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by marricks 6y ago
This is how must awful actions by powerful entities are justified. I say "Rich people get huge tax breaks, why??" you say "well that's how tax law works, why get angry?" I say "I'm a small business getting
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by marricks 6y ago
Not sure a paywalled article with just a subtitle is a great submission
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by marricks 6y ago
I think mistakes just happen and are possibly just as helpful as they are harmful to Google. If they find something they particularly hate or damaging they can just "oops" their way to the problem being gone. Take Firefox[1], each
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by marricks 6y ago
Yep that was the correct interpretation! CEO being reasonable.
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by marricks 6y ago
Pretty sure the main point was a private company can effectively delist you from the internet without any rhyme or reason. Most of us have heard Google horror stories when you use their products the fact you can be free of them and have a
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by marricks 6y ago
This is an extremely good point. So many small idealistic companies are bought out, with the "baggage" of a big loan anyone who did want to buy out Signal for profit would have to now pay 100 million dollars. If I had oodles of mo
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by marricks 6y ago
Did they really do this just as the election was being certified? No one outside of tech will be talking about this for a while...
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by marricks 6y ago
I don't think we actually disagree on a ton, my original comment was extremely vague on which "systems", I meant mainly western governments and mega corps. I don't think this unbalance is baked into humanity, I 100% agre
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by marricks 6y ago
That's one way to look at it, but I think the deeper truth is just systems are pretty much always controlled by the powerful and benefit only them. Any new rules will be enforced as such. The HN thread discussing blue state concealed c
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by marricks 6y ago
Does Google use slack? Wanted to start my year with some extra strength tinfoil and it'd just be great if the day a unionizing initiative started the major way workers could talk about said unionizing initiative went down. EDIT: accord
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by marricks 6y ago
Hilariously I just switched from Apple Music to Spotify and had the exact opposite experience! I wonder if recommendations get "stale" so you get bad ones, where as if you switch services you get recommendations based on different
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by marricks 6y ago
You're only thinking one level deep, what causes the laziness. My argument is US society actively encourages it on multiple levels starting from just the design of our cities.
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by marricks 6y ago
> And if people are so lazy that they drive around the parking lot instead of using the sidewalk, that reflects on them, not the sidewalk. I think this reflects a lot of comments, "American's are lazy" and "Look at th
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by marricks 6y ago
"Hey we made an awful system many people can't follow, let's keep them criminalized or more bad stuff could happen." No option is perfect, but it's layering unfairness on unfairness, ESPECIALLY considering that such
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by marricks 6y ago
Many US cities are designed to be downright hostile to pedestrians, California in particular. Some areas in Orange County have blocks before cross walks, or cross walks only on one side of the street so you had to make the right decision a
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by marricks 6y ago
He brought up language barrier and re-read Shakespeare in multiple languages! It's a piping hot and interesting opinion!
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by marricks 6y ago
Oh gosh I feel the exact opposite. Of the Tolstoy books I've read I don't think any of his characters are martyrs as one might expect "someone too good is" but you see examples of people thoughtfully trying to helping ot
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by marricks 6y ago
Huge aside but... if you like Tolstoy and Shakespeare reading Tolstoy's take down of Shakespeare is super interesting: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tolstoy_on_Shakespeare He specifically goes to town on King Lea
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by marricks 6y ago
I get what you're saying but "track record of journalistic work" is not as ambiguous as "rabbity". Unless they're being disingenuous one would reasonably expect that means published work or blog/social pos
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by marricks 6y ago
I mean, I think the worst part is the implicit loss of privacy baked into tying the accounts and the eventual data goldmine VR/AR will be for FB. I think you're complaint is valid and I'm sure you don't mean it this way
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by marricks 6y ago
His factory workers are? With all the workplace injuries? If you're just talking about his engineers then I think you have some serious issues.
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by marricks 6y ago
Eh, I’d say he’s a fine example. Musk may be trying to help the environment but he’s not going to save it, that’s for sure, and his future dream doesn’t involve treating his workers any better than he is now.
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by marricks 6y ago
I'd really think a bit more about it. We have so many problems here and none are solved by leaving. Climate change, wealth inequality, hungry, poor. None of the billionaires (Musk/Bezos) building rockets treat their workers terrib
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by marricks 6y ago
How is that relevant to this discussion of her getting dismissed? It's okay to unceremoniously let her go because she is outspoken on Twitter? That's the only way your comment would seem relevant to this discussion.
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by marricks 6y ago
Exactly, most new stories bringing up the July Twitter dispute as context for her current firing is extremely polarizing. The story could just be "well known Google ethics research quickly let go over paper dispute" but instead th
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by marricks 6y ago
I mean, Google spends billions on lobbying and PR, so if you heard anything new and bad about her in the past day or two you gotta wonder. Her job involves ethics, if you're not stirring the pot a bit you're probably not doing eth
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by marricks 6y ago
Google has essentially a monopoly on search and is part of a duopoly on mobile phones, so they have the money to treat their employees LAVISHLY compared to others. Perhaps Maslow's hierarchy of human needs is right, and the employees a
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by marricks 6y ago
They make a lot of sense, “employees have more control if they act together”, so I imagine they’re rightly scared of them catching on.
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by marricks 6y ago
It very well may be over hyped but with the breakdown of Dennard scaling[1] the gains we've seen in CPUs has been pretty minor generation to generation. I think that could also be the reason it is getting so hyped, it is a tangible imp
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by marricks 6y ago
I just flipped them, reading the wiki on the terms I see I had them backwards. My partner always corrects me and I think they have them wrong :P at least we agree on which one is better too

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