This will probably get me down voted but I have zero sympathy for anyone who chooses to works for a company built up around the harvesting of personal information.
You do have a choice, and by staying you are making it. Stop playing at being a victim.
Ah yes, the good old US of A where a 23 year old can start out making $100k/yr.
While here I am, 39yo, having been in this field for 17 years and worked my way up to a lead, and having worked at banks, fintechs, medtechs and consultancies, am 'only' making roughly €76k/yr.
And this is with pouring personal time into studying and applying latest tech in side projects to stay relevant.
Honestly if the financials of the US tech scene ever normalize to what the rest of the world has, you guys are in for a rude awakening.
Beautiful but heart breaking website. I genuinely hope the author will be successful in starting a family.
My partner and I are currently going through a surrogacy process, and it's been a brutal multi year project that has had numerous setbacks. At this point we are just white knuckling our way forward.
I'm glad we as a society have these options available for those that need them, but man is it hard going through these processes.
Sounds great! I've been thinking about making something similar now for a while.
If you don't mind me sharing ideas that I would love to have in such an extension:
- Changing the UI of the comment actions to make them easier to use. Using HN mostly on a phone, I keep hitting downvote when I mean to do the opposite. Similar with the collapse action.
- Keep a local list of users that get their comment subtrees stripped out. Some people are argumentative by nature and not in good faith. It's best to ignore them (easier when you don't see their comments).
- Hide new accounts by default (perhaps auto collapsed).
You do have a choice, and by staying you are making it. Stop playing at being a victim.