lrem

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   by lrem 5y ago

   I work in Google with many people strongly holding strong beliefs. Not sure where the line for "extremist" actually is, but I can easily imagine these people getting called by that. I can't say I've noticed a significant
2. 602.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   We all cheer for Max Schrems to teach these companies that misconstruing cookie banners as complying with EU regulations is a risky play.
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   by lrem 5y ago

   But giving the money back now would bankrupt the company, which no government would do. And since the people involved are powerful donors, no politician will even mention holding the people responsible.
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   by lrem 5y ago

   Google does not sell corp hardware. Even the commercially available hardware (e.g. laptops and workstations) can't be bought when decommissioned.
5. 605.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   Good point. That was not my intention. But my communication skills before caffeine digests are not where I would want them to be :/
6. 606.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   The real problem here is that France has achieved this by steadfastly defending its nuclear for generations. Remember how Chernobyl's radioactive clouds stopped and turned around at the French border? Keeping the momentum is not that h
7. 607.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   This review is obviously high effort. What's the incentive here? Is this what the community regularly does in Goodreads? Or are you somehow affiliated with the author and treat this as a favour?
8. 608.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   500MW peak delivery is not _that_ small. But it still puts the cost at planned 2 $/W, whereas solar apparently ranges between 0.82 and 1.2 $/W. It will require quite some political willpower to get this through.
9. 609.▲
   by lrem 5y ago

   Thanks for looking at the primary source!
10. 610.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    Non-zero is all you need in this case, isn't it? :)
11. 611.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    It has been edited away.
12. 612.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    The top comment used https://www.statista.com/statistics/370618/spotifys-cost-of-... as the source for the claim. Do you have anything else than "because I said no"?
13. 613.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    Brilliant idea: cut those costs 10x by moving the staff to Belarus. What can possibly go wrong?
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    by lrem 5y ago

    A PhD and being good at whiteboarding (I've started algorithmic challenges at around 10yo) got me a L3 job. Which levels.fyi values at a total of $190k, but in my location was actually around €100k. Anything above that, you have to sho
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    by lrem 5y ago

    For a second I thought that someone in Wikimedia is getting a 55M salary. But no, we're talking about one person earning 375k and a bunch of ~200k. The 55M is for the total ~450 employees. It's really far from outrageous. Sure, so
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    by lrem 5y ago

    Is the dystopian bit the part where the record labels don't get their 80% cut?
17. 617.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    Please try to follow the line of thinking your own questions suggest and stop the ad-hominem.
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    by lrem 5y ago

    What else should it be, when nobody tries to put ads relevant to`sed'[1]? Normally, Google would fall back to "put ads for whatever this person is into". But without personalisation, it falls back further to "put ads fo
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    by lrem 5y ago

    So, the complaint here is that Spotify, already paying 75% of its revenue in royalties, dared to set up a way to tip your money directly to the artist. Who, presumably, gets about 80% of the money you put in. Instead of adding that to the r
20. 620.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    > Is someone out there really thinking “ah man, if only advertisements were more relevant!” ??? There's a r/google I sometimes peek at. One common theme there is someone complaining about the ads they get, another one asking ab
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    by lrem 5y ago

    3 major options are discussed in https://youtu.be/yS1ibDImAYU Edit: that's an 8 minutes Kurzgesagt video.
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    by lrem 5y ago

    But a slot is 0.5mm overhead over just soldering a bare part!
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    by lrem 5y ago

    When will we know the cost of recycling batteries at scale?
24. 624.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    Source? That's not in line with my experience of the company.
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    by lrem 5y ago

    Doesn't it?
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    by lrem 5y ago

    Google is a somewhat large-ish player, right? It kind of loves the Internet as it originally existed. A cynic might say that's because it has the competetive advantage in monetising that. Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, my opinions are
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    by lrem 5y ago

    That reads as "we agreed to send some money", not "we agreed to delay ranking changes by 4 weeks". The latter is the interesting part, as it is incompatible with the reality of needing thousands of algorithm updates per
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    by lrem 5y ago

    Is that law in? Being a Googler I kind of can't imagine search working well under it. Would be an absolute spamfest.
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    by lrem 5y ago

    That's shaving half a hair, isn't it?
30. 630.▲
    by lrem 5y ago

    First mistake: you're trying to apply your usual reasoning to an area governed by emotions. Second mistake: you're glossing over the obvious. "Save to personal playlist" tracks you by keeping a list of things you told it