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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by xwdv on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:28AM (#26503052)
Why doesn't hackernews adopt something or do something like this? Software developers are rolling in money, and it's not that expensive. Guess we're too busy eating the world.
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by abhisuri97 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:44AM (#26503224)
I think it’s just because HN isn’t really a community that has many consistent themes/cohesion. It’s very active but only on individual news items rather than across posts.

But I think if the mods could potentially put up a link for donating to something, it’d get decent traffic. I just wouldn’t expect that initiative to arise organically from the user base and get significant traction.

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by mancerayder on Thursday March 18, 2021 @12:21PM (#26504288)
We're too busy spying on the world and selling the data to advertisers. That's essentially what the highest paid developers do, right?
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by xwdv on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:32PM (#26518322)
Correct, but that's why we should find some way to offset our unethical activities.
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by mcv on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:55AM (#26503323)
Go ahead and do it. On Reddit, it started because some people just did it, and others followed their example.
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by chad_strategic on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:25PM (#26505135)
When I was a software/web developer, I never worked with any software developers that could agree on anything.

For example: variable names

So I like your idea... but execution is going to be an issue.

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by Spoiled_toast on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:48AM (#26521304)
The HR platform is built upon an entirely different ethic. There is no room for this behavior to grow. Thank the one without humour.
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