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Comment by Daz1 | Hacker News Reader

What are these awful comments? You're getting a free training course.

Certain HN discourse are pretty useless. Anything remotely related to Google, Meta, MS, privacy/copyright is filled with often repeated tropes or completely orthogonal discussions. You have to ignore first 40% of comments to find anything meaningful.

Or, you have to read the first 40% of comments to find out what is evil about it..

And/or, one can learn to find the good in what's presented that could be transferred to other things

I have the impression that these days there's a very strong bias against Google on HN.

I think it has something to do with the fact they removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct.

First off, I doubt that. Second of all, that in of and itself is not a reason to discount everything and anything Google.

If Google created a way to end world hunger and did it for free would you automatically discount that because they removed 'don't be evil' from their code of conduct?

The course is not free.

To finish the course and get the completion badge, one must also do the labs, which cost money.

Also, given it's coming from Google, one also pays with "data".

And obviously you're taught how to deploy to Google cloud so you have to pay for the course, pay with your data—petsonal and work related—and pay for their cloud services...

Shut up and take my data!

"No free lunch" is the 1st rule of ML

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product"

This is a loss leader for GCP. That's not really the same situation.

A participant in a two-sided market isn't the same thing as a product.

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