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Hong Kong is the freedom and civil rights issue of this generation. There should be protests and boycotts in every US city about this, instead it barely receives coverage...

Some of that is obviously excessive, I wonder about duration though - a day or two of solitary vs 17 years of solitary.

If someone shanks and rapes another inmate every time they get out of solitary?

For all the empathetic discussion here, it’s important to keep some perspective - in many cases, these prisoners are in solitary because they have repeatedly attacked other inmates or guards, maiming or killing them. Of course they are still human and deserving of human consideration, but it’s not like they end up in solitary for not writing enough unit tests or saying the wrong thing on Slack...

Yeah, they’re partially that, but the immigration process runs off degrees more than interviews. For medical specialties there are tests by licensing boards and mandatory retraining.

Professional and academic credentials in developing countries are often unreliable or outright fake. If this happend with pilot licenses, imagine CS degrees or medical schoold... Any immigration and H1B reform will need to address this while being fair and free of prejudice.

It’s clear that the NYTimes is in the wrong here & doxxing an anonymous blogger, possibly b/c some of his views don’t align with theirs.

Everyone: please take a minute & send a very polite email to the NYT so we can get SlaterCodex back.

There is always some room for cooperation, even in the middle of a cold or s hot war, but it’s easier if sn enemy is defined as such.

What does ICE (a big flawed but necessary federal border guarding agency) have to do with BLM (loose movement to ensure equal treatment of US citizens of color by local police departments and preventing horrible abuses)?

Are you saying that the two countries are not enemies?

Very good news that this is finally getting attention

Perhaps this means some Saudi-funded University centers will be exposed and cancelled.

Does the same apply to users from mainland China or companies like Zoom? If not, why not?

War is coming. Any company doing business with China - and complying with the demands of the CCP’s security apparatus - needs to examine it’s choices no less rigorously than what we’ve seen in other human rights vs technology conflicts this week amd this year.

Does anyone really wonder if we (the US) and China are going to be at war in the next 10 years?

I think what the critics are trying to say is that plenty of companies in the same space were not tempted to do this kind of stuff, despite all the pressures, and instead atayed committed to engineers’ privacy and putting candidates first.

This is awful... And really hard to understand how they could expect this to go well - it seems like Triplebyte just doesn’t understand engineers and engineering culture.

I expect a fully anonymous service like interviewing.io to get a lot more signups after this fiasco.

Prediction: Lambda will be out of business within 12 months.

A Chinese founder cooperating with Chinese government is not something to be critical about, there is different political perspective.

Jack Ma is close to Chinese PLA. It’s a national security threat.

I thought this was about how dating models has helped many high-achievers cope with stress.

It is wonderful you were able and willing to opensource the IP after the startup didn’t succeed. More founders should try to do that and plan for it when raising financing - including in investor rights documents or the company’s charter.

Found this blog from last year comparing Lambda to AppAcademy, confirms many of the details and adds some.. no involvement with them. https://blog.appacademy.io/app-academy-versus-lambda-school-...

The important patents are long-expired.

Or Postgres APIs? Nginx plugins? Etc

is it legal to offer presidential pardons on condition of the person doing something unrelated to the offence?

Agree it’s a minor point, can’t expect OP to fit every contractual detail in a short article.

Indeed, odd to see this story is dropping off the front page so quickly. Someone ought to do some datascience analytics on how YC-negative bs YC-positive stories do on HN.

Exactly ^, Lambda has gotten a lot of mindshare quickly, based on some provable misrepresentations. That’s not good for either bootcamps or startup ecosystem generally.