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You're in a toxic work environment, and you need to get the fuck out of there.

In itself it has nothing to do with management, except you're now exposed to it, shielding your people from it.

Take it from someone who's been there: it's not worth sacrificing you're health over it.

You're devs will be fine, one way or the other. Invest your energy in a company that's worth it, and that will actually change due to your efforts.

Musk has been acting like a wealthy douchebag on Twitter with Trump-style meltdowns about fake news, especially concerning the (excellent, quality journalism) reports about unsafe practices and union busting at his factories.

Basically, he's an empathy deficient exploitative narcissistic a-hole, an laying people off fits that picture perfectly.

This is what pisses me off the most about all the hysteria and whining:

"The law has been in effect for over two years at this point, and the DPD, the European Data Protection Directive has been in effect for over two decades. So no, this law was not sprung on anybody, though it is very well possible that you only became aware of it a few weeks or months (or days?) ago. If that’s the case do not panic, you too will most likely be fine."

Nevermind the fact that the underlying privacy laws are much older, and so many practices were already essentially illegal but went unchallenged so far.

It's not the law that's the difference here. The clue is under the headline:

> The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one

That's not just the GDPR's premise, that's the very foundation privacy as a civil right in Europe, and has been for a very long time.

The GDPR is just yet another attempt to force companies who have wilfully ignored the rights of millions of Europeans to start complying with laws we already had in place. It's not something new, just an iteration in enforcement.

America should make laws that suit America's values and principles, but as it stands, America has no deep concept of privacy. The GDPR is alien to American values.

(BTW, that quote is subtly wrong but illustrates the huge gap in perception: it should be "citizens", not "consumers"...)

As long as Facebook still aggressively and effectively policies its platforms for violations of its reactionary puritanical agenda, nothing they say about the difficulties of policing hate speech and other hateful propaganda is in any way credible.

This shouldn't be in the hands of a regulatory agency. Serious privacy violations should be legislated and treated as outright crimes, not just regulation infringements.

Violating basic civil rights should not just result in the off chance of having to pay a fine. People like Zuckerberg belong in jail way more than the average drug dealer.

This is the ultimate act of Silicon Valley arrogance, at it will backfire hard.

Not just on Facebook, and not just in the UK. This crosses a line all democratic nations in which SV companies have significant interests and even more significant influence will take note of.

SV and apparently large parts of HN are completely delusional if they think this won't have serious consequences.

> Funny thing is, this would all blow over after a few months, and everyone will go back to the usual habbits.

It can't blow over in the UK or the EU, because it is seriously f-ing illegal in those places.

Yes, we "knew" it was happening before this (hence all the regulatory steps taken that were dismissed as anti-American protectionism), but we were lacking hard evidence, so all we could do was reinforce regulations and regulatory authorities.

Now that shit has leaked, it's simply not an option for those authorities to not act. Not to mention the fact that they really, really want to act.

So no, this will not blow over. Maybe in the US and/or the media, but not where it matters.

Being allowed to do business in any country is "a big favor".

Guess which "favor" has the biggest impact...

Because "globalism" is a misnomer, it's shorthand for "economic globalism". Economic globalism is the exploitation of the masses by opening the borders for trade and desirable workers, whilst keeping them closed for the 99% of this planets population.

That's the kind of "globalism" the tech elite supports. They love to hide behind closed borders when it protects their wealth and power.

Those "same class of people" have always supported true globalism for the people in terms of a complete removal of borders. Don't blame them because greedy neoliberals have hijacked the term globalism.

> what language a country speaks

It starts with assuming country equals language. And even when they figure that out, they still use GeoIP. Try using various online services in the Brussels region for a laugh.

It's ridiculous that internally operating corporations like Google or Facebook still haven't figured that shit out.

The primary reason for not providing services in "rest of the world" is apparently "fuck you".

The same applies to not respecting your language of choice.

But the absolute worst is American companies (it's always American services, and not just because of US dominance) manipulating content based on GeoIP and giving me a shitty localized version of their service for no legal or commercial reason.

It's infuriatingly patronizing.

I see this video and have absolutely zero temptation to turn on the sound.

In my experience (30+ years in all kinds and sizes of companies), the quality of management is the absolute worst in startups.

The secret sauce of startups is that in the very early phase there is no management. But once management becomes a necessity (a conclusion that is usually drawn at least two years too late), the shit show most startups turn into makes corporate life look attractive. Usually a mix between founders trying to manage (most entrepreneurs make bad managers) or early employees falling upward.

One of the main issues is that people who are thrive in the early stages of a startup tend to lack the #1 quality of a good manager: the drive to make other people succeed.

If you want to work for a good manager, startups are the last place to look.

Nope, it's very easy to characterize him as misinformed and unscientific, since he published the evidence in writing.

Plenty of bigots have degrees. There are nazis and muslim fundamentalists with degrees. Extremist ideology tends to override unwelcome facts.

The memo speaks for itself.