throwawaygulf

Marxists can't open dialog.

Should be titled "Navigating Delusions".

Hilarious. Software development at Verkada is filled with "non-traditional backgrounds" leftist SJW types that spew neurotic delusional beliefs on Slack all day.

I bet management wishes they would have hired some real devs with backgrounds in software development and security. You reap what you sow.

Uncomfortable facts are racist/sexist/-ist/-ic/etc.

As you should. Otherwise, you're literally being a racist.

Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.

No one said otherwise. Luckily, "blacklist" is innocuous, and the only ones calling for its replacement and removal are neurotic leftists.

Dragons breathe fire, and my family burned to death. For my safety, please change your username to something that won't trigger me, your username is not innocuous. I see your username and all I can think about is my family burning.

Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.

It's a minor thing, something you can live with individually, except that as a constant daily drumbeat.

Your entire argument is based on this pretence that is demonstrably false.

Getting reported to HR by these neurotic professional victims is not something you can "just shake off", you literally can't "just ignore it".

It's asymmetrical warfare, and the externalities are all on you, the microagressor.

All of this reminds me of the 90s when Evangelicals wanted schools to ban students from talking about, wearing clothing with, or playing anything related to Pokemon, because it was an affront and a "microagression" to their religion.

Here we are, just a few decades later and leftists and SJWs are now the ones playing the victims, being "microagressed".

Who would make an HR complaint over one ill-considered remark?

It's painfully obvious you haven't been exposed to Bay Area/West Coast start-up culture (I envy your lack of exposure).

I've seen people getting reported to HR for the following things:

- Using a photo of a Sherpa (an actual photo, not a character or drawing) in a presentation to describe the concept of guiding people and systems to their desired outcome and state. They were reported for using racist caricatures of marginalized minorities

- Discussing shooting sports in a thread about hobbies. They were reported for making people feel unsafe

- Someone posted a screen shot of a Tweet in support of BLM, but the screen shot was from Blacktivist, a Twitter account that was part of a Russian propaganda campaign. Someone replied to the screen shot that maybe it should be taken down since it was literally created and pushed from a propaganda account. They were reported for being insensitive to PoC employees

These are just a few out of the dozens upon dozens. I'm sure many others here on HN could provide examples.

I wonder how much of it has to do with leftists and SJWs who would scream if sexual attraction between objectively beautiful people was shown on the big screen.

Body positivity, "Whiteness", and other deranged ideas are just not worth Hollywood fighting against.

Get a Pixel 3/4 and throw GrapheneOS on it: https://grapheneos.org/

It's the best non-Google, privacy enhanced experience you can get at the moment.

Not really, unintentional and/or harmless lies wouldn't be fraud.

Yes really. Intentional or unintentional lies to anyone would be considered fraud if we go by your ideas.

Could you elaborate? What does fraud mean according to you?

It's not what it means according to me, it's the definition according to the law: "with intent to defraud". Changing or redacting documents without the intention of defrauding is by definition not fraud. QED.

I got tired of funding far-left extremists and their deranged, delusional, racist politics. I moved hours away and haven't looked back.

Once they run out of other people's money to spend, they'll implode.

Interesting to see how in the past two decades, activist hackers have swung from far-right to far-left.

Anyone remember the GNAA, Goatse Security, weev et. al? Now it's the polar opposite.

I'm just starting to forge documents for this garbage. School records? Easy, download them, change my address to one a few miles away in the same city, change a few numbers of my SSN, etc. Same goes for utility bills, financial records, etc.

Fuck the data miners. The isn't even criminal to do because I'm not defrauding anyone. The address is still one in my city. They never do any actual verification so it always works.

Indeed. Last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.

The last time I was forced on LTE at home in the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.

Not sure about the EU, but last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.

LTE is limited to 21GB of higher speed transfer a month, at which point you get rate limited down to 2Mbps down and .5Mbps up.

Can't have Zoom calls on that garbage.

I wonder how all the leftist activist employees that were shown the door feel after leaving six months ago. Bitcoin's meteoric rise, Coinbase market cap at the level that it is, IPO, etc.

Coinbase reduced risk by kicking out leftists. Hopefully the rest of SV/Bay Area companies follow suit.

Makes sense. Catholic leaders from dozens of different countries speaking dozens of different languages convene in the Vatican often. The lingua franca of the Vatican is Latin, so, regardless of your mother's tongue, you can use the ATM.

San Francisco, LA, Seattle, etc. are all still magically there. Those "properties", where most of the GDP and people are, were relatively untouched.

So to say that "the entire West coast" was burning is objectively false, alarmist dribble.

It was an honest debate. Your naivete just got called out by a throwaway account, and you then proceeded to throw in the towel.

I'm not sure if you look at the curve’s derivative since, say, 1995, it’s clear we’re heading in a good direction.

Crime was near all-time highs in the US, Europe's deadliest war since WWII was raging, numerous civil wars in Africa and elsewhere were claiming millions... It's clear it's way better, and definitely got better since your arbitrary timeline.

I don’t think there’s been a year in modern history like 2020 since 1968, and even that pales in comparison.

Of course 2020 was a weird year, but to compare that to the height of the Vietnam and Cold War, with nuclear mutually assured destruction just inches away, among the many other things boiling is just naivete. 2020 was NOTHING like 1968, not even a close comparison.

We’re in the midst of a global pandemic with nearly 500k dead in America alone.

Indeed, but we're rounding it out, things are slowly opening back up, and vaccines are out.

We’ve suffered two deep, major financial crises in roughly a decade.

And mostly recovered.

The entire west coast was on fire this fall

Objectively false. Less than 50 people died. If the entire coast was on fire, that number would be several orders of magnitude larger.

Texas completely fell apart this week.

And recovered this week.

Living in a bubble?

Correct, you're not living in reality. You're living in a constructed delusion that doesn't match with facts, has no context for history, and is just neurotic/alarmist.

Well the parent comment is simply arguing against nuclear, and given that no civilization before 1940 had to think about nuclear, it’s not a bad take...

No civilization had to think about electric generation at all 60 years before that.

Its not crazy to think late era Obama administration was more competent than Trump administration.

It's not, it's a fact. Obama's administration was absolutely more competent than Trump's.

So you completely missed his point, (s)he’s not saying “times are bad now”, they are saying “I see now that times are not good enough”

Except I didn't. Even accounting for Trump's blip, times are more than good enough for new nuclear plants now.

And that is general global instability. E.g., things sure feel like they've come off the rails recently and things I used to take for granted: that competent people would generally be in charge, has been challenged.

There's almost never been a safer time to be alive, and there have been incompetent leaders since time immemorial.

Not even a lifetime ago incompetent leadership caused tens of millions of people to perish because they thought killing all the birds would save more of their crops, among other things.

You've been living in a bubble and/or have been ignoring history, even recent history.

"AI ethics researcher" is codeword for "leftist activist".

Do you really think the type of bullet matters?

We don't think, we know.

A bullet is a projectile whose sole purpose is to penetrate the human body at subsonic or supersonic speeds.

Not even remotely true. There are bullets whose sole purpose is to penetrate paper targets accurately.

The original commenter was advocating for carrying and using weapons that fire these bullets against innocent people.

Wrong, it was advocacy for carrying and using weapons that fire bullets against guilty felons.

To me that's just depravity.

To those based in reality, it's a right to self-defense.

There are more Rust developers are Amazon that there are D developers in total.

The probability of this post being [flagged] (due to it being terrible for the narrative) is approximately 1.

EDIT: Like clockwork.

When can we have a system that updates itself without breaking stuff?

We did, it was called CentOS.