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		dang on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please avoid generic ideological battle especially - it just makes threads predictable, therefore boring and eventually nasty.

p0pcult on Nov 3, 2022 [2 more]

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pvg on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

It's a generic tangent because you can attach it to almost anything - it's just a short, shallow reflexive trope comment and not a meaningful critique of anything. The latter is totally fine, the former is something that's bad for the forum.

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