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Didn't help Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

I'm not sure I completely understand your point, sorry.

I'm saying that it makes no sense to lose on purpose just to say you "played fair".

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Popper expands upon this, writing, "I do not imply for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

If US social media companies are banned in China, that means the US needs to allow Chinese social media companies to operate in the US.

Actually lol'd at this. "If they're not willing to play fair, then _we_ must play fair."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled revised plans to travel to the Moon and Mars at a space industry conference today, but he ended his talk with a pretty incredible promise: using that same interplanetary rocket system for long-distance travel on Earth. Musk showed a demonstration of the idea onstage, claiming that it will allow passengers to take “most long-distance trips” in just 30 minutes, and go “anywhere on Earth in under an hour” for around the same price as an economy airline ticket.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/16383048/elon-musk-spacex...

All the references like "Please contact sales@spacex.com to evaluate how Starship can meet your unique needs" are pretty funny.

I'd like to imagine some mid-level manager working on his little satellite project browsing this pamphlet, thinking, "Hmmm, this 'SpaceX' company looks interesting. Let me send them an email."

The depiction of police (allegedly) escalating the situation with threat of deadly force, especially with kids present [...]

Not "allegedly". There is video: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665

+1 to The Fire Next Time

God gave Noah the rainbow sign -- no more water, The Fire Next Time

I found the book to be much more intellectual and insightful compared to modern pop-race-psychology or whatever the latest wave of books should be called.

I feel strongly that it was one particular option that you listed, but I think this is a fair assessment. Wonder why it's being downvoted (maybe I'm missing something from this story too).

Microsoft only grossed $100,000,000,000 last year. What makes you think they can afford more than $500 for a bug bounty?

Redact ---> print ---> scan ---> distribute.

I think US courts and lawyers are finally starting to learn this.

Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

Didn't liberals too?

They make the mobile site shitty to use on purpose, so that you download their app and let them harvest even more information about you.

At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

+1

It's not even subtle anymore. You can predict with 99% accuracy the ideology of any political statements in content on the first 10 pages of r/all. It's a 52M daily user echo chamber.

"SEC filings: The parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from an Investment Bank in Switzerland that is 75% owned by the Chinese government. UBS Securities is a Swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government,” states the report."

Instead of making vague insinuations, why not just make the accusation that you're alluding to?

People with this ultimate victim attitude are absolutely toxic to employ and work with. I go out of my way to screen them out of hiring in technical roles.

only ~94% effective

Lol.

It just old and sick people dying, don't worry about it!

+ Tableau

So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.

This whole thing is dripping with condescension and ego. It reads like a nasty letter written to an ex-girlfriend about how you're super successful now and gee I'm glad you're doing well too. Yuck.

Right, still a little odd to have...

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...on the homepage of a quarter-trillion dollar company, with no other ads.

There's an ad for Geico insurance at the bottom, lol. What's the deal with that?

What is the purpose of this? Are there clear objectives or reasons why I'd sign my name?

Is this the highest ranked comment in this thread because GP is a weirdo or because his experience rings true to many other people reading the comments?

(or, hilariously, both)

The data was so interesting that they removed most posts related to race from their blog. I genuinely still wonder why.

[...] requesting "Thank you"s for responding to emails.

What does this mean?

I assume these are high-level security personnel at Apple HQ. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have armed security at a place like that.

A grand jury alleges that Thomas Moyer promised to donate 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office in exchange for four concealed firearm licenses for Apple employees.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/11/23/apple-...

The factions against this kind of government spending also happen to be the same ones who blow up the debt and deficit on tax cuts for the rich when they're in power, then bang on the table about how it's the most important issue when they're out of power.

In approximately 61 days, conservatives in the US will be in an absolute panic about the financial state of the country.

Thanks for saying this.

There's the idealized culture that companies put in cute little slide decks and share online.

There's also the actual culture inside these companies where, for example, the FBI opens an investigation into company executives for "multiple failed attempts to manipulate and extort people” to prevent them from reporting on its culture. [1]

I'd be more interested in a deck on the latter, frankly, or some insight from HubSpot leadership as to what's changed culturally since then.

[1] [PDF] https://www.samueljscott.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hubs...

[...] as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code.

The problem I've found in having these conversations is that, for some people, the moment you disagree with their "simple, basic, realistic human values", things turn toxic. Ie. it's not really a discussion, it's "these are my values and you either agree with them or you're a terrible person".

For example, I saw a comment thread on this board about Black Lives Matter. It had devolved to the point where one commenter said something like, "BLM means that you either believe that black lives literally matter or you do not.", which, obviously, is not true.