brogdan's comments

The title as expected is bait. It’s a common situation in many companies where new hires are given authority with risks/consenquences and they overstep. They’re told not to do it again. That’s the gist of it. You’re welcome.

For everyone else - make sure your DB backups work. You’ll need them.

As these other countries become more wealthy and lucrative in and of themselves due to the sheer industriousness of their citizenry rather than trying to “extract value” through shameless and country-destroying corruptive exploitation, we won’t have much of a reason to look up to places like Jane Street. I don’t particularly care what the interns have wrought because quite frankly the company is a parasitic entity that should not be looked up to as an example, but as something to immediately investigate as a nest of illegal activity that leaves the country worse off.

Am I surprised they were cut off? No, not at all. They should be cut off in the West altogether.

I’d fucking love a post about NixOS config over this shit any day of the week. Lay it on us fella.

It’s the pay-to-play nature of dating apps that he is railing about.

I’m reminded of the posts about a decade ago from various prolific posters waving goodbye to HN. They were too kind at the time to say why.