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Israel's economy shrinks more than expected on Gaza war

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Tell HN: YC is censoring stories about Reid Hoffman and Jeffery Epstein

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At Musk’s brain-chip startup, animal-testing panel is rife with conflicts

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Google co-founder Larry Page subpoena in Jeffrey Epstein case

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Reid Hoffman's AI startup censors his links to Jeffery Epstein

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Jeffery Epstein Met with Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers and Woody Allen

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Twitter’s latest outage is logging out desktop users

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Apple further cracks down on remote work by tracking employee attendance badges

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wootland
·2년 전·discuss
All humans have a will to live, Hamas is fighting against occupation not to commit suicide. The Israeli theocracy however seems to have lost control of all logic and instead is operating in the death throws of an apartheid state coming to its end. The world would be safer with more opposition to Israel.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
MAD is a well established doctrine for deterrence. The people running Iran are running Iran, not the world. The people running Israel however have undue influence on my and many other countries.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
I'm far more concerned about Israel's nuclear capacity. If anything, Iran will help keep them in check if it can develop its own nuclear deterrence.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
The US supports Israel and itself causes terror in the Middle East. US citizens are safest if we withdraw completely and sanction Israel, like we would any other country violating human rights.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
It simple actually, Iran has no impact on my life where Israel has a very negative impact on my life. I barely want to remain in the tech industry because all of the VCs are pro-genocide. My tax dollars, military and political capital all go to cover Israel. I do not think Israel should have ever been created. It does not benefit me, only harms and endangers.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
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·2년 전·discuss
Nothing, Israel is trying to broaden the war and drag the US and western countries further into it.
wootland
·2년 전·discuss
I don't think he's expecting anything, just protesting and drawing awareness. It worked too because we're now talking about it.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
And just to confirm Reid Hoffman and YC's affilation: https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/1656675146588110850
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
I've never seen "productivity" tied to compensation. Those with connections and the ability to self-promote receive the most pay. Those who don't understand this focus on being "productive" to help improve their boss' bottom line at their own expense.

If you like to excel, the best choice is to preserve your energy as much as possible while working for your employer and build something amazing that you own with the energy that otherwise would have been given to them.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
There are reasons beyond direct redistribution of the CEO's salary to take issue with the vast inequality represented by that 1,000X. The board and CEO will place all of their network in the executive ranks, cutting off access to rank and file employees. These people also use their out-sized reward to have a huge impact on society at large outside of the company. The negative externalities created by exec compensation are borne by the public.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
If by the cheaters you mean the executives and investors who personally capture all of the profit, then I couldn't agree more. The reason that we're suffering from "inflation" and see record high wealth inequality is because the people at the top are hoarding all of the capital and profit leaving little for the vast majority of people.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
This isn’t a problem. That’s the point.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
I’m saying that it’s pointless to get upset at someone getting a raise when the person in charge makes orders of magnitude the amount of money you do. That is the problem, not labor doing what it can to eke out a microscopic amount of leverage.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
I'd add d) when all of the gains are captured by execs and investors, if you don't do everything you can to maximize your return and minimize your input, you're being exploited.

It's strange to me that anyone would care about people cheating at job interviews and not say CEO pay that's 1,000X the average employee. More power to those who can balance things in their favor against those who have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
I strongly disagree. Celebs and athletes are innocuous compared to billionaires and politicians.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
I can only speak for myself but I would never work non-remote again, even if I had my own private office.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
> “I strongly believe the office experience should be at the same level as luxury residential and hospitality,” Shvo previously told The Chronicle. “In the last two years, we’ve made our homes into our offices, now it’s time to make our offices feel like our homes.”

Private bathrooms for every employee? No commute? The office can never "feel like my home", my home doesn't have my co-workers in it. It's an environment 100% of my design.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
> No. They dont.

I'm responding to this post:

> If the UK ever needed to revolt against the government the monarch serves as way in which the public (and armed forces) could side with the state over the government. I cannot express how much I like that our armed forces swear allegiance to a largely powerless Monarch that represents the state rather than Rishi Sunak.
wootland
·3년 전·discuss
> It’s getting tiring to read journalist pieces who look at the extreme outliers of tech (Holmes, SBF, Hsieh) and try to tell us that everyone is like this.

I think the message is that these people were created by throngs of investors, media and fan adulation. There's an entire culture of revering people from SBF to Elon Musk to Bill Gates to Marc Andreessen. Some of those people have exploded more spectacularly than others, but the mechanisms and culture that create them are the same.