I think therapy can be used very strategically. Maybe you want to end a friendship and don't know how to break it to them. Or maybe you don't like the way you are being treated by someone and you want to know effective ways of setting boundaries. Therapy can be super useful in giving you the tools to confront difficult emotional/psychological situations.
It's neither. I remember them moving to the cloud but apparently they moved to Google/Oracle (the latter making this article particularly interesting btw). As per the relevant press release : "It’s understood that Uber will close down its own on-premises data centers and move the entirety of its information technology workloads to Oracle and Google Cloud."
Investors in Google should consider Google's financial performance as part of their decision. 41% increase YOY in net income doesn't seem to align with the "go woke or go broke" investment strategy.
Yes there is. They could fall out of favor. MySpace did, Yahoo did, Digg did, etc. The leadership at Google should focus on making things that users actually want instead of telling them what they should want.
Fortune 500s are laughably insincere and hamfisted in how they do DEI. But these types of comments feel like schadenfreude towards the "woke moralist mind-virus"
But lets be real here ... DEI is a good thing when done well. How are you going to talk to the customer when they are speaking a different cultural language. Even form a purely capitalist perspective, having a diverse workforce means you can target more market segments with higher precision and accuracy.
Nobody's is against diversity when done right and fairly. But that's not what Disney or Google is doing. They're forcing their own warped version of diversity and you have no choice to refuse, but if you do speak up then you're racist.
Blade was a black main character over 20 years ago and it was a hit. Beverly Hills Cop also had a black main character 40 years ago and was also a hit. The movie Hackers from 30 years ago had LGBT and gender fluid characters and it was also a hit.
But what Disney and Google took from this is that now absolutely everything should be forcibly diverse, LGBTQ and gender fluid, whether the story needs it or not, otherwise it's racist. And that's where people have a problem.
Nobody has problems seeing new black characters on screen, but a lot of people will see a problem in back vikings for example which is what Gemini was spitting out.
And if we go the forced diversity route for the sake of modern diversity argument, why is Google Gemini only replacing traditional white roles like vikings with diverse races, but never others like Zulu warriors or Samurais with whites? Google's anti-white racism is clear as daylight, and somehow that's OK because diversity?
Not trying to be combative - but you do have a choice to refuse. To me, it seems like they wanted to add diversity to account for bias and failed hilariously. It also sounds like this wasn't intended behavior and are probably going to rebalance it.
Now, should Google be mocked for their DEI? ABSOLUTELY. They are literally one of the least diverse places to work for. They publish a report and it transcends satire. It's so atrociously bad it's funny. Especially when you see a linkedin job post for working at google, and the thumbnail looks like a college marketing brochure with all walks of people represented.
>It also sounds like this wasn't intended behavior
You mean it's not something a trillion dollar corporation with thousands of engineers and testers will ever notice before unveiling a revolutionary spearhead/flagship product to the world in public? Give me a break.
Except for maybe the exploding batteries, those examples and Gemini's absurd racial bias weren't unnoticed before release. In all of these cases, people noticed but stayed silent because they believed the corporate environment would not tolerate anything less than yesman cheerleading. Do you really think the people working on metaverse couldn't smell the stink? They smelt it, but who was going to stick their neck out and tell Zuck to abort it?
In the case of Disney, how much of the frustration comes from the fact that their entire success was built on “borrowing” European folk tales? So that now when they lazily remake those same stories with non-white casting, it causes an uproar? I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be focussing more on actually storytelling over DEI, but I also don’t think white people get as upset over movies based on non-white source material, or created whole-cloth.
So we need commercial insentive to be diversity accepting? I think it should just not matter where you are from, what your background is. We should be treated to our skills. If your skills are not required, people shouldn't have to hire you because of DEI reasons.
"done well" is really hard to define, and its also very hard to attribute back to one thing when you do have success.
Did you get the sale with the customer because you invested in DEI? Or because you made something they want by accident?
Customers can also talk in different languages, and as a result of historic oppression, minorities tend to be able to code shift. Assuming your potential customers are unable to become customers because of their limitations might not be right
That's a bit like saying that if you want to sail from Europe to America, you should jump in a boat and let the wind take you there naturally. Don't touch the sails.
The entire hypothesis behind a formal DEI program -- whether or not you agree with it -- is that DEI doesn't happen naturally. Humans tend to gravitate toward (I.E. hire) people similar to themselves for various reasons, and that has to be purposely shifted if the organization is aiming for diversity. If they don't care where they end up, that's a different story.
If population of one group of people grow, then it will naturally have bigger representation. That works for everything.
I find it more fascinating that it applies only to areas that either not require hard work (physical) or have high pay. Like I do not see movements towards hiring more male nurses or female oil drillers. Even taxi drivers.
1. use mobile phone proxies. Because of how mobile phone networks do NAT, basically it means that thousands of people share IPs and are much less like to get blocked.
2. Reverse engineer APIs if the data you want is returned in an ajax call.
3. Use a captcha solving service to defeat captchas. There's many and they are cheap.
4. Use an actual phone or get really good at convincing the server you are a mobile phone.
5. Buy 1000s of fake emails to simulate multiple accounts.
6. Experiment. Experiment. Experiment. Get some burner accounts. Figure out if they have request per min/hour/day throttling. See what behavior triggers a cloudflare captchas. Check if different variables such as email ___domain, useragent, voip vs non-voip sms based 2fa. your goal is to simulate a human. So if you sequentially enumerate through every document - that might be what get's you flagged.
While I believe selling zero days to NSO group is significantly worse than working for Google or building surveillance capitalism software - we are mercenaries. Like 60% of software work is vehemently anti-middle class. Almost all of us have either contributed to some spying apparatus (analytics platforms), build some automation that replaced several humans, or developed something that contributed to the environmental destruction of our planet.
Let's be clear though, I'm not saying tech is bad. We'd all be doing manual labor on a a farm without it. I do think our demographic (including myself) has completely set aside any consideration for our impact in the name of optimization or a fat paycheck.
I have lots of criticisms of Google, but let's not forget they have Gmail + workspaces,Google Domains, Android, Google Cloud, Google Fiber, Google Fi, The pixel, Nest, Maps, Youtube, Fitbit, and probably the browser 90% of people on here are using. Would losing search devastate them? Absolutely, but they're not exactly IBM levels of irrelevance without it.
Search is the majority of their revenue so that they can subsidize their other products. Devastation somehow doesn't feel like it properly captures how much it would hurt them to lose it.
Payments and stablecoins have many usecases. Like international payments, irrevocable payments, and auditing. However NFTs are just a deed to an address space on the blockchain. I don't see anything useful that can be implemented with this.
IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. If they block you, they also block a very large chunk of legitimate mobile users. I'm a big ol' dummy when it comes to networking, so I imagine I explained something poorly... so any mobile network nerds feel free to pile on!
Captchas are super easy! There's a gagillion captcha bypass services for every type of captcha. Just snag the captcha token, send it in an API call, and then you get a verified captcha token.
My mobile device (iPhone) relays most traffic through the nearest Akamai datacenter. So they don't get my IP address. And that datacenter has a massive number of IP addresses, which are rotated.
Out of interest how do you know it's being relayed through an Akamai DC? I assume you're talking about private relay which I also use, but I thought cloudflare was the 2nd hop for that?
