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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by nickpsecurity »

Retra wrote: post #238
veidr wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ballot is secret for precisely that reason — it's not possible to judge people based on their vote. But making public your support for Trump — or the KKK, or NAMBLA, or Hacker News — is a completely different thing. You can and should be judged on the basis of the ideas and opinions that you promote.

The ballot is secret so you cannot pay people to vote a certain way. It has nothing to do with judging people for their vote.

It's secret for retaliation plus that. It should be obvious security requirement given all the times in history people got rounded up by the next, opposite person in power. Or politically punished as countries got less vicious. A good, voting system should always protect the voters from retaliation where possible.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by echelon »

Retra wrote: post #238
veidr wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ballot is secret for precisely that reason — it's not possible to judge people based on their vote. But making public your support for Trump — or the KKK, or NAMBLA, or Hacker News — is a completely different thing. You can and should be judged on the basis of the ideas and opinions that you promote.

The ballot is secret so you cannot pay people to vote a certain way. It has nothing to do with judging people for their vote.

It serves both to protect both the integrity of the vote, as well as the freedom of the voter from reprisal. Imagine a less than democratic democracy (if such a thing could be imagined). Dissenting votes, if public, wouldn't be very safe to make.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by microcolonel »

The way I help myself with this is I set up different profiles in Chrome. My work one disables JavaScript, Cookies, and Images by default for every site; I enable them only for sites which I need for work. This way, when the reflex to "C-t h a RET" myself to Hacker News comes, I'm instead reminded not to.

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Post by tlb »

Veen wrote: post #35
hashtagMERKY wrote: post #31

This part really resonated with me: > Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit…

> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work I've overcome my Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter problems, but I can't seem to shake Hacker News.

You might try setting the noprocrast flag in your profile. By default, after 20 minutes it'll enforce a 3-hour break.

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Post by 77pt77 »

iNerdier wrote: post #231
tnone wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post compares the allegations with the harmless actual quotes: http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford This appears to have been the instigator: https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504

I don't get how either of those quotes could be seen as attacking anyone.

Maybe because you are mentally sane.

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Post by 67726e »

throwaway-hn123 wrote: post #205
67726e wrote: post #195

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By it's very nature, trying to get him fired involves work. If you're trying to cause strife in the workplace that's fireable in my book.

It's interesting how much of a safe space some people want work to be, isn't it?

See, this is where it's clear that you're trolling to push your agenda.

I don't discriminate at work, full stop. I don't care what you do or who you screw so long as it doesn't affect folks at work. The second you start pushing your political agenda at work it becomes a problem. It has nothing to do with a "safe space" and in fact it is in no way a safe space. Work is not a place to talk politics and push your ideals onto society. We all know these "safe spaces" are just a place for a given "side" to espouse their ideology without having to defend it from rational discourse.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by tlb »

behnamoh wrote: post #271
mohsinr wrote: post #232

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Didn't know this. Thanks a ton for this. Awesome I just enabled it. Oh funny thing I found I was wrong about showdead setting there... I had assumed if I wanted myself to be declared dead/offline I could set my profile to show dead.. lol

> Oh funny thing I found I was wrong about showdead setting there... I had assumed if I wanted myself to be declared dead/offline I could set my profile to show dead.. lol What's its functionality?

When showdead is on, you see killed comments. Mostly spam and trolls. Only recommended for moderators.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by gglover »

paublyrne wrote: post #48
jdietrich wrote: post #40

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>I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in these comments that the solution isn't to completely delete your accounts (I think they can have some value when used in moderation) If social media really is addictive, then moderation might not work. Most alcoholics aren't capable of having just one drink, most smokers aren't capable of having just one cigarette. Absolute prohibitions are cognitively much easier than moderat…

But most people are not alcoholics, and are capable of having an occasional drink. Social media could also be like that. One reason I do not wish to close my Facebook account is for the groups and events. Facebook Timeline is not something I look at daily, but rather once or twice a week, to find upcoming events I might be interested in, particularly ones in which people I know have already expressed an interest. Whe…

Facebook has an events app that cuts timeline and profiles and pages. Deleting the main app for this totally isolated that usefulness for me.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by grappler »

I approach social media (twitter in particular) this way: “try to be a good neuron”.

Meaning: social media forms a global hive mind. It determines what a lot of people see and hear about the world. Witness the flare up recently over the influence of “fake news” going viral.

A neuron's role, as one tiny piece of a brain, a neural network, or, for my purposes, a hive mind, is to take in a number of inputs and filter them, firing occasionally to convey some distillation of the inputs received.

Anyone who reshares highly inaccurate or incendiary content is being a bad neuron.

If instead you gather a range of news and opinion from a variety of sources and then, being very selective, reshare the one or two things each day (or week) with the best combinations of reputability, newsworthiness, timeliness, importance to current problems society is facing, and exploration of new ideas, then you're being a good neuron.

This in my opinion is the best use of publicly shared social media. If lots of people did this the world would be better off.

There may be career risk in sharing things related to politics, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Without the freedom to do that, I might as well be in a repressive totalitarian society, and now more than ever that is something we should fight to prevent.

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