joes223

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by joes223 7y ago
There is nothing more equal in it. It's outright criminal. The today's adtech is when you walk into a grocery store, get stuff for free, while in the meantime the store takes notes what car you drive, who you likely are, packages
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by joes223 7y ago
Let's put it another way: 95% of webdevs can drop a code snippet with GA on their page, while only hm.. 5% can set up that GA proxy.
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by joes223 7y ago
Afaik, TeX is a Turing-complete language that can even read files from disk. Yet, it's only purpose is to render static text documents and nobody blames Knuth for inability to separate the presentation layer. The web is no longer a bun
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by joes223 7y ago
I believe that this is a part of a well funded campaign against Google by some of its rivals or enemies. Oracle? Regardless, whoever is implementing this attack, they're doing a fantastic job. Google's business is basically connec
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by joes223 7y ago
I think the today's adtech is more like video cams installed in everyone's house and squads of criminals that do targeted raids based on information obtained from those video cams. First people figured that such cameras exist. The
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by joes223 7y ago
It wouldn't because that's a drastically more complex solution.
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by joes223 7y ago
The biggest barrier is that there is no money in honest business. In other words, people want to pay for useful content (e.g. wikipedia is still up and running), it's just what they want to pay is nowhere near multi-billion-dollar valu
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by joes223 7y ago
But realistically, can an employee get 2-3% of preferreds to secure his share? Assuming he's valuable enough to negotiate this much.
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by joes223 7y ago
Pythagoras had some insider knowledge, while Thales et al just speculated.
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by joes223 7y ago
It's pretty clear that this is just a battle between the big tech and their enemies. However I don't think the government will support this attack: it needs the big tech as much as it needs its aircraft carriers and a petty disput
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by joes223 7y ago
This may be the old money vs new money confrontation.
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by joes223 7y ago
It's not a paradox because the statement that the interview processes don't evaluate candidates is false. It's proven that this particular interview format has a very high correlation with the future candidate's performa
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by joes223 7y ago
Anonymous feedback (like really anonymous) is the answer. people can't give real feedback and be nice at the same time.
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by joes223 7y ago
Employees are not assets because the company doesn't own them.
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by joes223 7y ago
All this is based on assumption that those "terrorists" exist and need a sophisticated a reliable banking system. A simpler theory is that "terrorists" are state actors who challenge each other to get something practical
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by joes223 7y ago
It's worth adding that "terrorists" is a fictional organization and merely means "the bad guys".