sinedpick

Wow, thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize they were so explicit about it.

if we get a BtB on Raghavan, that may well happen. Unfortunately I doubt he meets the bar to be a real bastard by their standards.

This is how The Sequences teaches you to think. Construct a thought experiment and use your feelings about how things "should" work to come to a conclusion.

I spent a while reading this post, he has to be trolling right?

nitter.poast.org inexplicably still works. I'm too scared to ask why.

holy fuck man i really wish I hadn't clicked on that hn thread.

butter

edit: was supposed to say nitter but I'm keeping it, deal with it

It's crazy, he co-authored the randomized algorithms textbook for a class I had in grad school. That and the information retrieval book he wrote are probably the two biggest components of his engineer cosplay, even to this day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139636

will no one think of the poor baby exec who makes 8 figures? how could they be so mean to him??

Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn't actually read anything.

You have a lot of growing up to do.

It's a narrative whose connection with reality is hard to discern

If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

One could instead say enshittification is an emergent and often unstoppable force, carried out by whoever happens to be in place at the time.

Yeah sure, and you can keep pissing into the ocean while you're at it while real people try to fix the problems they perceive.

All roads tend to lead to the same place.

Hopefully that's a place where no one has to read bizarrely dismissive drive-by comments made by people who have No Fucking Clue about what they're talking about and lack any kind of intellectual spine.

The amount of tone-policing in the comments is sickening though.