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joes223

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    Comment #20796395

    There is nothing more equal in it. It's outright criminal. The today's adtech is when you walk into a grocery store, get stuff for free, while in the meantime the store takes notes…

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    Comment #20796361

    Let's put it another way: 95% of webdevs can drop a code snippet with GA on their page, while only hm.. 5% can set up that GA proxy.

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    Comment #20785644

    Afaik, TeX is a Turing-complete language that can even read files from disk. Yet, it's only purpose is to render static text documents and nobody blames Knuth for inability to sepa…

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    Comment #20785613

    I believe that this is a part of a well funded campaign against Google by some of its rivals or enemies. Oracle? Regardless, whoever is implementing this attack, they're doing a fa…

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    Comment #20785566

    I think the today's adtech is more like video cams installed in everyone's house and squads of criminals that do targeted raids based on information obtained from those video cams.…

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    Comment #20785447

    It wouldn't because that's a drastically more complex solution.

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    Comment #20785404

    The biggest barrier is that there is no money in honest business. In other words, people want to pay for useful content (e.g. wikipedia is still up and running), it's just what the…

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    Comment #20764579

    But realistically, can an employee get 2-3% of preferreds to secure his share? Assuming he's valuable enough to negotiate this much.

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    Comment #20743884

    Pythagoras had some insider knowledge, while Thales et al just speculated.

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    Comment #20743829

    It's pretty clear that this is just a battle between the big tech and their enemies. However I don't think the government will support this attack: it needs the big tech as much as…

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    Comment #20743802

    This may be the old money vs new money confrontation.

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    Comment #20736090

    It's not a paradox because the statement that the interview processes don't evaluate candidates is false. It's proven that this particular interview format has a very high correlat…

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    Comment #20736076

    Anonymous feedback (like really anonymous) is the answer. people can't give real feedback and be nice at the same time.

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    Comment #20736051

    Employees are not assets because the company doesn't own them.

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    Comment #20736025

    All this is based on assumption that those "terrorists" exist and need a sophisticated a reliable banking system. A simpler theory is that "terrorists" are state actors who challen…

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    Comment #20735949

    It's worth adding that "terrorists" is a fictional organization and merely means "the bad guys".