unapologetic

Now you dream of an absurd and unsustainable lifestyle.

The original issue is supposedly fingerprinting and privacy related.

If that's true then Google should be called out for their poor behaviour.

as we should.

Human makes a mistake, they could have been tired, distracted, got something in their eye, or anything else.

Machine makes a mistake, it becomes a question of why and will it make that same mistake every time?

Big difference between being "against" self-driving cars and simply not buying into the hype.

I don't buy into the hype, and I certainly don't buy what Tesla is promising.

> But they are currently innovating massively in machine learning and other data analytics.

I bet I could find that exact sentence used somewhere to justify wework as a "tech company".

Now please treat Tesla as a car manufacturer instead of "Tech"

Using the most powerful office in the world to grift and enhance personal wealth sounds like the exact type of thing a billionaire would do.

Bloomberg did it and he was only Mayor of NYC.

> Dumb people do not win presidential elections

Reagan won in 84 when his mind was already mostly gone, and it's debatable how smart he was to begin with.

Why are you being downvoted for pointing out mass surveillance and extremely targeted surveillance are both still legal and frequently used.

in doing so it leeches money from places it would be more useful and further enriches and entrenches defense contractors.

Seriously. You don't have to trust microsoft to realize that their linux interest is genuine. It's just smart business.

If Windows 10 is really evergreen then they could do it over the course of years.

This is true, but they could start open sourcing components. It's a hard problem but one MS has dealt with before.

I would honestly much rather have consistent 4g speeds than try to jump to something faster.

In the middle of Seattle there are still holes in coverage where I data speeds slow to a complete crawl.

Except he was her boss at google, google forced her into a position she didn't want, and he encouraged her to quit under false pretenses.

This is a high level google executive engaging in grossly unprofessional behavior with one of his employees. It's abuse of both power and trust. As far as I'm concerned the judgement and behavior shown by him should make him completely untouchable.

> And the answer to that question makes it plausible that Google has been protecting bad people at the cost of their idealistic but achievable missions.

Which of googles missions is idealistic?

Peter Thiel has an extremely vested interest in preserving the status-quo. Frankly I think the notion that he knows all that much about genuinely creating any sort of movement to be questionable at best.

It's not about changing the world it's about not dehumanizing everything.

> Maybe he was the prey.

Yeah maybe. She's the one who wound up being abandoned with a kid though.

> You cannot refuse to pay child support, it's one option you do not have. Play hard ball in response to stuff etc maybe, but you will pay in the end.

Which is what he did. Despite being filthy rich. Then he continued to threaten her visitation rights, screw around with his visitations.

> She should have named her price upfront. All consensual and he is a d*ck and a moron in a sense, as a billionaire, he could have used his pocket change and made her happy $$ wise. Now he gets bad press.

This is the type of comment I was talking about. This just seems dismissive of the cruelty of this situation and deeply lacking in empathy for 3 people in a lousy spot.

Because when you simply accept the world as is, it looks a lot like you're endorsing the status quo. Especially on this site where a lot of people seem to take a weird pseudo-detached outlook. Trying to analyze things in an almost entirely emotionless judgement free manner. I think this is seen by people as enlightened.

Personally I find it genuinely disturbing. It becomes hard to tell where this sort of detached analysis ends and where it becomes just actually not caring about or not seeing the moral issues here.

Well she's stuck raising the son of an emotionally abusive sociopath.

Besides that he pressured her into quitting with promises of financial support, then left her with the baby and refused to pay.

I can't even comprehend the type of person who doesn't see the cruelty of this man. She trusted the wrong person, that doesn't justify his behavior.

It's not irrelevant, it's a blatant abuse of power.

This guy is clearly a pretty sick sort of predator.

> How dare a married, billionaire cheater not settle down with her but continue to sleep with other women?

He basically got her fired and then bailed on her and their son. He refused to pay child support despite being a millionaire and is basically in an abusive relationship with her still.

