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It feels like there's two possible explanations here. One is that somehow the website has been incorrectly flagged or blacklisted, like the example he mentions with Bing. In that case, it seems like it'd be at least nice for Google to be able to look into it, but it also might be the sort of thing where Google just decides it's not worth the effort.

The other possibility is that Google just updated their search algorithm in a way that happens to not like this website as much as it used to. Not because anything is wrong with it or because of any bug in the algorithm, just it now prefers different attributes, and that changes where this site ranks. If this is the case, there's really nothing to be done. There's no ground truth result ranking for any particular query - if Google feels its new results are better, that's their business.

If your entire business depends on an arbitrary algorithm preferring your website over other very similar ones, and you will lose everything if that arbitrary algorithm happens to change, eventually it's going to happen. It sucks, and it's maybe unfair in a cosmic sense, but there's really nothing to be done.
How do you know he’s even in trouble? Because a bunch of western journalists haven’t seen him personally for a few weeks?
> and they're free to keep paying me to do something else instead

But I am guessing they're not free to fire you, right? So, it's not really "take-it-or-leave-it" but more "take-it-or-choose-something-else". There's not leaving involved.

> If Alphabet workers want to use that collective power to negotiate a legal contract protecting their job if they refuse to work on a project, that's their right.

This is what confuses me, and maybe you can help me understand.

1. Employee and Employer have a contract where Employee will work on what Employer wants and get paid in return.

2. Employee does not want to work on what Employer wants, yet wants to be paid i.e. wants the employer to honor their part of the contract while wanting to renege on their part.

Let's use another example.

Would one be supportive of employees wanting to only work FOSS while at Alphabet refusing to work on anything else, and still "protect their job" i.e. not be fired?
Also his website is just affiliate link garbage.

I looked through like 12 categories where I consider myself very familiar with the market for what's available and the product recommendations are poor. At best. Half of the recommendations look like your standard rebadged Alibaba crap peddled on Amazon with all the fake reviews that follow.

I guess the name of the site is a tacit admission that probably the products are not good, but this page is content that's designed to match for certain search terms and not something that's organically good content.

I'm fine with Google ranking this content straight to zero.

Edit: The author is a nice guy and a decent writer. Emotionally, I want to feel for him. But not for content like this.

You can have all of the best intentions and still contribute negative value to the world.
>That's a different way of saying "we don't care". You aren't really contradicting the other person's point.

And yet, I am. The weasel phrasing "we don't care" implies:

(a) we should care

(b) everybody should care

(c) we're doing the wrong thing by not caring

In other words, it takes the parent's prioritization as some absolute correct one everybody should agree on (this is also evident from the rest of the comment).

As opposed to merely "we have different priorities, and we don't believe yours are important".

If the parent changed the "they don't care" accusation to a neutral "they don't care about the things I care", I'd undersign it.
I work in Infosec, and I keep getting the question "why do all these scammers send poorly worded, frequently misspelled, obviously fake emails by the millions?"

And I lay it out for them. The short answer: is because it works.

If they send 5k emails out, asking for $2k, all they need is for a small percentage to fall for it.

They know how much effort to put in to get a specific return.

Why can't that be the same idea here? Pick out the ones who don't ask questions, or take 2 seconds to Google something, etc. Whip them into a frenzy. Then steer them to a specific site. Or to donate. Or even just start following whomever wrote this out, to be convinced to donate somewhere later.
> Their thinking was that the vast majority of traffic is coming from google, and it wasn't worth it to have multiple also-ran search engines crawling their site frequently. There's a case to be made that search engines are actually a natural monopoly.

The other case to be made that people doing this sort of decisions should loose their jobs.
This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket. Centralization and emphasis on scale comes with risk; especially when technology and security are involved.

It was only a matter of time.
They ask you regularly if the data is still up to date and have disclaimers about situations like this when you register the phone number as an actual authentication factor.

Not saying that this isn't at least partly on Google, they should have responsive customer service that can verify accounts - but you could have easily prevented that by being less lazy with keeping your data up to date. Security and account recovery is the one thing you shouldn't cheap out on.
Yikes. I've logged into my gmail account from 55 different countries, and I've never had a problem. Some of those countries must have set some flags - Nigeria, Sudan, Mali, Rep. Congo, Bolivia, El Salvador.

Maybe I'm on thin ice..
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Not to descend in whataboutism (you are right about the terribleness of the american penal system), but China has concentration camps for minority religions. We should avoid turning this into a "who is more fascist" competition.
That's Jesse Plemons, not Matt Damon. Great episode!
Getting doses out early and fast is critical and making sure to maintain trust when doing so is also important. This person is on the wrong side of both for reasons that are unacceptable, I expect they’ll be made an example of as we must consider that this is not the last time we’ll need to maintain the integrity of a large scale vaccine roll out.

