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Re:Why are ads for cloud services so bad? on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:47PM (#23407817)
This brings me back to the oracle ads that would just say vague things like "social." These ads aren't really targeted at developers anyway though.
Re:Are distributed teams the way of the future? on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:44AM (#23351346)
> Dell saved more than $39 million over two years after encouraging remote work, and Aetna saves $78 million annually by urging employees who can work remotely to do so, according to O’Duinn. “This is a competitive advantage over companies that pay for and operate physical offices.

It obviously makes sense for companies to let people work from home right now, but it's hard to imagine people won't be expected to return when everything's over in most cases. IBM, which let employees work from home for decades, ended up deciding offices are just better: https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-tho...

I saw the complaints about anonymized census data. Is the problem that spoofed data can be rendered unusable for some purposes, or is it just that it becomes harder to use without a data science background?