You know the saying? Lottery is for people who are bad at math. Well, same for startups. The odds are so against you you might as well play the lottery.

What's your citation?

Microsoft has almost 90k contractors, yes, really.

I think the news is personalized :)

Hire base on employee referrals have always worked the best.

No it is not standard

Any rational person would accept, and live to pass on his/her genes.

Why do people hate the free market when it doesn't suit them?

Since when does the free market mean Google can't say "non-transferrable ticket, intended for developers only"?

But as long as Google will sell anyone a ticket and allows the tickets to be transferable, you can't be upset about someone reselling tickets.

Looks like they aren't transferrable[1]:

"Tickets may only be used by original purchaser. Tickets may not be resold. The resale of a ticket will render the ticket null and void without any responsibility to Google."

[1] https://developers.google.com/events/io/ticket-terms

Why not?

I can support free speech while still being upset by bigoted speech.

Dude, just charge more. like 5x 10x more.

You'd be blocking the view of someone else.

And the alternative winner take all the small party has 0 say. Or I should say, the people have no say. No matter which party we vote for, they are all just different sides of the same coin.