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It is, in the sense that companies like Meta operate assuming that 230 gives them carte blanche to act as they please. But: "Plaintiffs characterize Meta’s duty as one of product d…

Frankly, when you look around and everyone around you is focused first and foremost on getting rich, that's a good indication that the rich veins have already been mined. Wealth is…

Facebook did exactly this with a VPN acquisition. They didn't break into customer data; they just mined it for usage patterns. So as a pure speculation on Goog's motives, it doesn'…

Target as in, target for recruitment into the group. The targets for their victims seem chosen...as retaliation to defend their understanding of their own interests.

They also are the largest employer of doctors in the United States. They've essentially constructed their own single-payer health care provider, but instead of being paid for by ta…

The real philosophy is in the budget.

As described, it is a fair ways away from what RealPage is doing. Specifically: * RealPage sells raising rents, not just market info. * RealPage pressures clients into taking their…

> I'm confused about why we're comparing GOTO control flow with channels, since they're completely unrelated. I guess you can make a mess with each when you use them inappropriatel…

I have a good friend who's a Lyft driver. According to him, all drivers are rated on cleanliness by passengers; if you're dinged for a weird smell, there are lasting financial cons…

> I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. For folks who aren't familiar with FB, maxrmk is absolutely right. But some more…

But circular references don't leak in Java. You have to have a GC root (e.g. a static, or something in your runtime) somewhere pointing at the thing to actually leak it. There is o…

They're designed so that, if necessary, they can be operated by a single employee. That's why they're so tightly cramped around the grill: so that someone can cook and still keep a…

Chet is going to be missed a lot in our community. His talks with Romain Guy were inspirational to me: whenever I saw them it was clear that they could each hold the stage on their…

It's a low traffic 4 way stop sign intersection. Low speed, probably a 25mph speed limit? If you're cycling, this kind of intersection is only dangerous if you fail to yield/stop a…

Of course they are different things. But the choice to define "range" as the highest possible number is misleading: people ask the range so that they can know how many stops are re…

This is a really off base characterization of Android within Google. Chet Haase wrote a book on those years, and while it is clear that Google gave them rocket fuel to meet their a…

> Google will pay their lawyers a similar amount and the FTC is likely to lose again bc their case is weak! I cannot claim to the same prior knowledge as you, but I can read a news…

I am so sorry, I have to flag this because seriously, but also Amazing joke, I lol'd, fantastic work sir

Oh, wow. In other words, this number actually means, "We do almost no non-automated detection of hate speech." Smart spin, huh...

This discussion is partly about how Google alters search results to increase revenue. It would stand to reason that they might also improve their stock price and search revenue by …

An obvious choice would be AWS. AWS operates fairly independently of the rest of the company, and its huge profits subsidize the retail wing.

You have a hard time sympathizing? Say what you will about their means of getting it, but this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists withou…

> In other words, the current law is wrong, and it should be this other way instead. The "current framework in antitrust policy" was not legal at all. It was a set of interpretatio…

> What people are forgetting here is McDonald's has an interest in these machines working as well as possible (revenue + reputation), and the franchisee also has an interest in the…

Wow: > The plan instead is to generate revenue from a growing array of fintech products that it sells to the businesses it buys. If these products were any good, couldn't they make…