maximinus_thrax

Please don't 'buy' digital items from Amazon, because you won't actually own them. Pay extra, support your local bookshop and get a physical copy which you will actually own.

There are a lot of defenders of capital on hn, which is expected, that's totally fine. But I think we should all have a bit of admiration for someone who risked her life to shed light into the internals of an arguably sick business entity.

> The author didnt disclose any illegal activities in her book. And she didnt claim whistleblower status.

Both statements are factually incorrect.

> Wynn-William filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2024 and with the Department of Justice in 2025, according to her filing.

Also, here's a short but not comprehensive (read the book when it came out and I forget things) list of the sledged illegal activities described in the book:

- Collusion with the chinese authorities

- Securities fraud

- Illegal foreign political contributions

- Sexual harassment and workplace retaliation

I don't know the reasons for why there has been no enforcement/further investigations aside from some congressional circus, especially when Zuck was caught lying to Congress. But I would be willing to bet that they involve money in politics.

The legal system makes illegal activities part of the public record.

> "non-disparagement" clause

Do you believe a civil contract should be able to stop a person from disclosing potential illegal activities?

I'm very surprised to see enshittification starting so early. I was expecting at last 3-4 years of VC subsidized gravy train.

Great insight, didn't thing about it even anecdotally. I was lurking on Reddit since 2008 and finally created an account in 2012 when someone was really 'wrong on the internet' and had to step in.

Not only that, but subreddits like r/AmITheAsshole are full of AI slop. Both in the comments and in the posts. It's a huge karma mining operation for bots.

The front line is everywhere, as you know. You are fighting an information war and some of us are here to troll you back.

Russia is indeed the exception. As a 3rd world country, anyone would expect it to have a very high birthrate.

You're in a very weak position to attempt whataboutism, tovarishch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_March_2022_Chernihiv_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_March_2022_Chernihiv_breadl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2023_Chernihiv_missile_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_residential_buildi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_July_2024_Russian_strikes_on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplyne_railway_station_attac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_cluster_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_att...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Kramatorsk_restaurant_mis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2022_Chasiv_Yar_missile_s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2023_Sloviansk_airstrike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kostiantynivka_supermarke...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Yarova_attack

And many more, the Russian armed forces being the consistent all-time barbarian horde of Europe.

Akshually it's the the 2nd (France), 5th (Germany), 6th (Italy), and 9th (Spain) spots. But that's a bad argument, say.. a way of lying with statistics, considering the 1st place has 43% of the market share AND that exporting arms is not very relevant when the topic du jour is military build-up. The muscovites for example export 7.8% of the market share but that's not that relevant considering they're using the lion's share of military industrial output to terrorize Ukrainians.

Some other country started by _stealing_ US tech and now they arguably have a higher military tech throughput. Everyone has to start somewhere..

Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.

> war zone

It's a war zone now? I thought the line you were supposed to say was 'special military operation' zone. Keep it consistent, товарищ

Not defending what the DoD is doing right now, I firmly believe the US intervention is unconstitutional, BUT

Iran has been 'at war' with the west for a very long time. It's time to redefine the concept of war to be compatible with the 21st century and also include hybrid warfare and war-by-proxy. Iran has been waging war using Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas-aligned factions, Iraqi militias and the consistent aid it gave Russia through the Shahed drone program which is targeting civilians in Ukraine. And I don't even want to go into details about the war Iran is fighting against its own citizens.

I hate to quote Hegseth, but this is the FO phase of the FAFO cycle.

How? This is 100% the ideology of the Russian foreign policy apparatus.

Just one example that comes to mind: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/05/11/romania-queries-mo...

At least Macron isn't threatening anyone, unlike the muscovites.

> After Khamenei death Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that Russia is "against killing of the leaders of sovereign countries". Somehow they didn't mention nor regular citizens nor rank-and-file soldiers of sovereign countries.

Rich, coming from the state that sponsored more than a dozen assassination attempts on Zelenskyy. But russians get over this hypocrisy by not recognizing a country as sovereign, so it's fair game.

I love the Facebook glasses, they seem to be the swan song of a shitty company. Young people have abandoned Facebook when their parents started hanging out, now it's all boomers and bots posting conspiracy theories.

If they think this surveillance tech is going to push the company forward, it means leadership is even more disconnected from reality than the Amazon people who greenlit the superbowl ad. It means the company is dying. Huzzah!

> The "normies" love it and are far less skeptical. Few of them recognize when it's messing up.

This is not a discussion about accuracy. The market disagrees with you. Microsoft tried to shove AI into their user base with mixed results.

> It seems uncontroversial that users will likely want to use AI to find info for them and do things for them

Lots of weasel words in there. You're doing a lot of work with "seems", "uncontroversial" and "likely". Power users and tech professionals probably want this or their bosses really want this and they fall in line. But a large portion of the 'normal' users still struggle with basic search, distrust AI or just don't trust to delegating tasks to opaque systems they can't inspect. "Users" is not a monolith.

> Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever,

Not if they don't want their rankings to tank. Now you'll need to make your website machine friendly while the lords of walled gardens will relentlessly block any sort of 'rogue' automated agent from accessing their services.

I don't think so, I think it's Stripe's version on an internal tooling team, what I found to be called DevEx/Core Engineering/Dev Productivity/EngProd/Engineering Excellence in companies I worked at.

This team seems to be called Leverage. I would've called it Fulcrum. Or Turbo. Or Spinach (like in Popeye).

> The Leverage team builds surprisingly delightful internal products that Stripes can leverage to supercharge their productivity.

Why does this sound so insufferable?

I am absolutely shocked

Yeah, we have so much free speech lately, it's starting to overflow into the negative https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-department-homeland-s...

Yes, but what kind of life is that?

When I first came across this article I legitimately thought it was satire, I was expecting the author to go through some hazing à la soggy biscuit. But it's a serious article.. Oh my.

So they're going into the meat-grinder out of spite? What are YOU doing, товарищ? Why aren't you fighting for the motherland's imperial ambitions?

I agree "production failure" is inaccurate. The real reasons are 'corruption and incompetence'.