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Doesn't everyone?

Plus, there's other reasons to be skeptical of wealth taxes, capital flight is a real thing.

> > [...] at only 9,000 lines, Unix v6 was tractable, people continued to study it (and maybe still do), and the famous comment lived on.

Wow, Unix is a work of art. I have hobby projects at 2x SLoC which are literally just small web services :(

> people don't even need an excuse to attack you anymore beyond your non-cis, non-white, non-maleness.

I'm a privileged cis white male, but I've also been doxxed and harassed online (got cancelled basically). Can we not make this conversation even more divisive by suggesting it has anything to do with these immutable characteristics, please? The internet can be a shitty place for anyone.

MapReduce, GFS and Bigtable are the foundations of big data today.

The fact you're criticising the publisher and not the raw video footage just proves there's more to it to me.

There's certainly a ton of circumstantial evidence like Biden's lawyer asking for the hard drive back and nobody denying it's real.

Maybe some less Orwellian context: It's very normal now for friends/family to have some kind of permanent location sharing. Snapchat has this feature built in and I was quite surprised to see dozens of friends have this feature turned on and widely sharing by default.

In a nutshell, individual freedoms (freedom of speech) trump collective safety (censoring misinformation). The answer is more information, like fact check panels.

I think GP is more referring to the fact that GitHub Actions et al are a better reimplementation of Azure DevOps. I suspect Azure DevOps will be deprecated in favour of GitHub.

Deloitte make a huge point of hiring apprentices - taking on dozens (maybe nearly ~100) of them on every year. Seems the general goal of everyone there is to make partner one day.

I'm part of an individualist culture which sees things through the lens of individuals, not collective society. Now I care about society and make individual effort to care & contribute towards it, but I wouldn't attempt to view things through a collectivist lens when considering the policy decisions of giant corporations.

I don't consider that dangerous to me.

People have always relied on work for building social lives. Even when I worked in a shop, I'd end up going for drinks with those people and making friends. When I moved to a new city, my entire social fabric stems off of work (even if the majority of friends are now 1 or 2 steps removed, I needed that foundation to bootstrap).

We're already in a loneliness epidemic, WFH will make that 10x worse.

So what if Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft/Bing, Apple and Amazon all refuse to carry the content (including advertisements next to this content).

Do not tell me that's not Big Tech putting their thumb on the scale in a dangerous way.

And before you say it, "muh private platform" is not an acceptable argument. This is dangerous to our society.

Facebook doesn't need me to be kind.

But that can be done by pouring resources into the vulnerable. We already have Covid marshals - wouldn't it be great if they could go door-to-door for everyone who needs it, daily? We have the resources to do this.

Isn't it cheaper to guarantee that high riskers can stay at home and self isolate? Far better than money printer go brr and likely economic implosion.

Facebook bans accounts fairly regularly for hate speech, which pretty much means whatever they want. It seems ludicrous to me that an edgy teenager can have their headset bricked because they posted some spicy political memes.

Isn't that the whole point of BeyondCorp though? That application level security can work. Long term, trusting the network is a bad idea anyway.

Reddit clones can still be novel.

That 1 ms translates to a much larger number in poor countries with everyone on 2G.

> how many ping pong balls fit in a 747

This one does seem useful. Being able to do back-of-the-napkin (i.e. fermi problem) calculations is a pretty good skill.

Pretty much. Internal search at Google actually used these appliances for a long time. Fortunately it's still been evolved and was externalised as a Google Cloud product a few years back.

Genuine question, but do you really believe this is the final form of the web? That we're done and it's perfect forever?

This is HN. Discussion is kind of the whole point.

too true

Hah, put the bank on hold for a change. Hope this takes off.

Google TV, as far as I understand it, is a bunch of features across Google services to make TV better.

Like watchlist in Search, the new Google TV app, and the launcher on this Chromecast.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, but I don't work on this)

Yes I know. My point was that Android TV is already an operating system in itself (which already has it's own TV features), and Google TV is a rebranding of the software running upon that OS. Namely, the new home screen app.

Google TV is software which runs on Android TV devices made by Google. It's not a replacement of Android TV. It's akin to Windows Media Center running on Windows XP.