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by throwaways885 3y ago
Anyone who's used both, how does it compare to Google's internal tooling?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Freedom of speech is the concept, and 1st amendment is an implementation. The maximal possible implementation given the rest of constitution that came before it. So it's not just government in principle, only in practice.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
While I agree in principle, it's not true in practice. Look at the debate around making Internet access a right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access Same debate around free healthcare et al, whi
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by throwaways885 5y ago
The Right to Freedom from Misinformation.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people To be fair, neither are most politicians.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
This is the thing. WFH at Google is an option now, but the uptake hasn't been as huge as people here might expect.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Calling 911 is one of those times when I really, really don't want to see permission popups. If I'm in a car crash, I ain't going to be lucid enough to make sure the permissions are set properly. I am almost certain there a
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by throwaways885 5y ago
And what happens when real fraud does occur?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> Possibly to drive between their various houses? I'm guessing this is the old joke about Eric Schmidt?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
To be fair, Google, Facebook, et al chose to have monorepos when they were startups, so it's not necessarily cargo culting to look at what they did. I'd argue part of the success was cultural - with everything in one repo there is
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by throwaways885 5y ago
A company like Apple probably deals with hundreds of major lawsuits per year. Must be thousands of smaller cases too.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Last time I checked, I'm a human being who is hardwired to understand these social cues. They're essential for having a conversation in any way that isn't just exhausting for me. It's not a lack of trust. My monkey brain
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I guarantee you that most people back then would've been hunting, farming, building huts or rearing children. There is no model of the past where this level of isolation was even maintainable. People simply depend on each other to live
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Probably more than 2.4 people, which is the average household size in the UK, for example.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
We lived in tribes, not pseudo-prison cells with just yourself or your family at best.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Is this any different from what a human is doing? I would also say that the approaches taken by something like AlphaGo are more interesting, too. Because unlike chess the solution space for Go is too large to simply look at all possible mov
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by throwaways885 5y ago
A proper fix is better than an instant fix.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
It's not indexed for some reason. Even in the provided list of craters.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
If your services are backwards compatible to talk to each other, then you don't need to release instantly. Making breaking changes is tricky, but you don't need to release everything.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
True, but I guess it's worth mentioning that OW is the primary method of cheater controls nowadays. In-game report button, VAC, VACNet, Prime MM, Trust Factor, etc... are the other systems they use, but replacing the community with alg
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Speech is violence nowadays. Silence is also violence. One of these days, I'm going to go live in the woods and no internet. People clearly do not want a free society anymore so I may as well just check out.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
But isn't the flip side of all this censorship a reduced ability for people to tell bullshit from reality? Why is information intelligence not taught in schools? Much like an immune system, we need to be exposed to nonsense so that we&
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by throwaways885 5y ago
What I'm suggesting is that neither I or large corporations are capable of making that distinction. Nor the government for that matter.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
But that is precisely the lesson history taught us. Misinformation, fundamentally, cannot be identified. It's easy to say "oh, everyone who believed that was an idiot" when talking about Galileo being thrown in prison for hel
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Snowden (and countless others) are hero's. This new breed of authoritarian leftists do not represent Silicon Valley and tech at large, but rather silence those of us who do still believe in free speech. I'm petrified about speakin
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> The other truth is we're all outraged when these companies host some stuff that we don't like Please, speak for yourself. I think these companies should host absolutely everything[0]. Between 2010-2016 was the golden age for
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> There wasn't a need for rank-based matchmaking or anti-cheat or anything like that, you just eventually found a place you fit in and could have fun. Valve tried to replace that with algorithms but maybe they should "crowd sou
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by throwaways885 5y ago
How cost effective were microprocessors in the 60s?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> If you change your service’s API, just updating all of the other clients of your service in the repo is not sufficient to skirt the problem of different clients expecting different APIs. Most Google APIs are written in protobuf, which

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