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>rich white kid

This is incredibly fatiguing. This isn't Reddit, or tumblr. Strive to be better.

Oh, can we have no fun anymore?

>This is an example of sacrificing the scientific method to make results more politically correct. We've come full circle.

Wrongthink is nothing new, comrade ajwnwnkwos, and is as prevalent as ever.

The output of science has been suppressed throughout history where it didn't fit the narrative of the day. At one period, that was by the Church. Another, it was at the hands of the government. Today, mainly by a self-censoring, everything-must-be-pleasant-and-entertaining society that is very highly prone to fits of outrage.

Inconvenient facts are, after all, inconvenient.

We're adults here but that doesn't mean we should pursue a higher level of discourse.

If you want cursing or other low content, there's always Reddit.

>It's exhausting to put up with

The sub in question has had polls and surveys posted to it, popular ones which have remained on the front page of it, and they've received paltry engagement (~10,000 engagements).

You're making it out as though that one entity has corrupted the site, which is a plainly hysterical claim based on the evidence.

>Folks from there will re-post links (or share via chat) to "controversial" posts in other sub-reddits to coordinate brigading, for example.

Do you have any evidence for this? Because discord groups to disrupt Reddit aren't unique to T_D and the hyper-leftist ones far outnumber those on the right, as with their meta-subreddit parents.

It's disappointing to see Reddit drama appearing on this site as often as it is. I remember a time when HN wasn't really on the Redditor's radar. What good times they were.

Depends on how it's handled. If it's bastardized with US companies coming in to exploit the existing low salaries and then suppress them by co-ordinating and fighting to bring in others from other low-paid countries, then yes it's likely going to be ruinous to it.

If it's a small, European centric scene, by Europeans and for Europeans which grows organically outward then it stands a chance to enrich the city.

Personally I'm not much of an advocate for Europe welcoming SV folks and their VC masters in.

I wonder if this is due to young people feeling like the status of previous generations (house, cars, kids, vacations, etc.) seem so much further out of reach than ever?

Given the increase in fractured heterogeneity and the fall of Christianity in the USA, or at least adherence to its teaching and participation (i.e. census stats disregarded), it's not hard to see how people feel socially isolated and free of any debt to any form of "community".

Coupled with a media (traditional tv, print, modern online) whose purpose seems to be purely to exacerbate divisions and perceived social tensions; giving voice to only the most radical on any spectrum on any issue all in the name of getting clicks to sell ads to; it's again not hard to see how groups are drastically losing empathy and support for one another.

America has become a model of how not to approach the goal of creating and supporting a healthy society. One would hope that lessons would be learned from it, but it seems that Western Europe is gung-ho to follow almost every footstep.

As people in tech, there should be no doubt of the contribution we've made, or leadership provided, to the above.

The perfect argument against allowing people access to their phones at performances.

Looks like all the money spent on his various “campaigns” hasn’t been felt to be well spent.

Indeed. Pleas to "terrorism" and "think of the children" on a topic of simply unable to access your phone for a couple of hours.

HN has experienced a palpable drop in quality recently.

Compulsive, addiction driven behaviour due to the gamification of apps and basic services?

I say let's remove that from our experience.

I agree. Male only entities are also smart and natural, and if tech based are a good use of that tech, right?

>You are already welcome to create a man-only forum.

Any man taking such an action in 2018 would likely lose their career over it.

At what point in the last 10-20 years has the image of the nuclear family not been under attack?

Beyond medicine and the fact that it's less violent than 200 years ago, it would be incredibly hard to argue we now live in healthy societies.

This is essentially factually untrue at this point.

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SV has championed a super toxic, toe-the-liberal-line-question-nothing atmosphere in the workplace for years now. The damage is done.

You'd have to be a total fool to bring up any of the non-left-wing, yet totally valid comments on that post in a tech workplace in 2017.

The public at large have shown themselves to have little qualms about trading their privacy for convenience. Knowing this, is it really so egregious to offer decent tools/platforms to said people, to convenience said people, in return for monetizing their formally private data they willingly hand over?

In fact, knowing that people put such a low value on their privacy nowadays, is offering them decent, innovative services in exchange for that data not by definition "doing good things to change the world"?

Snowden risked his life to show the world and public at large that they were being spied on by the US government, facilitated by the big tech companies. The response was at best apathy, at worst a thirst for Snowden's blood. It's very hard to come back now, in 2017, with "muh privacy".

>So Canada might as well try whatever they can.

This behaviour is largely the Canadian Liberal party appeasing its voter base through virtuous grand-standing over actual effectiveness.

I'm very uneasy about the fact that we've Trudeau at the bargaining table here.

>I would hate to live in a system that worked by the letter and just said "Well, can't touch him, he didn't TECHNICALLY break any laws...."

Your mindset is terrifying.

>falls heavily not only on the high-population coastal states but also on the younger demographic within those states

Coincidentally the very people who voted for Hillary.

1. You're right and I originally had "downvoted", but after returning to the main thread and only being able to see who posted and not what they posted (in this sub-thread) from there I changed it to censored.

2. With regards to here, yes you're correct. If anything I should be calling the people in question out for using HN like Reddit (i.e. I downvote that which I disagree with).

>What do you see as the barriers for women to participate in bitcoin?

Why do you want to have a discussion involving logic when all I want to do is signal my virtues?

That you're being censored for simply pointing out a very simple truth goes to show how utterly toxic our industry has become.

>Why is it that the middle class who only have their single single-family house are the selfish ones?

This thread is largely an assault on the middle class in SF who happen to have been around when it was affordable to buy there by a swarm of very well salaried (but still priced out) techies who've by and large ruined SF with their presence as it is.

Like most Americans, the target isn't the rich because the techies in question see themselves as being those people someday.

There has been no shortage of studies and reports on the damage social media is doing society, especially to the young. Though I'm glad to see a movement forming against it, it's sad and somewhat pathetic that the conversation is hinging on the refusal to accept election defeat by one half of the electorate.

Those involved in developing, expanding, etc. social media know what they're complicit in and it extends far beyond, and is far worse, than simply having some moron elected.

When one adds these markers of significantly decreased development or preparedness for adulthood with the increase in social isolation being reported, the levels of psychiatric issues such as ADHD and depression being observed, the relentless rate of youth suicides, the obesity epidemic and more... at what point can it be deemed a crisis?

What is the end goal here? Companies being forced to publish and formalize pay tiers?

Can Google publish a report on non-pay differences by sex at Google? Sick (or personal) leave taken, overtime worked, vacation time availed of, etc. by sex?

Obviously with everyone being equal and doing equal jobs, the above shouldn't really be an issue?

>It's also possible that more men than women are willing to work longer hours

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf

>Any chance they'll release the data that backs up this statistical claim?

It was probably a pretty half baked, self-reported Google form so the data may not be worth much.