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by rifung 8y ago
I imagine most people want their bookmarks/history/extensions/settings synced..
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I work at Google; opinions are my own. > I don't understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if
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by rifung 8y ago
I mean I'm a "techie" and I think I understand. I still don't care..
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by rifung 8y ago
Probably a dumb question but if you need all servers to talk to each other to achieve consensus, how do you deal with network latency? Do people just keep data in separate zones so they aren't globally replicated?
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Yes but many if not most people work at certain hours and don't have the flexibility to change those hours. So people can't necessarily just go outside when it's sunny.
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We definitely have systems in place so that employees can not just randomly look at customer data, and when it is necessary it is always logged. Even if we need to debug customer issues we would need a good reason to look at data over just
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by rifung 8y ago
I've had this happen to me many times before. My assumption was always that they can see that you looked for running shoes but not that you bought them.
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I imagine if you asked most people who the CEO of Alphabet is, they'd ask "What's Alphabet?"
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> no one actually works there because the work is interesting or because they have any belief the company is going to change the world for the better. At any company with 50,000+ employees most generalizations will be wrong. I find my wo
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> For example, Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a professor at Stanford and the Chief Scientist at Google. The professorship is orders of magnitude more prestigious than the Google thing. By what measure? She was the chief scientist of which there is o
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by rifung 8y ago
> - exploding drug addiction and related mental health issues Unless there's another reason we would expect mental health issues to increase I don't see why this would lead to more homelessness. I also talked to one of the peop
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I recently moved away from Seattle but that seems correct to me. I don't think the problem is REALLY Amazon's fault per se, since they are just paying people more than other companies in the area which I think most people would ag
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> What's up with the critical comments in here? How many of the judgemental and jaded posters here donated anything close to this to a charitable cause? I mean it's much easier to donate to charitable causes when you have more
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Yes and presumably other companies should also pay them more but I suppose the blame is more focused on Amazon/Bezos because he is the richest person in the world and this article is about him.
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> Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated. I like to think I understand the sent
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> Google seems to really want me to use Duo, for example, but nobody I know is eager to use it and I won't talk my friends into using it if it's not clear that it's here to stay. Not to dismiss the rest of your point which
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I believe the way laws generally deal with this is to only allow subsidies when the price is under some cap. Sadly we (or the US) don't do this for education it would seem
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I apologize if this is insensitive in some way but I genuinely am hoping to understand and learn. Why is allowing families to buy a home they otherwise can not afford a positive thing? If a family can not afford a house then they can choose
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I think senior engineers are probably the hardest to hire for and also the most important, and they usually have families and a house so I suspect it's not as easy for them to relocate. At least that's my impression given how many
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It's not logical though. The system being broken doesn't mean every single part of the system doesn't work, it merely means the system as a whole is broken.
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I am skeptical deploying a non trivial project to production without bugs is a viable strategy, even for safety critical projects. I imagine the bugs are just much less severe. It is not even easy to tell whether a piece of software has no
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> But by expanding the diagnostic process, these scans would also open up a huge new market for the psychiatric treatment of non-clinical cases But is that a bad thing? You are free to ignore their treatment suggestions just like with do
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I didn't interpret it that way at all. Considering the health issues caused by loneliness, it makes sense to me that doctors would want to do something about it, and what can they do but provide medical solutions?
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Isn't that computer science/software industry in general? Everyone builds upon other people's work.
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> Meanwhile your peers are well established in their careers, have families, making 2-3x as much as you. People pay money to do what they enjoy all the time. People take classes, eat at fancy restaurants, go on vacations, etc. This is ju
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> Any benefits to the build-in-container approach that are compelling? The build in container approach makes it so that in theory you have reproducible builds too from any Docker supported machine. I personally like this approach because
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Why do you say that? My initial reaction is that it should be the opposite: people who are enthusiasts would want to learn something new because they enjoy using and learning technology, whereas a "workdrone" would focus on being
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I don't think you'll get a pay raise for it but not having it might prevent you from getting jobs. I've definitely been asked why I didn't go to/finish my Bachelor's in many interviews. Who knows how many jobs
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> So put them on the road. Let's give it a try. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't and people die and they sue. That's been part of driving since day one. Roll the dice. I'm sick of the endless debates. Well I'd ce
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> Any gamers or graphics experts here? > And what's problem then with Intel's integrated graphics? I play video games. The problem with Intel's integrated graphics is simple: they have historically not been powerful eno

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