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by gretch 3y ago
disclosure: work at Google This makes sense if your genuine perspective is that you don't have a monopoly. Like if I sent a bunch of emails saying "Hey guys, we are making great progress on committing genocide" - people would
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> Google may indeed be a good, responsible steward of the data but what those that come after them? I don't think this is a good argument, because the same argument can be used against technological advancement of any kind. For exam
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> No. The most ad targeting that should ever exist is by geography, and that's it. This is an arbitrary moral line, and if you that's the one you want to draw for your own life, then fine. But it's also really dumb. Why sh
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by gretch 3y ago
> Just potentially counterproductive. It is definitely not counterproductive. Mountains of evidence and real $ back the fact that advertising works. You have a quirky pocket theory If you want to conduct an experiment, try making a produ
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by gretch 3y ago
I’m not a fan of rometty or ibm by any stretch, but maybe the correct perspective is that she did the least worst job possible (from the perspective of the share holders). What I mean is, I doubt that anyone alive could have turned the ship
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> In most rural and suburban USA towns, cars are the only thing that enables connection to others. I mean I suppose this is technically true. But as someone who was raised across a smatter of rural and sparse suburb and who now lives in&
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When it stays up, are you going to change your beliefs about how Google indexes? Just google "google courtlistener case" for dozens of examples of past cases that are still there.
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> Why does the 40 hour work week sound like hell to you? Home life bad? Some people want to work more because their job is tied to a mission that they value. Imagine if you worked at a homeless shelter helping people get back on their fe
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by gretch 3y ago
Themselves. Literally a stock buy back. If you don’t have to pay employees, then you use that money to buy back stock instead. Thus the stock price goes up due to the denominator being smaller.
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> I don’t know if you can use an argument about waiting times if most of your country can’t go at all due to the cost. This is a crazy comment. Man asked 2 simple follow up questions. Did not “use an argument”. Also, what do you presume
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by gretch 3y ago
Why does it have to be without immigration? GP didn't say that... Plenty of people want to come to the US btw, if you look at all the people coming over the southern border illegally. We just need programs to help those people do it le
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah these stories kinda read like socially engineered tales to confirm pre-conceived bias. When the alt-right tells these kinds of stories, it's usually like "Today I was persecuted for being a white christian ..." Same ener
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by gretch 3y ago
> I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you Do you have any basis for this assumption?
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by gretch 3y ago
disclosure: I am not a lawyer and I have not studied frameworks associated with NC state. I'm a guy who reads books You keep describing the "average person", but this is not the framework that most law uses when considering n
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by gretch 3y ago
Good for you op. Word of unsolicited advice: plan some activities that fill the void of your video game time. It can be anything like drawing, cooking, hiking or whatever. If you sit around on the couch hyper focused on not playing the game
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by gretch 3y ago
> By all accounts that was caused by the Ukraine invasion rather than the assassination. It's not either/or, it's both. The counter example is USA (I'm american). USA had such a "good guy" track record post
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They just accept the defaults even when it means more money comes out of their pocket? How is anyone supposed to design products when customers don’t consider their money to be scarce? And why do we not expect Amazon to not take advantage o
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by gretch 3y ago
I support the workers' decision and negotiating on labor rates is the basis of our economic system. Get what you deserve. That said, the CEO pay is easily explainable: > Profits at the struck auto companies increased 92% from 2013 t
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by gretch 3y ago
You're right about the math. I misread the spec But at the same time, I don't really yield my point. 2 hours - just plug it in at night and it's done in the morning. We routinely do things where we plug in a phone for 2 hours
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by gretch 3y ago
Because there's a human scale to things at the end of the day. It's why we will probably never need 16k resolution for phones - the human eye can only see so many pixels. iPhone 15 max storage configuration is 512 GB. So you can t
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by gretch 3y ago
> We already have beautiful mobile games, like Monument Valley. But that's not what the market is about. The very term "mobile game" reeks of low quality at this point. What exactly is it that you are after? It seems like
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by gretch 3y ago
This is a really short sighted and defeatist view on the potential of mobile gaming. Mobile gaming started before iPhones, and it will be around probably for the rest of human civilization. There is no way 1 generation of games can "ta
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by gretch 3y ago
The answer is as simple as “they wanted it”. You probably own something that someone else looks at and says “why would you buy that?”. A PlayStation , a mug with a cat on it, a bumper sticker about your political preferences. You can look a
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah the comparison doesn't make sense to me. # of people governed is about the same, but without the EU, each of the member states still has a full national government that does a lot of the legwork of administrating their country. US
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by gretch 3y ago
Certainly not after the vote. The is a violation of democracy. But it they didn't have to propose it. And they didn't have to advertise it. And it would be one thing if all sides earnestly believed the benefits - instead better me
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by gretch 3y ago
They aren’t on your side, but don’t make the mistake of thinking there’s 2 sides and 1 must be on your side. We’ve seen governments around the world not be on the people’s side many time (for UK specially, see brexit)
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by gretch 3y ago
> Why would I trust an advertisement to show me what is the best product vs doing my own research? There’s 2 forms of information reception: fulfillment and discovery. Fulfillment is when you know what you want and just need to find the
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by gretch 3y ago
They are making a principled decision: The principle is: follow the laws of the countries you operate in. You seem to be under the impression that Google should be the arbiter of true moral right and subvert what Governments have decided fo
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by gretch 3y ago
> allow the user to pick from them This is basically what happens now because it goes by what the government says and the government is representative of the people. You might be tempted to say oh but some governments are despotic and do
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by gretch 3y ago
What I see is a warmongering administration that wanted to go to war and was going to pick any reason to do so. Yes Google was the convenient excuse, but if Google didn’t do that, they would have found the next excuse. Let’s look at the Rus

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