Ah no. It's an article about a software engineer in a software company which they call elite. It's shared on a site with tech people and commented on by tech people.
Elite has a meaning. It's not just a 'nice place to work'.
If you aren't able or willing to articulate your rebuttal to my comment then you shouldn't have hit reply on the original comment and then proceed to dodge/re-frame the world so you can be right.
> My original point still stands
No, it really doesn't, at all.
> Let me guess, you work at a company that's """elite"""?
No.
edit: also, could you please stop pulling made up stats out of your behind? " top 10% of companies in the Bay Area". "top 1% earner for your age bracket".
percentages & stats are real things - not flippant things which have no meaning.
> Richard Hendricks and the rest of the crew finally sell their new internet company — to HBO parent company AT&T, no less
This didn't happen!
They signed a deal with AT&T to build out their network.
Nowhere was this hinted at. The whole fricking idea was that they were yet to become rich and had to decide between riches and potential encryption devastation.
MMmmm. Would have thought that was not a defense for him seeing as he then went on to call him a child rapist:
> “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole,” Musk wrote in the first message. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.”
> Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full.
is complete nonsense when contrasted against modern times.
All the thieves in jail are not there because they stole to feed their family or some other noble deed.
> I actually do want to "criminalize homelessness". It should not be an allowable choice
How about people who are an utter nuisance on their neighbours? Do we just say tough luck to the neighbours?
Have you ever experienced that?
People who have zero respect for their neighbours and just do whatever they want at whatever time they want?
How many noise complaints will the neighbours be forced to tolerate because I have zero doubt given SF's governance that putting these people in jail will not happen.
Should people just tolerate their lives being disrupted until all avenues of addiction/mental health/other treatment are exhausted?
How have we as a society not outlawed the phony hiring of family members in order to financially enrich them far beyond what they could earn/should earn for the work they do?
I'll save you some future embarrassment and point out that Google complies with all applicable laws in the territories it provides search (including "hate speech laws, anti-piracy laws, right to be forgotten laws").
Elite has a meaning. It's not just a 'nice place to work'.
If you aren't able or willing to articulate your rebuttal to my comment then you shouldn't have hit reply on the original comment and then proceed to dodge/re-frame the world so you can be right.
> My original point still stands
No, it really doesn't, at all.
> Let me guess, you work at a company that's """elite"""?
No.
edit: also, could you please stop pulling made up stats out of your behind? " top 10% of companies in the Bay Area". "top 1% earner for your age bracket".
percentages & stats are real things - not flippant things which have no meaning.