[HN Gopher] Bad Apple*
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Bad Apple*
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 12 points
Date : 2021-06-24 18:24 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| throwaway789256 wrote:
| Glad to see that AGM is back.
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| I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the
| world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many
| secrets of a former employer. And he was only fired because by
| Apple after being retroactively cast as a misogynist in a woker
| age by people bad at parsing the license of creative non-fiction.
| Life is absurd, and our best predictions futile.
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| But what it tells me is that it is easier to go from tech worker
| to provocative media personality than to take the reverse route.
| He condemned himself to practice a sort of journalism, or, at
| best, to work for less visible companies.
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| And that is a great argument for the pseudonymous economy that
| balajis is advocating. So that people can speak their minds and
| maintain their livelihoods at the same time.
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