders who have applied to a Thiel Fellowship did so because of ignorance (or because they are young or "foreign"). My assumption is they obviously know he's a &quo
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by vanusa 5y ago
Don't lie. Both in this thread (and in others not involving me, e.g. below) you have been continually presenting a chronology of the situation that omits the crucial fact that before he was fired he was told to stop using email to
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by vanusa 5y ago
1. Yep - "glib and disingenuous" was how I assessed your question. As to 2, from his own post: I was told I was not allowed to use any company communications channels (email, teams, the Hub, etc.) to discuss the attacks I had exp
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by vanusa 5y ago
[flagged] Both because there's been previous discussion already and because the title is misleading. He definitely was not fired for "criticizing BLM" as such -- but for failing to comply with a company request not to use in
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by vanusa 5y ago
And other previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831709
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by vanusa 5y ago
They're young (and some live in foreign countries) and in any case probably have no idea what Thiel is really about. I say give them a chance to repent and rehabilitate. I'd definitely not want to work for a company that takes Th
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by vanusa 5y ago
As to 1. -- I see no connection to anything we're talking about here so I'll pass. As to 2. -- it wasn't about "speaking up" (privately or verbally) but rather using company networks to do so (that is, spamming comp

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