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It's the obvious implication from stating that women are biologically prone to being inferior engineers, and that they should end diversity hiring programs.

Maybe he should have thought about that before he posted it. The author of the medium article is right that the manifesto implies that a lot of coworkers are less capable.

It's a grey area though.

> If you don't see any other way to deal with OP's views than described in this belittling rant

If that's how you read it then I feel like you missed the entire point.

> This is a non-statement. Replace 'engineering' with science, medicine, finance, customer service, politics, retail, programming etc., and it will sound as correct.

Again, I'm feeling like you missed the point.

> Google engineer

Oh, so basically scripture then.

> Does that judgement come from you

yes, and it applies to me.

> Obviously false.

Justify this. The funding is legislated into place in such a way that they are not subject to the whims of a new budget. Removing it would require actually changing the law, which ensures that a government trying to do so is subject to scrutiny.

That seems about as good as you can reasonably expect.

> Don't pretend there are no other funding models.

I didn't. Don't put words in my mouth.

In the US if you don't like your internet provider you can shut up and keep paying because the government helped them get a localized monopoly. Google can swing regulators from "anti-trust" to "it's all good they said they would fix it". Lobbyists write legislation.

The level of corporate control in the US is disturbingly high. Ultimately they are weaker than the federal government.

> Would we still use the "private companies" can do whatever they want argument?

At some point I would think you would run into anti-discrimination laws, but short of that sure do what you want.

I'm free to say to those users "hey, come post here my lgbt brothers/sisters/anything in between. Come post here liberals who are pissed off about the actions of facebook/google".

Whereas if I said something against the government of china they would just toss me in prison or have me killed.

Except that people can just leave facebook and go use something else if they don't like it.

Don't get me wrong, I am deeply disturbed by the level on control facebook (and google) exhibit over news, information, the internet. But it's a fundamentally different thing then the government doing it.

If you don't like it then use a different site. Corporate entities have zero obligation to allow you to use their platform for whatever you want.

The press still publishes the information and the government generally doesn't get to censor it.

The government is free to try and stop leaks. That's not the same thing as censorship.

The level of secrecy a government operates under is a massive issue, but it's not the same one.

> this kind of behavior is very par for the course.

That doesn't mean we should normalize it.

Their money source is as protected from the government as it reasonably can be.

Really, the alternative is you have them beholden to billionaire owners and advertisers. This is why I like the idea of a (properly funded) public news source, just not as the only source of news.

That's absolutely true, but if the DoJ is acting in good faith (they believe they have sufficient evidence of guilt by this person) then is this really a problem?

There are good reasons to be cautious, but this particular case is far from decided either way.

That is purpose to your life though.

I spend most of my time watching TV and playing games. That's a lack of purpose.

and then what do the people inside do?

I would think better?

> I don't know how musk does it but he has access to levers of power to keep himself afloat.

A well run PR machine that keeps the constant hype going. The right misdirection at the right times (we totally need to worry about the mythical smart AI, oh but don't worry about the timeline or the dangers of self driving cars). The Hyperloop and Tunnels are totally amazing building blocks for Mars so we have to build them.

I think Musk is a brilliant guy, but the cult around him is pretty ridiculous.

No. How are they producing it?

That makes sense. Loads of people, lots of area, gets really hot.

> those who have chosen to subscribe to HBOGo

Are cable subscribers. HBO Now is the standalone. Anyway, piracy is about as convenient for something like GoT. The back catalogue is great though. I also pretty much stopped pirating because I have the money now, and the content is easy to get.

It's the same obnoxious minute long ad before.

At least it's only HBO shows.

The reasons he is hated aren't the same as the reasons he is on trial.

Of course they are legal. It doesn't make him any better as a person.

Except those things have happened to other people and thus anyone who has done those things (that aren't necessarily immoral or even illegal in other places) should avoid the US.

because that's so much better.

They have fought background checks at various times in various places.

I am using this account now.

Lets be realistic, negative feelings about Musk aren't going to gain me much credibility on HN no matter where I post it from.

> That’s why public relations and communications — propaganda by another time

you mean like getting sycophants from thedrive.com to write articles that far longer than I'm willing to read to get to the point.

I am so sick of the cult of Elon.

> FYI, if you've committed any form of cybercrime

According to the US definition of cybercrime. So you could be totally innocent in your country, and have done nothing directly in the US.

> "Weasel?" I can see this is going to be a constructive dialogue. If I had wanted to "weasel" I would have deleted the post last night when it passed under the negative point threshold.

I wasn't going to accuse you of being a weasel, but this is the most weasel-y thing I've ever seen.

> It's unfortunate that so many people don't know what the word means

When you're the one person in a conversation who has a totally different definition, you just might be wrong.

You're wrong. Give it up.