kgog's comments

Because that's not what HN (and its ideological libertarian crowd) does.

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.

Might it be time to support LJSA?

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

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.

Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.

> 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.

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

> 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.

Probably Facebook and Youtube. :)

At a minimum, that's a signal for the future of cryptoCURRENCY. :)

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.

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.

maybe you need borg with borgbase.

> 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-...

> 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.

At this point, it's hard to make a case for why Facebook is NOT a criminal enterprise.

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.

To me it sounds like they went after the symptoms and not the root cause. Which doesn't sound too bad to me.

Can you elaborate on what you find bizarre about it?

> 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.