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> The system is _highly_ prejudiced towards suppressing false positives

I wonder if the algorithm centric interview style at Google can really achieve that. From my experience, algorithm centric questions + plus white board coding have bias towards academic people. (Maybe that’s fine for google) However, the way to crack that kind of interview is really just practice like hell on leetcode. Just take a minute and think, who are most motivated in doing that? Good, experienced engineers have no trouble finding jobs in Bay Area, and why would they waste their time on leetcode for skills that are mostly going to be useless in real work? New grads and engineers that have trouble finding jobs are most likely to spend hell of their time on leetcode. I think the interview style at Google is in fact increasing false positives instead of suppressing it. It also has high false negative for sure.

There are tons of other ways of doing interviews, in which interviewer gets a lot more and very relevant signals from candidates while keeping candidates pressure low, and not wasting their time, but Google is not doing it, like asking practical questions, letting candidates write and test their code in their own computers, has a debug session, etc.

As a foreigner, it sounds to me the root of the problem is still university being way too expensive. Also, shouldn't the government provide direct financial assistance to low income people being admitted to good colleges without needing them to ever pay back?

You get out of media bubble by reading news from very different sources. Otherwise you're inside it no matter what you read.

You forgot there are people outside US? Outside its media bubble

Well, if the competing theory (that UK is behind the nerve agents) is true, they also have good reasons not to cooperate.

After doing a project with this I think Tailwind is great! There is no need to choose either BEM or Tailwind, they can co-exist in the same project and they both makes a lot of sense (for different use cases). Typically, I’ll start with tailwind classes and extract simple tailwind components when those classes start to repeat. If the component is clearly reusable and has enough complexity, I’d switch to BEM.

Don’t worry, if Canada or Sweden is close to become the next superpower, you’ll start to hear all kinds of negative reports about them.

I think it's equally problematic if you simply trust everything you read on New York Times (or any other media)

What if the humans are not reliable

Traditional media also run 3rd party ads on their platform. CNN for example, has Google ads on its website and complains when I visit the website with an ad blocker.

Even with sales person involved, and better money trail, the problem is not gone.

Also, traditional media have their own political bias. Even if they don't make obvious fake news, carefully selecting the truths to report on can also have major influence on people's opinions.

It is indeed a hard problem to solve.

I guess more traditional news media are not free of such problem as well. Who knows if every single ads on their site is not problematic, or if their reporters are not secretly sponsored by problematic sources

Except it’s not a fear based approach. The re-education camp are - like it’s name - for re-education. The Chinese government want these Muslim extremists to learn enough skills to live a normal life. If they can make a living like everyone else, they’ll be much likely to become a terrorist. It’s a better outcome for everyone

To be fair the people you’re talking about are Muslim extremists - they are not too different from people causing terrorism in Middle East and they are what the Chinese government need to deal with.

There are also tons of regular Xinjiang Muslims living peacefully, both in Xinjiang and major cities in the east. There are also tons of Muslim restaurants everywhere in China, and they are quite popular

> China has removed all human rights for over ten million Uyghur Muslims.

That can’t be more false

It’s not secret anymore. The government has explained what they are. And so called re-education camps are not uncommon in other parts of China at all

Plenty of democratic countries have severely corrupted leaders or government doing crazy shit. It’s not like democracy alone can make these shit stoppable

My point is not about democracy vs authoritarian, but rather extreme individual liberty vs more restrictions (by law). Sure you won’t do bad thing but you cannot prevent every other people from doing so when it is their “freedom”. When a society tries to maximize individual liberty, there comes a heavy cost that it could drag down the total wellness of the entire society.

For example, chewing gum is forbidden for good reason in Singapore, vandalism is heavily punished, simply carrying drugs is a capital crime. All of these sacrifices in individual liberty actually make Singapore a much better place than US to live in.

Singapore also has a democratic process in their government. Given that most Singaporean are contempt with their government, there is no sign that people want one that maximizes liberty.

My guess is that it will be more sustainable than government that restrict much less freedoms - people carry guns, have drugs, piss on the streets, destroy public properties and do all kinds of creepy things and government can’t really do much about it. How is that more sustainable

I lived in Singapore for six years and then San Francisco for almost six years now, but seriously, I don’t feel US is any more “free” in any tangible ways. Maybe there are more “freedom” defined by laws in US but certainly not something that normal people will miss in daily lives. Also over focusing on “individual” freedom apparently won’t always align with the interest of the entire society and could eventually bring down the average happiness of individuals.

There have been quite a few reports recently that wanted criminals were captured because of this technology. Some of those had been escaping from police for many years. It’s about capturing criminals not detecting suspects.

Most interestingly, it happened several times that criminals were caught during watching Zhang Xueyou’s (a pop star) concert. An article mentioning that:

https://qz.com/1285912/chinas-facial-recognition-cameras-kee...

A recent article did some stats and claimed that a total of 55 criminals were captured at Zhang Xueyou's concert. http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/10-24/8658284.shtml

Well, it may make sense if you're always on the go, but a lot of people like me would spend most of their time with a full size computer available that provides way more utility than whatever phones. I would even totally pay more to have a smaller phone that's much more comfortable. Frankly I don't find the larger iPhone I currently have to be any more useful than the 4" ones.

They are good phones. I'm very interested in Xiaomi's Mix 3 that's going to be announced end of this month now.

No. I also don't consent website tracking detailed information about my device when I visit a webpage, but that happens as long as I on internet.

Tangible improvements for almost everybody. The poorest people in China probably have seen biggest improvements. It’s not a capitalist government

Increase in GDP also brings very tangible improvements in income, life standards, modernization of cities, new technologies and a lot more to be happy with.

Yes they are. Especially younger generations in China nowadays are much more likely to be pro-Chinese government and less agreeing to western values. Plenty of young students who came to study in America for a few years also have a tendency now to become more agreeable with Chinese government

Well, from the point of views of a normal Chinese citizen, Google’s presence is always welcome. It better be censored or it’ll be kicked out pretty soon. Though people doesn’t like these censorship, vast majority of Chinese simply doesn’t care at all. As a recent NY times report mentioned, even when young people are given the tools to bypass the censorship, few of them actually used it, and almost nobody used it to access western news reports. Censorship is not great but it’s no where close to be comparable with gassing Jews or murdering gays, and fighting censorship simply has super low priority for most Chinese. HN can be accessed from China freely but very few Chinese come here or even knows abou it. Otherwise the sentiments in the comments would be very different :)

In all of the three examples you gave, I don't see slightest problem of being targeted with those ads. Getting those ads don't mean I act on it in any way. With or without leaked personal information, I get tons of ads whatsoever, and almost 100% of them goes straight to trash.

If the ad is interesting and relevant enough (which is very rare), the next action would be researching the product online, and very occasionally I'd be super happy to know about it. It sounds absurd if anybody would make important decisions like deciding what treatment to get for health problems based on what people say in ads without doing proper research and consulting doctors.

> It is not in an individual's best interest to have personal, private or even possibly harmful information warehoused at different advertising entities.

Largely depends on who you are, I think. I’m not opposed to sharing any of my information with other ad companies

I publish my daily route to Google map’s timeline feature. It can show where I have been to in high accuracy. It’s a pretty damn boring route