It's disgusting. It's the sort of behaviour that should ruin your personal and professional life completely.

This situation is fucked up on multiple levels.

You don't punish the subordinate. Given his level, he should have been out.

Instead they transferred her from legal to sales and her performance tanked because it was a job she was in no way qualified to do.

He got her to quit (and sign a bunch of forms) promising to support her, then bailed.

He refused child support and after she sued, he started using threats against her kid to fuck with her.

This is a woman who got into a relationship, then realized that not only was the guy a complete psycho but the company had his back because he's the important one.

The rot at google is very real. Top down too.

He forced the consequences onto her.

None of these men will ever actually face consequences. They are all obscenely wealthy and well connected.

No, it's punishment.

It's not down out of cruelty, it's done out of greed. He's more important, so even though he should absolutely 1000% be the one on the chopping block, she gets forced to sales. Then he uses the financial hardship and promises from him to get her to quit.

How to tidy up a disastrous bit of professional misconduct in just a few easy completely sociopathic steps.

oh cool, now I'm a liar too.

> I call such comments linkless martyrs

You take pride in coining cute little phrases like that?

> If so, you can easily prove it with links that show how you were posting like this "for years without issue before you came along".

I really have no interest in playing your games at this point. I explained myself, you dismissed everything I said and seem to have zero interest in an honest conversation. Instead you'd rather pick a line and jerk yourself off about what a way with words you have.

> "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché

Still haven't explained how that isn't unsubstantive flamebait. Smug jerk.

> downvotes were from other users.

Well of course they were. High karma users get to decide what is allowed on HN.

It's a pretty bad system.

> I asked what you wanted to know, but reading this response, it doesn't seem like you want to know things so much as to fulminate against HN and how it is moderated.

and instead of reflecting on that for a minute you will continue on in exactly the same manner.

I was able to contribute to this site for years without issue before you came along. I find the moderation here now arbitrary, heavy handed, and pretty extremely biased.

> You, on the other hand, have been posting obviously flamebaity and ideological battle comments as well as fuming about "groupthink" and "wrongthink" and downvoting and how awful everything here is

Having and expressing any sort of ideology is against the rules. Great thanks.

Higher karma users have the ability to downvote. They use that to enforce their ideology. Anything that goes against the grain too much immediately gets downvoted and flagged. You personally described the my comment on wage slavery being bad as an "empty cliche". That's not condescending low effort flamebait?

You are so entrenched in your own ideology you can't even tell how deep you've gone. Just completely impossible to reason with.

No response and more downvotes.

Exactly what I expected.

Nah, this was the sort of guy who decided to leave the team (not midori this was years later in a different org) and then figures it's okay to act like a jerk on the way out the door. Some (junior) engineer on another team made a bad suggestion. Wasn't enough to say no, he had to tear a strip off him. To the point the manager of the other team asked if they could talk about it (he refused).

Guy was passionate and smart and just a lousy leader.

> What would you like to know?

What are the actual rules? You are the most arbitrary and least transparent mod I've ever dealt with. You wield the word "unsubstantive" as a cudgel. You seemingly only hold the goal of stifling discussion that might be against the accepted HN positions. The result is board that yes, does mostly lack flame wars. It's also bland and processed and almost impossible to contribute to, and I lay the blame on that squarely on you. The very poor downvote system does not help. Restricting downvotes to high karma users just lets a handful of people dominate discussion.

> "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché

7 million+ working poor. Millions more one unexpected expense away from financial ruin. "empty cliche".

Also could explain to me why this

> > We live at the absolute _extreme_ of capital power over labor power.

is fine. This response

> No we don't, that is called slavery.

is fine.

But my post reaches the bar of unsubstantive flamebait.

oh look, downvoted again.

The downvoting system on this site is a really broken by design sort of feature. It's entirely just a manner to ensure the groupthink stays on track.