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What are some things or resources you've found useful when trying to evaluate a company's culture from the outside?

> There are other places to discuss sensitive topics Curious to hear about those other places.

This article is trying to make an excellent point (emphasized in the second half of the write-up), but the claim that "DID probably doesn't event exist" is untrue, and but I'm sure…

The highlight to me in this article is how pandemic loneliness + crypto frenzy has made this type of victim a lot more common today. You can't do anything about crypto over the sho…

This is just a case of false equivalency. Smoking and car-usage are completely different phenomena and the one should not be used make judgements about the other. You're going to h…

Personally, I'm too confused to be even cynical about it. I don't know anything about Van Jones other than what I see on TV, but that by itself cannot explain why Bezos felt he des…

Copilot, as far as I know, also does not seem to factor in the greater context of the application/code you're in when auto-completing these tasks. To me, this is a huge part of mod…

It seems strange to assume anything truly "philosophical" when the main topic of the book is something as practical as software engineering/design. Even if he did try to shoehorn a…

I must be on a different planet because he didn't sound that way to me at all. Even his "village atheist" comment that parent had a fit over completely slipped by me until he point…

All I'm saying is that the charge of "antisemitism" is too heavy and the author's post didn't sound that way to me, but since I'm not Jewish, I'm not going to press this point this…

I read the blog post and while the author's tone was a little bit harsh, I really doubt it can be called anti-semitic. I guess that's why they re-assigned him and he wasn't fired. …

Does anyone really believe that these giant companies actually care about the so-called 'woke' values being foisted upon them? Once companies realize that getting political is no l…

This kind of attack is growing beyond what I've imagined, and is quickly becoming the more significant epidemic of the world today. As soon as Colonial Pipeline decided to appease …

Conversely, there are foods like bread & pasta, which you'd think are part of a Mediterranean diet, not included in the list. I think that list should be renamed to something like …

Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26730813

Thanks. I guess years of browsing HN have made me immune to the significance of the lolz.

> Egypt is being puppeted by China Sources? And depending on your definition of "puppeted", it looks like pretty much everyone on the world stage is "puppeted" by China.

Why is celebrating one of the oldest civilizations in human history, their own nation's history, considered "awful"? I thought the whole thing looked beautiful. I hope to visit som…

> Folklorists have pointed out that the set of stories recorded from the storyteller have a number of story tropes more characteristic of European rather than Middle Eastern folk t…

> But most companies are incapable of the kind of equality and empowerment necessary to achieve agility, so they will force the terrible cargo cult version upon us. I would argue t…

You're right - it definitely wasn't close by the metrics of the bet itself, but to me, it was close enough to a degree that I found hard not to emphasize. What struck me most was t…

Great read, and a close call! Like other people mentioned, the fact that Sale's predictions were even remotely close to what we're experiencing today should be hair-raising. What I…

I read your other comment under the submission, and suddenly this makes more sense. It's possible there's something these companies know/aware of that we don't, or that the governm…

I agree, but conservatives have been complaining about the phenomenon of shadow-banning on the platform for years, and this was pretty much confirmed after the Twitter hack last ye…