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by gerash 5y ago
There are so many armchair activists here who say this company should do this and that and ignore a local law. I wonder if they'd say the same if they were the ones who would be fined/prisoned for breaking those laws. The fix is t
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by gerash 5y ago
I understand that you like to think this issue is somehow restricted to Google or FB but the exact same thing has happened to someone who sent their iPhone to Apple. So slow down: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7&
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by gerash 5y ago
Off topic but are expat and immigrant the same concept?
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by gerash 5y ago
I'd suggest those who haven't watched at least the closing arguments from both sides (4 hrs of video in total) to watch it first. There's no point in sounding like legal experts or arguing over semantics for the sake of defen
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by gerash 5y ago
Idk but I wouldn't be surprised. Yet if a Livestream of people celebrating Limbaugh's death was also flagged/ brought down I wouldn't be outraged either.
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by gerash 5y ago
That proves his point that pointing a rifle at someone makes them mad
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by gerash 5y ago
I watched some of the cross examination as well as closing arguments by both sides. I'm by no means a legal expert so can't get into the weeds on all these legal arguments but my common sense says there needs to be at least a co
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by gerash 5y ago
I can't agree more. Politicians have all the incentives to keep churning out new regulations whereas even the best sets of regulations become obsolete after some time in a fast moving industry. Yet there's no garbage collection me
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by gerash 5y ago
All conspiracy theories ascribe some super natural competence to some three letter agencies when it comes to shaping and predicting the far future whereas with the Afghanistan fiasco we did see that sometimes government folks have no idea w
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by gerash 5y ago
I tried an app on Oculus Quest where you'd simply park a car in a parking spot. The graphics weren't great but it was immersive. The part that made me slightly dizzy was lack of proprioception during turns. I suspect some brain im
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by gerash 5y ago
US politics is bizarre. When Ben and Jerry's ice creams decided they wanted to close shop in some disputed territories in Israel many states (mostly Republican run) punished the parent company immediately to make an example of them and
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by gerash 5y ago
There are a lot of allegations here and I'd like to know which ones turn out to be true. That said, I'd also like to understand the motivation behind the fact that only red states AGs are in the plaintiffs. I rarely associate red
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by gerash 5y ago
I'm not privy to the full details so idk but I provided my perspective based on what I'd witnessed which makes me believe she was fired/forced resigned because of how she approached issues at work (giving ultimatums / lo
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by gerash 5y ago
I don't think so. The law can simply ban it but they know it'll break things. So they opt for the most annoying alternative. This reminds me of California prop 65 which is as useless if not more than the cookie law. You see it at
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by gerash 5y ago
A good law IMO is: provide quantifiable anonymity metrics and post it visibly on your website somewhere (like nutrition labels). For example your likelihood of being personally identified is 14%). This obviously needs a body of research to
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by gerash 5y ago
First of all it's still there if you haven't checked for yourself: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ Second, if you were wearing "I'm a good guy" badge on your sh
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by gerash 5y ago
The perf process sounds good on paper. It's just like peer reviews in the academia they said. However its outcome in practice can't be any worse. To this day, people "cook up" a project that doesn't need to exist an
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by gerash 5y ago
Exactly, perhaps people read too many comic book with these one dimensional villains to think that an employee asked Google to be more ethical and then they fired them right there and you could hear an evil laugh in the background. I'v
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by gerash 5y ago
WSJ takes ten times as much the subscription fees as their rivals
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by gerash 5y ago
Let's start by voting for politicians who value US interests over their own lobbyist's
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by gerash 5y ago
It used to be against UX guidelines in Android but if the app startup cannot be any faster I don't mind a splash screen. Basically anything that indicates the phone has not frozen up even if it ends up taking a quarter second longer. W
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by gerash 5y ago
It's such twisted economics for somebody to make a video, a platform to distribute it and an adblocker company to reap the benefits through its subscription fees. I'd argue the same folks are ok with looting Neiman Marcus stores d
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by gerash 5y ago
wait, why do you think you're entitled to watch YT and neither pay a penny nor be shown an advertisement? Because "the system is rigged bruh"?
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by gerash 5y ago
In the Google case, it wasn't using the dev license to develop apps for the general public or "end-users". Basically iOS is a very popular yet closed hardware and software platform and if others want to run anything on them i
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by gerash 5y ago
I'm with you that admissions should be merit based. But I suspect it's already difficult to go through the immigration system. The legal system isn't a firehose. That said, thinking the immigrants are responsible for an uptic
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N.J. To Pull $182M Out of Unilever over Ben and Jerry’s and Israel(nytimes.com)
2 points by gerash 5y ago|1 comments
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by gerash 5y ago
If you have an organization that can legally hire people, pay them a stable salary and legally sell exploits to all sorts of people around the world you end up with NSO. NSA finds exploits for their own mission and Google Project Zero resea
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Apple Product Marketing in Ted Lasso(youtube.com)
5 points by gerash 5y ago|0 comments
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by gerash 5y ago
She's effectively policing everyone (her coworkers can't lookup the specs of a rifle, the company should stop using some common business terms because they're offensive, etc.) Yet when it comes to her listening to someone els
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by gerash 5y ago
It must be miserable being this person's manager or employer

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