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What makes you think this problem isn't being tackled? Every year Twitter and Facebook talk about how they detected and removed XXX million bots from their platform. For example, the spam problem has been rapidly iterated on [1] to little fanfare. The abuse, T&S and security teams at these companies probably cost on the order of hundreds of millions of $, how is that consistent with your framing that the problem is being ignored?

You can't simply throw machines and manpower at a problem.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffi...

http://mars.google.com is fun, too!

Okay, I'll bite. How do you break up a website? Whichever Baby G ends up with Search will create it's own Ads department, and things will be back to the status quo in no time. The best I can imagine is breaking it by country lines, but realistically, the US will never agree to that.

Tim Pool literally has to self-censor in real-time to avoid the robot bans. It's creepy as hell and has no place in a free society (regardless if you agree with him or not).

There's two reasons IMO.

The first is that being in-person is valuable to many companies, enough so they're willing to pay a significant premium for it. If you're remote, then you get less.

The second is that it's all about negotiation. Companies by and large have the upper hand here, and would pay much lower wages if they could. FAANGs do not pay 2-300k salaries for fun, but because of the local competition.

Software developers are finally getting a taste of what the average citizen has to deal with compensation-wise, no wonder people are reacting badly.

Because children were pressured by society into going to university, on what possibly was false pretences.

How does a group of citizens get a motion tabled to repeal mass surveillance laws in the EU? Just by sheer scale, it's harder to get the attention of the EU than it is the UK government.

> Brexit was a slim non-binding referendum run ammock for party-internal politics of the Tories. Absurd from start to finish and now you want to blame the EU for the consequences?

I'm not saying that I agree with how things have turned out, nor am I blaming the EU, rather, just pointing out that they do have much control over global commerce.

And this is anecdotal evidence of that.

The EU could've had an internal border within it's own market, but that wasn't an option because they didn't want Ireland to be cut off. Both the EU and UK had the same desire, but the EU had the upper hand due to their economic size and control.

> What would you expect should happen, that UK should be allowed to use Nothern Ireland as backdoor to send unchecked goods to the EU, imported from say the USA and Australia and re-exported into the whole EU market with no border checks anywhere?

Of course not. That's exactly GGP's point I was trying to prove.

> The EU already has unprecedented control over commerce.

And I agree with it.

Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing are all using 1P scripts.

As somebody who was somewhat in-favour of Brexit (not popular here, admittedly), my view is that it's easier to fight for privacy against just the UK government, rather than the entire EU bloc. I think if an entity as powerful as the EU puts this into legislation, it's game over.

I have a similar view on federal laws in the United States - they don't tend to repeal federal surveillance laws without violence.

I believe GP is referring to the EU 'forcing' the UK to put a border between Britain and Northern Ireland, because the EU wanted a hard border somewhere and wouldn't budge on that.

Legitimately terrifying that a new surveillance state can be announced and nobody knows if it's satire or not.

I'm fairly sure Android crash reporting is all manually done, and even zips it up for you to inspect.

But some of these are impossible, e.g. how do you localize a stack trace?

As a layman, can you explain to me why a very accurate (i.e. small error) model wouldn't still lead to catastrophically incorrect results when projected across a long timespan?

> Or the search query you did use was shared to the data broker and now whats going viral to you already matches what you would have looked for

This sounds like a conspiracy theory. Search engines generally aren't sharing your queries?

Comparing blockchain to electricity and nuclear science is just depressing for me :/

Deep learning is here, today. Not really vapourware.

It's not the same thing. GH Issues firstly requires a GitHub account, whereas anyone can sign up to a mailing list. The model is just worse for general discussion too.

Mailing lists are great. Better than a slack for long-term discoverability.

I think you're conflating kindness and niceness. People are nice to protect the feelings of others, whereas kindness has a more logical component, e.g. being honest when the truth can hurt. You can be kind without being nice. But I believe you're right that people need to take their emotions out of their work.

Aside: That old version of BBC News is an absolute gem of history. Especially looking at some of the recommended sidebar stories:

> Britons 'baffled over euro rate'

> Wireless internet arrives in China

> Mobile spam on the rise

Fascinating to see how much our problems have stayed the same, despite the changing context.

I hope this is considered 'archived' and not 'forgotten'.

It is possible, much in the same way that making friends at school does not require you to be glued to a textbook all day. But it requires self control and thoughtful boundaries.

You have to be careful, because work friends can suddenly vanish when you change jobs, but anyone with a bit of social awareness can navigate this.

WFH has changed work from a social experience into something boring. I get it, work is work, and maybe treating it as a more significant part of life isn't a shrewd move, but I am definitely missing out something in this current state.

(That being said, I do understand that I may change my mind in 10 years, assuming I have a family. But I can only talk about how this seems today.)

No, they do. And you can see the aggregate scores of everyone in the company on a dashboard afterwards.

> so unless historians dig deep in third-party archives, they'd never understand where that belief came from

I expect future historical tooling will exist to solve exactly this problem. Assuming Archive.org and the like nabbed it, the evidence is all there for future generations to see.

I've only ever heard the term ldap from Googlers, to mean, "username".

I suspect there are many users here that visit 4chan regularly. It's got a lot of hate, but some of the content there is entertaining enough.

> The critics are talking about Software Engineering (~1/3rd of the company?)

It's closer to 2/3.