Elon Musk circle jerk. He represents everything HN wants to be: charismatic, exploitative, and rich for no good reason.
It’s a little unnecessary.
See, that’s the thing: nobody gives a crap who uses which bathroom at work. Really. Nobody argues about that. But arguing about policy or socialism or who is a real communist or not is not work-appropriate.
I think that’s a good idea. :) I’ve considered doing the same thing, although I currently don’t even have a blog under my REAL name. It’s very easy to self-censor, especially if you’re not famous or powerful enough not…
There is a way simpler explanation: it makes people work harder, longer for no extra money.
The worst part is that it’s typically navel-gazing about national politics. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with my coworkers’ views a lot, but good god, does anyone know what the state legislature is doing? How about the…
> Do you want to live in a society where that's a thing that people can do? We already do. C.f. laws, courts.
I’m actually gay, but thank you for assuming I don’t struggle with LGBTQ issues. :) Anyway, there is a difference between getting into an argument about socialism (happens at my work) and using the restroom that matches…
Jesus, can people just not talk about politics/religion/sex at work? This isn’t a problem for other work environments. Maybe it’s an age thing? Or maybe it happens when people become too friendly with their coworkers.…
Email is always a nightmare. My ex runs a BSD mail server that seems to work alright (and he has a cloud service that will handle mail in the event of a server failure). Me? I pay Fastmail like $50/year to do that for…
No, because it’s not against the law to scan servers on the internet. If you don’t want people to scan listening services, don’t let those services listen publicly on the internet. If you were to log into the server,…
Elon Musk circle jerk. He represents everything HN wants to be: charismatic, exploitative, and rich for no good reason.
It’s a little unnecessary.
See, that’s the thing: nobody gives a crap who uses which bathroom at work. Really. Nobody argues about that. But arguing about policy or socialism or who is a real communist or not is not work-appropriate.
I think that’s a good idea. :) I’ve considered doing the same thing, although I currently don’t even have a blog under my REAL name. It’s very easy to self-censor, especially if you’re not famous or powerful enough not…
There is a way simpler explanation: it makes people work harder, longer for no extra money.
The worst part is that it’s typically navel-gazing about national politics. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with my coworkers’ views a lot, but good god, does anyone know what the state legislature is doing? How about the…
> Do you want to live in a society where that's a thing that people can do? We already do. C.f. laws, courts.
I’m actually gay, but thank you for assuming I don’t struggle with LGBTQ issues. :) Anyway, there is a difference between getting into an argument about socialism (happens at my work) and using the restroom that matches…
Jesus, can people just not talk about politics/religion/sex at work? This isn’t a problem for other work environments. Maybe it’s an age thing? Or maybe it happens when people become too friendly with their coworkers.…
Email is always a nightmare. My ex runs a BSD mail server that seems to work alright (and he has a cloud service that will handle mail in the event of a server failure). Me? I pay Fastmail like $50/year to do that for…
No, because it’s not against the law to scan servers on the internet. If you don’t want people to scan listening services, don’t let those services listen publicly on the internet. If you were to log into the server,…