> corporate America has been decent to me. But I’m in my 50s and working on my exit plan and have been in the country I plan to retire to now for six weeks. Crazy take to think the morally correct move is to capitalize…
> You said those cities' police wouldn't enforce immigration laws. Please quote where I said that. The point I am making has nothing to do with whether sanctuary cities are "legal", whether the cops in them are or…
So is your piling on, not adding anything substantive to the discussions , and raw_anon_1111's repeated strawmanning of my point (the claim was never that sanctuary cities were illegal, simply that their existence is a…
Oh, thanks Ben. It's not like I said that in the parent comment: > Sanctuary cities aren't contrasted with non-sanctuary cities where a sanctuary city's police officers don't arrest people for immigration offenses. >…
> So you worked at AWS as an SA and never tried to sale its own internal consulting services? Not sure I understand the value proposition here, but then again Amazon is known for having redundant teams every now and…
> Do you think someone on the Alexa team in the retail division (“CDO”) knew anything about what was going on within AWS? Hmm, no? As a solutions architect at Amazon I was very much a "rank and file" employee, and privy…
> The average rank and file employee at any BigTech company knows only a minuscule more than the general public. Huh? We're not talking about the custodial staff. > Amazon for instance has over 1 million customers. You…
Flagging my comments doesn't make you right by the way. > The Supreme Court has just as often struck down gun laws where a city couldn’t do anything about it. You're exposing your ignorance by showing you don't know…
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> It’s not the city or states job to enforce federal immigration laws. This has never been claimed nor intimated in this entire thread. I can tell you're having a difficult time understanding what I'm saying. Let me…
On the off chance you're sincere but not well educated on this topic: > What are you talking about? Kamala Harris was DA for SF during the early 2010s, where she explicitly backed the city's sanctuary policies. As CA AG…
> Well, the city government is no more responsible for enforcing immigration laws than it is enforcing IRS fraud. Oh, so these Democrat sanctuary cities are in open rebellion against the party? Wouldn't it be crazy if…
> This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem. I welcome your critical interpretation of the existence of sanctuary cities and…
Sounds like a racketeering operation (not saying it doesn't work).
> Those who could but didn't vote aren't blameless either. The harsh reality is that "lesser of two evils" thinking is what got us here. In the 2024 election, the two mainstream party positions on immigration were: -…
> You must attest your age to vote for example. How does this relate here, or to computing generally (barring electronic voting machines)?
> If you're consistently getting downvoted in a thread, and the other side getting upvoted, try re-reading it instead of presuming sanctity. Lol, what a humble take. We all know in this VC owned forum that only truth is…
Can't respond to your flagged to death comment so I'll respond here: > If the advantage is as overwhelming and deterministic as you claim Nobody is claiming this, you're strawmanning again. Hope you have more success in…
> Revlon duties concern hostile takeovers [1]. You’re confusing orthogonal concepts. No sir, it was you who were confused - you brought them up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186549 > > There is a legal…
Hey, it's you again! I was wondering if you would pop up in the comments defending private equity as you've done in the past. Continuing our discussion from last time, can you elaborate on why you think quoting Revlon…
> the narrative is that men are posing as women and competing in an unfair way based on genetic advantage. That's not a "win here and there" situation the way it's framed, that's a "women have no way to fairly compete."…
Sorry part of my reply got cut off. > What if it's 0? It's not 0, and anyone engaging honestly knows it. To make another vaccine analogy: claiming it's a small number and therefore it doesn't matter is identical to the…
Cmon guy, you can't ask for a source and then dismiss the one provided without critically examining it. You're complaining that it's using publicly available data? Would you rather private anecdotes? > Also, a SHIT LOAD…
> The primary purpose is not usually a list of known defects and many ‘bugs’ are not actually bugs but feature requests IME there are separate mechanisms to track feature work, bug trackers are for... bugs. > or…
> corporate America has been decent to me. But I’m in my 50s and working on my exit plan and have been in the country I plan to retire to now for six weeks. Crazy take to think the morally correct move is to capitalize…
> You said those cities' police wouldn't enforce immigration laws. Please quote where I said that. The point I am making has nothing to do with whether sanctuary cities are "legal", whether the cops in them are or…
So is your piling on, not adding anything substantive to the discussions , and raw_anon_1111's repeated strawmanning of my point (the claim was never that sanctuary cities were illegal, simply that their existence is a…
Oh, thanks Ben. It's not like I said that in the parent comment: > Sanctuary cities aren't contrasted with non-sanctuary cities where a sanctuary city's police officers don't arrest people for immigration offenses. >…
> So you worked at AWS as an SA and never tried to sale its own internal consulting services? Not sure I understand the value proposition here, but then again Amazon is known for having redundant teams every now and…
> Do you think someone on the Alexa team in the retail division (“CDO”) knew anything about what was going on within AWS? Hmm, no? As a solutions architect at Amazon I was very much a "rank and file" employee, and privy…
> The average rank and file employee at any BigTech company knows only a minuscule more than the general public. Huh? We're not talking about the custodial staff. > Amazon for instance has over 1 million customers. You…
Flagging my comments doesn't make you right by the way. > The Supreme Court has just as often struck down gun laws where a city couldn’t do anything about it. You're exposing your ignorance by showing you don't know…
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> It’s not the city or states job to enforce federal immigration laws. This has never been claimed nor intimated in this entire thread. I can tell you're having a difficult time understanding what I'm saying. Let me…
On the off chance you're sincere but not well educated on this topic: > What are you talking about? Kamala Harris was DA for SF during the early 2010s, where she explicitly backed the city's sanctuary policies. As CA AG…
> Well, the city government is no more responsible for enforcing immigration laws than it is enforcing IRS fraud. Oh, so these Democrat sanctuary cities are in open rebellion against the party? Wouldn't it be crazy if…
> This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem. I welcome your critical interpretation of the existence of sanctuary cities and…
Sounds like a racketeering operation (not saying it doesn't work).
> Those who could but didn't vote aren't blameless either. The harsh reality is that "lesser of two evils" thinking is what got us here. In the 2024 election, the two mainstream party positions on immigration were: -…
> You must attest your age to vote for example. How does this relate here, or to computing generally (barring electronic voting machines)?
> If you're consistently getting downvoted in a thread, and the other side getting upvoted, try re-reading it instead of presuming sanctity. Lol, what a humble take. We all know in this VC owned forum that only truth is…
Can't respond to your flagged to death comment so I'll respond here: > If the advantage is as overwhelming and deterministic as you claim Nobody is claiming this, you're strawmanning again. Hope you have more success in…
> Revlon duties concern hostile takeovers [1]. You’re confusing orthogonal concepts. No sir, it was you who were confused - you brought them up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186549 > > There is a legal…
Hey, it's you again! I was wondering if you would pop up in the comments defending private equity as you've done in the past. Continuing our discussion from last time, can you elaborate on why you think quoting Revlon…
> the narrative is that men are posing as women and competing in an unfair way based on genetic advantage. That's not a "win here and there" situation the way it's framed, that's a "women have no way to fairly compete."…
Sorry part of my reply got cut off. > What if it's 0? It's not 0, and anyone engaging honestly knows it. To make another vaccine analogy: claiming it's a small number and therefore it doesn't matter is identical to the…
Cmon guy, you can't ask for a source and then dismiss the one provided without critically examining it. You're complaining that it's using publicly available data? Would you rather private anecdotes? > Also, a SHIT LOAD…
> The primary purpose is not usually a list of known defects and many ‘bugs’ are not actually bugs but feature requests IME there are separate mechanisms to track feature work, bug trackers are for... bugs. > or…