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Do a ton of excel work - the 1m row limit is surprisingly low. And sharding across worksheets is miserable in my view

Also commenting on single monitor support - a key note I missed from original reviews and maybe a reason to wait till more pro models come out?

Which is why these govt type of interventions, which are all centered around getting more and more permissions from users are annoying. We will get more click through screens that 99.99% of users will say yes to. Seriously, how many users read the google ToS clickthroughs and make a decision based on that to not sign up with a google account?

I turned this stuff off at policy level, and instead of praising me, users were pissed at me. They wanted google to track them. Most didn't understand why stuff didn't work (things like saving locations in maps break at least in past, and most use gmaps for work / home commute checks). Seriously - if you run a larger gsuite deploy, put all the privacy features on and watch how folks start trying to work around / do the shadow IT thing.

Actually many are required.

I had a funny situation in person recently. This place had consent forms - lady checking folks in would offer to sign on your behalf. A few folks asked what it was - a consent form - oh sure, please sign for me.

In gsuite I guess there are some settings that can impact things like location - people want recent locations to pop up etc I learned. So anytime you make 95 percent of users click through stuff they don’t care about - you start losing the battle here

If you manage domains and force this stuff off your users will def complain.

My worry is we end up w a situation such as cookie notices - users have gotten so used to clicking through content screens they don’t pay attention anymore because a lot of it is meaningless

I run mostly us-west-2 - and when talking about AWS I've always felt reliability was pretty good. us-east-1 really is the one that seems to get hammered the hardest on the error counts.

Gmail and youtube are offered free to users.

They are supported by advertising.

This is not 'suddenly 'free sites' and 'advertising'" - this is how both of these sites have been from the beginning, adding paid options later.

If the w3c somehow forced users to jump through hoops to allow google to advertise to them so they could access their youtube and their Gmail, they would jump through those hoops rather than lose access.

That said, I'm not sure I even believe that W3C has actually been able to "slap down" Google - but we will see. Google, not the W3C makes the BY FAR most popular browser out there, and Microsoft has recently begun migrating ITS own users to, not away from chrome.

Because we are having some definitional issues around the basics of how gmail and youtube function in terms of revenue models and user engagement I'm going to let this rest here on my side.

Huh? Amazon put prime under amazon.com. The domain doesn't mean you have to use the same servers, google already just proxy and load balances behind their existing domains. They could easily redirect youtube.com to yt.google.com, or serve assets on youtube.com from yt.google.com if they want to have cross domain tracking.

Free products are generally supported by advertising. We are being told the W3C has “slapped down” googles attempts around FPS.

I am making the point that if google comes up with a workaround to this “slap down” - users will follow - even if you and others are yelling “it’s not W3C”. That could be modifying chrome to allow this, it could be hosting things under one domain etc

The way to help everyone is to raise the minimum wage - let’s do that. Let’s increase social safety net which helps everyone. Continue to expand Obamacare even. Consider basic universal income. Lots of ideas help far more than having a few companies unionize

Users will use / do what is required to access YT. Google could proxy through a google.com domain so same site cookies could be set, they could implement this in chrome and users would follow along

And google hosting everything under a google.com domain wouldn’t?

How did w3c get such power to “slap down” google.

If users can’t access gmail / YouTube etc, they will be ignoring the w3c.

Another workaround if google can’t try this in chrome (it can) do cookies on a google sub domain (yt.google.com etc)

We need to be clear - 15 is 2x minimum wage.

And minimum wage affects everyone. So these politicos and others even here should probably do a bit more to help workers get the Amazon minimum before trashing Amazon?

The “egregious” conduct is a USPS mailbox? Kind of pathetic

It’s this weird world where Amazon is described as a hell hole and the three layer deep cleaning contractor workforce paying actual min wage and plenty of other crap jobs get a pass

I use AWS - the customer service seems great - I've personally received good service, the support life times are amazing (I used Simple DB).

These articles with "I wouldn't use AWS I'll leave it at that.." - be more specific!

For personal stuff ECS / fargate works well in my use cases. I put together a little docker and away I go - I pay for one reserved instance which saves money - fargate for stuff that is occasional or bursts (when I started fargate pricing was too high).

Docker is in some ways self documenting - I also have a home server setup complete with router etc - but someone is going to bump something at home and the reconfig / resetup time is much longer than with AWS.

For sure. At least at amazon while they don't demote you, if they are not that excited by you on the team equity goes pretty low.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compensation-explaine...

When you sign on at a FAANG - you get a sign on package. This includes stock grants that vest over time. After that time runs out, if they like you, they will promote you and give you a new batch of grants. If you don't think you are great, no promotion and no new stock grants. So while you are not demoted, your actual pay drops sometimes significantly.

There is a good reason for this. It allows them to drive increased turnover at higher levels in the org where it's normally hard to transition folks out. They just don't refresh equity or promote with a new equity grant.

