[hinkley]

I get a lostredditor vibe way too often here. Oddly more than Reddit.

I think people forget sometimes that comments come with a context. If we are having a conversation about Deep Water Horizon someone will chime in about how safe deep sea oil exploration is and how many failsafes blah blah blah.

“Do you know where you are right now?”

[iandanforth]

I apologize, the comment's irony overwhelmed my snark containment system.

[Obscurity4340]

This comment is perfectionXD

[LordDragonfang]

>I think people forget sometimes that comments come with a context.

I mean, this is definitely one of my pet peeves, but the wider context of this conversation is specifically a board doing stupid shit, so that's a very relevant counterexample to the thing being stated. Board members in general often do stupid/short-sighted shit (especially in tech), and I don't know of any examples of corporate board members recusing themselves.

[teachinghacker]

It happens a lot. Every big company has CEOs from other businesses on its board and sometimes those businesses will have competing products or services.

Eric Schmidt on Apple’s board is the example that immediately came to my mind. https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2009/08/03Dr-Eric-Schmidt-...

[mhluongo]

Common example of recusal is CEO comp when the CEO is on the board.

[alsetmusic]

That's what I would term a black-and-white case. I don't think there's anyone with sense who would argue in good faith that a CEO should get a vote on their own salary. There are many degrees of grey between outright corruption and this example, and I think the concern lies within.

[Juicyy]

Its a more technical space then reddit. Youre gonna have more know it alls spewing

[jachee]

You know that know-it-all should be hyphenated, right?

…

;)

[alsetmusic]

I get what you're saying, but I also live in the world and see the mechanics of capitalism. I may be a person who's interested in tech, science, education, archeology, etc. That doesn't mean that I don't also have political views that sometimes overlap with a lot of other very-online people.

I think the comment to which you replied has a very reddit vibe, no doubt. But also, it's a completely valid point. Could it have been said differently? Sure. But I also immediately agreed with the sentiment.

[hinkley]

Oh I wasn’t complaining about the parent, I was complaining it needed to be said.

We are talking about a failure of the system, in the context of a concrete example. Talking about how the system actually works is only appropriate if you are drawing specific arguments up about how this situation is an anomaly, and few of them do that.

Instead it often sounds like “it’s very unusual for the front to fall off”.

[mhh__]

So?