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He was already the CEO of a billion dollar company and the article describes him traveling with security.

If your goal is to change the companies behavior, then protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest.

well, this is literally a press release/announcement from the university, not a work of journalism, so relax.

He's thinking that he needs to repair his advertising business because subscriptions have been an enormous, costly flop.

She quote tweeted a tweet from an account that was later probably set to private

VCs want to be perceived as steely eyed futurists, who are specially gifted at sifting through the mass of ideas bubbling up in tech and picking the winners. But it's actually quit…

It's all three, but did want to point out that your claim that > It's obvious to see how there could be non-Republican-friendly results of faculty being easier to fire for, say, a …

what are you talking about

it's due to the cost of housing, as evidenced by lower homelessness rates in places where housing is cheaper.

I think that as a trend, difficult personalities will have a harder time succeeding in any public role... Business, entertainment, politics, the arts. In the world of Twitter and I…

I worked at a summer camp in NE Alabama for two summers in high school and college. Weekend trips to Unclaimed Baggage were extremely popular excursion. Definitely worth a stop if …

None of the other conservatives on the court agreed with the decision, so it's reasonable to be surprised. Alito is probably the current judge closest to Scalia and he dissented, s…

The nature of VC being what it is, it's extremely difficult to prove racism at the level of proof that most HN readers seem to need. 99.99% of all startup ideas are bad, 99.99% of …

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely not true. You don't do IA or the discussion any favors by being inaccurate. I live in San Francisco, whose library participates in a digital ebook…

Nothing is stopping the IA from buying books and giving them to people, or paying authors to write books and then giving them to people. What they are suing is to prevent IA from s…

This is just a fantasy. We are now just pretending that IA did something other than what they actually did? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/books/internet-archive-em... > Public…

The IA is good, but the decision they made is very bad and has put their entire operation at risk. Their leadership clearly both cares about archiving the web and also for advocati…

I won't criticize anybodies decision to keep shopping at amazon for this reason, it is very difficult to ethically consume in our current environment. However, for me, I realized t…

I agree with this. I would much prefer if there was a freeform query mode, where I could just type the queries without the buttons or hints.

I think this article is interesting, but I think it is mistaken on focusing on the mechanism (stock buybacks) vs the attitude, which is a general focus on value extraction rather t…

The author gives more specifics in the footnotes, specifically footnote #4 https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#id14