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greydata··on Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-offer-creators-cant-ref...
greydata··on Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash
I believe they got a permit after the last cutoff date, they'll show up in the next one most likely.
greydata··on [dead]
Did you actually visit the link?

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That is uBlock Origin intercepting the request and responding with a no-op version of analytics.js
greydata··on Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)
Nothing too interesting. They're restricted so they can only update their own source code.
greydata··on Three Uber security managers resign after CEO criticizes practices
Person who manages budgets, day-to-day, organizational specific priorities, tracking higher level objectives, etc. Its basically a high level Program/Project Manager with a horizontal responsibility.
greydata··on Finance information on Google
Google "my stocks" and click the star to unfollow them.
greydata··on Firebase Predictions Beta
AdMob: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admob/admob-firebase

Also Firebase has a free tier but it does cost money https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

greydata··on Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit
So the contention is that Google stole his idea for building design software? His representation is a bunch of patent trolls and the suit has already been going on for 3 years. The only news is now they are contending that many major Google products are based on coordinated and systematic IP theft (Search, Ads, Maps, Wallet, Hangouts, Youtube, Android). Pretty sure this is entirely bullshit.

Actual lawsuit: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

greydata··on World Health Organization spends more on travel than AIDS
Just to be clear, they spend $200MM on travel for 7000 people a year, that's ~$75/day/person.
greydata··on Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
I think this one hurts more:

A new entry on the docket for the case notes that Waymo’s motion for a preliminary injunction has been partially granted and partially denied, but it’s not clear yet which of Waymo’s requests the judge will honor.