georgebarnett

Even with a charitable assumption that ads will stay limited to a free tier; this will still reduce Netflix program quality because stories need to have breaks to insert ads into without feeling weird.

Remove the ads and you then have storyline peaks and troughs which are not needed, which will break the immersion, leading to a worse outcome.

Its certainly not ignorant or irresponsible and if you feel that way, I suggest its because that's the message the news dealers want you to feel.

Dobelli sums it up best:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

Once you realise that the "bad news" is not current events, but rather a poor experience driven by chasing clicks instead of quality, the reasonable response is to disengage from the machine and go elsewhere.

A simple example is the number of new orgs still running daily live blogs of current events trying to generate hype.

I expect if we looked elsewhere, there would be an uptick in engagement in moderated, thoughtful sources such as podcasts, substacks, etc (and of course plain social).

It's OK to not like the work somebody produces.

It's not OK to be a dick about it and harass them.

The author owes you nothing.

> I have no doubt the backlash against him will only get worse as people actually play the game

I’m reminded of a jingle I heard years ago..

It’s ok to not like things, but don’t be a dick about the things you don’t like.

> 10 years later some of those folks that did really well in the exams are not doing as well in their careers because real life requires innovation and deep understanding, not just rapid application of past solutions.

I know many highly successful people didn’t go to university and this why is doesn’t matter.

The team who made the post were representing Google, therefor the company made the post.

To propose otherwise implies that all similar actions/statements made in a similar way are not made by the company, which is both ludicrous and also causes Google to not exist.

Many people are not yet skilled at giving feedback.

Many will improve, with guidance.

Those that don’t will blunder along, wondering why they can’t make it in the world.

A single email will waste anywhere between 3-30 seconds of my life.

On aggregate, junk email, enabled by disrespecting marketers and ongoing minimisation such as your comment, will waste months.

I see this often and it is a ridiculous over simplification.

This entire thread has stories of broken corporate culture causing people to leave the company and somehow you’re translating that as win for HR?

In most cases, HR aren’t the ones “dropping” you (it’s your manager). They’re the ones ensuring it gets done in a way that least disruptive to the rest of the org.

The software library in question wasn’t gifted. It was made open/available for re-use from a library.

The person who chose to put it into _their_ code took ownership of its ongoing maintenance in their instance of its usage (presumably because they felt that would be less work than entirely diy).

There is no puppy here.

Your response indicates two things:

1. You have no idea about teenagers.

2. You have no idea about the causes of the opioid crisis.

Also, I did not conflate the two which you appear to think I have done.

Yes, it’s definitely not that older people with experience understand why this is a bad idea.

The hubris of youth is useful for bringing change, but experience shows that often the effects of that change are poorly understood and often cause significant issues.

HOT TAKE: I think parents should prevent their kids from smoking and tobacco companies bear no responsibility for their addictive product.

The opioid crisis is also the fault of all those pesky addicts who chose to get themselves addicted and it’s not at all on Purdue.

Right?! /s

On the other hand, depression has exploded in teenage girls since 2013.

If this was business as usual, that wouldn’t have happened.

The device claims to have 97% of reading within 15% of the Freestyle Libre, which itself is then not as accurate as blood glucose.

Put another way, it’s less accurate than a device that’s already less accurate than finger sticks.

Given this info, I’m not sure this version is practically useful yet in terms of accuracy.

I was on the core team that built the platform underlying version of the cloud systems.

Many of my peers had kids, as did many people who moved to Australia to work with us.

I can’t speak to your circumstance, however in 13 years I’ve never seen an instance of what you described.

What I find most interesting is how people who love working from home can't seem to understand how their own circumstances don't translate for others. This bias seems especially present in a subset of the tech population.

If you think offices are going away, you're betting against decades of history where people work together in meatspace. If you think they do that because they can't get their work done virtually, you've fundamentally misunderstood both humans and also many of their own life circumstances.

Some people _in some industries_ can work from home. For many, that's not feasible. There is no "one way".

Recognising a song is not the same as recognising copyright.

Yeah, it’s a real gotcha.

Not surprised the Borg don’t get it. Right now I have my uncle nearby and he knows at least how to use a computer.

Things are going to get real fun when he leaves and my 75yr mom is on her own with the tech.

I can only imagine this will get worse as they go further down the AI rabbit hole.

What really amazes me though is how they now treat changing recovery options as signal that the account is compromised.

Google Accounts Team: Users must have a way to recover their account!

Google Security AI: Changing recovery options is a sign of a hack! Shut it down!

Is there a new Conways Law, when an AI is involved?

"Your AIs will ignore product goals only optimise for the outcomes of the department they're created in"

Adding my own email address as a recovery to my dead fathers Gmail account resulted in it being locked.

Despite having access to the password, recovery account _and_ the telephone (when my mother is awake), I'm now locked out.

Very frustrating and a salient reminder who you should not trust Google with anything of value.

I’ve yet to find anything that comes close to the sound profile of a pair of Homepods linked in stereo.

On the upside, Given they’re on OS 14.4 and support airplay 2, I should get a decade more out of them.

There is plenty of sand in the world, it’s just not cheap or hyper locally available.

Pay money, problem goes away. Solutions will be found as the price goes up to make alternatives viable.

I don't think it's troubling at all. On the contrary - the more politics removed from FB, the higher the net benefit to society of not having citizens continually "enraged at the other side".

You appear to be reading a sentiment into my comment thats not there. Facebook can do whatever they want (within the law) because it's their platform and thus their rules.

I'm merely commenting that I'm reasonably convinced they're (in general) removing news and politics from the platform because its _in their interests_ to do so.

Considering the wider issue faced in Australia at the moment, its fair commentary and sarcastic responses don't contribute to the discourse.

I remain convinced that Facebook is incrementally scrubbing news and politics from their platform.

I agree, however on FBs hierarchy of needs, engagement is less important than regulation.

If they have to decide between regulation that stifles their business or slightly reduced engagement, they’ll pick the latter.

As an anecdote, those around me (here in Australia) are huge fans of Facebook without news because its the least polluted it's been in years.

I’m reasonably convinced that Facebook would like to remove all news from their platform.

I have no evidence to back this, however given that it causes them a huge amount of pain and (IMHO) newsfeeds are substantially better when there is no/heavily reduced political fighting between strangers, I can see only upside to this if it happens.