I expect the punishment to appear sufficient to presumably deter other wrong minded people from doing something similar. It probably won’t work.
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It’s not difficult when you can enumerate every member of a type. Can you write a type for prime numbers this way?
How are workers being favored?
Recipes do not have patent protection, yet there is plenty of innovation in restaurants.

There are many paths to an innovation. I don't think the first person deserves such a monopoly. American IP law, in combination with the generally letigious society, has always seemed like a net source of innovation friction...
What does spying on Americans have to do with China, Russia and terrorists (who are by definition foreign nationals)..?
So assuming the company is splits into Google and AdWords,
would Google be forced to work with AdWords or are they allowed to use different providers? Are they allowed to create their own competitor to AdWords? Which problem is this solving?
Because if financial reciprocation is your first incentive to be creative you've already lost the mind game. If you are a creative, you will understand that sometimes we just like to do things...
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The US prison system is purposely designed to be as violent, demeaning, and inhuman as possible. So you can argue that it works perfectly the way it was designed to work. The official theory is that it somehow will reduce crime. That hasn’t happened obviously. And yet the system continues. So obviously the real purpose of the US prison system is not to reduce crime. Other countries has for years shown how to effectively reduce crime without torturing people.
You can’t really stop people from finding your face online if it’s on social media, but you can present the information so that you’d first read the text and then see a photo.

Move the photo on the profile to the bottom of it, and make it optional.
"What would _actually_ happen is a long list of companies would say "brilliant, we don't have to conform to the app store guidelines any more" and go sideload-exclusive"

This hasn't happened in Android, why do you think it would happen with Apple?
I treat anonymously sourced news articles as a coin toss nowadays—assume a 50% chance that the claims in the article are unqualified truth.
Sorry you’re unable to reconcile the fact that there’s no way your world view is wrong and the only way someone else has a different view has “ulterior motives”
can't you just disable ssl and sniff the password via wireshark?
But never isn’t necessarily a reasonable goal. People will tolerate outages when it’s not lost money/business.
> your email program

Reality check: Most people don't use email programs anymore.

Also how do you get IRC to sync all conversation data, history, between your several desktops and phones, how do you send files, make calls, and thread conversations?
To be fair, they do that with a lot of things - not just reporting on China.
The entire legal system is a fucking kangaroo court joke.
It seems as though this notion gets very subjective and gets leveraged to influence policy decisions. Libya and Iraq are the first examples that come to mind.
Your comment here is also violating those comment guidelines.
FYI your dropbox link isn't the public URL.
I dunno, Android has sideload capabilities forever - all you need to do is to go to setting and check the checkbox. But still, most people only use the google's store.

Even Chromebooks, which are super locked down by design, has "developer mode". It needs to be activated via obscure process, and when active it shows up a warning screen on every boot, but it is still there.
Ad networks were separate years ago! Strangely enough they were acquired. Google bought AdSense and Sprinks in 2003, dMark Broadcasting in 2006, AdScape and DoubleClick in 2007, AdMob in 2009, Invite Media in 2010, mDialog in 2014, Red Hot Labs in 2015... I'm sure there are more.
The entire point of signatures is that you don't have to trust the channel that delivers them.

The root of trust is the private key that comes with the operating system install ISO, but that you can download over HTTPS or have it delivered as physical media etc.
I've been working remote for a decade now.

Moving my office out of my bedroom eliminated 99% of the claustrophobia I had developed. Having where you work and sleep in two different mental compartments is more valuable than you could ever anticipate.
> Anyone in the US can legally and publicly criticize any level of our government without fear of reprisal.

Both the internal statements by violent right-wing counter-demonstrators about widespread expectation of police tacit support without need for direct coordination that came to light and the actual police behavior toward violent right-wing counter-demonstrators in many cases during the recent BLM protests demonstrate that that certainly isn't true in substantial, recently-salient cases.
Was the friend also an employee? The tone of the sentence sounds quite different if you replace those words: from touching to dystopian

> situation where the founder had actually lost an employee and trained a chat-bot on their email backlog.
In many cases.

Virtually any jurisdiction that knows no capital punishment refuses to extradite if it be possible the extraditee face it.
This was pretty much the threat that occured:

NY Governor: I disagree and think the vaccine rollout plan needs to be better.

President Trump: Fine, we won't send you any vaccines.
I meant end-user switching costs, but you raise good points.

Barrier to entry and startup costs to a competitor have never been lower. I believe recent court wins make “unauthorized” scraping more openly available, and anti-trust regulations should look at allowing competitors to ignore a Google-only robots.txt as long as reasonable throttling is enforced.
Meh, I'd say anyone who remembers Turbo mode on PCs would understand the spirit, at least.
> You make the real money after free agency.

