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I am surprised that of the pages and pages of comments that I have read (about 500+ comments), few discuss the potential implications of (a) having virtually all of a business's co…

The financial times has a covid tracker with log vs linear, daily vs cumulative and absolute vs per capita toggles. I understand log scales and even so, changing these settings rea…

one pet peeve of mine is if in the candidate's portfolio they place login screens or introductory carrousel screens prominently.

why was this flagged? I'm no fan of communism, but it appears to be a valid response to the parent.

the objective of the tax would not be to eliminate the unemployed, but rather to put them to work

Yes, or even better, for all that surplus lard on your body!

While we are at it, lets tax the vacant hours of the unemployed - those evil speculators who are consipiring to restrict the supply of labor. That will encourage them to work and t…

some of the things we have had censored by fb (even after appealing) 1. illustrations of cupid on valentines day, genitals covered, for nudity. 2. illustrations of a (non sexually …

note- strategic adversaries is a more appropriate term than competitors, and it is interesting how language used by nation states now fits the relation between companies so well.

> Facebook doesn't want these companies sending users' personal data to them without their knowledge. Rubbish. If they didn't want the data, they wouldn't build & offer developers …

I hve never been to China but in my experience american airport security and immigration is nasty as compared to other perfectly free and democratic countries.

I am surprised at how few of the comments here say - if parents and/or kids want to make non-sexual videos public, fine. If paedophiles are aroused by them nometheless, fine too (a…

Thank you for the answer. I have to admit it doesn't quite sway me, for reasons such as those below, but thank you. e.g. yes I realise they are different search problems, but I'd p…

To be a bit contrarian here, I'm not sure that any question you ask after an offer (over and above what you knew/have learned before) will actually improve the quality of your deci…

curious: how big is the Firestore team? what about the team for the Firebase products as a whole?

Curious - what do you use? any suggestions of good serverless NoSQL? with the built in auth and extras Google/Firebase offer? What about relational? I've used Back4App, but with it…

Paying Firestore user here. 1. Disappointing that it has gone to GA without providing proper search (after a long beta). Can anybody explain why a service run by the worlds #1 sear…

not necessarily - the data could be used to understand overall usage patterns and preferences in the target population as a whole - much in the same way as traditional surveys and …

Sorry to disappoint, but I think this is just one of many ways. example - as an iOS dev u want to advertise on fb. for that to be effective u want to track conversions. easiest way…

Based on direct involvement in the process of writing one such policy for one such big internet co., my view is that the confusion and vagueness is largely deliberate. A small part…

yes, but 'inside the company' and 'testing' are vague. On one hand u have Larry Page testing the latest version of Gmail app - clearly eithin bounds - but what if its a contractor …

I think they mean the research data won't be used directly to target ads or try to make sales to you (standard guideline for market research), rather than the second order effect o…

1. Based on personal experience, I don't really buy the many comments here that say the web is boring bc most people are boring vs some fun geeky outlier elite. I remember IT class…

but conversely you might have the contrarian town geniuses also interacting where they would not previously. so I guess it depends on the relative size of the 2 groups and their re…

fun fact - I changed my hometown to Timbuktu on facebook. yet when I click on Why Am i seeing This Ad, I am told it is because the advertiser wants to reach people who live in (not…