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This reminds me of the concept of censor-bait in movies. Filmmakers sometimes include over the top, obviously gratuitous scenes, images, or language in their f
by cuckcuckspruce 8y ago
This reminds me of the concept of censor-bait in movies. Filmmakers sometimes include over the top, obviously gratuitous scenes, images, or language in their films so that the MPAA ratings board feels like they've done something when it's cut to later make an R or PG-13 rating.
This feels like Google inviting in regulation here so that lawmakers can feel like they've done something good and just, and that Google can later rely on this saying, "Hey now, we're not fighting regulation! We invited you in to look at the bail bonds thing!"
- dvtrn 8y agoAlso the concept of "ducking" comes to mind, from the story of the guy who would talk to a rubber duck while debugging. A former colleague took this to whole new levels and would implement unit tests that would deliberately fail and print "Quack" to the terminal as a way of forcing QA to actually execute tests.