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by kyrra 6y ago
The US is the same way, most reporters are democrats. See: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bub... https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_jo
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by kyrra 6y ago
> The reactor measures 65 feet tall x 9 feet in diameter. It sits within a containment vessel measuring 76 feet tall x 15 feet in diameter. Per: https://www.nuscalepower.com/technology/technology-overview
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by kyrra 6y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. Open sourcing anything at Google tends to be rather difficult because much of the technology we build is built on other technology that has not been released. It tends to take a great amount of effort to open s
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by kyrra 6y ago
There was discussion about this 6 months ago, such as this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412475
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by kyrra 6y ago
Another big bit is tax deductions. I believe when the employer provides healthcare, the amount they pay and the employee pays is 100% pre-tax. If you pay for medical insurance yourself, it starts getting complicated[0]. They honestly just
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by kyrra 6y ago
WSJ did a good story on this back in January: News version: https://www.wsj.com/articles/antibiotic-makers-find-rewards-... Free podcast: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-broken-bu
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by kyrra 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Found this which gave more context. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-01/google-facebook-make-...
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by kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinion is my own) My understanding is that Google is locally incorporated in australia, as you can see on this page[0], at least for Ads, likely other businesses. If you select Australia on there you will see Ads payments are mad
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by kyrra 6y ago
For those that haven't been following this, CloudKitchens[0] is a still somewhat stealth "startup". It was started by Travis Kalanick (of Uber fame) and he has been doing a fairly good job keeping it hidden[1]. [0] https:&#
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by kyrra 6y ago
They are likely aware of it, as spf13 works on golang at Google. :)
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He's written a lot of books, and I'd say these are some that dive into this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36222735-discrimination-... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show
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by kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) I honestly like bradfitz's youtube video the best to show the Nest Protect (the smoke alarm) issues[0]. They have since fixed these issues, as this was the gen one protect. For your #2 (no insider knowled
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by kyrra 6y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified my point a bit on multiple entrances. I have my keypad near one door, but the other doors are on the opposite side of the house. So my kids may open another door and start the alarm countdown going, won&#x27
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by kyrra 6y ago
(Googler, opinions are my own) I wonder what this says for the Google/Nest Security product future. The existing Nest Secure[0] is a well designed product, but also rather limiting (only one base unit, which is frustrating for houses
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by kyrra 6y ago
I've been reading r/neutralpolitics for a while now, and it definitely is less left than r/politics, but conservative points are still buried in the comments. For any post talking about Trump or anything related to him, you h
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by kyrra 6y ago
(Googler, opinion is my own) I think one big thing that differs between the Nexus line and the Pixel line of phones is who was actually supporting the phone after its sale. The Nexus phones were these shared branding between Google and the
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by kyrra 6y ago
(Googler, opinions are my own). I'm also a WSJ subscriber, and saw this notification from WSJ before I checked my email this morning. I think there are 2 important things to take from this for those that didn't/can't r
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by kyrra 6y ago
I got some Bose 700 this past week. There is still a button on these to adjust noise cancelation.
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by kyrra 6y ago
(Googler, opinion is my own). Technically, no. He's head of Commerce, which is different than payments (I'm in payments). You can see from that page, they do things like shopping listings, and the experience around it. Payments
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by kyrra 6y ago
How many people have you met that were homeschooled but you just didn't know it? Hard to really quantify something unless you ask the question of every person you've met.
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WSJ has been writing about this a while during COVID[0]. Their take seems to be that people don't want to move, so they aren't putting their houses up for sale. This means decreased supply of existing houses. So reduced supply p
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by kyrra 6y ago
See: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des... > Why not use F«T»? > We considered it but we couldn't bring ourselves to require non-ASCII.
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by kyrra 6y ago
Parser lookahead... They even say that it is possible, but it makes producing useful error messages harder and makes the parser more complicated. they are not saying it is not possible, they are just saying it's not preferred to do.
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TIL, thanks!
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Google doesn't use MarkMonitor as far as I know.
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by kyrra 6y ago
RTP is definitely a step in the right direction. It's coverage is s around 50%, which is good. I'm hoping FedNOW pushes is the rest of the way. The clearing house is also owned by many of the large banks in the US. While this see
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(Googler, opinions are my own) It really depends on the types of products and what the consumer experience is like. Google is an interesting beast in that we provide services across a wide variety of billing models. You have immediate prod
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by kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinion my own) Just go give 2 ways of doing money storage in ints from Google's APIs... For Google's Standard Payments APIs, we use micros: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/v1/fo
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by kyrra 6y ago
I'd be interested to see these same benchmarks with the Go LLVM frontend. https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
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by kyrra 6y ago
EY did catch them eventually. I'm guessing the courts will be doing a review of the audits that EY did over the years. It's likely a matter of how deceptive Wirecard was to their auditors.

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