To be clear, nobody would argue that any of the players are starving, but the agreement is structured to reward seniority. That’s literally what I argued. The “real money” comes in free agency, access to which is restricted by service time.
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Even saying you thought it was an accidental release would get you in trouble with Twitter or Youtube though.

Social media loses a lot of its utility if you're only allowed to say things that are blessed by official, mainstream media. :-)
I tried to implement a graph neural network back in 2006...

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It's not just rights. There are many countries that purportedly offer the same rights as the US. Another key differentiator is the rule of law. Granted, both are slowly eroding.
> In-n-Out has a customizable menu. Contractors negotiate their contracts for flexible terms.

I have no say in what’s on their menu. Contractors negotiate but I can’t force them to do anything with a vote like I can in a democracy.

> One can switch citizenships, or choose to relocate themselves to the few remaining frontiers where governance is minimal.

Not without moving and significant impact to life. In all but company towns (which are basically non existent now), it’s trivial to not have any meaningful relationship with a particular business.
It’s less of a reach than you think. These people may not be directly responsible for those decisions, but their distractions have allowed a lot of the people responsible for those decisions to bully them through. They’ve also created a climate where the people who push back against those bad decisions are uncomfortable or outright persecuted.
I will repeat again. The person claimed that I would not be worse off. And that person was wrong. And I have described specifically how I would be worse off.

You keep trying to redirect to something that is not relevant. The relevant question was whether or not I would be worse off with a union. And the answer is that I have giving an exact answer as to how I would be worse off.

Glad that you agree that the original person was wrong, and that I was right on how I would be worse off.

Nothing that you said at all disagrees with me regarding this specific issue. You have made no statement that disagrees with the true fact that I would be worse off by having to be under the union contract."

This conversation is about whether or not people are harmed by unions in this way, and bringing up irrelevant stuff does not change that.

Nothing that you said is an actual convincing argument as for why unions do not harm me, when I have laid out specifically how it makes my situation worse.
Heads up: the Heroku Dyno seems to be down for the Tom Hanks Covid-19 challenge.
Yes, they'd be allowed to use other ad providers, and hopefully it would be illegal to penalize them for constantly running some multi-armed-bandit trials across multiple ad providers.
The interesting thing for me is the contrast in the behavior of the Chinese government between the previous viral leaks from China. I'm citing a few references from before 2020:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-bei...
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly...

The previous behavior was to acknowledge the leaks and try to contain them. The current behavior is to arrest people who document the government cover up. Why the change in behavior, unless the government absolutely knows what happened and is trying to control the information?
It is what we aspire to, though. Sure, we’re not perfect. Nobody is.
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> I'm just wondering what the hell a "signature" is in this context?

If you genuinely don't know how companies like FireEye do attribution then one has doubt the level of insights you have.

Notably in this case FireEye said they COULD NOT attribute the attack to any group initially:

"FireEye wouldn't confirm the APT29 attribution and gave the group a neutral codename of UNC2452, although several sources in the cyber-security community told ZDNet the APT29 attribution, done by the US government, is most likely correct, based on current evidence"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fireeye-confirm-sola...
Seemingly random and dramatic swings in who wins and loses the SEO game is an awful lot of how Google (helped) kill the newspaper industry. This guy is living through one example, but they all tried to live through a dozen, always scrambling to recover from the sudden loss in order to not suddenly need to lay off (more) ppl.

I don't think it was any scheme or malice, far more like Lenny petting the rabbit, but the rabbit got very dead.
I feel like you're now describing student debt.
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Worth noting that rates don't necessarily tell the whole story. In some countries you will avoid prison entirely for a whole range of offences including even some "heavy" things. It's not impossible that in countries like Norway or Denmark, people who are in prison are already statistically part of the people less likely to be rehabilitated.

On the other hand, prisons entirely create problems they're supposedly there to solve. Just ask people who've gone through juvenile detention if it's not a breeding ground to make some contacts and learn the ropes..

You'd almost need a compound unit like (reconviction rate at x years) * (prison population/total population) in order to figure out what is going on, with the idea that you'd want both reconvictions and proportion of population in prison to be low numbers.

For reference, the US has 655 prisoners per 100k, Norway has 60 per 100k.
But the company usually doesn’t have a choice of a different set of employees if they don’t like what the union is offering.

The whole point of a union is to eliminate competition on the labor side and ensure a given company is cornered into accepting the union’s conditions.
This is amazing. Is there any work using ML for "optimal" dithering?
I'd actually be okay with that if there was a robust social safety net, yeah.