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thraway12··on Forbes mocked as another '30 Under 30' honoree accused of fraud
There's just no such thing as an amazing person. All people are of equal worth. It's a terrible concept.
thraway12··on NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again
Those two categories are both random af. Are local police "Big Government" according to even half of the people who use the phrase "Big Government"? Are banks that utilize AI "big tech"? What about government intelligence agencies that have venture wings and invest in these companies? How quick a revolving door between the two blurs your distinction? Are you imagining pitched legal battles between the two based on public court filings? How likely are the filings themselves falsely suggesting some schism between the two that doesn't exist?
thraway12··on Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
Yeah this shit has got to stop. I'm sorry that you're competing on a platform that is overly sensitive to the truth, but hound Amazon, not your customers. And if you don't like it, maybe use all that fervor to organize and start competitors that aren't sensitive to that kind of truthtelling from customers: take all of the vendors who are disfavored by the platform and run something that isn't skewed. The tech has been out here for long enough that someone needs to make an amazon competitor.
thraway12··on Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release
I like paper books. Can I buy a paper copy? Your purchase flow is unclear.
thraway12··on Amazon’s Lack of Public Disclosure on SolarWinds Hack Angers Lawmakers
Angering lawmakers does not matter . . . .

No one, even on a powerful committee, has any real power to legislate at the moment, and so the anger is really just that: the basis for a WSJ headline.

thraway12··on New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests
Is there a Discord that routinely discusses issues like this?
thraway12··on ACLU Counsel Warns of 'Unchecked Power' of Twitter, Facebook
ACLU Counsel's actual statement was equivocal af. They aren't the standard bearer on this issue. They just aren't.
thraway12··on Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
>"That would require you to create some association between your personal and work account right?"

Obtuse af. Is this default assumption that the user is the one who has to "create" associations in the company's systems based on anything? The big tech cos have been social mapping since before 2012 and they undoubtedly register when two accounts use the same IP.

thraway12··on Show HN: 32 Books Recommended by Elon Musk
Like the Weeknd and Obama over the last month or so, my man Elon needs to rediscover the value of mystique. In other words, STFU and do science.

He's just not ever going to be as cool as Bill Gates. Like really, we get it. You're ambitious. You're pushing the boundaries of human technology. That's enough. We would like you for that alone.

When he opens up more than that, it's just reading lists like this and twitter spats with fucking small town mayors, and unfortunate stories about his dad or about his ex-wives and he's really just cringy as a mfer once we get past all the science, but seriously the science is great.

Mystique my man. You don't need to talk to us plebs. Stop.

thraway12··on Andrew Yang telling NYC leaders he intends to run for mayor: NYT
nah, AOC is legit
thraway12··on Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations
I was on M.I.T.'s campus a bunch. Are these the posters that are in the, um, main building you see on your way from the undergrad campus to the law school on your right? https://artvee.com/collection/dietmar-winklers-mit-posters/
thraway12··on Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations
"unsplash . . . of course" lol!
thraway12··on Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations
this is why i own a CANON PIXMA printer.
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
This entire thread belongs on https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
lol there's no mens rea
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
The FTC is an executive agency with the enforcement equivalent of prosecutorial discretion. It's not a court.
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/22/why-the-f...
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
You get that congress isn't a single actor and that there are people in congress who do, right?
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
Imagine making your money off of what Zuckerberg has done to our fucking democracy.
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
or it's not original...
thraway12··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
Can't wait for everyone to say the way it should work without any political analysis about what CAN happen. Someone's going to do something about tech. This is the thing they're doing. That's how law has worked since the founding. No one waits for a perfect law to enforce. We enforce, especially when there are major social ills. The actual solution is that tech needs to gets its sociopath issue under control. It won't. So it gets the hose.
thraway12··on Satirist to the Galaxy
Vonnegut is tough to "comment" on. Good read.
thraway12··on No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)
ThredUp had some juice in the media. Heard about them on Marketplace. Checked it out: they give you as low as 3% for the value of your stuff. https://www.thredup.com/cleanout/payouts
thraway12··on Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
Because China achieves a comparative security advantage?
thraway12··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
ah yes, because as we know, executives' personalities are frequently reflected in their emails. /s What a crock
thraway12··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
Wasn't Google party to an implicit CARTEL agreement not to compete amongst hiring tech talent?https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...
thraway12··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
how do you know it's just an extension of that?
thraway12··on Lessons from Dave Chappelle
>"if you can't get past that, move on." What a nonsense attempt to shut down valid criticism. If you can't "get past" the fact that Hacker News enables comments, move on.

>"The intro paragraph is basically an ad because the free articles drive subscriptions for the paid ones"

He uses ", though," four separate times in a single post. Is that by design, because it's a free article?