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This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
You're paying a third of what someone on the US federal minimum wage would make during that time (7.25 x 40hr/week x 20 weeks).

Edit: oh, I thought it was 2000 total, not per month.

Never mind then, though I do think this is would ideally be a government program.

I am sorry to hear about your experience.

As far as the dialog, it is known that Facebook pays PR firms to improve their image by spreading misleading stories (see Definers Public Affairs), so I think there is reason to believe that some comments here may be disingenuous.

Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:26PM (#17693351)
This is the most interesting comment I've seen on hn in a while, keep up the awesome work!
Exactly. The authors don't seem to have any basis for their explanations, and the title should really be "neural nets more accurate... on dating website images". Still this is significant, because these are the same images a government or business could potentially access for their own ends.
Another perspective (Nietzsche's) is that conquering is man's noble state, and that sin is an invention that allows people to pretend otherwise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality

Re:Instagram insists littergram app is renamed on Friday April 29, 2016 @02:51AM (#11594158)
be renamed. Really a careless error for BBC.
Re:Victorian Jokes Database on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:47PM (#11189036)
someone please train a character based RNN to generate these
Re:A Secret to Sustaining High Job Performance on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:30AM (#11010528)
If this article had any less substance it would be a David Brooks piece.
Re:The sleeping beauty paradox on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:44AM (#10151616)
the betting argument is not the same as what is being discussed.

to a halver, the likelihood of heads and tails are still each 1/2, but the expected winnings of betting tails would of course be larger.

it would be like saying i'll flip a coin, and if you guess correctly that it's tails i'll give you a million dollars. obviously i will guess that it's tails, even though i still believe each outcome is equally likely.

Re:Python Resume on Saturday June 27, 2015 @04:32PM (#9791446)
experience is misspelled :)