Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — asabjorn

asabjorn

HN member
Joined
Wed, Mar 16, 2011, 11:18 PM UTC
HN karma
1,288
Public activity
695 items

About asabjorn

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #43415504

    I've observed orgs go from diverse to turn largely Indian or Chinese based upon who does the hiring, the only group that doesn't seem to do this is Americans of all ethnicities (Ch…

  2. comment
    Comment #43036943

    If you are high skill enough to do a PhD in anything meaningful, why enter into an open-ended low-paid work contract with a professor with no definite end-date on when the PhD is g…

  3. comment
    Comment #42770981

    There are two key aspects here: the nature of work and a critique of woke narratives, which some argue deny recent developments by framing them as a simple desire for acceptance. S…

  4. comment
    Comment #42687640

    [flagged]

  5. comment
    Comment #40404558

    Are you saying that the ones holding up the ESG cartel that incentivize businesses to do communist climate justice are all morons that just happen to have incredibly competent exec…

  6. comment
    Comment #40404478

    ESG which is used to enforce climate justice is a a cartel environment that creates a total top-down, public-private sector controlled by a Stakeholder Soviet that determines the p…

  7. comment
    Comment #40404166

    They are also forbidding fossil fuel derived fertilizers and heavy machinery used to produce cheap food. BRICS is allowed to build coal plants to replace the industry that dies in …

  8. comment
    Comment #40403976

    Let’a assume the hypothesis that they believe that to be true. Why would anyone that believe that shut off nuclear plants that emit zero CO2 in Germany and burn wood as well as gas…

  9. comment
    Comment #40403879

    [flagged]

  10. comment
    Comment #39771530

    You are trying to dismiss my claim by making a moral claim about your opponents instead of formulating an argument for why my claim is wrong or an inquiry. To your claim there is n…

  11. comment
    Comment #39770274

    I understand you are trying to use the woke activist tactic of insinuating that it’s racist to oppose woke communist redistribution and indoctrination schemes. That’s not an argume…

  12. comment
    Comment #39769499

    [flagged]

  13. comment
    Comment #39769432

    Then the right response is, e.g. “Do you have any evidence that the CHIPS act require DEI?” Yes, see the relevant sections here: https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/17664675291515…

  14. comment
    Comment #39768981

    [flagged]

  15. comment
    Comment #39768809

    [flagged]

  16. comment
    Comment #34046053

    The Twitter files did not expose child porn acccounts that should have been banned, at least as far as I am aware, it’s the ease with which Elon has banned child porn accounts afte…

  17. comment
    Comment #34044515

    Those buerocrats weren’t able to construct either on their own, and already ran one space program into the ground. Why do you think they will do better this this time? Also, what m…

  18. comment
    Comment #34044378

    The former Twitter head of trust and safety Elon called pedo in his PhD thesis argued grindr should accommodate underage queer youth on their platform. Arguably, that’s creepy. Als…

  19. comment
    Comment #34009886

    > I would even be ok with 50%-100% tax rate above 100 million dollars net worth. What is the rationale behind you think the bureaucrats with no skin-in-the-game would apply the mon…

  20. comment
    Comment #33014071

    > What exactly does posting race and gender data accomplish exactly, specifically? It enables third parties to calculate ESG scores more easily using data that would otherwise have…

  21. comment
    Comment #32603807

    How do you think about DEI and affirmative action systematically discriminating against poor people from poor families with unfavored identities? The problem is that although there…

  22. comment
    Comment #32600428

    Absolutely. Marxism is an odd cult that slipped past a lot of protections that should have applied to it. Persons from any faith that worships the state becoming a manifestation of…

  23. comment
    Comment #32599860

    It's the ESG framework that force companies to adopt DIE, kill it and you kill DIE. The marxists are using the large pension funds they manage (blackrock, vanguard, state and feder…

  24. comment
    Comment #32599454

    Good points. Also, constitutional constraints apply to public schools and universities so they are not supposed to push a state religion such as marxist theology. It is also illega…

  25. comment
    Comment #32599212

    > You can't just point at "the government is funding this therefore this is the government". The actual influence the government exerts on an entity compared to all the other influ…