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by maybebad 8y ago
I am enjoying all of the comments here. I was lucky enough to study traffic-as-density-waves in younger days, and I think the future will be very positive. For this particular argument, I think the common themes to solve are lack of infrast
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by maybebad 8y ago
You are so right. I am just frustrated that they reached global ubiquity and treated user data as a for-profit product rather than a for-good application. In the last 18 months, Google transitioned from being a 'build products people w
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by maybebad 8y ago
Google sells user data. They profit amassing data. AI is a nascent technology that Google will happily lead. But until AI is ready, Google will continue to happily sell data - your data, my data, anyone who touches the internet in fact.
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by maybebad 8y ago
Isn't Alphabet the clear "parent" of Google... I'm biased, but we are witnessing the beginning of a monopoly that wasn't imaginable pre-internet. Old rich white men are trembling in their shoes... The take-over game
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by maybebad 8y ago
I believe we are witnessing the result of a company offering not just a series of products but a whole lifestyle, and it is too hard for consumers to live without it. Best game plan you could ever imagine... Internet becomes connectivity, o
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by maybebad 8y ago
edit: full disclosure, ex-Googler. I am biased. Met a lot of people who look the other way until even the other way is salty. "I build Google Forms, I do not wrong" ... It is easy to believe you are doing good for the world when y
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by maybebad 8y ago
There is only uproar for war contracts... turns out "Do No Evil" isn't as important as "get a paycheck that allows you to live in the most expensive real estate in the known universe"
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Ask HN: Convincing Your Employer to Relocate
6 points by maybebad 8y ago|6 comments
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by maybebad 8y ago
Brilliant.
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by maybebad 8y ago
You make a great point. I hear this one a lot from those I admire deeply. Two counterpoints to discuss: 1. I am convinced that fraud and crime are directly related to exploitation, and are the result of decisions and actions of people in a
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by maybebad 8y ago
This is a throwaway account. Tl;dr You are only a "baddie" if you know that your occupational role is complacently illegal, harmful to the consumer, and you choose to not doing anything about it (to quit or report, for instance).