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This could be mitigated by not blocking access to the feature after the 2 years and charging for each use.

The problem is that "jerk" is relative and very sensitive people will tilt the scale. Also, occasionally jerks will have interesting insights that you would miss if you blocked the…

Very odd article. This author is trying a little too hard to poo-poo the Intercept article but has lost the plot. The reveal here was that the US government has the ability to shap…

I think you're partially correct but the framing is a bit off. A country's interests and security comes first. We have seen China's values and goals obviously clash with western va…

I disagree. One is a hatred of a an immutable characteristic (race) whereas the other is a hatred of an action. There is a big difference. This is not a justification of hatred of …

Racism as a catch-all term makes for really unproductive discourse. There's a difference between "I deeply hate people of a certain race from the bottom of my heart" vs "I generall…

Finally, this answers some questions about the madness of the last 5 or so years. Everyone knew this was happening to some degree but the abhorrent part is how politically biased t…

> Even free speech people don’t like speech that is critical of their beliefs This is like saying people that like apple pie don't like apple pie. Yes, there are liars and hypocrit…

Sadly, communication and writing skills takes a backseat to algorithm interviews. I understand the company benefits massively from hyper-focusing on hard skills but quality of life…

Some extra nuance is that there exists people who's entire lives revolve around work. These people's whole life schedule revolves around work and their social networks revolve arou…

I don't think it ever went away. You see people getting massively flagged or downvoted and called "Republican" for going against the grain everyday here on HN.

There is a large multi-million dollar industry supporting DEI now. If there are people benefiting from racism continuing, it's people that work in this industry.

It reminds me when my childhood friend's parents moved to LA so he could attend an inner-city high school so that his scores from a lower ranking school were more heavily weighted …

This assumes a utopia where all humans are friendly and all countries are at peace. Well-being is great but economic and capital is what gives you power and security. It gives you …

If we all spent our collective efforts to make sure everything in this world is accessible to every single human being, we would have zero progress as a society. We are not even gu…

Throughout the years I'm learning that all of our leaders and major institutions are corrupt and flawed. We're just lucky that there was enough wealth to go around to placate peopl…

I still remember YouTube ramping up ads starting at the beginning of lockdowns in 2020. It was the first time I was seeing double unskippable ads and 14 second ads.

I work at a large Silicon Valley company and a portion of Directory/VP bonus is earned by ensuring hiring meets certain "diversity" quotas. There have been many internal stories of…

It's not good intentions. Most of these policies are created because they sound nice and "compassionate" to your average good-hearted but naive voter. Unfortunately, the reality is…

I shouldn't be responsible for someone taking out a $40k loan for their art degree in poetry and not being able to find a job that can pay it back.

Maybe the colleges and universities that made big money out of all these loans should be paying off these student loans. Why do I and other tax payers need to bail out Jimmy's fine…

Have spoken to some Chinese engineers in the Bay Area and most see Uyghurs as terrorists (they will point to terrorist attacks) and do not know about (do not believe) the camps or …

They have been threatening the island by flying military aircraft across the Taiwan air defense almost daily for the past year and have now surrounded the island and fired missiles…