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one2knowon States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

Big tech has jumped the shark with the 2020 election. They now ascribe to blatant political censorship and propaganda. They have monopoly power and power over our democratic process. They censor what content users get to see and what users can write for political reasons. They are controlled by and for foreign powers. I don't see how society can move forward without dealing with the big T problem now.

one2knowon States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

This is why they need to staff up their ranks with foreign workers, for which Facebook has been sued by DOJ. No whistleblowers likely if everyone is under visa review.

one2knowon Amazon Location Service

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/wsj-amazon-uses-data-from-th...

Don't know why people are downvoting. This is SOP at Amazon. You want to blame me for Amazon's reputation? You want to blame cnbc? What the fuck, fuckers.

one2knowon Amazon Location Service

Because then Amazon can't track all your users. Imagine a delivery company uses Amazon's API for its in-truck apps or route planning. Amazon drinks your data, it drinks it up.

one2knowon Ask HN: How to Get into Google?

Over about 15 years of observing who got in I would say, be a VERY conspicuous leftist. Pretend to be LGBTQ+ as that is very common in the academic world as well as large left leaning institutions such as Google. List your pronouns on Linkedin so everyone can see your signals.

I've known some that have worn VERY conspicuous clothing every day such that it can't be avoided or not talked about. Have a "hidden genius story" like you dropped out of high school but are now an idiot savant genius developer. These are all real world cases of google hires I know.

one2knowon Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?

Business siders including HR, marketing, sales, product, execs, managers etc ALL universally don't work Fridays. They (used to) come in for a couple hours then "bunk off" to the bar for lunch and happy hour (starts at 3). I find it ridiculous that engineers actually do work on Fridays, much less Friday after 3pm.

one2knowon Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?

You are talking about knowledge and trivia recall. I am talking about critical thinking, deductive thinking which does not depend on how much information a person has seen.

one2knowon Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?

If I see fanboyism I immediately lose respect for someone's intelligence. A truly intelligent person is going to have a hard time finding anyone with relative glaringly obvious intelligence. Some people buy into popular intelligence and are amazed by ted talks, lectures, that sort of thing that really isn't an indicator of intelligence. Anyone can play Mozart if they practice the same sheets of music over and over.

one2knowon Ask HN: How to figure out if someone is smart during a casual conversation?

In my experience people don't have the ability to determine if someone is smarter than themselves. They can detect that someone is a different intelligence level. Most people will react the same to someone with much greater intelligence as someone with much less intelligence.

Secondly, intelligent people modulate their communication to be what the people they are talking to expect. They won't use big words at the bar, but will totally change in an academic or professional setting.

One way that "smarter" than oneself is revealed is when a person predicts or anticipates something. That could be experience, or just indicates that they had already processed the situation to the same level.

one2knowon Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers

You mean why shouldn't Facebook hire foreigners in America. One, their motives are because they want slaves that can't rat them out to illegal activites. Two, they "remit most of their paycheck out of the country. Three, if everyone had to travel to the other side of the planet to get a job, that would be fucking insane for everyone. Four, their managers are foreign gangsters who don't give a fuck about this country.

Facebook already has offices over there. Everywhere. They could hire tomorrow. They want slaves and slavery is what this shit is about.

This is how it works. Foreign manager bribes a US based VP and gets a inter-company transfer. Automatic L1 visa no questions ask. Then they start selling 200-500k jobs to people they know back in their home country. Those people pay a cut, maybe $50k maybe $150k to their trafficker in order to come to the US as a SDE away from their "shithole" country and make $50k.

They don't know what they are doing. Doesn't matter, SDE, manager, director, VP are all from the same country and are a fucking GANG

one2knowon Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers

They pay more because they are a fucking GANG and they are probably paying a cut of that 200k up the chain to the people from their own country.

one2knowon Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers

No it fucking does not. I interviewed with facebook ten days ago. Management cancelled my phone screen and instead I got a generic interview with a foreign manager "where do you see yourself in five years" followed by a reject within 12 hours.

Stop the fucking bullshit goddammit.

one2knowon Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Very suspicious in my mind this happened soon after the Chinese 500-meter FAST telescope came online. Is this what you mean by relying on international partners? Maybe it's time for the US to build a new telescope.

one2knowon Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

Its funny they don't care at all about the Indian labor organization which control > 50% of tech jobs at Amazon and are funded by the Indian government and their lobbying organization NASSCOM. Probably because > 50% of tech managers there are Indian nationals. In fact they promote Indian labor union formation there, which Amazon calls Bof's. They are absolutely entranced, though, in attempts to extract one more penny from blue collar jobs such warehouse, trucking, and security guards which are predominately staffed by white, black, and latino Americans.

Amazon's tech labor costs have to be in the tens of billions per year. They are paying SDE's, SDM's $200k-$1MM and but are surveilling $15 people who are stealing candybars.

one2knowon U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources

There is a political rat race to control tech companies that gather the most data on all Americans. Facebook has few divisions compared to Amazon which has moved into everything from groceries to medical industry to self driving cars. However the entire internet is littered with facebook javascripts that are logging data on web usage.

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Wow, I didn't know pickers and stowers got PIPs. Obviously you did a smart thing in that you went and got a medical diagnosis. The company would be facing a medical disability lawsuit if they followed through with the PIP/firing.

A lawyer I spoke with suggested employees regularly visit their doctor about work related stress so that when they inevitably get PIP'ed they can claim medical leave and work related illness. Some places its a war zone and that's what workers have to do.

