throwaways885 (u/throwaways885)

throwaways885 commented on Meta developer tools: Working at scale engineering.fb.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/ot

No company I've worked at after FB/Meta ships or works even at a non-eng level with the same velocity. I always attributed that to their internal tools, since most of the other companies seem to be using the same crap. Slack is straight up painful compared to their chat system. And don't get me started on the how good the task tool is compared to literally any other ticketing system out there. Everything is behind their intern tool, and usually built to all just work together without friction.

throwaways885 · 2 years ago

Anyone who's used both, how does it compare to Google's internal tooling?

throwaways885 commented on Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/riffic

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 4 years ago

> Gab has an absolute right under the first amendment to be able to speak.

Gab has an absolute right under the first amendment to be able to speak most of the time without government intervention.

ftfy. Speech is not unlimited. Freedom of speech only applies regarding government censorship.

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

Freedom of speech is the concept, and 1st amendment is an implementation. The maximal possible implementation given the rest of constitution that came before it. So it's not just government in principle, only in practice.

throwaways885 commented on Clean environment could become U.N. human right reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/croes

pueblito · 4 years ago

Rights are inalienable, no one provides them

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

While I agree in principle, it's not true in practice.

Look at the debate around making Internet access a right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

Same debate around free healthcare et al, which last time I checked somebody had to provide.

throwaways885 commented on Clean environment could become U.N. human right reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/croes

tgb · 4 years ago

Interesting. Can you expand on an example of a 'new' human right that would be authoritarian in nature? I don't really understand the "right to development" example. It looks like it was adopted by the UN already in 1986 and I'm not sure if the authoritarian implications.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/righttod...

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

The Right to Freedom from Misinformation.

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Barrin92 · 4 years ago

I've always thought when I see one of these numbers about how people are collectively dumping millions of hours into Youtube or WoW or whatever else every day, imagine if that'd be spent on something genuinely social instead, learning, creating something, contributing something to the commons, volunteer an hour at the soup kitchen, clean the local park, however trivial. A billion hours of that every day instead of reading garbage on facebook or tiktok and I'd like to think things would look very different

goes well beyond breaking up big tech though, needs an entire reversal of culture at this point

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.

throwaways885 commented on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/danso

umvi · 4 years ago

> People who spend a lifetime learning about something will, on average, make better decisions about that thing then you or I

...at the expense of things they are not experts in. Ask an expert in virology how to prevent spread of the virus and they will give you a good answer. But that doesn't mean turning their advice into a mandated policy will work out well. Game theory comes into play there and an expert in virology is likely not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people.

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

> not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people

To be fair, neither are most politicians.

throwaways885 commented on Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B wsj.com/articles/google-t... · Posted by u/jbredeche

UncleMeat · 4 years ago

Google is letting people work from home (in most orgs). But this isn't the majority of the company and Google is still hiring like crazy.

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

This is the thing. WFH at Google is an option now, but the uptake hasn't been as huge as people here might expect.

throwaways885 commented on Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares theverge.com/2021/8/31/22... · Posted by u/commoner

AnthonyMouse · 4 years ago

> That’s frequently the challenge mobile operators run into - the OS needs privileged access to location services (eg 911) that it can’t grant untrusted code.

It doesn't actually need this. The phone app can just ask for permission to access your location, which you would then give it when you call 911 because you want the emergency responders to know where you are.

Anyone who really wants to can already deny the phone their location by using a Faraday cage with a WiFi access point in it so the phone has internet but no GPS or cellular triangulation. You can't prevent it by not allowing the user to deny the permission.

There is no excuse for special permissions.

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

Calling 911 is one of those times when I really, really don't want to see permission popups. If I'm in a car crash, I ain't going to be lucid enough to make sure the permissions are set properly. I am almost certain there are legal restrictions in this direction.

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imtringued · 4 years ago

That just means that chargebacks cannot be offered as part of payment processing.

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

And what happens when real fraud does occur?

throwaways885 commented on Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco blog.waymo.com/2021/08/we... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

greesil · 4 years ago

Possibly to drive between their various houses?

throwaways885 · 4 years ago

> Possibly to drive between their various houses?

I'm guessing this is the old joke about Eric Schmidt?

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