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Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:04PM (#48577576)
Race science is just about the apex of pseudoscience. Academics haven't rejected it because it doesn't mesh with their liberal politics, they've rejected it because it's junk.
I wish someone could have seen the eye roll I just performed reading this comment.

Silencing absolutely works! How do you think disinformation metastasized!?

Did he just wake up from a 15 year coma
Re:I am done. I give up on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:00PM (#34109414)
Watching an unwell person publicly spiral into paranoia and conspiracy-obsession and then calling that a "different political opinion" is a pretty bizarre take.
Re:Technical Writing Courses from Google on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:05PM (#32391705)
Flutter's documentation is fantastic. A lot of effort went into it, and it shows.
Don't ask the internet. Ask your wife.
We're misusing the term contractor in this thread. There are about 130,000 TVCs at Google (Temps, Vendors, and Contractors) according to the article.

The overwhelming majority of those are vendors, who provide security, staff cafeterias, call centers, etc. A few thousand are temps, who do the same work as an FTE but on a fixed-term basis with a cap at 2 years. Temps are employees of a staffing agency like Adecco which rents them out to Google for a rate about 2-3x the hourly pay of the temp.

The number of actual contractors, who are self-employed and have contracts directly with Google, is just a few hundred. They likely do make more than many FTEs, at least lower-level ones.