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kgog··on Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
Because that's not what HN (and its ideological libertarian crowd) does.
kgog··on Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
Exactly. I love Lorenz's work (flawed as it may be[0]) in dismantling or at the very least shining a light on the hypocrisy and double-standards of the SV elites[1].

[0] I dare anyone to point me to a flawless employee regardless of their employer or job title.

[1] Just google her name you'll find plenty of coverage of (predominately) white, old VC dudes unleashing their followers on her.

kgog··on Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
Might it be time to support LJSA?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7640

kgog··on Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
This x1000.

Although on HN, the core message is "media bad, cos good" so I doubt that people will want to understand how media orgs actually work.

kgog··on Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.
kgog··on Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
> Stories they have been fed by the media and have accepted without thinking

Seems like you would rather drink the kool aid given to you in press releases by companies! Good going!

> Tech companies are the only inspiring institutions

Yes, I do feel inspired to hire vulnerable people and squash all their rights, make them work to the bone, violate all their privacy, and make them pee in bottles.

kgog··on Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
Unsurprisingly, vast majority of $ traded in Energy and Industrials is by GOP, and in tech is by Dems.

Then there's this:

> Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Mark Green, alone, accounts for 99% of the stock purchases in oil and gas companies like USA Compression and Energy Transfer.

Look this guy up [1]:

> Green rejects the scientific consensus that human activity plays a key role in climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Green#Climate_change

kgog··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
> How does Coinbase ever manage to justify a valuation this high? 100B....

How is Doordash "worth" ~$50B?

We're all in a delusion when it comes to public markets.

We're not ALL in a delusion, but market movers certainly seem to be.

kgog··on Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
Probably Facebook and Youtube. :)
kgog··on Coinbase Announces Listing Date of Its Stock on the Nasdaq
At a minimum, that's a signal for the future of cryptoCURRENCY. :)
kgog··on Justice at Spotify
I'm trying to come up with a word for that.. I think it starts with a M and ends with a Y and has a onopol in the middle somewhere.
kgog··on Justice at Spotify
I bet you also think grocery workers are dumb for agreeing to work while demanding better working conditions and fair pay.

They are not dumb decisions. An indie artist HAS to sign with labels if they want to make it in the industry. That's the way it's been and we've accepted for decades that that's the way it will be.

Mistreating workers is not okay. Workers joining the status quo to make a living is not dumb. Calling them "dumb" online is deplorable, however.

kgog··on Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
maybe you need borg with borgbase.
kgog··on US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
> The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements worth billions of dollars made by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/us-pauses-saudi-uae-...

kgog··on Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms
> It wasn't that long away that we were reading stories about how food delivery services were providing restaurants an opportunity to keep their doors open during COVID lockdown.

Can you link to some stories? I didn't see any in my bubble.

kgog··on Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’
At this point, it's hard to make a case for why Facebook is NOT a criminal enterprise.
kgog··on Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
The names are already public record in filings. My gut says that if they left the names out, people would be yelling that there's a conspiracy to protect individuals.
kgog··on Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
To me it sounds like they went after the symptoms and not the root cause. Which doesn't sound too bad to me.
kgog··on Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
Can you elaborate on what you find bizarre about it?
kgog··on Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
> Today, in Silicon Valley, work life balance has become sacrificing Work for Life - not a balance. Young people want it all - they want to get promoted quickly, achieve economic independence, feel fulfilled at Work, be home early, not miss the Yoga class at 11:00am etc.

He lost me here.

Grouping "young people" -- an entirely arbitrary delineation -- and calling them entitled is typical agist bullshit. Just because one person wants to work like a dog, doesn't mean others who don't are entitled.

Check yourself jerk.

> I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend.

This is the reason why I refuse to work for managers who work outside of business hours AND expect others to be available then too. Working like a dog permeates a toxic work environment where everything is a competition and zero-sum.

For the vast majority of people, work is an avenue to a better work. It's just a job. I think generally the people we consider "successful" worked themselves out. However, there is survivor bias here as well that needs to be called out. For every 1 burned out "successful" workers, there's 99 that failed, and many that probably have some form of trauma.

In reality, in large-corp you can cruise and still be in the top <5% by income and wealth. I have nothing against people who want that as long as they recognize their privilege. I don't call them entitled, I just call them people.

Lastly, I'm glad Noam Bardin wrote this post because it's very indicative of the kind of person he is. I will run far and fast away from every working with him.

kgog··on Block Facebook Servers
Yes. I do very aggressive blocking on my Android TV and less so on my work laptop.
kgog··on Block Facebook Servers
I have not used this list but I do block fb and ig servers in pi-hole. Though I will now move to using this list: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
kgog··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
Is that a yes or a no?
kgog··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
Imagine writing 3000 words - while simultaneously decrying that you're censored - because you're mad at someone's tweet.
kgog··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
To me, the bigger story (like the one NYT actually published) is around content moderation. Clubhouse has risen fast - in terms of users and valuation - but has done very little vis-a-vis moderation.

Every single social platform started out where they started and eventually had to moderate bad actors and bad actions.

Greenwald used to do good journalism. And now sells subscriptions to dog-whistles.

kgog··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
Does that mean your employer should fire you for your HN comments and tweets from personal accounts?
kgog··on u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
So when he posted back in June, his GME holding was $121k. According to his YouTube video from then, that represented ~2% of his portfolio. That puts his portfolio at ~$6M.

So much for "poor people fighting back" LOL.

kgog··on A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products
Hi Vivek - Is your packaging also going to be sustainable? What I find annoying is when I spend 3x on a "sustainable" product that comes wrapped in 2 layers of bubble-wrap in a plastic-paper envelope.

Plastic recycling, as I hope we now know, is a full-on scam and a lie. [1] [2]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plasti...

[2] https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/

kgog··on Fastmail was down
Beyond E2EE and being Swiss-based, how is FM different from ProtonMail?
kgog··on Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
So Facebook is a public utility?
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