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I don’t think that’s accurate - I remember being in Delhi circa 2010 and dinners at the nice hotels coming to something close to this amount, albeit with (not outrageous) wine. I actually went and pulled up the menu for one of the restauran
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I will say that there are verticals where "x for y" group do very well - media and content and dating apps come to mind as one. It seems to work better where there's an aspect of cultural or group identity that comes along w
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Or, when a woman gets a flu shot and then has a miscarriage, she doesn’t assume it was because of the flu shot, because she’s had a flu shot many times before. It seems like you’re being deliberately obtuse here.
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With regards to the VAERS data, it’s simply a matter of numbers. 140m people vaccinated, almost all of them older than 18, and all of them in a short time period. A disproportionate percentage of whom are elderly, by the way. Some of the
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I think you can read the statement through a charitable or uncharitable lens - the uncharitable way is "throw 30 engineers at a problem and it'll get faster" However, in the context of the other comments the GP made, I interp
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Obviously everyone is free to read and interpret something however they wish. But to your point: > I see someone who was genuinely baffled at the thought that there are good people of a particular ethnicity, when he was brainwashed comp
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So, I'll start off by saying - I work at google, in cloud, but not for this person, I don't know anything about him, and this is my own opinion. I think if someone had asked him at an all hands for his position on the israel pales
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Oh, sure, I think the problems in these kinds of discussions is that each reader has their own mental picture of the type of content that is being described, which colors the discussion. I think the wuhan lab leak hypothesis is a good exam
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I'm not 100% sure I understand your point, but I take it to mean that you're saying that Facebook's role is just an excuse to ban content I (or some groups) don't like? If there was a true marketplace of ideas, everyone
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The noxious branches have mutated into kudzu- invasive, ever-spreading, and damaging to the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits. Madison's analogy imagines a world that was true up until 20-some years ago, where most people beli
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I don't think most people have issues with non-mainstream positions or interest groups, or at least to the degree of their being banned. What's at stake here is Facebook's role in amplifying content that is at best misleadin
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Are there cities that are burned to the ground? I live in one of the major BLM protest cities and nothing is smoldering wreckage.
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Terrible that this guy has to go through this - there's a lot of terrible city agencies, and I've heard general horror stories about the DCA for years. That being said, at this point throwing your hands up and saying "I don&#
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There’s actually no such thing as a paid gmail account separate from a g suite account- there is only gmail.com (consumer) and @domain (paid g suite/workspace). But it may be possible that you or someone else created a Google account
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There a place near me that makes micheladas (beer, Worcestershire, lime, hot sauce), with an added splash of tomato juice. My wife has fallen in love with them and it’s her regular around the house adult beverage .
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As the other respondent said, that's not my generalized experience at Google. I am aware of one situation where I heard that someone who was planning to go up for promo was recreating important documents with only their name on it and
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Brokers taking money from renters is ridiculous and should be done away with. Landlords hiring brokers to deal with vetting and showing an apartment and all those logistics seems pretty reasonable and up to the landlord if they feel it’s w
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Absolutely true, but I would say that MUDs and IRC and Usenet are the definition of pre-Internet boom culture. It was a big deal when my parents were able to get online and use a browser to engage with other people. My dad could have been
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It's interesting, I wonder if the internet would have been successful at all without something to monetize? Yeah, e-commerce probably would have been doable, but it would have been like the dotcom era - generic domain names running ad
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As I recall, the issue was that it turned out that a lot of underage and non-consenting people were in videos on pornhub, and then MasterCard/visa said they would pull their support unless they fixed it.
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But surely, the hundreds of thousands of dead in the US alone, millions worldwide, would suggest that while for many people it is a really really bad cold, for others it is far worse than the flu?
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Myself and a few friends all got really sick in late february, early March - in my case it was when they were only giving covid tests to people who were hospitalized, so there was nothing to do but hunker down and wait. We all assumed it wa
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I know this! It depends on the antibody test - if you can get a test for the nucleocapsid antibodies, that will determine whether you had the disease or not. People who are vaccinated will test positive for the spike protein, but will not
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I'm trying to think of how one could do this in a way that wasn't even more intrusive? This way Google doesn't have to tie any identifying information about you to your SSID/AP, it can just silently discard the location
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Starting from an @gmail.com account? We've always required you to have an accompanying domain for workspace accounts, as far as I know.
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(disclosure: googler on workspace here) This was/is a domain account, right? @yourdomain.com? You upgraded from the free "google apps for your domain" account to a paid workspace account, and now you can't downgrade?
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I would say that the difference between your example and these reputation managers is that they are often themselves directly responsible for the problems they create: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04&#x
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Obviously we don't know why Stripe rescinded the offer - staffing changes, reorganization, miscommunication, could be lots of things. I think it's reasonable that companies should be able to do this, but I think they should feel
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The challenge studies they’re doing involve infecting people with measure doses of the virus. An infected person may or may not be shedding at that particular moment. Once they’ve established the MED to infect someone, they could potentia
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Disclosure: I work at google and was vaguely involved in one tiny sliver of this. Some of the .new urls are more useful than others, imo. I think the GitHub example feels thin to me, as creating a repo is a relatively infrequent action. Bu

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