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by annexrichmond 8y ago
> We use machine learning to evaluate content against our advertiser guidelines. Sometimes our systems get it wrong, which is why we’ve encouraged creators to appeal. Successful appeals ensure that our systems get better and better There
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The creator has been saying it will be released "soon" for years. Pretty sure it flopped.
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> Personally, I don't think Google should be obliged to promote all kind of crappy 2nd rate products out there 1. So you believe anticompetitive practices are okay when you "personally" don't like the competing produc
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TripAdvisor is also not happy: https://www.recode.net/2016/8/6/12393586/google-yelp-tripadv...
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Your comment reminds me of a classic scene from Fargo Season 1[1] Gangster 1: "There’s no library in this town. Why is there no library in this town?" Gangster 2: "Umm... cutbacks?" Gangster 1: "He thinks every town
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I already had a comment above about this but another thing I thought of that I don't see anyone discussing: What is the purpose of trying to fool the business owner into thinking it's a real person? It seems unethical, dishonest a
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The technology is really awesome but I'm not convinced it will fly: * How much time do people really save, the call in the example is less than a minute. Maybe if you need to call like 10 places it becomes more helpful, but as companie
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by annexrichmond 9y ago
and then some interviewers have the nerve to ask, "have you seen this question before?"
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glad you brought those up. Sexism can indeed happen anywhere. No one is saying it doesn't happen (I hope) However it's not conclusive whether sexism towards men or sexism towards women has made the ratios the way they are. Surely
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overrepresented given some pool. Do you have data that suggests said pool is 50%, instead of replying to all my comments and calling me sexist?
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75% of teachers are women; 84% of nurses are women; 82% of vets are women; 90% of landscapers are men; 88% of truckers are men; 88% of miners are men; 97% of loggers are men; 48% of newspaper publishers are women; 42% of pharmacists are wom
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Having trouble reconciling it with my reasoning though, which is: if some group of people are overrepresented in some category, it is less likely to be a coincidence; i.e., I doubt it's because the peop
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No, I'm just not one to declare inherent sexism if it's less than 50%
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> Women account for 50 percent of the company’s engineering leadership team Surely this isn't some coincidence. How does one achieve this without some degree of sexism?
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This is strange marketing as it almost sounds like the non-Plus listings aren't what people already expect to some degree from an airbnb. > With Airbnb Plus, you can always check in effortlessly. Every home is equipped with a lockbo
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Looks awesome, looking forward to trying it out. It's interesting that this was published the same time as the JupyterLab announcement. They seem to have similar goals, though at first glance it seems the biggest difference is that Dat
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What is Trump doing against blacks?
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> "James Damore was fired as an engineer after the manifesto, which [...] suggested women may be biologically inferior engineers" Nowhere in the essay suggests that at all.
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Anyone have much experience with gRPC? We are using Swagger/jsonschema for our REST APIs and it's quite the nightmare in terms of development cost. IMO, writing schemas in a self-describing "language" like JSON should be
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What basis do you have for that? When they bought Workflow they didn't kill it.
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Girls rule(s)(judithcurry.com)
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I disagree. He mentioned in an interview[1] that he was looking to be proven wrong which is what led him to share it with the Skeptics group at Google, which is when the document propagated. He had actually wrote the document weeks prior bu
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Can't say I appreciate the click bait headline but I do think this is a nice summary of the situation. It attempts to account for both sides as the author says: > Picture yourself in a hostile male-dominated environment, getting int
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> Huffman’s plan for the new funding includes a redesign of reddit.com — the company is literally re-writing all of its code, some of which is more than a decade old. An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview,
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Because Slack is really expensive. Perhaps they concluded that an in house solution would be cheaper for them long term.
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I think it is more correct (and less ambiguous) to have 'TheStreet: Facebook to launch news subscription product'
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> I found that Yelp's reviews very unreliable. followed by hearsay about your friends who told you about what a Yelp sales rep said. How is this an argument for Google's business practices?
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> but are forced to buy expensive plans with Yelp to have some measure of control over their public profile what evidence do you have to suggest that (a) business owners are forced to buy plans from Yelp (b) there's a strong correla
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> Google is doing what is best for it's customers except it has been shown that the organic search results rank Yelp listings higher than Google's Local listings thus they are, in fact, displaying worse results at the top. Unle