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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by JamesBarney on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:53PM (#25305480)
"Corporate culture" is a culture of bland, and empty niceties, with a veneer of politeness and it's 100% needed so that a large corporation can focus on getting things done without every interaction turning into twitter.

Hacker news also requires a certain amount of politeness in the way you speak and it's one of the many reasons the discourse is better than twitter.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by PascLeRasc on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:30PM (#25306590)
What makes you think our discourse is better? We have plenty of low-quality comments (see this one for an example) and nearly every thread goes off-topic (like what we're discussing now).
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