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To be fair, that sounds a lot more reasonable. A CEO represents their company and their actions leading to people boycotting their company is just people voting with their wallet. …

Not to mention the replies on his tweet are full of people arguing nonsense like "it seems you have something to hide" , and "cancelling means shutting down voices", not realising …

What are the "heinous" things she said? I think she is the recepient of heinous things, not the originator of them. She is just bringing to light some issues which someone not in h…

Well here is a sample for you: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/a-new-low-in-...

That wasn't the only argument though. If the data was encrypted with a facebook held private key, the user would still not be able to see it. If it was E2E encrypted with the only …

The number of people who use whatsapp is an order of magnitude or more than the number of people who consciously use Google drive, as in people who know google drive exists. Even t…

While I definitely disagree with the way drive doesn't give access to users for their own data, I think giving access has it's own problems, as you might land in another Cambridge …

Isn't that just for one chat? Can you download all combined?

Just like every thing else, this too was amplified by the internet. If you said something controversial 40 years ago at a grocery shop, shop owner might be mad and refuse to servic…

While mobs have existed since eternity, the internet amplifies mob voices and makes everything you ever said available to a determined adversary. Since it isn't possible to predict…

Is there a comparison somewhere of how many flash features ES6/7 still lack? Also any performance comparisons between the two.

I don't think that will get the NYT to listen. A better idea is that if you are a subscriber, unsubscribe and give this as the reason. As recent history proves, the NYT truly liste…

It is there with folks who know about those people and feel connected to them. SSC has a lot of it's audience on HN. Hence you see the outrage here. People can't feel similarly out…

If you can prove whether recursion or even a loop is bounded or not, you have solved the collatz conjecture.

That talk sounds interesting. I tried searching but didn't find anything like that about a nested VMs in js. Any idea if the talk is online. I am curious to see why they needed nes…

> and the ability to go back to compiling for web gives managers a sense of "this isn't a one-way, I'm screwed if something goes wrong" journey It wouldn't be a good idea to believ…

Is cloudflare at a scale where it would be possible for them to provide cheap enough prices on video hosting and bandwidth to enable someone to build a profitable YouTube alternati…

> A person's right to even exist in society shouldn't be up for debate. But she isn't saying anything like that. No where has she ever said that trans people don't have a right to …

Yup, that's the only thing any company or person can say without causing a Twitter storm against them. By saying this they can simply avoid clarifying what they mean by this. I thi…

What would happen if Bolsanaro doesn't survive? How does succession works in Brazil. Is the next person in line more or less rational than Bolsanaro. Also can it end up leading Bra…

I think most of the people being able to speak against the mob opinion have many things in common. They are rich, famous, and are generally hard to cancel. Carmack, JKRowling and m…

People not willing to venture out their echo chambers is bad, but much better than being hell bent on taking away the livelihood of others for bad tweets.

Why does uber think they can do a better job that focused companies whose main business is grocery retail. Uber doesn't even have another profitable business to subsidize their gro…

I think this is very important. Mob justice over what people said years ago is very dangerous. And due to the global nature of the internet, it is very hard to get the mob off your…