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She threatened resignation in fairly obnoxious and toxic way. google called her bluff and accepted.

No, I haven’t lost respect.

Why is google worried about this, how many software engineers want to join a union anyway?

Do these software collect dust and rust over time?

ok sorry.. bad dad joke..

Wait what? You can create something that runs at 100 million degrees in your garage?

Can you explain a bit more for the unlearned?

Just to be pendantic. American is a subset of human. So you are pass CAPTCHAs, you are indeed proven to be human. In a high precision, low recall way

Can you link to some precedent for our education?

I am watching this with great interest. Especially if the vote passes, would amazon just pull out of the area all together. (similar to walmart's strategy)

Will the creators make money even if they don’t want it?

I hate AMP as a user. It breaks my browsing experience in strange and sometimes unexpected ways. (like certain scroll features can stop working, sometimes weird features like search in page can also break. Sometimes when you try to highlight some text, it will highlight a whole section. And the solution is always --> click the button to get to the actual page and then it is fine)

I don't know there is something inherently not trustworthy about Google or American company.

I think the main problem with Google (and perhaps part of the reason why Google is great in the first place) is that Google relies too heavily on algo solutions and when the algo makes a mistake, you cannot get to a real person for support

Have you talked to drivers? There have been many independent surveys that show drivers disproportionately want to remain contractors.

And the counter-argument would be that the reason for possibilities of direct democracy is for situations like this where unions have achieved regulatory capture, such that a small number of people wield disproportionate influence and drive the legislature against what the people want

>> I almost want there to be some kind of test to see how informed people are that somehow weights their votes

Given the history of the US in voter suppression, you not seeing the irony, is just fascinating.

OP's argument would be that bathrooms, changing rooms, hotel rooms are examples of places with expectation of privacy.

And if you are walking in the middle of a mall with lots of people around you, that would be an example where there is no expectation of privacy.

-- OP argument put more simply, if you are in a bathroom, everyone expects that that is private. In fact bathrooms have doors and urinals have privacy screens. If you are taking your clothes off, a reasonable person expects to be private

Whereas, in the middle of the mall where there are tons of people, there are surveillance cameras, and other people taking pictures of each other. That would be somewhere with no expectation of privacy

why is DD not getting sued? Why is grubhub the one getting sued?

One thing I haven't seen discussed is the poor affordance / discoverability of speech technology.

Google Home can do some clever things however, it also does not have the ability to do some very basic stuff. As a user, how do you know what Google Home can do and cannot do?

It is just trial and error. And if Google Home introduces a new feature to be able to complete new types of queries. What now? How does a user know that last month it wasn't able to do something and this month it is able to do that thing.

And lastly, the interface of voice is very clunky. It has no concept of temporal memory like

Me: "Ok Google, navigate to the nearest safeway" Google: "navigating you to the nearest gas station"

The natural thing to say is "no, I meant safeway nott gas station" however, I now have to say "Ok Google, navigate to the nearest safeway".

This is analogous to if keyboard had no backspace and you have to retype everything everytime you have a typo. Well that's the state of speech technology right now

Honestly, I just wish that this was 0-indexed. 1-indexing annoys me enough that I haven't really started playing with Julia.

But the analogy here is that if you buy Apple Watch, it is reasonable that it is tied tk iPhone.

just like you are buying oculus quest knowing that it is tied to FB

What is the judge's motivation to advertise for patent trolls to come to his court?

With the exception of California, the initial quote is indeed binding

Secondly, uber drivers have ratings (unlike cabs) and a set of consistent low ratings for dangerous driving will flag the dangerous behavior

Can you share your stories around how working remotely in the 90s was like?

e.g. there probably wasn't video chat. So how did you communicate? Were you coding? What were tooling like for coding remotely back then? etc etc

You know your statement is categorically untrue right.

"Uber sets the price"

In California, the driver sets their own price.

"tells me where to pick you up"

Given that this is a taxi service. The driver has to know where to pick up. In fact, how is this different from EBay? Does the seller become an employee because ebay tells the seller where to ship the goods?

"even dictates the route I should take"

No it doesn't. Most drivers use google maps.

"I don’t even get to see where I’m taking you until after I accept the ride"

That's also categorically untrue in California. The driver gets to see the trip before accepting.

Of course, all of these rolled out because of AB5. The question is: can you tell me why the driver is an employee?

Right so your point is that the driver is only an employee while on a trip. And while waiting for a trip, the driver is not an employee?

I am sure uber/lyft will be more than happy to pay minimum wage if the wage only counts when a trip begins. But the reason the companies are against the law is because the law requires minimum wage while the driver is not driving too. Which means that a driver could actually get 2 minimum wages at the same time while driving for both uber/lyft.

But of course that won’t happen. Uber/lyft will ban driving for competitor. Set up shifts such that every driver drives 37.5 hours a week. It is simply not worth the hassle of paying all these benefits for drivers who log in for an hour a day at random times.

Well they can in California and that’s what matters. Because this law is being contested in California.

I get the design. And of course uber wants to encourage lowering prices. However, the point remains: driver set prices, even if the design makes it less obvious. Eventually, if a driver has a number in mind, the driver flips a button to get that number.

As for negotiate individual trips, I don’t understand the point here. You set the prices for dollars per mile / per minute. The trip price is reflective of what the driver set already.

But while you are working at macdonalds you cannot simultaneously be working for KFC.

That’s what a uber/lyft drivers do

Drivers now set their own prices. Then it is the same as setting your own prices to teach piano to kids?

Set your own price higher then

you know uber lets drivers set prices now right?

You know because of this regulation, uber already introduce price setting to drivers.

This is literally what drivers do today in California.

How hard would it be for apple to also fabricate its own chips one day?

Would it ever make sense for apple to do that?

Arguably without the ranking and recommendation, FB is quite boring.

The feed is such an integral part of FB.