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We are 91 days into the year, and so far, Google is racking up an unprecedented body count. If we just take the official shutdown dates that have already occurred in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.
DEAD PERSON: [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much.
... said no murdered Google product user ever. Unfortunately life doesn't always imitate Monty Python. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would agree full with the title of your post. I am very leery of adopting anything from them because of their history of dropping things.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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And last thing you want to have to deal with is google droppings...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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the people at verge ars ... etc cant just sit in their well air conditioned office and watch cat videos..so they have to come up with "article" that express opinion based on recent events and approved by the editor in chief...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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In a few days, we’ll see our first ever direct photo of one of the universe’s greatest mysteries — the tumultuous event horizon of a monster black hole. "Even the white bits are black"
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I'll go 20 cents that next week they'll just pretend that they hadn't said anything -- as usual.
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While some sat out on April Fools’, a number of big tech companies embraced the opportunity to waste time this way. For those that like this kind of thing
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Hnn?
Wha..?
Oh, sorry.
I fell asleep while I was reading it.
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According to the most recent Dice Salary Survey, the average tech pro made $93,244 in 2018, a very slight 0.6 percent increase from the year before. For many Americans, that’s a lot of money—but many tech pros don’t consider their annual pay nearly enough. "Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything? Gimme some money, gimme some money"
Sorry about the US-centric poll results.
On a related note? $93K?!?!
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In my previous job, if I were to base my pay on my productivity, factoring in incompetent management, archaic "fire call" processes to get even read access to QA (not even production!) servers, etc., I would say I was greatly overpaid. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Kent Sharkey wrote: On a related note? $93K?!?!
The "$" sign is a typo.
It really means that 93KV is what's required to wake some of us up.
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*That* makes more sense. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Many tech pros think their pay doesn’t match their value
Seeing what is being asked in the Q&A I agree totally... the pay of many "developers" doesn't match their value
Just in the opposite way as the article suggests.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What’s new is Warp, a VPN built by Cloudflare that attempts to reroute your traffic to make it even quicker and also encrypts it where possible for added security and privacy. "It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right"
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WTF do people do with their phones that they need a VPN for?
If you're really desperate to tick the "I've got a VPN on my phone!" box, get something like NoRoot Firewall[^].
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Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot Beware of small children sabotaging intersections?
Yeah, not very good. But small kids and stickers seem to be going together these days.
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Damn those Chinese hackers, demanding that our autonomous autos should at least not kill us too quickly!
I mean, give us at least a fortnight to look cool, take selfies, etc.
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These are machine learning equivalent of optical illusions. All it proves is that neural networks are subject to them, as well.
We expect machinery to be "immune" to such things. However, if we train a simplified model of the brain using similar techniques to human "learning", why would you expect anything different?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Mark Zuckerberg has posted an editorial floating four ideas for regulating the internet, including approaches that could apply worldwide. In related news, the fox has some great ideas for securing your hen house
At first I thought it was a bad attempt at a April Fool's joke, but he published it on the 30th.
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"Do as I say, not as I do".
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If anyone from a large company or government entity suggests "regulating" the internet, it is MOST ASSUREDLY NOT for the users' benefit. Regulating means tracking, and tracking means oppression.
RESIST!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Oh, they'll just pull the usual trick of making it look like they're going to add controls that will be so Stalinesque that Stalin himself wouldn't have dreamed of implementing them, then, at the last minute, "concede" that they were wrong, and instead implement the almost-Stalinesque rules that they wanted in the first place.
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0. Close FB...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Best April Fools so far? 
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