FilterSweep

Facebook's reckoning never came, judging by the laughable "grand inquisition" that happened this past week.

It's quite sad that we (collectively) consider this "lucking out" - I don't want to assume your friends situations, but our collective consciousness leaves a permanent mark on their life for past mistakes.

And checkr is even more help in the saturated background check industry.

This is a horrific thought to go into a job interview with one salary point in mind while the employer knows in the back of their mind what you got paid at each previous job.

Particularly if you took equity at a startup at lower salary - guaranteeing they don't account for that.

There is a bit of a bias on HN toward FAANG salaries and experiences. Outside of coastal cities, the salaries appear like Monopoly money.

This thread is depressing me as well, and I'm doing "okay" compared to my other friends in other professional fields.

It goes away extremely fast.

I wasn't expecting this depressing of a read in the AM, but its helpful.

The cynic in me wonders if this is just grandiose self-promotion as a bargaining chip for the next datamining job.

> Back in 2010/2011 Facebook was being praised for fueling the Arab Spring, which toppled dictators and spread democracy (also lead to the horrific war in Syria).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was Twitter as the major player RE: Arab Spring.

I think 8 years is a more than long enough time for backend changes in a platform to change sentiment. Also, the platform may not have been used for as many nefarious purposes in the past.

"IsDeleted"'s existence is the biggest lie tech companies tell media government and consumers alike.

You're right, it looks worse.

You're being additionally tracked in the reverse by a third party affiliate on the knowledge of you being a person who blocks Facebook, if that makes any sense.

Adblock detectors that function in the same vein as "FuckAdblock" look at if the client blocked a Facebook pixel.

> If you want to buy repairable goods, vote with your pocketbook - don't force your preferences on me.

This only stands true in a competitive economy. We live in an oligopoly, where the highest tech choices are not repairable.

The oligopolists will be able to lobby against the "Right to Repair."

My point is there isn't much ability to have "preferences" (i.e.: nothing to vote our pocketbook on) in the first place.

For the vast majority of content creators, one cannot live off youtube wages alone.

> Now humans can start focusing on spending their day building things for the entertainment of other humans, and also choosing careers based on what they feel is fun/satisfying for themselves.

In this sphere, there are winners and losers, and the amount of losers is vastly understated and the amount of winners is vastly overblown.

Take youtube, for example. Most are not clearing more than a few hundreds per month but there isn't a week where BusinessInsider isn't writing about some youtube celebrity.

"We keep our developers away from sales teams as they tend to be dreamkillers."

A client one time told me in the past. At the time, I wanted to ask, "so, how badly are you treating them?"

We haven't had a say in this one for a very long time. We sound like broken records.

143M Americans Affected and by Census'[0] count, there are ~327M Americans.

Chances are, if you're an adult American you are impacted. Even if you did not authorize Equifax's "services", a third party most likely did it for you, and you are impacted.

Note that your credit score or lack thereof is often used to deny housing and (for generally unsubstantiated reasons,) employment.

The fact that Equifax is not held accountable is one of the biggest data-related atrocities of the modern era.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/popclock/

back in the old days, we used to get a ring for each year.

That's a triage problem, not a "user" problem.

They're fun and costly ambulance rides up until that hidden blood clot goes unnoticed.

> So the question is, is this a deliberate unwritten approach to try and kill off 'costlier' members of society? Is it better to encourage people to be fat and die off quicker, than to exercise, eat healthier, live longer, and create a long term social care cost?

Social Darwinism has been a running trope with the Cs. The problem is, Social Darwinism is fun until you're on the chopping block...... and so we now see some odd backpedalling in the 2010s now that some have gotten old.

I'd rather pay more to ensure everyone's livelihood is okay.

They could tariff their products that don't adhere and cut out their US bottom line.

This just happened with foreign solar tariffs.

> "Idea: Make brute force key recovery possible but very expensive"

My eyes glazed over. Quantum computing isn't a fantasy realm, and non-quantum processors are still improving.

> I broadly support the activities of the FBI

This heavily includes COINTELPRO.

The other thing is enough bitcoin bros have made substantial coin from earlier investments, have sold off most of their holdings, and continue to evangelize BTC while they foray into altcoins.

And, I can't blame the people who fall for it. Its hard to argue with someone who cashed out $130,000 off a speculative investment.

The dev who showed up at 9:05AM was probably also working on a production issue the night before.

While manager slept.

> I'll be honest, I was surprised to read this sorry if environment still existed for programmers

now tends to only exist in mismanaged large teams

> Is turning up on time for your job a terrible metric?

Most devs are "round the clock" employees even though their job doesn't explicitly say so. If a serious production crisis happens at 3:00AM, all hands are on deck.

Well, that also creates a further negative effect toward the "Patent Troll" system prevalent in the US.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

> Generally speaking, the idea is that all of this data — and the newfound insights its analysis could yield — will help cities run more efficiently and innovate at a faster pace than they do today.

Is there a source for that claim?

Or, do these newfound insights merely help Alphabet provided more specialized services to communities (a net gain, I guess), and provide a substantially larger operating budget for lobbying?

This was my takeaway. Alot of people are saying "this is standard in banks" but one its a Finnish bank, and two, their rationale (and prior stated position) on crypto is that its too risky.

If you're married with children and all of a sudden all of your savings crashes and your kid gets sick, the risk you took on goes to the company too.