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The term "FAANG" is about prestige (originally stock growth) more than actual quality of life.

4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.

Yes because improving quality of life is as simple as legislating it. You really think those drivers wouldn't be out of a job for charging 3x?

Some are medically exempt. This mask-or-else culture pushes those people out of society, totally unfairly.

Agreed, a lot of tech might be data harvesters, but they don't sell location data to bounty hunters.

Is this purely a US phenomenon? I don't see this much at all from people who live here t(the UK), but we're really starting to feel the effects of social media censorship hit hard,…

EU market may be big, but the UK is too valuable to just give up on entirely.

Because work is a huge part of my life? At the end of the day, I choose the job that's best for me, not the other way around.

I would guess a sizable fraction is regional policy, legal and marketing teams. The whole point of Uber is to operate everywhere and you simply can't run all of that in Silicon Val…

This is terrible. I've never seen a Googler get thrown under the bus so publicly by one of their own. Just doesn't fit the company profile.

Ah, well, I'm not exactly a proponent of lockdown in the first place, but the big difference is Covid spreads faster. it's already a social norm to stay away from grandparents when…

I was lucky to be in your position only months before the pandemic (though I never went to college), so I built up a reasonable set of friends before WFH (both at work and outside …

What I mean is that WFH employees will still demand perks, just of a different nature (maybe higher salaries). As long as the market dynamics we have today stick, employers will st…

You call it time theft, I call it work life balance. If I'm struggling with a problem, sitting on my ass for 5 hours is not going to make the solution come quicker. Going for a wal…

> If covid is dangerous enough to lock down society yet is only x5 as deadly as bad flu seasons open offices are literal murder. Flu is only deadly for a very small segment of soci…

When I commuted to work, I was already in the centre of a huge city with lots of social opportunities after work (with friends who are nearby in other jobs). If I wanted to sociali…

I live in the UK - very few places in London will have the space for a separate home office + space for family. It will get incredibly expensive if we all need to buy more space (a…

Very few companies have on-site gyms, snacks and child care. These are competitive advantages, and as long as top-tier SWEs are a sellers market, these businesses will have no choi…

Except that in-person forums are illegal right now :(

I mean, that's fine, but I take issue with one party having this massive megaphone to the world, with the other side having theirs completely snuffed. Either ban them all, or ban n…

Why? Both are a disenfranchised voice complaining with violence. One might be more valid than the other, but that doesn't mean one is inherently better.

Worth noting that Valve is one of the few companies that makes a conscious effort in favor of freedom of speech. They refuse to moderate for ideological reasons and not just cost.

We live in a post truth world because of social media algorithms, which made that content successful. I think we need to heavily regulate those ASAP.

The deplatforming has been going on for years, since at least 2016 when Trump was elected in the first place. In Twitter's case[0] they went after smaller users (edgy "russian bots…