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by polishTar 9y ago
Better link: https://blog.google/topics/causes-community/opportunity-for-...
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by polishTar 9y ago
I can do you one better because I made 200x ROI investing in the roulette wheel in just a single day. Some people told me that I'm confusing good investment decisions with high volatility ones, but what do they know? They're just
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by polishTar 9y ago
>400 hrs of content are uploaded every minute. You’re exactly correct that an algorithmic first pass is the only thing that’s feasible. It’s important to mention that creators can appeal monitization decisions to a human reviewer for vid
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by polishTar 9y ago
People like different things. There are definitely some things on YouTube that are objectively low quality, but I think the genres/channels you're describing are just things that people other than yourself enjoy. The demographics
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by polishTar 9y ago
I think describing it as a bias towards maximizing aggregate watch time is more accurate than a bias towards "long form" content. It's definitely a balance. If a creator only pumps out high amounts of low quality content, the
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by polishTar 9y ago
The response from new america seems to indicate there's more to this story: https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-am...
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by polishTar 9y ago
The crazy thing is that in product search (which is what the lawsuit was all about), they're even larger than Google.
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by polishTar 9y ago
Yea, this is nonsense. YouTube was founded in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006. It was bought because the brand was better than "Google Video" at the time and that's pretty much it. Just about everything else about its suc
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by polishTar 9y ago
Not exactly true. Life expectancy hasn't slipped, although admittedly it hasn't been increasing very fast in the last couple of years (up only 1 year over the last decade). http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators&#x
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by polishTar 9y ago
Energy might be conserved, but wealth is not. Life is not a zero sum game. Society is vastly more wealthy than we've ever been before. Access to education, medicine, information, transportation, entertainment are at all time highs. Lif
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by polishTar 9y ago
$3.9B is only their profit for the quarter . Over the last year, they've reported a little over $13.1B in profit (>$600k per headcount).
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by polishTar 9y ago
This is not true, and employees are explicitly told that this is not true. There is an internal process to have google release any copyright they may hold on any project you produce on your own time without using corp resources. All it requ
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by polishTar 9y ago
You can't downvote posts
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by polishTar 9y ago
Horrrrible advice. Wow
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by polishTar 9y ago
> Corporations do interesting work, but they're sooooo resistant to change, it seems like their inventions always die on the vine. Some do, others have been able to remain relevant for a very long time. Thankfully we have a societal
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by polishTar 9y ago
Firing 2 or 3 people might be symbolic. Firing >20 isn't.
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by polishTar 9y ago
Google already made Chromium completely open source. Anybody's free to fork it and move it in any direction they want. As for Chrome, it's likely worth many 10's of billions of dollars. It would be absolutely indefensible to
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by polishTar 9y ago
You shouldn't favor one over the other. If it really was the case that high risk startups were being systemically under valued such that an investment into YCombinator companies lead to greater returns than other investments, other mar
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by polishTar 9y ago
Not for much longer! Apparently this iteration of AlphaGo is using 10x less computational power than the version that beat Lee Sedol.
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by polishTar 9y ago
Would this not be solved by TensorFlow XLA? https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/xla/
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by polishTar 9y ago
Just as a FYI, Bing is a really large supporter of the AMP project. “We started experimenting with AMP in our Bing App last May and have noticed that AMP pages load, on average, approximately 80% faster than non-AMP pages” says Marcelo De B
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by polishTar 9y ago
No. You're just making things up. Law enforcement must have a valid and legal warrant to access Google voice logs.
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by polishTar 9y ago
That's a really silly way of doing it then. Besides, "do the right thing" is more restrictive than just "don't be evil"
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by polishTar 10y ago
Ha, wow! Guess any parent who doesn't let their kids have absolute freedom is a fascist now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by polishTar 10y ago
It's likely for any trade secrets to be filed under-seal. Probably won't change anything.
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by polishTar 10y ago
Do we though? What if the current system is the least bad option out of a set of much worse alternatives?
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by polishTar 10y ago
I'd also argue that "sufficient demand" is a threshold that's been rising very fast over the last couple of years and likely to continue doing so. This also explains why older tech companies disproportionately use their
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by polishTar 10y ago
Google employees own >50% of voting rights of the company stock. They aren't subject to external interests in the same way most other public companies are. On a tangent, why shouldn't we celebrate projects that benefit both pri
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by polishTar 10y ago
No. Just coincidental timing. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11... Gmail doesn't use cloudflare.
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by polishTar 10y ago
Not quite. CloudFlare is available to users of Google Cloud, but Google services don't use CloudFlare. The only exception I could imagine would be some service that was brought in as part of an acquisition but has not yet been migrated

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