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Welcome to reality. The whole "google is ethical" is a mantra they've always said to attract naive programmers like you. The point is for anything unethical but profitable in any way, someone else will end up doing it anyway so why not do it yourself.

Morals only work at the scale of a closed society (be it a full country), not at the scale of the world.


To be fair, once upon a Time they did make the decision to pull out of a very profitable and growing China. And their competitors didn't, they are still there helping evil. Once upon a time, Google genuinely did put values above profit - maybe not perfectly, but certainly with significant and meaningful impact to their business. Once upon a time anyway.


Or even macro


So criminals and "not yet developped" people living inplaces where they dont have a good banking systemp but are somehow educated enough to use bitcoin.

Lol


Actually the people living in underbanked areas are pretty well served by mobile payment systems.[1]

Of course that's not completely anonymous and can't necessarily be used for dodgy stuff (there are certain KYC requirements) but it seems to server the developing world a whole lot better than crypto currencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa


I think he implies americans are more stupid than europeans nowadays #trump #mormons #altright #bigots. We dont really have that in europe

Edit: "some" americans of course.


Y'all have plenty of crazy far right populism gaining steam between AfD, Golden Dawn, Front National, etc.


"Front national" people are not exactly "crazy".. on the racist / bigot side but mostly working class people scared for their wallet / culture. They wouldnt exacly go evangelise peopne like that


That's right, anti-immigration sentiment, nationalists, and neo-nazis are unique to the US.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/09/10/right-wi...

Brexit, chemnitz riots - those are all American...


No but evangelism is (nowadays)


Well its different when the value of the page is precisely the title + summary of other pages.

That said its a bit of a last attempt from newspaper to get money when news nowadays is pretty much free


Make friend with people good at it.

Also work on being more at ease. "Limiting human interaction" is a bad route to go down to.

And finally on a positive note: learn to love your anxiety. Listen to what it says to you, knowing that its will ultimately help u do things better. People with no anxiety dont do things well. Learn to use it and master it to be better. Dont run from it


The point was questionning if we should look for increased metabolism or not.


Cactus ? Dont forget to water it


>> China is full of extremely bright, hardworking people. It is not a nation of brain-washed automatons

Thats a ridiculous argument: they are 1.5MM, im pretty sure you can find a few milions smart enough who fit the description of the parent comment.

Its not racist or whatnot.. every nation has its smart fanatics


How is that "antropomorphic" ?


I'm guessing the "evolved to make ... their servants" implies a human-like agency.


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