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I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by foenix »

blickentwapft wrote: post #14
ordinaryradical wrote: post #8

He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.

It’s a highly privileged position to be in to make a personal stand and leave your $250,000 job for another $250,000 job. Not judging this way or that, just saying.

It's a highly-privileged position to be in to make vapid comments HN, but here we are.

Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

blickentwapft wrote: post #14
ordinaryradical wrote: post #8

He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.

It’s a highly privileged position to be in to make a personal stand and leave your $250,000 job for another $250,000 job. Not judging this way or that, just saying.

To be fair, it doesn't sound like he has another job lined up. There's no guarantee his next job will pay that well.

Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

ordinaryradical wrote: post #8

He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.

I just don't agree that severing professional ties over political disputes is admirable. For society to function, people need to be willing to work with others whose politics they find distasteful.

Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by natex »

ycombonator wrote: post #24

What happened to everyone leaving Facebook when Hillary lost ? Their active users have grown orders of magnitude since then.

> Their active users have grown orders of magnitude since then

That's a bit of an overstatement. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly....

Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by zubspace »

Well, we live in a time where information spreads faster than the news. We see history developing in front of our eyes on sites like twitter, reddit or facebook before they move through the newspaper filter. It's a wonderful thing to behold.

On the other hand, we also get in touch with radical posts or "fake news" or news which try to influence readers in various forms from all different kinds of sources.

So on one hand, our tech enabled information to move more freely. On the other hand, extreme, biased or untrue information can be dangerous.

But we don't have the means to filter or flag this content objectively in an automated fashion. That's why we have a problem. And as long as humans are involved in this filtering process, we have other problems.

It's very similar to self-driving: As long as we cannot find a way to make this 100% automated and safe according to rules we all adhere to, we won't find a solution.

Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

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Post by 12xo »

Social media is fast food. If you eat it all the time it makes you feel awful and will destroy your mental and physical health. But its cheap, easy to get and tastes really good...

So stupid people love it.

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