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Looks like HN has gone to the Tumbler-esque SJWs. What a shame. RIP.

Fuck this site

Fuck this site

Fuck this site

Fuck this site

I want some of whatever their investors are smoking. Edit: Is it the smoke from all those dollar bills going up in those flames?

I already acknowledged that I'm a virtual nobody to them. I just don't want to be a virtual somebody to them, even if it's just a raised XKeyScore rating.

>Will you join me? I wonder how many people are genuinely afraid of raising their own profile in such a way. I'm not American, but I would certainly be partaking in any political a…

>The war on terror, like all the metaphorical wars, is really a civil war. It needs to stop now. There's too much money at stake for those at the top for this to be stopped. Lucrat…

>This is not about you. This is not about your data. This is about our society's collective ability to think and act for itself. Blanket acceptance of surveillance is a dangerous a…

Is it just me or does there seem to be significantly more of a recode.net presence on HN at the moment? I hadn't heard of the site until recently and now I've seen a few fairly low…

For the company. Depending on how it is implemented, taking a cut of the first 2 years' salary could be very high risk. Intuitively there seems to be little to stop someone taking …

I really like the innovative funding model, although intuitively it seems pretty high risk?

>Or are attention spans so short and/or the agency so completely removed from the rule of law that we're going to let them get away with their crimes? If we're not even going to bo…

>to drum up more support for killing people an ocean away To drum up more support for pumping billions or trillions of dollars borrowed from America's descendants into the pockets …

I find it amazing that people seemingly don't know that Facebook tracks you across the web through those embedded Like buttons, and more amazing that many who do know don't seem to…

>It seems that for most people total calories are more important than the carbohydrate/fat-ratio. It's also relatively easier to track. It's easy to say "Well, I can consume about …

>I think Twitter would have stopped these much earlier if they could. If Twitter clamped down on bots on the site/network it could end up revealing a very unflattering (to investor…

>If you are enabling a surveillance state, I think many people would consider that to be harmful to public welfare. I honestly do not know how those working for the NSA, GCHQ, etc.…

>It's not being thrown at the tech industry. It's people within the industry calling out the problem that we have. It's very telling that you think of the industry as a community u…

It's such a shame that we have the lives of such smart people being sucked up by such a vacuous, socially value-less and damaging industry.

There are more women than men in employment in the US, where is the daily articles on that? And the effort to tackle that? And the constant shaming of companies that employ more wo…

Wages vs salary

In the UK it's basically if you work for wages and/or in low skilled or manual labour.

>Btw we are working class too, even with those fancy 6 figure salaries... No, we're not. We're the down trodden, continually squeezed middle or upper middle class depending on the …