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> Google was a different company 9 years ago. No it wasn’t.
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Oh absolutely, I transferred out of ads as soon as I could and of course it all seemed different. The reality is that ads was 95% of the company revenue though, so it was all fantasy.
For many years infra was delightfully oblivious, just finding interesting things to build. :) Working on promo committee I could see how different ads was
But there's also something about a PA being disconnected from its revenue sources to create a sense of unreality and distorted incentives.
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> So was being a concentration camp guard. What the hell. We are talking about ads on the computer.
> We are talking about ads on the computer. Not just ads on the computer. TFA also discusses AI for surveillance, weapons, etc.
Why post a Google docs copy of the original article? https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
The blog post is from June 19th. Google Doc from June 17th. My guess? He shared the Google Doc link with his peers, but forgot that Google Docs links are public for anyone who knows the link, so someone just forwarded it to oblivion, and he was forced to publish that as blog post. The addendums kind of reflect that. That's a great reminded that any Google Doc with a shareable link is basically a public document for a…
There's not much difference between them ctrl+v-ing the link to a third party, vs them ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v-ing the contents to another party. If anything, by just sharing a link, you have a chance to disable the sharing and hope the content hasn't yet been copied.
> Google was a different company 9 years ago. No it wasn’t.
The article clearly lists at least two ways they are significantly different now.