billjings

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by billjings 4mo ago
It is, in the sense that companies like Meta operate assuming that 230 gives them carte blanche to act as they please. But: "Plaintiffs characterize Meta’s duty as one of product design—that Meta should not have built Facebook in a way
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by billjings 1y ago
Frankly, when you look around and everyone around you is focused first and foremost on getting rich, that's a good indication that the rich veins have already been mined. Wealth is built on creating something of value. There is gamesma
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by billjings 2y ago
Facebook did exactly this with a VPN acquisition. They didn't break into customer data; they just mined it for usage patterns. So as a pure speculation on Goog's motives, it doesn't sound farfetched enough to call ridiculous.
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by billjings 2y ago
Target as in, target for recruitment into the group. The targets for their victims seem chosen...as retaliation to defend their understanding of their own interests.
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by billjings 2y ago
They also are the largest employer of doctors in the United States. They've essentially constructed their own single-payer health care provider, but instead of being paid for by tax dollars it's a publicly traded company whose pri
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by billjings 2y ago
The real philosophy is in the budget.
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by billjings 2y ago
As described, it is a fair ways away from what RealPage is doing. Specifically: * RealPage sells raising rents, not just market info. * RealPage pressures clients into taking their higher rents. * RealPage also pressure clients to refuse to
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by billjings 2y ago
> I'm confused about why we're comparing GOTO control flow with channels, since they're completely unrelated. I guess you can make a mess with each when you use them inappropriately? With GOTO, you should avoid it because
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by billjings 2y ago
I have a good friend who's a Lyft driver. According to him, all drivers are rated on cleanliness by passengers; if you're dinged for a weird smell, there are lasting financial consequences (even if it was for reasons outside of yo
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by billjings 2y ago
> I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. For folks who aren't familiar with FB, maxrmk is absolutely right. But some more color would probably help: When one of the privacy
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by billjings 2y ago
But circular references don't leak in Java. You have to have a GC root (e.g. a static, or something in your runtime) somewhere pointing at the thing to actually leak it. There is one case where a "circular" reference can appe
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by billjings 2y ago
They're designed so that, if necessary, they can be operated by a single employee. That's why they're so tightly cramped around the grill: so that someone can cook and still keep an eye on a table. This is also what makes it
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by billjings 3y ago
Chet is going to be missed a lot in our community. His talks with Romain Guy were inspirational to me: whenever I saw them it was clear that they could each hold the stage on their own, but that having the both of them got more out of both
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by billjings 3y ago
It's a low traffic 4 way stop sign intersection. Low speed, probably a 25mph speed limit? If you're cycling, this kind of intersection is only dangerous if you fail to yield/stop appropriately to auto traffic. Which seems lik
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by billjings 3y ago
Of course they are different things. But the choice to define "range" as the highest possible number is misleading: people ask the range so that they can know how many stops are required at a highway speed trip. Using surface stre
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by billjings 3y ago
This is a really off base characterization of Android within Google. Chet Haase wrote a book on those years, and while it is clear that Google gave them rocket fuel to meet their ambitions, their company culture was wildly different from th
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by billjings 3y ago
> Google will pay their lawyers a similar amount and the FTC is likely to lose again bc their case is weak! I cannot claim to the same prior knowledge as you, but I can read a news article as well as the next person. I am not sure how yo
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by billjings 3y ago
I am so sorry, I have to flag this because seriously, but also Amazing joke, I lol'd, fantastic work sir
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by billjings 3y ago
Oh, wow. In other words, this number actually means, "We do almost no non-automated detection of hate speech." Smart spin, huh...
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by billjings 3y ago
This discussion is partly about how Google alters search results to increase revenue. It would stand to reason that they might also improve their stock price and search revenue by doing this, while also degrading search quality. As for why
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by billjings 3y ago
An obvious choice would be AWS. AWS operates fairly independently of the rest of the company, and its huge profits subsidize the retail wing.
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by billjings 3y ago
You have a hard time sympathizing? Say what you will about their means of getting it, but this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists without them. And Amazon gets the MAJORITY of the revenue cut
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by billjings 3y ago
> In other words, the current law is wrong, and it should be this other way instead. The "current framework in antitrust policy" was not legal at all. It was a set of interpretations and standards agreed upon by judges and enfo
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by billjings 3y ago
> What people are forgetting here is McDonald's has an interest in these machines working as well as possible (revenue + reputation), and the franchisee also has an interest in these machines working as well as possible (revenue). T
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by billjings 3y ago
Wow: > The plan instead is to generate revenue from a growing array of fintech products that it sells to the businesses it buys. If these products were any good, couldn't they make money with them on the open market? The only thing
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by billjings 3y ago
Could you share some links of these newspaper articles and specialty websites?
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by billjings 3y ago
Is there another way you're supposed to represent optionals in Kotlin?
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by billjings 3y ago
Often, performance. When I was at Meta, if you could measure it, you could ship it and mark that as a win in your performance review. So a lot of projects got shipped off of A/B tested metric wins.
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by billjings 3y ago
Guitar tone is built on breakup, and solid state did not break up like tubes. Not for a long time, at least - arguably FET transistors do a good job, but you still don't get the sag that a tube rectified AB amp yields when cranked. The
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by billjings 3y ago
The VGHF is a part of the same community that builds things like the MiSTer. Just a different wing of it, doing a different job. A wing that is advocating for changes to the law, by the way. So maybe you should donate! https://ga

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