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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
ISTR a seattle-area bumper sticker from the 80's about "seahawk" poop doing extra damage to cars.
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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
so, this isn't kennedy-specific, but from a mostly outsider's perspective (I worked at google for a long long time, but not on any of this stuff), I think it's motive. apple sells hardware to users & google sells eyeballs
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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
spoken like someone who remembers the kennedy announcement.
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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
they would be helping the SEC sniff it out though.
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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23703946
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by V-eHGsd_ 6y ago
You and me both. I remember the blank looks I would get from the stock team when I explained how their release agreement could expose employees to bankruptcy.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
borg config language, IIRC.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
yes, it's called bless. https://github.com/Netflix/bless there's also cashier https://github.com/nsheridan/cashier
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
to be fair, "don't be evil" is still there, they just close with it rather than opening and closing with it. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> Maps barely has ads... maybe you're using a different version of maps than I am, but I just downloaded it and the first page is chock full of ads, it begs me to turn on search history so it can show me "more relevant results&
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
I think it's that, now, everything is to feed the ad business while back in the day, it wasn't. back then, they had lots of cool products, and they also served ads. now they have ads and lots of products the siphon data from users
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> It just came out that Comey's daughter was responsible for the deleted tapes from the prison FFS... what? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205 no sir, that's not even wrong. take your conspi
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
I will channel urs hoezel giving an answer he once gave me to a similar question: "it's too hard" which translated of course means, "the cost benefit analysis doesn't come down in favor of spending the effort".
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
it was don't be evil and no they didn't drop it. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ it's at the bottom.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
this is an underrated comment. I've been through layoff(s); 1-2 months is pretty standard.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> That's called "circular arfument" (lol, sic) - you proclaim that this term is racist and prove it by proclaiming - without any evidence - that "most people" (who?) "understand" that it is racist. What
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> So what? Awful lot of racists also like to say "hello" and "breakfast" and "cat" and "good evening". sigh this is the second time you've said essentially, "racists say a lot of other th
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> Technically, almost every expression imaginable could be used by somebody who is racist. you seem to be having a hard time with this. Let me paraphrase something that, if you have an open mind, might help elucidate the issue. "I&#
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
so edgy. also, quite wrong. microsoft [1], amazon [2], not bay area companies. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/we-did-not-sign-devel... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22&#
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> Doubly wrong since race has nothing to do with it I can't see the gp comment, but from what you're quoting, I feel compelled to correct you. gp doesn't say that the people who use the term "illegals" are racist
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
it seems like your beef is with twitter generally, but gp (at least by my reading) was more complaining about the journalists that rely on it in this particular way, not the underlying platform. I agree that twitter is a cesspool and does n
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
gp wasn't talking about tweets being taken out of context. they were talking about reporters using an entire tweet from a random person to support a random theory.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
there's a 3 or 4 mile stretch of road in san francisco called the great highway that's like this ( https://www.google.com/maps/@37.750302,-122.5062241,14.64z ) It was one my little pleasures to drive along that
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> why doesn’t parent comment move? you'd probably get a better answer if you were to ask the person who made that comment.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> it seems like a lot of voters disagree with you. I don't know man, appealing to the authority of the collective wisdom of the voters seems like a pretty shaky foundation on which to base an argument these days.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
> What is it, in your eyes, that makes their job more worthy of tipping than any other job? I'll bite: they're bringing a bespoke something to my door, i'm in my pajamas when I collect it, and I'm consuming it inside
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
is brett glass of http://bikeshed.org fame still a wireless isp mucky muck?
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
you say that like it's a bad thing. trying to game user engagement/user retention numbers are what get you things like notification requests when you visit random websites (I'm looking at you, website for arbitrary midwest nb
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
you dream of google wave? I was at google when wave was released, I tried to use it for a number of collaborative projects (what would otherwise have been large email threads). it just didn't work.
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by V-eHGsd_ 7y ago
I mean, there's no need to look further than this incident (but you're certainly welcome to if you'd like). https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo... > Project Veritas has edited

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