johncena33

> Twitter on the other hand is just pure toxic garbage which seems made to intentionally divide people and incite hatred and eventually violence.

That's also my impression. I mostly use FB for my neighborhood, hiking, biking, bird watching or any kind of nature related groups. It's been mostly pleasant experience for me. I think you can use FB without lowering yourself in all that outrage and drama. It's absolutely doable.

Twitter, OTOH, is a cesspool. I feel the whole platform was designed to congregate the worst of humanity and to bring out the worst in any decent person. It's almost impossible to use Twitter without causing emotional harm to yourself or the others. I find it interesting that FB gets so much hate from media, but Twitter seems to be a media-darling.

Maybe we can have a HN wiki with all the resources and put a link on the banner.

I haven't used GCP for a long time. I regularly use AWS though. I also find AWS UI to be very slow. It always surprises me why.

> She didn't offer to resign immediately.

Just out of curiosity why would Google let her resign on a sepcific date given that she was already sending inflammatory emails to her coworkers?

> Fewer people would be criticizing Google if they just accepted her actual offer.

Highly unlikely. This issue has become politicized, so people would keep ciriticizing Google even if they let her.

I've read her email. In my first job, right after college, I have also sent an inflammatory email (nothing compared to the email she has sent) to my manager (not a whole group of coworkers). And I got seriously reprimanded for it by my then manager. Even after a decade I cringe when I remember the email I wrote. I have no idea why people think it's okay to send emails like this and expect not to get fired.

You probably have missed reading the comments in this very same thread.

HN crowd feels like they are on a jihad against Google. Pretty much every other email provider does it. This is a free service that they are not paying. But yet they like to keep bashing on Google.

Dang, can we please adddress this Twitter-style outrage and attacking people without any substance here?

I am not sure why people keep bringing up these "science" arguments. If you don't interact with other human beings or animals, you are not going to contract infectious diseases. It's as simple as that. The question we should be asking what is the price for that? How many people out there want to live a longer (no COVID) but miserable (no human contacts) life? Please let's focus our discussion on that instead of resorting to righteous indignation of others.

> Also, NYT has become heavily biased/activist type of journal. While they don't straight up lie, they often omit many important details in their story, in order to justify their conclusion.

That's also my experience with the media on the left. It's not straight-up fake news. But it's more misleading news. The infamous "women earn 78 cents for every dollar a man make". Which gives you the impression that a man and a woman both working at the same role doing the same work and woman makes 20% less than man. While in reality this is just an abject misrepresentation of the actual stat and weaponized for political gain. But unfortunately, this will not qualify as fake news.

> The only group I've seen it be permissible to make stereotyped observations about in the last decade in an SF tech office is european/indian/chinese workers.

As a South Asian minority, this is also my experience. The racism, stereotyping and stigma against South Asians feels more acceptable and totally unrecognized.

> The lake is not burning

I am non-native, but fluent English speaker. Can you please explain what does this phrase mean?

I wish this passionate-about-the-company, corporate BS that is under the guise of new age feel good advice, fad goes away. The number of founders I have met who show the attitude that they are trying to change the world and I should be grateful to have a chance to work for them is astonishing. There is nothing wrong with having a business that doesn't change people's lives in a fundamental way. But don't sell me BS that your another social media app is going to change the world in a good way, while you, being a founder, take all the winnings and I, being an ordinary employee, have to overwork without proper compensation and feel good about it.

> The highest carrier frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and 13% is homozygous for the haplotype.

As a Bangladeshi now living outside of the country, I am not sure what to make of it. We didn't have any proper lockdown AFAIK. In a country with huge amount of poor populace, it's almost impossible to do mandate people to stay in home when they don't have means to live. Thus COVID is very widespread, although not reported because of lack of testing. Even with all that, COVID didn't cause much harm to the population. Albeit, all of it is ancedotal.

I don't have anything to say that directly relates to the evidences you have provided. But I'd take anything coming out of social science with a grain of salt, given that the amount politicization and acitvism going on. People have real incentives to hide evidences, design flawed experiments or conjure up misleading narratives. One of the most prominent doctrines provided social science is now being proven sham and has done great damage to the society https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-real...

I am curious to know what HN crowd thinks of the MS disabling accounts: https://www.google.com/search?q=hotmail+account+disabled+sit...

> It would be great if mods edit the title. There's no mention of "Wouldnt wish this on my enemies" in the post, yet @bheni has added this to the title while posting to HN.

Sensationalization has started slowly creeping into HN unfortunately.

The internet is full of entitled people. I've never seen such entitled people in real life. Unfortunately lately HN is no different. I am also an avid user of Google Photos. From my perspective, they did keep their promise. They will store your photos for free before a certain timeline. Just because someone did a favor to you for some time, that doesn't mean you are entitled to their help forever.

One of the things that have dramatically hampered my experience on HN lately is irrelevant or tangentially related comments. I want to see relevant insightful comments or other people's experience of better way of doing things or any potential pitfalls of what's being recommended in the posted article. Instead, the comments are usually end up being complaining about some products or some features. And it becomes worse, after awhile it becomes the same broken record of constant complaining.

Yes, this is mostly HN crowd or very specifically HN crowd last couple of years. Something happened at that time period, after that I have noticed HN became less insightful, less interesting and typical internet beating-the-dead-horse conversation. Every single day there would be at least few articles against Google. Even the articles that are not related to Google, people bring up Google and then start the whole beating-the-dead-horse charade again.

Whenever I see things like this, it always makes me think out of all the problems we have right now in the world do we really need to spend time in trivial things like this?

The issue here is HN loves Amazon. That's why you are seeing the hostility. If it was Google doing that, I can guarantee you the HN response would be radically different.

Every Google related thread is infested with comments like this. We get it. Google shuts down products. How many times we have to have this discussion? Can we now discuss something new?

Exactly. Last year I went on a date with this person. Her family immigrated to USA when she was 2 years old. Recently for some reason her family didn't get green card. Everyone had to leave USA. Her whole family is disbanded. Parents and siblings are living in different countries. She couldn't join her cousin's wedding because according to USA immigration officials "she has too much ties with USA". Her family was law-abiding, tax-paying and highly-educated. This begs the question. At what point do we care about people who don't have backing of the poiltical outrage machine?

> HN when discussing a new product: "OUTRAGE! It must support EVERYTHING I want on launch day!"

You are describing internet mostly. There's simply too many unreasonable people on the internet.

Then change the law and make it fair for eveyone. The current system of protecting people entering into USA favors a particular demographic, which by itself is unfair and unjust. I am also looking for a better life and want to immigrate to USA. But there's no easy way to do it without breaking the law. Creating a system that incentivizes people to break the law and deters law-abiding people to immigrate is not the answer.

Is it absolutely necessary to bring Google into every single conversation and then start bashing it?

Classic HN. Snarky, condescending and nothing of substance. Reminds me why I visit HN less and less lately.

> Ironically enough, Google is one of the few major tech companies that can't be compelled to hand over information to China.

Interestingly enough, Google gets bashed most on HN than all the other companies in this list combined.

How is protesting against police brutality is same as protesting against ICE? That sounds like partisanship. If you support one issue then you will also have to support other issues.