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Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by dvhh on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:14PM (#26084732)
Less time spent to do laundry shopping.

And who knows, there might still be some soul working at facebook who really believe they are building a better world.

Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by leesec on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:34PM (#26084847)
should someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by piva00 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:59AM (#26086953)
They can just have a job. Now if you work on the tobacco industry, knowing full well the bad side-effects of tobacco consumption and keep working on it then you don't have any morals.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by leesec on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#26097451)
Linking cement production to global warming issues is at least as strong a connection and similar scale as linking Facebook to whatever bad thing you think they're doing, which is to say, a very vague one.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by piva00 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:29AM (#26100060)
Cement production is not a vague link to climate change. [0]

> In 2016, world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total. More than half of that came from the calcination process.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844

Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by obscoth on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:31PM (#26097556)
Cement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by leesec on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:32PM (#26084835)
shocking, i know, but not everyone shares the same morals as a few loud % of people on twitter.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer? by obscoth on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:00PM (#26085001)
Rephrased: “shocking, i know, but some people care about nothing except money”