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As opposed to corporations who stopped at a fair point when they started to kill unions off?

and they got there by cramming it in everyones faces with their search monopoly.

Totally different than bundling it with the OS.

Except wait, they do that too.

Are the ads really that awful, or just in an area where google isn't winning already?

What's the response when a competitor (rightfully IMO) claims this is a blatant abuse of googles position as the leading browser provider?

If you don't like it then vote with your feet.

Comments like this annoy me. A few decades ago unions were powerful forces for worker rights, and served a major purpose by allowing collective bargaining.

Nowadays we have "right to work" laws being sponsored by companies and people somehow think it's "wrong" to join unions and bargain collectively.

When I see posts like this, I shake my head and wonder where we went wrong.

A group leaving the country doesn't give 2 shits about the constitution. It comes down to how much you are willing to fight for it, and both sides would end up with nukes.

Exactly. Other countries have working systems of government. The US needs to get their shit together.

I doubt it gets that far, but it really does seem like something needs to change. The country doesn't necessarily need to shift as far left as california, but right not a set of old laws working with the modern shift towards cities is really reducing the power of a vote in CA/NY. That's a pretty big problem.

so is google.

Conglomeration in general isn't great for the open web. That's where we are though.

They have that, sorta https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3463947?hl=en

The problem I have with this is that Opiates have been known to be highly addictive for how long?

I do feel like doctors should have questioned the notion that these drugs were completely safe.

why would that form an addiction?

Or they will get properly informed of the risks and have their dosages monitored by a doctor who is properly informed of the risks.

Instead of getting handed opiates like they are harmless because the doctors believed the drug companies who tried to pass them off as safe for unmonitored use.

Lets by realistic, this is far more dangerous day to day than terrorism.

Neither are going to destroy the country. These drugs are going to destroy a lot of lives though.

Why would I want to play a game that turns me into a insufferably pedantic jerk who can't let people just enjoy a damn movie?

Huh, apparently Nintendo's chronic inability to judge a market extends to companies they work with.

> but at least it's a standards compliment world.

sure, but if Chrome de facto controls standards does that really matter?

So don't talk to your spouse because they might get upset.

Great relationship advice.

Standards enable alternatives to spring up, so long as they interface properly. That helps with both innovation and competition.

Arguments like this are the reason why things are becoming more locked down DRM riddled trash with no real concept of ownership. Why the internet is getting more and more siloed and full of walled gardens.

Because it's easier that way and you don't really need to tinker.

> At a guess median age would be 40-45,

Why, because they hire some industry leaders? What is this guess based on?

I think Hanlon's Razor applies.

They have no impetus to change and think they have found an approach that works reasonable well when given absurd amounts of candidates. The problem is the ridiculous false negative rate.

I struggle to think of a better system. Using experience is unfair and misleading (I worked on awesome stuff... that I can tell you nothing about, I was totally the lead on this software, etc...). Take home stuff is fine with me but a lot of people have problems with it. Come in for a week type things are incredibly applicant hostile.

Sit down with me and lets try and fix this bug seems like a more reasonable solution to me. Dev environment has the most popular ide with their devs, the source for whatever, internet access, and a bug report. Person is there to assist.

Amazon doesn't.

It's not nearly as bad when you have all the people who work on it with you.

You look at who caused conflicts and send out emails. Don't land the merge until all commits are resolved. People who don't resolve their changes get in trouble.

Not perfect, but there it is.

I worked on a chromium based product as well and had the exact same problem. Eventually we came up with a reasonable system for landing commits and just tried out best to build using chromium, but not having actual patches. Worked okay, not great. Better thant he old system of having people do it manually/just porting our changes to each release.

> Nobody can find my boss, and five minutes later, two policeman show up and escort me out of the building

They didn't bother to check on the whole "I'm here to start work, my boss is <T>" ?

> his "boss"

is his boss, whether he dresses like a slob or not.

Did pink shirts not go with the onions worn on belts?

I don't really care either way on the subject of work attire, with one exception. I hate casual fridays. It matters or it doesn't quit with the bullshit.

Nah man, it's all good. I mean sure, we keep giving absurd amounts of power to an ad company but it's google, who doesn't love google.

If it was microsoft they already would have shut this down because of the backlash. Google does it and people are fine with it.

and did they say "don't ever upgrade this"?