Anyone who's used both, how does it compare to Google's internal tooling?

I’ve got coworkers who went back and forth. Their thoughts were (in 2019) that Facebook had cooler things going on, but less mature. Nicer to use, but less stable in some cases.

I personally loved things breaking at times. The monorepo and all the tools were so open that enabled me to follow along and try my own fixes in some cases (sometimes being the one to fix it!).

At that point in my career, that kind of exposure was like a rocket ship for personal growth. Others shared similar sentiments.

Freedom of speech is the concept, and 1st amendment is an implementation. The maximal possible implementation given the rest of constitution that came before it. So it's not just government in principle, only in practice.

At best, it's against government intervention and in public spaces.

If you come to my house and start shouting nonsense you will be very unceremoniously and quite authoritarianly be kicked out and not much anyone can do about that :-)

It's a fun metaphor but there are so many ways in which it does not apply to the topic at hand. This isn't about an individuals autonomy on their own property, it's more about a societal contract and expectations over civil liberties / human rights. Comparing it to kicking people out of your house is not even on the same level.

I like to say that the Eight Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment likewise only applies to the government.

While I agree in principle, it's not true in practice.

Look at the debate around making Internet access a right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

Same debate around free healthcare et al, which last time I checked somebody had to provide.

The Right to Freedom from Misinformation.

It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.

> not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people

To be fair, neither are most politicians.

This is the thing. WFH at Google is an option now, but the uptake hasn't been as huge as people here might expect.

Calling 911 is one of those times when I really, really don't want to see permission popups. If I'm in a car crash, I ain't going to be lucid enough to make sure the permissions are set properly. I am almost certain there are legal restrictions in this direction.

So give the phone app access to your location before you get in a car crash. This is presumably the factory default anyway, since the app comes preinstalled on the phone, or it asks you the first time you open it.

It doesn't need special permissions. You should be able to deny it your location if that's what you really want to do. It just needs good defaults.

And what happens when real fraud does occur?

Mandate 2FA which any normal Bank already has

A lot of banks don't have 2fa

Chase for instance

This is why we can't have nice things.

> Possibly to drive between their various houses?

I'm guessing this is the old joke about Eric Schmidt?

"I save money by using nest thermostats in my various houses"