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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by datameta »

xtracto wrote: post #148
techsupporter wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meanwhile, I've been at the same company for longer than a couple of my coworkers have been alive (though I've changed jobs twice in that time) so "only five years" sounds comparatively short to me.

My wife has been at her current company (large like freescale, flexctronics, jabil) for 8 solid years , and she is still going strong. Meanwhile I've been at 4 startups, from seed to Series B . I just get bored so easy.. after 3 or so years I NEED a change. Or maybe is because startups dont care about w/l balance and drain you until you quit.

This is not a hot take - genuinely curious as someone who had been at a few startups: do you think the fintech side of startups embodies the burn and churn strategy moreso than other sectors?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by Lammy »

moate wrote: post #123
selimthegrim wrote: post #117

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Let's not let Lowtax off scot-free here, even if he is a documented horrible human being SA deserves some share of the credit.

I mean there's a handful of sites you could point to that were also important, but the point was a 2 sentence description of 4chan's cultural significance and importance is lazybad. It feels particularly lame on a site called "hackernews".

They are talking about Lowtax/SomethingAwful because 4chan was a direct outgrowth of the ADTRW/SADCHUB/RaspberryHeaven communities that discovered 2ch and world2chan around 2003. Its OP was edited in 2007 and I assume the original is lost, but here's the 82-page 4chan announcement thread on ADTRW originally posted in September 2003: https://forums.somethingawful.com//showthread.php?threadid=7...

A lot of 4chan's initial userbase and staying power came from SA banning a big chunk of that community earlier in 2003 over differing cultural standards between their subcommunity and the SA admins: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=42...

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by sushid »

Arcuru wrote: post #197
causality0 wrote: post #167

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The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.

I'm fairly sure that these very low numbers for median tenure (not just for Google but the other tech companies as well) are a result of the huge percentage of new hires. That number does not mean that the average Google employee will only be at the company for 1.1 years. e.g. if nobody ever leaves the company, but you always double the number of employees every year by very aggressive hiring, the average tenure acco…

It's anecdotal but my understanding as someone who hasn't worked there is it seems like either people leave < 2 years or have no plans whatsoever of ever leaving.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by jth102099 »

pcbro141 wrote: post #181
vorpalhex wrote: post #176

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Subcultures have shibboleths. In the same way WallStreetBets wasn't making fun of the mentally handicapped, it would be dangerous to take any chan at face value. Shibboleths exist to exclude people outside the subculture stereotype - and a good way of doing that is to be offensive. Some subcultures desire to remain as subcultures. Part of why shibboleths work is because we as a species tend to stop engaging rationall…

> The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone I see plenty of posts attacking and calling for the killing and complete extermination of non-Whites, Jews, homosexuals, and women all over the place but 0 posts attacking straight white males for being straight white males. Gee, I wonder why that is? I really wonder who is posting all these white nationalist talking points, it's truly a mystery. Could be anyone.

Oh jeez, you weren't joking! I just visited there and I can't even believe that people write things like that. They should have their freedom of speech taken away.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by filoleg »

pcbro141 wrote: post #157
okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men.

Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by dmos62 »

Arcuru wrote: post #197
causality0 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.

I'm fairly sure that these very low numbers for median tenure (not just for Google but the other tech companies as well) are a result of the huge percentage of new hires. That number does not mean that the average Google employee will only be at the company for 1.1 years. e.g. if nobody ever leaves the company, but you always double the number of employees every year by very aggressive hiring, the average tenure acco…

Pretty strange place where the average employee is perpetually a new-comer. At least that's the picture this painted for me.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by seriousquestion »

pcbro141 wrote: post #157
okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

They are agitators and trolls, and you took the bait.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by vorpalhex »

pcbro141 wrote: post #181
vorpalhex wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subcultures have shibboleths. In the same way WallStreetBets wasn't making fun of the mentally handicapped, it would be dangerous to take any chan at face value. Shibboleths exist to exclude people outside the subculture stereotype - and a good way of doing that is to be offensive. Some subcultures desire to remain as subcultures. Part of why shibboleths work is because we as a species tend to stop engaging rationall…

> The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone I see plenty of posts attacking and calling for the killing and complete extermination of non-Whites, Jews, homosexuals, and women all over the place but 0 posts attacking straight white males for being straight white males. Gee, I wonder why that is? I really wonder who is posting all these white nationalist talking points, it's truly a mystery. Could be anyone.

People don't self identify as "Straight White Male", it's not really a good insult base. You want to insult their country of origin (Ireland, Canada), their hobbies (anime, weightlifting, smoking pot) or their inability to get laid.

"White people have poor taste in food!" isn't very punchy, is it?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by [deleted] »

electrondood wrote: post #195
robot9000 wrote: post #190

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Maybe it's not diverse because people like you who hold opposing viewpoints are not interested in changing their opinion despite the fact that you can post just as much as they can without being judged for who you are. Is this something you have considered?

Account is 12 minutes old.

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by illiilliiililil »

jrsj wrote: post #183
the_benno wrote: post #169

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Cops aren't allowed to murder people on sight -- "junkie" or otherwise. Never understood why people seem to think this is a compelling argument.

There is an argument being made by many on the right that the overdose was his actual cause of death because he spoke of not being able to breath etc before he was restrained & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system. That being said, the initial autopsy said this was only one factor and most people with this view are misreading that autopsy, which still stated the primary cause of death was compression of the n…

Why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car?
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