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

This was maybe five years ago. The overarching architecture meme is/was used to say "my technology XYZ is the basis behind these five director level orgs, therefore I should be made the VP of the XYZ project over these five areas."

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Simple Workflow was pushed hardcore on everyone inside and outside Amazon for years. It's not a very useful service, but they had huge marketing. Obvious to me is their managers thought that if everyone used SWF, then SWF managers would become very powerful because it was supposed to be bigger than any one organization and cross-organizational. I imagine virtually everyone at Amazon has had SWF pushed on them by their managers as a silver bullet technology that will bring their service and thus manager in to the Amazon high inner cabal and make them very powerful.

In reality it was a task scheduler with some logging and metrics thrown in which awkwardly tied user's individual code builds to a third party service where they had to be registered and externally reference for every build. Virtually all SWF functionality was in the client library, not the service which was just a data store and API.

Other cool kid services that managers wanted to force teams to use included dynamodb, kinesis, lambda, etc.

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Shit floats :p

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Amazon was at least aware enough to recognized that AWS circular dependencies were a bad thing. From what I heard they had to make changes. A big problem is the largest services like S3. If part of S3 were to use DynamoDB and DynamoDB used S3, then if one goes down, they might never restart either service. There is strong manager incentive at Amazon to build on other services as a way to ingratiate with other managers and VP's in the company. Unfortunately it leads to circular dependencies.

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Amazon fires between 5-15% of engineers per year. PIP is to get you to quit. Amazon hires a TON of entry level SDE 1 engineers to sacrifice at the altar of Bezos so more shitty employees get to stay. Lifespan of a SDE 1 whipping boy/girl at Amazon, as a result is 3-6 months.

one2knowon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

At amazon, admitting to a problem will guaranteed lead to having to open a COE, correction of error, which means meetings with executives, inevitable "least effective" rating, development plan, scapegoating, PIP, and firing.

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No they sell them for money, like the place I worked. They are just so culturally tone deaf that they think its ok for kids because its a "woman" thing and thus, au naturel. Like taking kids shopping for your tampons because it show powerful womanhood or whatever. This was definitely the attitude among the retail org of mostly Seattle women I worked with. None questioned selling vibrators and dildos on the front of the site.

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Leftists that you might find in Seattle or San Fransisco don't consider a dildo something that kids should not know about or see in a search result. An e-commerce company I worked for advertised them frontpage above the fold, no age check. Chalk it up to cultural relativism of the left.

one2knowon Ask HN: Do you have to create a report from attending conferences?

Seriously, all the other non developer people in the company that they send to a conference are going to be getting drunk, getting free meals, not paying for anything. I assume the OP is a developer, because no other profession they do this shit about writing a book report with. It is insulting, but just add it to the list of insults that developers have to endure in the workplace.

one2knowon Ask HN: Do you have to create a report from attending conferences?

No, all the non-developers like dev mgrs, product mgrs, tpms, marketing people that get a free ride to the "developer" conferences and spend a week getting kickbacks from vendors do not "create a report." So I would never. What is this grade school? If other devs want to learn they can watch the videos.

one2knowon Disaster prepping is mainstream again

When you went to buy toilet paper in April, and all the stores said limit 1 per customer instead of making TP $100, that is exactly price controls. Why did they limit 1 per customer? Out of some flawed communist ideals that the authorities should determine who should get how much TP and at what price. Needless to say TP was gone for months. If it were $100, people that really needed it would have been able to get it. Now replace TP with insulin or other life saving drugs. Some would say it would be cruel to bump the price 1000%. However, if the price is held down, it will be hoarded just like TP. If the price is held down and quantity limited, those that really need it, like hospitals, and actual sick could not get the quantity they need at any price.

No doubt leftists will try this like Venezuelan price controls on food that did nothing but create a food shortages.

one2knowon Disaster prepping is mainstream again

I live suburbs but family members that live rural generally keep a loaded gun ready for people who appear on their property at 2am. Areas that dont freeze in the winter in the PNW currently have encampments all throughout forested areas and empty homes will get squatters. Additionally if a large property is not policed, drug and/or squatter RVs will set up in the property. People that dont have dogs or alarms probably sleep right through visits. The feelings about prepping are often the same about guns. "Nobody ever needs an assault rifle!" Yeah, some people actually do need a rifle just like they need to prep as well.

one2knowon Disaster prepping is mainstream again

Within the past 9 months I've seen stores with almost bare shelves, no meat, no dairy, no paper goods. Entire neighborhoods near me have burned down due to forest fire. There were riots and looting within a couple miles. Power outages. Now we are looking at a hateful leftist government that could do things like implement communist price controls or unrestricted immigration. Price controls will create further shortages as that is basic economics. Job loss will mean no income for extended periods of ime.

The people who don't prep are also anti-gun and have always lived in the city. They live in a bubble. They need a concept of how vast the country is and that there are people that live an hour or more from food, gas, EMS, police. If you live in a rural area people WILL try to raid your barn, garage, vehicles, trailers, etc. It is a matter of time.

one2knowon Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable

The 2020 democrat party falls under leftist authoritarian classification, a thin veneer of civil rights and progressive-ism on top of a thick marxist-lenenist regime shadowing the Chinese communist party's single party authoritarianism. It hates free speech, embraces censorship across the web and media, monitors and tracks people through control of big tech like apple and google, and seeks political control of corporations using the guise of social and racial activism. You can say it is not "leftist," but it certainly pretends to be.