<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mason240</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mason240</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:19:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mason240" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "Christmas in 19th-Century America (1995)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,<p>>Advertising wondrous things.<p>This line bangs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:09:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556819</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bus drivers are not making MW anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734315</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They ask for proof, and then when you give it try to hide your comment through downvoting. Followed by saying that it doesn't even matter.<p>Very topical example of why these "benevolent censorship" schemes are are worse than the problem they are trying to fix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:04:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721206</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ben Schapiro has literally written books about how terrible the alt-right is, yet he that is what he is frequently called.</p>
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<p>And who at the companies are making decisions about policy? Employees.</p>
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<p>>How would the food arrive at the store?<p>Large, also reusable containers.</p>
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<p>In rural areas many people feed their table scraps to chickens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:37:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720818</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>hackers tied to Russian intelligence hacked the DNC<p>That was debunked this summer.</p>
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<p>There is a coinvent sidestep to this issue.<p>Distributing sexual images of someone without their consent is a clear crime against that person. Children can not consent.</p>
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<p>This is very fair criticism for standard jobs like a regular software developer.<p>For a role like this, where outsized skill of someone who is and needs to be elite should be rewarded with enormously outsized pay, I think this a good model.</p>
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<p>Suppose you have transportaion company that owns 80% of the market share for everything transported on the roads. By car, van, truck, semi, everything.<p>Suppose your company also has a team that inspects public bridges to make sure they don't collapse.<p>Is it really altruistic, or given your market share is it a cost of business?</p>
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<p>It wasn't an internal memo.<p>Marked down for spreading alternative facts.</p>
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<p>Diversity of thought - of which google is now less of.</p>
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<p>>But it's interesting how I just got swarmed by 3 commenters.<p>Losing an argument? Better accuse the other side of being paid shills.</p>
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<p>Corporation caught in a scandal over censoring political speech against the right?<p>Better have the The Verge write a puff piece on them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:36:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921745</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other poster is comparing wage growth, not gross salaries.</p>
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<p>Nearly all of that spending was simply added directly the national debt, very little actually came out of the general fund.</p>
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<p>>- Farmers in Alabama are fretting that crops may rot in the ground for a lack of workers to bring in the harvest.<p>The oil field boom in ND didn't have a problem getting skilled workers from across the country to live in tents because they paid them well.<p>They AL farmers are not worried about finding workers, they want to lowball American laborers so they can throw their hands the air and claim that they need a supply of immigrants laborers, which they can exploit.</p>
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<p>Last time I checked the Electoral College is the election.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:08:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14747572</link><dc:creator>mason240</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14747572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14747572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mason240 in "In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Startup Immigrant Rule"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We live in a democracy, which has legitimized him by electing him President.</p>
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