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This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever. I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring…

What you really want is NROL-11 which inadvertently revealed the classified location of the payload: https://gizmodo.com/decoding-hidden-messages-in-those-geeky-...

TL;DR "People watch fewer videos if they see more dislikes which means we make less ad revenue, the result of this A/B test is we will continue to optimize for ad rev"

Is it? How do they bill you without knowing how much data you transferred? How do they debug what went wrong with your connection without logs? This stuff is barely scratching the …

I'm not sure I understand - it took me 28 keystrokes to type 13 characters. The value must come from somewhere, where is it?

The author makes one mention of New York Times, the target of his confusion, but only in the very last sentence. Maybe he's the bad writer? Cherry-picking ten bad sentences from te…

You are right, but she is a GCP ML advocate, so her job is to distill this stuff down into blog posts or 45 minute talk tracks.

I'd pay. But mostly, I'd pay to know the customer service would respond to me. Customer service at Google is like trying to cancel Verizon service - endless transfers.

What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one…

Sure, but say your engineers cost you $100/hr, and every hour beyond 2,000hrs per year they work, they become more unhappy. I think it's worth spending the 8 hours/yr/site, supposi…

"X is Broken" is the new "Uber for X"

"If you’ve ever been on either end of the table, you’re probably mad at the state of hiring, too. Whether you have given it a lot of thought or whether you just feel it deep down, …

The author proposes that we're somehow blocked from success because we can't type fast enough. Is that true? I don't agree; in fact, I'd rather be concise and communicate well than…

Then it must have been the police that broke into the Dior and luxury stores on the Champs Elysees and looted them...or that set fire to buildings. Or it was police that spray pain…

Can someone source the US Government directly funding the construction of churches?

True in that sense. Also true that the two-tier system existed in one of the big tech giants and with it many of the same symptoms. It is interesting to see it again with Google, a…

It seems really similar to an article from March of 1998 about Microsoft: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/business/equal-work-less-...

Required seems strong. Is there a need for that?

In short, there is no objective way to value art, so galleries charge as much money as possible for the art. The author of the article is somehow either confused or offended by thi…

I'm not sure why you feel the need to defend yourself. HN has a low opinion of the concept of selling user data, but in practice, there are plenty of ad-supported startups represen…

Well, not everybody who dug for gold in the gold rush got rich, but those who sold shovels certainly did. Nice job.

It was probably different back then, but now you are paid for each pay period plus some hazard pay and additionally, you receive automatic timely promotions (on a schedule specific…

I may be simplistic or naïve, but if your business isn't profitable, that's what kills it. Travis or no Travis, it doesn't seem like Uber has found a way to cut a profit yet and at…