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Google One hasn't been around for close to a year yet so I assume you were using Google Drive specifically before Google One was officially released? My experience was the opposite of this and because of this experience, I refuse to pay for any Google services moving forward.

A lot of people here have commented about their mistrust in Google and won't use this service. I thought I'd add my two cents base on actual experience with using Google One.

I signed up the day Google One became available since I had been looking for a cloud storage solution. I downloaded their uploader client and began backing up my files. I am sure the fact that it took over two weeks was a mix of my own ISP upload speed and maybe some limitation on how much the client could handle in terms of uploading files (I had just over half a TB to back up).

That said, the speed wasn't what bothered me. What bothered me was the stupid client kept throwing me errors constantly telling me it couldn't upload certain files (always random) and although it gave me an option to retry, I could click retry a dozen times and it wouldn't matter, it'd simply fail over and over again. My only option at this point was to skip uploading this file. If this had been a few files, that wouldn't be an issue except this was easily hundreds of files with no easy way to keep track of what successfully uploaded and what didn't.

Worse, each time it failed, it interrupted whatever I was doing to pop up a notification with the expectation of me having to select retry or skip. This was insanely annoying. I could be doing something and a notification would pop up and unless I respond, it would just sit there. Sometimes I'd be doing something and the notification would interrupt what I am doing midflow. Needless to say this was an abysmal experience.

I then tried contacting support wanting a refund and to simply cancel. First I tried chat which connected relatively fast but it was obvious the person I talked to didn't know what they were talking about. I then did phone support. To their credit they called me back within an hour though it hung up on me shortly after picking up so I then had to get them to call again and there goes another hour.

Eventually, I did get to talk to a human being but felt I was talking to someone who had very little knowledge about how anything worked. I had to get the case escalated to get the service cancelled since the department that handled that had no direct support.

After waiting about a week, I contacted support again and went through the whole motion all the while finding out it seems like the case wasn't properly escalated. Waited several more days and had to contact support again. It had to be escalated again.

During this whole ordeal, I had already stopped the client, uninstalled it, and removed any files I had uploaded.

After about another week, one day suddenly I accessed my Gmail to find a glaring message at the top that read something to the effect of me being over my storage limit and will soon be unable to receive any emails. I was pissed.

At this point they didn't contact me at all, I haven't seen any refund come through, but my access to Google One was gone so I assumed I was cancelled. But if I deleted all the files I previously uploaded, how could I be over the limit?

The only conclusion I could come up with was any photos I took on my Pixel (which came with unlimited photo storage) somehow was being read as non-Pixel photos so my photo storage blew up. I had to forcibly set it to convert all the images to the format that Google would allow that wouldn't be used against my storage space and eventually after like 2-3 hours my Gmail no longer had that glaring message that I may not receive messages due to being over my storage limit.

Now I'm painfully aware I probably could have backed up all my photos and delete them off Google Photos at this point but I was so exhausted and angry that I just took the path of least resistance here. Eventually the refund came through several days later but this was when I genuinely started to hate Google for the first time.

Hope this helps anyone on the fence about paying for Google One, especially with the expectation that you'll get support as if that'll be helpful.

I ended up going with a different cloud storage. World of difference. Never going to trust Google for anything like this ever again.

A quick Google search came up with Subbly and Cratejoy. Do those not satisfy the criteria?

In most cases I’ve personally seen, it’s offered but it requires additional payment. The employer pays a fixed cost towards your benefits and any plan you select that goes over, including for additional dependents, require extra pay.

Not OP but Google does offer support for their paid products. With something like gmail, you might be extremely limited to getting help if you can reach a Googler. Worse case you can purchase one of their paid products in an attempt to reach a human being but I don’t know if that will help at all. Probably not.

You can use Google Voice/Hangout for all their features without Fi So is there an advantage to paying for Fi otherwise that I am missing? The cost for the amount of data I use would far outweigh any benefits I can see here unless there are features you get with Fi for Voice/Hangout that I don’t know about.

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Don’t. As someone who recently tried Google One out and had to deal with their support repeatedly during my first month as a Google One subscriber, it’s abysmal. I eventually cancelled and left. The process somehow also screwed up my account and made everything a mess. The whole ordeal basically made me want to never pay Google for anything ever again.

Whales. People with huge amounts of disposable income. People who spend a lot. People who have a giant size portfolio. Etc. It's a term I've seen used in a number of different context but always eluding to someone with a ton of money.

