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malloreon

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About malloreon

technology workers enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom in where they choose to work - the causes or injustices that your employer endorses or perpetuates become your own. If you didn't agree with them, you'd work somewhere else.

Or if you continue to work for an employer that believes in or perpetuates hurting people or enables others to hurt people, at least admit to yourself that the delta in compensation is all that's required for you to compromise what ethics you thought you had.

Currently:

iOS at Autodesk

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29034752

    Unless Carmack doesn’t have the ability to quit, he’s choosing to continue working for Zuck every day. As is every other fb employee.

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    Comment #29031162

    Spare some disdain for the people who choose to work for him. They deserve it: they commit the evil for far smaller a payoff.

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    Comment #29030537

    I wonder if facebook employees really think they paper over the harm they do each day by renaming their company. if you call it something else does it still hurt people?

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    Comment #28987317

    Can’t read the article, but did they quit the company when their pleas didn’t work? If not, they changed their opinion and now support/accept their employer’s decision or decided t…

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    Comment #28968247

    45,000 fb employees choose every day to work for him. The responsibility for what fb is is just as much theirs. If they didn’t agree with fb’s actions they’d leave.

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    Comment #28896941

    100% true. If a software engineer writes software that hurts people, they believe in hurting people and believe people should be hurt. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t write software …

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    Comment #28743103

    FB is what it is because 45,000 employees work hard daily to make it that way. if they weren't satisfied with how it works or what it does, they'd fix it or they'd leave. every day…

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    Comment #28684464

    I'd like to try this if there was an option to do so without giving Facebook money.

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    Comment #28600217

    If Facebook employees weren’t happy with the product they spend so much of their time shaping and building they’d leave.

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    Comment #28341655

    Blast from the past! My good friend Daniel Horn started developing this right around when I met him in high school.

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    Comment #27915614

    Everyone on this page spends a lotta words saying Facebook is evil while ignoring that 40,000 employees work hard every day to make it that evil. Facebook doesn’t exist in its curr…

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    Comment #27556393

    The term “meatspace” has always bothered me. It’s “real life.” The internet is the illusion.

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    Comment #27364446

    Reminds me of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nimble/nimble-salon-qua... , seen a lotta YouTube ads for this lately.

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    Comment #27143681

    there are costs to employing someone that don't vary with number of hours worked. The person you're responding to wants 100% of their current healthcare plan but only half the sala…

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    Comment #27087121

    Why only Zuck and not every FB employee? They all benefit from what FB does, just because he makes the most from it doesn't mean the rest of them aren't partially responsible.

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    Comment #26244136

    I’m at a loss to understand why your statement means this person, or anyone who increases the suffering of others in the pursuit of their own personal wealth, shouldn’t feel bad ab…

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    Comment #25691877

    you're making the incorrect assumption that both sides of the discourse have valid positions. 1. what is a non-racist person supposed to say to a racist person to change their view…

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    Comment #25691832

    Facebook makes far too much money showing ads to their "more conservative user base" to do anything more than token gestures to stop racism and calls to violence.

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    Comment #25622942

    What’s to stop me, as a journal publisher, from saying, “hmmm, yes, Indian government? So that will be...1.35 billion subscriptions, yes?”

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    Comment #25588375

    I have a side project that didn't make money, then did, and now effectively does not. I write novels: I've published 10 so far. I didn't make any money for a while, but all in all …

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