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by kyrra 6y ago
I think you are over-estimating what an auditor is expected to do. Auditor's, to me, seem to be there to make sure you're compliant with the law or regulation that they are auditing for. In these audits, the company gathers and
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by kyrra 6y ago
My understanding is that DACA originally was entirely created out of an executive order, ie: there is no legislation backing it. The main argument I've seen is that it was created out of the executive, so any future executive should b
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by kyrra 6y ago
But any given provider won't have a 2 Tbps uplink out of their own network. It would likely have to be highly distributed across many providers. ISP's don't build their networks to support all customers running at max at th
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by kyrra 6y ago
There are actually tons of Chrome experiments that never launch 100% and have their flag removed. They are experiments for a reason. This lets the Chrome team iterate on things and try it out.
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by kyrra 6y ago
It's called compelled speech, which the first amendment says is illegal. (Yes yes, the first amendment is entirely about the government and speech, but it's somewhat of an American belief to then try to apply first amendment prote
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by kyrra 6y ago
There are state dependent laws. California for example: https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/political-retaliation.h... Some high level laws by state: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article
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by kyrra 6y ago
(I'm a Googler, opinions are my own. I also have zero desire to directly comment on the original article). My understanding from the original antitrust case against Microsoft is that it DRASTICALLY impacted the internal culture at Mic
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by kyrra 6y ago
What is the objective reason they should be protesting?
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by kyrra 6y ago
> Featherweight Go is restricted to a tiny subset of Go. We plan a model of other important features such as assignments, arrays, slices, and packages, which we will dub Bantamweight Go; and a model of Go’s innovative concurrency mechan
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by kyrra 6y ago
Probably depends on what you think of the intentions of the person. Some people think Trump is the devil and assume he means the worst-case thing when he says something, others look at it in other lights. Previous US presidents were careful
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by kyrra 6y ago
WSJ Editorial Board's take on this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-plays-into-trumps-hands... One key quote: > On California, Twitter is right that Mr. Trump is wrong. But on voter fraud, it’s complicated
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by kyrra 6y ago
Related: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officially-declares-that-ho... "U.S. Officially Declares That Hong Kong Is No Longer Autonomous WASHINGTON—The State Department has officially determined that Hong Kong is
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Working from Home and the Office(blog.google)
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by kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinions are my own). Looks like the appeal was accepted[0]. As well, Google's SVP of Android/Chrome/ChromeOS/PlayStore apologized to the Podcast Addict team[1]. [0] https://twitter.com/Podcast
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by kyrra 6y ago
That post was from when v1.2.0 came out, they are getting close to 1.4.0 (on RC2 right now). Nothing too big has been added, but there have been improvements across the library for all the languages they support. You can peak at the relea
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by kyrra 6y ago
Guesses: away from fault lines? Dry climate? They get some nasty rains that flood things, but better than tornados, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
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by kyrra 6y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) Google interestingly also still contributes to mercurial[0], but I don't think has said why externally officially. But yes, my understanding is that mercurial is much easier to replace parts of the flow w
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by kyrra 6y ago
Seems like they can be separated systems. For example, Google's Bazel supports build caches. https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/remote-caching.html
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by kyrra 6y ago
This post can likely can be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116571
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by kyrra 6y ago
Another citation: https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/09a01665-5f33-4007-8e... (warning, PDF) > We also operate research and development centers in China, employing more than 700 employees as of January 31, 2020.
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by kyrra 6y ago
FYI, Mark Esper (U.S. secretary of defense) has a commentary piece in today's edition of the WSJ about this, titled: "The FCC’s Decision Puts GPS at Risk" https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fccs-decision-pu
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by kyrra 7y ago
I did find some complaints back to last year, but there were lots of "issues". Why is raising prices bad. How does that warrant preventing this sale? It's not like .org lives in a bubble. There are many other TLDs that they h
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by kyrra 7y ago
As someone who hasn't read much on this, why is selling the .org registry to a for profit company bad? My understanding is that .com and others are held by for profit companies. What other issues were there?
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by kyrra 7y ago
My take on the "systems programming" comment Rob made, it wasn't meant as "kernel" level systems programming, but more server-side systems. When he started working on Go, it was done out of his annoyance with C++ o
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by kyrra 7y ago
(Googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on any of these products) Hangouts was born out of Google+, and that merged with gchat. They rebooted it's UI a few times through all of this. Over the years they put more and more fe
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by kyrra 7y ago
Walmart was pushing its vendors (3 years ago) to not host on AWS. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/wal-mart-is-reportedly-telli...
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by kyrra 7y ago
To come back to one other point. Why Google payments uses PGP: because all other payment companies in the world do too. We work with many different companies, and when dealing with files, they all figured out how to use PGP 20+ years ago an
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by kyrra 7y ago
Google chat = Google Hangouts Chat. They rebranded it 10 days ago. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hango... It is effectively a slack or teams competitor. Classic Hangouts is/
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by kyrra 7y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. My understanding is Google has said externally that they plan on killing the classic Hangouts product. So that means Google chat and Google Meet would be available in consumer space for people with @gmail.com a
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by kyrra 7y ago
As a googler (opinions are my own) in payments that gets to see that side of things, I'd disagree with you. To be able to do the Irish haven, Google is and was abiding by all laws in doing it. Google was doing what all the lawmakers of

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