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Stuff You Can't Say in Silicon Valley
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#12> If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now.
I wonder what effect the hills have on that.
I googled "sea level rise san francisco" and found this:
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/san-francisco.shtml
At the default view of +7m, it seems like the parts of the city that used to be water (Marina, Mission Bay, parts of the Mission, east part along the bay) are most vulnerable. The interior looks like less of a problem.
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#13hard to believe this's in the first page of HN
timing is everything
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#14I mentioned it in the @sama thread earlier... but we're also missing Brendan Eich being canned for his views on gay marriage
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#15Trump is literally putting the health of my country's citizens at risk for political posturing, I think animosity towards him is easily warranted: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-g... Apparently, there's nothing better our tax dollars can be doing than destroying some of the most important and successful organizations human civilization has managed to create.
And knowingly exposing others to HIV is no longer a felony in California.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/1...
While virtue-signalling about nomenclature is fun, this actually has a measurably horrible impact on public health.
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#16Clearly you can say this stuff. It's just that the speakers seek to demand no consequences from their speech.
Also, is HN really the right place to be discussing petty disagreements within the SV bubble? This article doesn't seem worthy.
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#17I mentioned it in the @sama thread earlier... but we're also missing Brendan Eich being canned for his views on gay marriage
To be fair, he's also responsible for JavaScript.
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#18Isn't this stuff you can't say anywhere?
I don't agree with most if any of the list in the article, but you are in a filter bubble if you are unaware of the large swaths of the US and other parts of the world where these attitudes are tolerated if not prevalant.
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#19The cherry picking of this article is extreme. A company chooses to not employ someone based on a multiple page essay and this article takes a sentence and tries to make it look ridiculous.
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#20> If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now. I wonder what effect the hills have on that. I googled "sea level rise san francisco" and found this: http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/san-francisco.shtml At the default view of +7m, it seems like the parts of the city that used to be water (Marina, Mission Bay, parts of the Mission, east part along the…
What's so bad about saying that one?