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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The actual overhead depends on your workload. Back-end servers.

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Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

Google contacts? A contract from 2005 between one firm and another is a binding legal document in the context of that relationship. And how much of that has changed since you last edited your profile in each of those systems? Or, think about contact information. Corporate directory? Personal e-mail box?

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