[huntertwo]

> I can see why someone would hesitate to release them - there's a lot to sift through and it's likely even the government couldn't sift through all of them to make sure their friends weren't mentioned somewhere.

Jared kushner, is that you?

[dang]

Please don't be snarky or post shallow internet tropes. We're trying for something else here.

You're welcome, of course, to make your substantive points thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[huntertwo]

It’s ok, it follows the rules - I made the comment very thoughtfully and it is indeed substantive. It’s also not snarky and isn’t a shallow internet trope.

[dang]

Interpretations can differ, of course, but I don't think this was a borderline call.

[elif]

Thinking Gmail costs "millions to develop" sounds exactly like the kind of price unawareness that comes from that family.

I would bet the Gmail team has single employee salaries in that range.

[stanfordkid]

To be fair, millions could be hundreds of millions.

[elif]

Sure. And you are inches tall.

[an0malous]

What do these million dollar salary employees at Gmail do?

[Den_VR]

Three things, not all of which any specific employee does: 1. Fix security issues 2. Create “features” in order to seem useful that the world was better without 3. Rest upon laurels of gmail from 15 years ago

[d4mi3n]

Make Google multiple millions by improving ad delivery and conversion within Gmail. Probably by also helping Google land big corporate or public contracts, but last I checked most of the money was made via ads in the free tier of GMail.