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You make a principled point that I respect. I’m generally trying to get shit done. They aren’t always at odds with each other, but often are. Personally, I hate web design and layo…

How many successful businesses have you launched doing things “the right way”? The point is there are many paths to success. Maybe candy japan didn’t do things the way you think th…

In some of my previous employers, this type of work was all any employee actually did. Calling it fraud is probably not accurate. Has anyone ever gotten prosecuted for brown nosing…

The skills you described are those of a data scientist/engineer hybrid. Have you tried clearly branding yourself as a data engineer? There’s a lot fewer of those, and the job is ov…

This sums up the advertising industry as a whole.

I think you could also identify similar negative consequences from any entity the size of Facebook. I think it’s a side effect of being big, and fb is no different than any of the …

How are you measuring this utility function? What is the evidence that facebooks objective is to hack endorphins? All the conversations I’ve heard discuss how to make products bett…

I don’t think the product is bad, nor do I think it’s evil. The people who decide to use the service every day get value. I think the negative fb news of late has really enabled pe…

This. Poor countries use Facebook for really valuable actions like talking to loved ones. In the states we have alternatives and can afford a few bucks a month for a service. But i…

Throwaway for obvious reasons. Opinions are my own. I joined in the last year. I had major issues with FB before, reflecting typical HN user stance. I joined because I was curious …