I would agree if any of those applies but I almost never post anything. I post maybe a dozen times in a year on my FB, and everyone on my friends list should know who I am rather than report me (my feed shouldn't be public).

That said, whoever tried to reset my password didn't succeed as far as I know. My name is quite common so I doubt it comes off as a fake name. My account is old, so I can't imagine the reason being flagged for misrepresentation or impersonation, especially since I don't even proactively post stuff.

I use FB mainly to connect to chat on messenger, follow up on my news feed, and connect to some accounts that uses FB login. Nothing in recent memory other than adding my phone for two step verification could have possibly trigger this but could be something I am over looking.

At this point I just want to know how long this is going to continue. Thanks for the heads up though.

As Ezhik mentions, this doesn't happen for me either so you might have installed a third party software that does this.

Thanks!

First time it happened to you too? I wonder if this will be a norm.

I initially thought the same thing (although never had any malware I knew of on any of my Macs ever) so I tried entering false passwords which came back as failed log-ins. It was only after entering the correct one later did it verify and the application finally launched so unless they had a way to authenticate actual Apple ID accounts as well, highly unlikely to be malware.

100% positive. I don't use iCloud to sync my password data.

Some questions:

1. Is the data you scraped focused primarily for graduating high school seniors or is there distinction between incoming freshmens vs transfer students?

2. Is it safe to assume it's not actually focused on Ivy Leagues only but also includes other top tier schools such as Stanford, MIT, CalTech, etc?

3. Is there any distinction for success rates outside of grades and test scores?

4. I assume primarily focused on undergrad and not masters or PhD?

I won't name the now defunct startup (well funded and founded by a proven founder) but they hired an engineer who was basically the CTO (although one of the other co-founder officially held the title). I was told that this guy (the CTO-engineer was one of the best engineers and in a convo with him, he basically told me he doesn't believe in commenting and that you should write code that is self explanatory. I basically lost respect for him on the spot no matter how talented he was by everyone else's view.

For what it's worth this was a team of over 15 people and about half the team were engineers and everyone thought this guy was insanely good (although I have no clue if any of that is true or not)

Those posts are quite uninformative and lack any details from what I can see.

You would do exponential average rate of change calculation over linear progression to compute an estimated date.

Check out a startup called Doorman: http://www.doorman.co/

I heard about them awhile back and they are trying to solve this very problem.

Make Edge cross platform and open source it. Its annoying to have a browser that is locked to a specific OS yet may potentially be used by many in the future.

Surprise no one has asked yet but which incubator is advocating removal of a founder and is okay with the other guys doing this?

Also age or whatever is not an excuse.

I wish it was slightly bigger (thinking 6" or 6.5")

Incredibly mobile unfriendly

California is an-at will employment state. What this means is any employee can quit and any employer can let go without cause as long as it isn't against the law (which is insanely difficult to prove to begin with). Any offer they provide to her (salary, earn out, etc)... Would not have mattered if they hired her on and let her go a day later... Ultimately contracts are fickle like that. There are probably exceptions to all of the above but most likely difficult to enforce in the end.

A better method might be next time they come onto the site and log in (or if they are already logged in), put up a stop page (similar to a paywall message) warning them in plain English of what happened and strongly recommend a password change. Make it easy for them to skip or X out of the box.

I think forcing users to change passwords or taking a passive email stance when there is a chance most might not read their email are both not ideal solutions

I would create a 3rd category that is akin to delivery. It could technically fall into moving but moving brings to mind the actual idea of moving.

What I mean by delivery is more something along the lines of...

- I have something I want to pickup (maybe off Craigslist or something) and I don't have a truck. Would be nice to have someone who has one help for a flat rate.

SF already have the highest minimum wage in the united states. It has it's own minimum wage as a city compare to the state. That said, even if you increase to say $20/he, that roughly translate to about $40k/year. Compare that to where 6-figure salaries are the norm for entry developers (where is was maybe just $60k for fresh grads a few years back) and you can see the growing discrepancy. I understand that developers are viewed as providing greater value this they should be paid more than minimum wage laborers but that doesn't change the situation with housing costs for both buying and selling. In some cases a two bedroom place these days can go average around 3-4k for a decent place in a decent neighborhood.

I don't know the answer to your question but I suspect Tesla is more concerned with the truth getting out and telling their side of the story than just the outcome of the case. Although to be fair, that is merely a guess and a personal opinion.

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