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georganoson The Great Productivity Puzzle

I read that as in increasing the number of highly qualified immigrants, thus increasing the quality of the workforce.

georganoson Google Fined by French Privacy Regulator

Not sure I follow the analogy. The blinds protect a private space (your home), as opposed to some publicly accessible internet website.

georganoson Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans

Would making money to pay for the services the users use count as being towards the benefit of the user?

georganoson Report Shows Just How Wrong Silicon Valley Is About A Tech Worker Shortage

US population is ~5% of the world population?

georganoson Show HN: Instant Google Street View

I'm curious, is there any kind of ranking being done on the candidates for an imprecise address? Any kind of image analysis to determine which ones are the more 'interesting'?

Asking because it seemed to me that when the address is imprecise, it's mostly more prominent locations that are being shown.

[later edit] It's probably just using GMaps' suggest feature I guess?