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New comment by throwaway4715 in "Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting"

throwaway4715 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:41:42 +0000

Parent might be flagged because Facebook didn't censor anything. Twitter did.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting"

throwaway4715 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:36:07 +0000

Facebook is NOT blocking the Post from posting. They are limiting sharing. This headline is a good example of way it may have been the right move. Misinformation spreads fast.

Big Tech is moving into Manhattan

throwaway4715 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:42:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/nyregion/big-tech-nyc-office-space.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771994

Points: 3

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New comment by throwaway4715 in "San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S."

throwaway4715 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:04:20 +0000

The ones that want that already do.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus"

throwaway4715 — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:38:37 +0000

"But it isn't nice to doxx the killers" is not the argument I was expecting.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company"

throwaway4715 — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:01:47 +0000

How does one ensure "stability" without getting involved in politics?

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Students Left Behind by Remote Learning"

throwaway4715 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:48:39 +0000

There are many reasons someone may wish to remain anonymous on the internet. Sorry if my anonymity triggers you.

I didn't say you were against diversity, I said you created an inverse relationship between diversity and harmony. You could have had that whole discussion about optimizing for harmony without discussing diversity at all (there are many things that might affect your harmony including curriculum changes or standardized testing). The fact that you placed diversity in opposition to harmony is why I said what I said.

Perhaps it's just the fact that you're not a native english speaker, but the fact that you're now making assumptions about economics (who said anything about that?) and brought up diversity in the context of a comment about "undesirables" affecting your kids lead me to believe that you just don't like diversity.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Students Left Behind by Remote Learning"

throwaway4715 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:01:37 +0000

You stated you're "not trying to bring race/culture into it" then explicitly created an inverse relationship between diversity and harmony.

Perhaps a country as diverse as america is a poor choice for you.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Students Left Behind by Remote Learning"

throwaway4715 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:49:22 +0000

So you're saying that homeschooled kids have the same variance in outcomes as kids that go to school?

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission"

throwaway4715 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:54:51 +0000

People say having internal debate is a disadvantage, but all the companies that are famous for having it make more money than everyone else.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission"

throwaway4715 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:50:02 +0000

SV companies sell candidates on changing the world and disrupting the status quo. They literally target and recruit the type of people who would want to discuss politics at work.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission"

throwaway4715 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:44:18 +0000

Facebook

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Social Cooling (2017)"

throwaway4715 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:14:25 +0000

I'm really struggling to see how younger Americans joining different social networks, which all have the same effects, is a signal that they've learned their lesson?

It's interesting that this is about big data generally and people are reading it as "Facebook".

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes"

throwaway4715 — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:08:21 +0000

Many people enjoy living in cities and do not want to move to the suburbs.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion"

throwaway4715 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:37:27 +0000

If you think there are a lot of bad managers now wait until they're explicitly paid less and aren't accountable for their team's impact (what happens when you shift all accountability of technical strategy to TL).

New comment by throwaway4715 in "One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)"

throwaway4715 — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:54:02 +0000

In my experience the 16" MBP is just bad. This is my first Apple laptop and it's pretty, but that's about it. Despite having a serious horsepower (on paper) the fan runs constantly while doing basic tasks, I get tons of beachballs, and my wireless mouse has to plugged into a specific port or it's janky as hell. It's not intuitive (for me) or performant. It's not even a good linux stand in.

My takeaway from this whole experience is that computer people will give up practicality for fashion just as much as anyone else.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels"

throwaway4715 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:50:08 +0000

This strategy has made Apple very successful

New comment by throwaway4715 in "When your coworker does great work, tell their manager"

throwaway4715 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:27:19 +0000

If only you'd made a meaningful comment.

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Facebook content policies tweaked over time to accommodate POTUS"

throwaway4715 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 02:49:32 +0000

Sounds like you have a persecution complex because your positions aren't well liked.

I'd suggest you look at the data around who and what is popular on Facebook. It supports none of what you've written. Sometimes it's not the kids who are wrong...

New comment by throwaway4715 in "Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections"

throwaway4715 — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:34:18 +0000

After.