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What are these awful comments? You're getting a free training course.

• Fordec 3y ago
  "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product"
  • Illniyar 3y ago
    This is a loss leader for GCP. That's not really the same situation.
  • deleted 3y ago
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  • astrange 3y ago
    A participant in a two-sided market isn't the same thing as a product.
• vander_elst 3y ago
  I have the impression that these days there's a very strong bias against Google on HN.
  • revskill 3y ago
    [flagged]
    • tomrod 3y ago
      Not sure how true this is.
      • revskill 3y ago
        Because if hn users are gg employees, there wont be any complaints.
        • warent 3y ago
          This is a falsehood. You are trying to stir up controversy
          • revskill 3y ago
            Is'n it basic employee psychology ?
        • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
          > if hn users are gg employees, there wont be any complaints Every Googler and Facebooker I know is livid with the mediocrity they’re presently surrounded with.
          • Thorrez 3y ago
            I'm a current Googler and I'm not livid.
            • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
              > I'm a current Googler and I'm not livid Fair enough. I didn’t mean to speak representative for the cohort. Just that we’re past the point of it being a legitimate market of identity. Nobody should be running around defending Google out of misplaced pride anymore.
    • warent 3y ago
      I worked at Google and chose to leave after a year. I agree with a lot of the negativity against Google here
      • gibolt 3y ago
        Google helped create and publicly detail transformers just a few years ago. This has had a huge impact on where we are now with AI. Love or hate the company, they have made major contributions that should be appreciated be anyone in the field
        • threeseed 3y ago
          All of the companies even the most secretive like Apple have been making their research public. Google's Transformer paper is amazing but the current state of AI has its basis in a lot of people.
        • yard2010 3y ago
          Facebook helped create stuff too..
        • deleted 3y ago
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  • yard2010 3y ago
    I think it has something to do with the fact they removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct.
    • Infinity315 3y ago
      First off, I doubt that. Second of all, that in of and itself is not a reason to discount everything and anything Google. If Google created a way to end world hunger and did it for free would you automatically discount that because they removed 'don't be evil' from their code of conduct?
• tagyro 3y ago
  The course is not free. To finish the course and get the completion badge, one must also do the labs, which cost money. Also, given it's coming from Google, one also pays with "data".
  • account-5 3y ago
    And obviously you're taught how to deploy to Google cloud so you have to pay for the course, pay with your data—petsonal and work related—and pay for their cloud services...
  • yard2010 3y ago
    Shut up and take my data!
• blackoil 3y ago
  Certain HN discourse are pretty useless. Anything remotely related to Google, Meta, MS, privacy/copyright is filled with often repeated tropes or completely orthogonal discussions. You have to ignore first 40% of comments to find anything meaningful.
  • yard2010 3y ago
    Or, you have to read the first 40% of comments to find out what is evil about it..
    • j45 3y ago
      And/or, one can learn to find the good in what's presented that could be transferred to other things
• yard2010 3y ago
  "No free lunch" is the 1st rule of ML