Anyways, the poster did what anyone should do - quit and find somewhere else to work.

Exploiting nonprofit status to generate a personal benefit is not legal in the US. So if the board members, officers or whomever have some personal benefit to this crapcoin taking off, it's not legal for them to use nonprofit resources and tax breaks to push for that.

I live in the US - and drinking with staff of different levels is tricky for a number of reasons. Inappropriate behavior broadly defined is not tolerated, and drinking is already in that category in many California and east cost areas. Public transit / jitney's etc are not great so a lot of folks drive to work and back which makes drinking harder.

Your right - I should have said US (and maybe just progressive areas).

I'm not disagreeing but a couple of things.

- When living and interacting locally I think folks moderate their views a bit - call it "politeness"?

- Views locally are somewhat more homogenized?

- For better and worse, I'm not sure you'd last that long in Caribbean if you were just a twitter bomb thrower, even if justified - my impression was even things like whistleblowing would not be very well received (ie, if I'd complained about various govt officials not being at their desks when they should have been - it wouldn't have come over well). This may be wrong and certainly has changed as folks become more aware of what should and shouldn't happen.

I think instead of saying it's relaxed, I would describe it as very local?

Folks work pretty hard in Caribbean, but when I was there (a fair while ago), I also worked dang hard. But you absolutely felt like you were in a bubble. You really could imagine that Israel and the Palestinians would have an intifada / war and no one would notice.

You drank after work with the folks you worked with (in west this is a no no for many good reasons), you ate larger group meals, you spent a lot more time outside. I'm just spitballing some impressions. Some of this was efficiency, (group meals are more cost effective?) etc.

There is also an attitude difference. There is a story (probably made up - please fill in correct details) that a group "conquered" one of the islands (maybe Saba?). They took over whatever building, raised whatever flag. And everyone just ignored them. They eventually left.

One thing that's an adjustment is ignoring the rules if they are silly - no one thinks anything of it. And yes, in part because of corruption and rent seeking there are some silly rules so maybe you have to.

Absolute downsides as well no question. But I wonder if the folks not on internet just don't care as much about what someone said to someone as the rest of us.

I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.

Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn't care what was going on for the most part - the latest "outrages" were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.

So you'd come back to the states - and you'd have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.

That's kind of crazy of Amnesty to take this sloppy approach to their definitions. While systems are not perfect by any means, the US is in a totally different category with respect to corruption, rule of law, judicial independence, even conviction rates than other countries. We have a trial by jury here - does Amnesty not even look at what is going on in other countries with judiciaries that are actually totally corrupt?

I would be interested in some of the examples of tourists and visitors being killed by police - I pay somewhat close attention to that. There are issues of violence that really shock visitors to the US, including killings, but I hadn't realized the police were playing such a big role. Could you give some examples of visitors being killed by police (ie, the issue Amnesty is warning people over?).

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I think you are confusing corruption (which amnesty supposedly claims US police are leaders in) and violence.

I've actually traveled internationally and worked in tough areas. US police / customs etc are not corrupt (relative to developing countries I've traveled in). This really makes me lose confidence in Amnesty unfortunately.

The US is relatively violent compared to developed peers and has some insane pockets of violence (east st louis etc). No question about that. This is stark when traveling to Asia or Western Europe - even "bad" areas in places like Germany are ridiculously safe relative to "bad" areas in the US. And that includes interactions with police (often unarmed overseas vs jumping on your back with a gun in the US).

Have amnesty traveled internationally? Corrupt police overseas are routine- ie, almost every interaction involves cash pmt on spot usually w no receipt for various fines and fees.

I’ve been stopped plenty of times by cops in US and have never had to pay a spot fine in cash

A good point.

It was basically as part of scoring of ideas. I think in the weaknesses box the panelist had noted lack of experience / plans with respect to X and Y. So while I would make a suggestion, this was probably more in critique space.

The issue was more - unless you'd been in the space, you wouldn't realize that THIS issue was actually perhaps very important in the products success. Since I'd been a part of a business that had gotten TROMPED on for a similar set of non-product issues - it hit home.

I think this is a good framing. Note I always frame as a suggestion rather than a critique - ie, places to increase focus.

I'm not so bothered by this personally because it's not someone asking / giving advice and getting blasted by it. That's the real crux that I see.

The scenario you paint is uncomfortable - only because there have been a fair number of situations (music and elsewhere) where the white person really has raked in the cash off a minorities good idea.

Luckily my friend was the competitor trying to compete in a market much more crowded than she perhaps realized.

This is a fair question - not sure why you are getting down votes.

Background - I'm actually on the left a fair bit. So one issue - you are not supposed to really ask minorities / women to explain / teach you / help you deal with these issues because it in fairness burdens them. I'm not looking for that either.

In terms of my colleague who I'd mentored in past (before things had gotten more extreme). I think others have made good suggestions - do you want some suggestions that may have already been made (it's never truth really - just another persons guess) or comfort.