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Sometimes I genuinely wonder what people expect from one of the world's largest corporations. They aren't the first. There are hundreds of other giant multinationals that have been around for generations. Why exactly does anyone expect Google to be different?
I dunno what to tell you. Most people learn in early childhood that it's not okay to get what you want by throwing tantrums. If you missed that lesson, I'm unfortunately not sure how to guide you through it. But I'd recommend trying to find a way to learn; you should be aware that you're hurting both your organization and your personal reputation when you throw one.
"strictly off of algorithms questions with zero behavioral questions" was how they hired the people who created the culture.

The culture being criticized are execs. I don't think Thomas Kurian and Ruth Porat had algorithms interviews.
This would be useful outside of "hiding from law enforcement". Plenty of people have jobs where the compromise of their laptop could cause significant damage to their employer or their customers. Many people ready this thread should be taking these precautions.
Low hanging fruit here may be ayahuasca / ibogaine treatment for symptoms of withdrawal from chronic opioid abuse.

It sort of makes sense intuitively. If you you can just make it through the agony of junk sickness. You are in the clear. A 36-hour dose seems preternaturally suited.

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Videos on news articles are the worst. I think it’s the evening standard that has a video at the top and when you scroll past trying to avoid it they pin it to the top right side and hide the close and mute buttons until it’s started playing. So annoying!
Because the trial wasn't about finding the expected effect (drunkenness) but the secondary effects. People don't get heart disease or cirrhosis from non-alcoholic drinks, or at least, I'd be interested in reading the study where they do.
I think it’s just click-driven lazy journalism.
Note: Also, hiring in the UK and EMEA.
If I send a text message to my partner in the other room, nobody has any right to intercept that whether I'm a "good guy" or not. Before technology I might have walked into the other room and spoken, if I did that nobody would have any right to enter my home and set up a recording device, that's obvious.

If I hired a messenger to take a spoken message to my partner across town, the same applies. Nobody has any right to interrogate my messenger and he has no obligation to answer.

If I send electronic messages it should be no different.

The fact that interception and surveillance is possible doesn't suddenly make it obligatory.

Technology is power, in whatever form it comes in from weapons to education to communication. That power makes law enforcement more powerful and criminals more powerful.

Law enforcement wants it both ways. They want the increased power of their own encrypted communications, their own education, their own better tools and techniques AND they want to use technology to take away power that their supposed adversaries wouldn't have even been able to lose before the tech existed.

The technology exists. It can't be taken off the playing field. It doesn't matter how bad the "bad guys" are, law enforcement does not deserve that much power in a free society. The power balance between the state's monopoly on force and the people needs to be maintained. If it is not, abuses are inevitable.
==That seems to be two entirely opposite things. If you want to say "cell phones bad", just say that - don't pretend it is because of a desire to be better and healthier for children.==

You clearly want them to say "cell phones bad", but I only see you using those words. One can engage in an activity for multiple purposes. I like to exercise in order to keep my weight down, but it also helps me sleep better and keeps my energy levels up.

Isn't it possible that cell phones as a whole are good, but too much cell p[hone usage is bad? Coffee has many positive benefits, but if you start to drink too much of it, the negative effects can overtake the positive benefits. Isn't it worth exploring where that line is when it comes to a device we keep with us at all times and use "over 4 hours a day" [1]?

[1] https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...
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> and those people end up deciding what trainings are acceptable

In an ideal world companies like these would be arbitraged away, so to speak, as the people who decided to quit when presented with this stupidity are presumably smarter/more intelligent compared to the ones that decided to stay and play the whole charade, so the companies hiring those smarter people would in the long run be more efficient i.e. more profitable compared to the original companies which went down the "stupid diversity training" way.

Again, this is what would happen in an ideal world. The problem with companies like Google is that they're de-facto monopolies so there's no way for the market to arbitrage them away in the foreseeable future.
> In my experience, a Kindle connected to wifi burns through battery like there's no tomorrow. Like a percentage point every half hour.

It really speaks to the longevity of the Kindle that 50 hours of battery life ("a percentage point per half hour") counts as "[burning] through the battery like there's no tomorrow."

Or maybe it speaks to how little time most devices last, I can't tell.

(To be clear, your expectations are reasonable, as battery is a key selling point of e-ink Kindles.)
They call that civil forfeiture.
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Peak oil is still a thing, it was delayed by fracking. Oil is still a non-renewable resource.
On the other hand, Wire lets you look at their server code, I assume there's nothing stopping you from hosting your own server.
> among people who don't consider proprietary software to be unethical

wouldn’t that be nearly everyone? there are very, very few RMS’s in the world.
I think this is Amazon's core strength: the continuity of leadership and vision that comes from having a single CEO who is deeply involved in everything. No product launches at Amazon without Jeff Bezos at least being aware of it.

That said, woo boy, has that guy gone weird in the last couple of years. He used to be one of the only sane-seeming billionaires. The quirkiest thing about him used to be "he's investing in space."
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> What do you mean by "a better way"?

