Yes, hotels were injecting ads on their free WiFi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608

ISPs have been known to do the same thing.

Devil's advocate, but maybe ISPs should all inject ads to make a point. They make money, and anyone using HTTP gets taught a free lesson on what MITM means

Before turning on the dude who thrives to keep the internet free, fix your corporate laptop that does MITM even for HTTPS connections.

"Free" for fraudsters to get their pickings, maybe.

I own a personal laptop?

I haven’t had any problems with OpenNIC: https://opennic.org/

> OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user owned and controlled top-level Network Information Center offering a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain (TLD) registries; such as ICANN.

> "Which city are you from?"

Many big tech companies have inclusion training calling this question out as inappropriate on the grounds it provides an opportunity to introduce bias.

Sure, that's advised in interviews, where you're about to make a decision on someone's livelihood, hence the importance of reducing bias. That's a completely different context than in casual conversation at a social event.

This is nonsense as there is no such thing as unbiased personal interaction.

It's a networking event, not an interview loop.

In the same lines, don't ask anything. Everything is a bias. ie, What do they do? - Also a bias as they are engineer, or product, or sales, or whatever.

In most parts of the world this is not true.

Even in the US it's ridiculous advice, driven by fear rather than a rational assessment of policy. Asking people where they are from is just fine.

> Pop tarts and soda provide zero nutritional value

But they have a very high calorie:dollar ratio.

The signage claims the _image_, i.e. the pixels, is deleted but makes no claims about embeddings, biometric measurements, etc that are generated from the image.

You may also be interested in the Work Number product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

When whole orgs/product lines are cut, you’re laid off regardless of performance.

If you like this model you may also enjoy “paint drip people”

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people

I like this better.

> ziplock bag filled with water

You’ll often see this done with brine instead of water so if the bag develops a leak the salt concentration of the ferment stays the same.

> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of

This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.