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malloreon
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About malloreon
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
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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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