Einstein was the first person to discover relativity, and how he stated those ideas is merely one way of countless different ways of expressing them. People learned what Einstein said, taught it to others and used those ideas in further development of physics. In the process they learned ways of expressing these ideas that are much more conducive to teaching novice physicists, and/or elegant to build upon. This is what I mean by better: faster learning, deeper understanding, mathematical and conceptual elegance.

This process is not unique to physics or Einstein. In most intellectual fields, people digest and reformulate the ideas of past intellectuals to make them better, at which point people stop reading the works of those past intellectuals (except historians or the super-experts), and start referring to the newer texts. In fact, if any field does not do this, I would dare call it an anti-intellectual field.

A field has certain goals, certain questions it tries to answer. In most intellectual fields, newcomers start by learning the best possible answers to those questions found till now, and then get to the research stage, where they start trying to do better. If they do find better answers, they teach the next generation those better answers.

If you are telling me that what Plato said is among the best answers to the questions that Philosophy asks, then that means the field has not progressed. You say that "short introductions ... misses out on the intricacies of that thought", but this indicates a deep problem with Philosophy. In every other field, experts of today express the ideas of those in the past with mistakes corrected, oversights fixed, and exposition improved. You also misunderstand me when you say 'rewriting and "simplifying" texts is the hallmark of progress.' Modern textbooks of General Relativity are far more intricate, and complex than what Einstein ever wrote, yet more understandable to the physics undergrad. Our answers today are far far better than Einstein's, so I won't waste an undergrad's time with Einstein's writings.

Where are the best answers that the field of Philosophy has come up with, and why were they not written in the past few decades?
FYI, imports of all proteins in China is heavily regulated despite the claims of opposite.

Effectively, import permits are issued per-country, and can be withdrawn on a whim to keep agrarian lobbies on their toes in exporter countries. That is done through sanitary and food safety permits.

Current sky high prices may well be because you got a counterintuitive reaction from permitting officials, and they will fall again once they will ease on imports.

China been historically edgy on imports of pork, and most private importers specialise on beef and chicken instead.
My point was more, "measurement good; eating psychoactive things off the ground bad."

The "key advancement of chemistry"—the thing that makes chemistry chemistry, rather than alchemy (and as it happens, the thing that differentiates baking from cooking) is being able to measure the reactants we put into a beaker, and clean the product of the reaction of any side-products, such that we can then crystallize/distill/etc. out the product alone, weigh it, and thereby determine the exact potency of product. Once we know that, we can then do all sorts of things: dilute it to a controlled strength; create delivery vehicles that deliver it at particular speeds; put it straight into the body in ways that would just kill you if you put into the body all the other stuff that you isolated the product out of; etc.

Anyone can do this. People make THC tinctures and essential-oils all the time, in their kitchens. It doesn't matter to me whether you do it or someone else does it for you; but it seems irresponsible to me to tell someone to go eat the non-processed version for medical effect.

> Hydroponic cannabis is grown in highly controlled environments and the dosage levels are tested to be within an acceptable range.

Sure, you can control everything about the production of the marijuana itself. But the key to medical treatment is the last mile, and specifically the ability to relate a patient's response over time to a dosing schedule/pharmacodynamic profile for the drug. If you prescribe someone "medical marijuana", without fixing down how they're going to take it, they could very well do anything from eating the whole batch at once, to vaping it every three minutes, to just doing hits off a bong whenever they feel pain. These are not the same thing, and medically they should be different prescriptions if the doctor has any hope of knowing whether the treatment is working.

Pills (or, really, anything more specific than "here's a plant, go to town") let a doctor say something more specific like "take one of these every two hours", and then from there know exactly how much of the active ingredient should be in the patient's bloodstream at any given time of the day, and so be able to measure effects (and side-effects!) against those that are normal, or abnormal, for that level of dose being in the patient's body for that period of time.
Conversely you might want to consider the mental gymnastics required to pretend that all that people at google do is merely adtech.
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Is Seattle's only business besides tech restaurants? They give no other examples other than restaurants in this article.

It would seem to me that businesses that needed low wage workers and actually had to compete nationally or globally would have a far different outcome.
Because they claimed to be.
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Google was a great place - for most people - when it was riding the crazy growth rocket that was its Search/Adwords/Adsense/Analytics engine. (former Googler here)

As those growth rates slowed it started flailing around trying to kickstart them in other ways. It had to do this to keep the stock in the stratosphere, which kept the mid-to-senior managers rich, and gave the ones who weren't yet rich the possibility of becoming so. Some of these attempts were questionable ethically. Similarly, privacy invading changes were made in the core business. People all the way to Larry & Sergey told themselves and everyone else the same lies that their ceaseless profiling and other invasions were for the customers own good. Think G+'s real names policy, Google Glass's creepy stalker potential, etc.

The engagement in dubious if completely legal tax dodges was another sign. As was the army of lobbyists, as was the work on censored search.

