hadtodoit (u/hadtodoit)

hadtodoit commented on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” twitter.com/bjoewolf/stat... · Posted by u/danso

darepublic · 6 years ago

As someone of mixed ethnicity who, if I was there could easily be victimized by a senseless mob to whom I owe nothing and have committed no crime against.. yea I am not happy with how the mainstream media promotes and covers this story, downplaying the victims of the chaos and sympathizing with outpourings of anger even if illegal. To clarify, looters should not be shot, law should prevail, and the policeman involved in the original incident should be investigated.. but the mainstream media is to my mind basically behind the looters, and I know if by chance I or someone like me were to be caught in the crossfire and killed, the mainstream media, posturing as champions of justice, would just implicitly shrug. So yea I can't help but feel disaffected by this coverage, no matter how vile the originating incident.

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

>looters should not be shot, law should prevail

That is literally the law of the land. Read into castle doctrine and duty to retreat. Business owners have the legal right to defend their life on their property with deadly force if left no choice (i.e. a mob has surrounded you)

At any rate his tweet was ambiguous, he could have meant shooting naturally follows looting, not that he was ordering the guard to execute civilians.

hadtodoit commented on Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet nytimes.com/reuters/2020/... · Posted by u/koolba

TheHypnotist · 6 years ago

You presume any action outside of a near meaningless executive order will get off the ground.

I'll make another bold prediction. This is Trump huffpuff and Twitter won't be going anywhere.

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

If you think Trump suddenly decided he wanted to make a big deal of this and hasn't been working with Barr and GOP to draft legislation from day one (of Barr's tenure) you've not been paying attention.

You can continue to believe Trump is unpredictable when almost everything he does is signaled far in advance.

hadtodoit commented on Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet nytimes.com/reuters/2020/... · Posted by u/koolba

dx034 · 6 years ago

Saying that companies can't go against the president because he stacked the courts sounds a lot like a totalitarian regime to me. I really hope the US is not there yet and that anyone, individual or company, can criticise the government without fearing retribution.

Now if getting involved is smart from a business perspective is another question. But but they will have thought about that and also considered the consequences of not acting.

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

Where did I say they can't go against the President? I simply stated the reality of the situation and then my idea of why he'd do it.

hadtodoit commented on Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet nytimes.com/reuters/2020/... · Posted by u/koolba

_pmf_ · 6 years ago

> My best guess is that Jack plans to move the company headquarters out of the US which would explain why he chose to allow remote work indefinitely.

So he can have HQ in a cheap country, but pay SV salaries to the now remote workers in SV? Does not make much sense to me.

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

They have survived so far paying SV salaries. The non-engineering positions are practically disposable but they make up a considerable amount of bloat at many companies. Now would be an ideal time to trim the fat.

hadtodoit commented on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television edition.cnn.com/us/live-n... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

Can't imagine why you're being downvoted I can't think of a single news outlet that doesn't do this.

hadtodoit commented on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television edition.cnn.com/us/live-n... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

pjc50 · 6 years ago

I wonder if people will still be asking this question when the tanks roll into San Francisco.

(Sure, HN's leaky "no politics" rule, but ultimately you can refuse to deal with politics only so long as politics refuses to deal with you. It will be interesting to see what the effect of the Section 230 executive order will be... which also got flagged off HN)

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

I would hope the tanks roll in if they try to burn the city down. The politicians in SF/CA have made every attempt to disarm the public. What happens when the SFPD abandon their post and looters are going house to house?

And it's not so much a refusal to deal with politics as much as we are already dealing with it everywhere else. It's nice to have a refuge. Although I find it strange that thread was pruned as Section 230 is definitely related to tech.

hadtodoit commented on Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet nytimes.com/reuters/2020/... · Posted by u/koolba

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

It's clear Jack doesn't want to kowtow or maybe his ego is bruised but I just don't understand what he expects to come of this. The President has stacked the courts in his favor. He will get his way and twitter will take a massive hit financially.

My best guess is that Jack plans to move the company headquarters out of the US which would explain why he chose to allow remote work indefinitely. But can he get it past shareholders? The President had also stated he doesn't want foreign companies on the NYSE and no other market offers similar liquidity.

hadtodoit commented on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television edition.cnn.com/us/live-n... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

Why is this on HN? It's not remotely tech/culture. I don't want to be a jerk but please keep this stuff on reddit where it belongs.

hadtodoit commented on Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites formking.io... · Posted by u/yupitszac

TomGullen · 6 years ago

You’re presumably storing a lot of personal data - perhaps inadvertently. How are you handling the minefield of data protection?

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

I don't think anyone is using his service, including himself. This page on his personal website uses a google form.

https://www.yupitszac.com/life-of-a-contractor/

hadtodoit commented on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms techcrunch.com/2020/05/27... · Posted by u/patd

bredren · 6 years ago

This presumes equal weight of all content. Some content gets far more attention and thus must face a higher degree of scrutiny. This is the only way to curate at scale.

Apple does this with the App Store, where it is possible to get away with breaking app store rules if the app is not downloaded very often. It is not worth the time and energy for Apple to challenge apps that no one is downloading in the first place.

On twitter, with regard to illegal content it also has to matter the degree. How illegal / and reprehensible is it? How often is this tweet being requested?

hadtodoit · 6 years ago

Twitter has some automated method of determining whether a tweet is NSFW and it is very accurate to the point where I didn't even realize they allowed that content. They can figure out how to filter illegal content as well.