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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by est31 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:15AM (#25748834)
It contains about 0.5% of the Gogle proper employees or about 700 people. If it were a Google product, it would have been canned a long time ago with that tiny market share.
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by armoredkitten on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:22AM (#25748983)
It's also a week old. Even Google doesn't can things that quickly.
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by est31 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:00PM (#25749712)
Fair point. I was actually joking here :).
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by CydeWeys on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:07PM (#25749799)
> It contains about 0.5% (Edit: actually 0.05%, off by a digit)

Your original figure of 0.5% was correct and your edit is wrong.

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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by est31 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:30PM (#25750148)
Thanks for pointing out! Confirmed and removed it.

FTR: total employee number is 130k. 700/130000 = 0.054

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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by starclerk on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:22AM (#25748967)
0.5% of a big number is a big number. If it were a Google product, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to get O(10s of millions) users in the first week (or 0.5% of the billions of existing users).
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by compiler-guy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:58AM (#25749676)
Only to shut it down a year or two later when growth stalled at 0.6%, as it nearly always does.
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Re:Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues by whimsicalism on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:48PM (#25751505)
Two weeks ago or whenever people were making fun of it for having only 200. Seems like it is growing rapidly?
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