In any case, it's sort of inevitable in stock-market driven capitalism that unicorns can't slow down gracefully, with everyone being satisfied that their millions or billions are 'enough.' I wish they could. I suspect it's doubly-hard for a company when their outlandish success attracts people primarily driven by money. All that growth meant a ton of hiring, and i suspect people who really just wanted to get rich self-selected into the applicant pool.

Beyond that, instances of sexual harassment and their cover-up suggests that maybe their was never a big commitment to not 'be evil'. At least when it came down to powerful execs and less-powerful women. Maybe it was always just another company.

I used to be really proud of my time at Google, and I still think it was, and probably still is, a better than the rogues gallery of tech's giant offenders (Uber, Facebook, Amazon). But the pride I felt in working there is gone.

I believe Jeff Bezos is the greatest businessman we've seen since Ford or Rockefeller, but his insatiable need for not just more, but everything, has kept him from being a great human and Amazon from being a great company in anything other than the most narrow economic sense.
This starts out as an amusing article, which it then rapidly transitions to a fairly boilerplate "Build MVP" sermon, while somehow managing to be insultingly insubstantial with its topic.

A more useful military lesson might be don't send tanks into a city fight (they'll die there), don't use tanks for defense (they're actually not so good at it), and when pushed to do something, figure out why you're doing it, ideally before you commit to a course of action, but always be prepared to change plans, to better achieve whatever goal you actually need to accomplish.
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You choose the language you want to use. One person's tantrum is another person's negotiation. If it accomplishes your goal, that's all that matters. Objective success metrics will always trump feelings.

Don't trust internet randos, of course, but I preach what I practice and it has served me well in life.
This is very surprising to me -- have you done any research in to this? I would be interested to go down the rabbit hole but if you did some of the research already maybe we can be efficient humans :D
> the JVM's awful GC

This just makes it seem like you are trolling. JVM devs have done more to advance state of art in this area than any other language. The problem is that most JVM apps just produce too much garbage, not necessarily that the algo itself is awful.

Either way, there's no such thing as an optimal GC algorithm, just different trade-offs depending on your use case. Not everyone cares about latency.
Oh, to be clear, I'm not excited by the prospect of psilocybin making it all the way to FDA approval. What excites me is that this is more evidence of a pattern of change in what medical research is being conducted. There were many drugs that we were "leaving on the table" before, that we're actually bothering to look into now. Whether or not they turn out to work for anything, at least we'll know, instead of pretending they don't exist!
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> while the Japanese government has all three of one’s passports pretty much requires breaking lots of laws in at least three countries. (Likely more, e.g. money laundering.)

Man, I doubt anything of that was involved. People get paperless in and out of countries despite all of that security theatre every day.

It's not a secret that private flight immigration and security is a joke.
Are you freakin blown away every single time you visit a Google site on a browser other than Chrome and see essentially the same thing?
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>You didn't describe a 1998 style of living, you described roughing it.

You mean the grandparent did. What they said isn't about permanent living, but about something one can do as a kind of break, and they (and I for that matter) thinks beneficial for the children too: "Go somewhere distant from technology, forage/hunt food, make a meal over an open fire, and sleep under the stars - so vital for a child's psychological well-being."

We used to call those things "going cabing/fishing/hunting/backpacking in the wild" etc, back before 1995 and throughout the 20th century -- and we did them without cellphones or game consoles, and most things. Usually it was a great parent/kid bonding memory too. Sleeping under the stars, making a meal open an open fire, fishing/hunting for food and eating local stuff (from trees etc), were all perfectly normal. Heck, several people I know, in my age and younger (40 to 20-something) still do a lot of those things, go camping, etc. Are they considered inconceivable savagery today?

>That seems to be two entirely opposite things. If you want to say "cell phones bad", just say that - don't pretend it is because of a desire to be better and healthier for children.

You probably confused my response to your comment, to what the grandparent wrote first. Note however, that neither me, nor the grandparent mentioned anything about some permanent retreat from technology. Grandparent basically said - as I read it - "do this X things in nature, without technology, from time to time. It's good for you, and good for the children to learn those things and to not think they're nothing without technology".

That said, nor sure about the distinction you're making here: "If you want to say "cell phones bad", just say that - don't pretend it is because of a desire to be better and healthier for children.".

If I believe that cell phones are bad, I'd naturally also believe spending some time without them is better and healthier for children. So saying one or the other would be based on the same idea.

But you don't have to think "cell phones are bad". It's enough to think that cell phones are not only great, but also have downsides, or that however good cell phones are, one also needs to appreciate / be able to do without them too. It's about not being a slave to one's tech.
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Put in another way or with another interpretation: the arms race between disease and immune system in the animal-human-disease relationship led to very powerful diseases which the humans carried in their populations but were not largely affected by.

When the Europeans started crossing oceans to contact very different civilizations they brought the diseases which themselves committed genocide because the new populations hadn't had the same difficulty or interactions with animals and diseases.
Right. I'm saying I want to see that tech developed.

There used to be ad kiosks in grocery stores that had a 3d display without glasses. This was about 10 years ago and I don't really know how it worked (holograms maybe?). Make an entire room out of that stuff.