paperdropper

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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   Kind of ironic to invoke a dead language in criticizing this essay, given its content.
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   > She told them she wanted confidental information I understand this is only because upper management had chosen to anonymize their review of the paper, which is apparently quite unusual in Google.
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   > Maybe if the entire SRE department went on strike and stopped maintaining the datacenters that would put a dent in the numbers due to degraded service, but something like that would probably just doom the company entirely even if th
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   I think it's good to remind people how terrible the US is when it comes to worker rights. Many people don't realize just how bad they've got it over there.
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   I hope this does encourage more workers in this industry to unionize. It's unfortunate that people aren't sufficiently concerned that their employer holds a significant amount of power over them - or at least, not enough that they
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   The other curious thing is, behind the pink-boxed redactions are the names of four other Google employees. I'm wondering why they haven't been reprimanded in the same way. At least, not that we know of.
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   by paperdropper 6y ago

   A draft copy of the disputed paper was posted over in Reddit, if this is of interest to anyone: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t... https://gofile.io/d/Wf