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by bushbaba 4y ago
Not just killed in the 9-11 attacks. But a brave, courageous person who stood up against the terrorists on the flight.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Android, acquisition Productivity apps, acquisition Maps, acquisition YouTube, acquisition Where’s google latest acquisition and what happened to their M&A arm?
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Stadia launched without the full backing of google. Google could have easily foresee the public reaction, and mitigated it with a different pricing model or some guarantee that game purchases will be refunded if stadia closes down within 3
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Thomas Kurian.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
There’s always more work to be done. Doesn’t mean it’s worth doing.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
That would lead to lots of under collection of taxes. The benefit of the current approach is that the IRS ends up collecting more money.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Hence apples shift into the services segment. Pushing Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud, etc.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
War with china will make Covid look like happy times. Really hope xi backs down a bit.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Some of the functionality you mentioned above is possible without a service mesh.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Yahoo Japan is a separate entity owned by z holdings.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Teams has come a long way. It’s totally fine for video conferencing. They are still using slack for chat.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
i was at google half a decade ago. Multiple SVPs expressed in private a concern of search revenue growth and search being disrupted. That was likely the reason for all the now dead products, to attempt to diversify revenue. Meanwhile the co
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Gcp isn’t stand alone profitable. They stated such in their earnings that Cloud (including workspaces with a low operating cost) is not profitable
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google can’t compete with Microsoft without having a huge revenue hit. The large majority of Google’s revenue comes from search ads. Chat gpt doesn’t have search results, per se. So how do you keep the high ad revenue linking to other sites
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by bushbaba 4y ago
That sounds like a company culture issue. Amazon and meta are fairly good at managing out people quickly.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Apple does it right by timing the PR to coincide close to when the general public can act on the new knowledge (order a new i-device).
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Having used AWS, gcp, and azure. It’s clear AWS has a decade lead. It’s not just the technology, but Amazon’s relentless customer obsession and culture that drives a better platform.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
DEI programs exist to avoid lawsuits. As we saw during layoffs, many companies used the downsize opportunities to cut their DEI investment. DEI has been proven to benefit white woman the most. Not sure I’d call that a success for black Amer
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by bushbaba 4y ago
The issue with DEI is that it tries to addresses discrimination with MORE discrimination
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Many of Europe’s citizens got to keep Jewish apartments, jewelry, and assets for free. Heck take Ukraine, where did all those Jewish belongings go? Ukraine had 1million Jews die in ww2. Even more fled. Yet all the wealth from those Jews was
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Their model likely detected you as an outlier and might disregard your clicks
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google Cloud also includes Google Workplaces (Faka gSuite, faka Google Apps). That's a high profit area that might be masking GCP's losses. For all we know GCP's losses have remained the same with the growth from Google Workp
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Would not the folks who've been around for 10+ years have comp way higher than a more recent hire given Google's 4+ year refresher structure coupled with stock growth?
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Yes you can! Here's just a few of the rebate programs. https://electrek.co/2022/04/28/denvers-electric-bike-rebates... https://electrek.co/2022/05/03/vermont-launches-the-f
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by bushbaba 4y ago
> That last part has always irked me in settlements like this. Like how is it not an admission of wrongdoing if you finally say "Ok, I'll give you money for this problem to go away" If it'll cost you Y to settle, and
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Unemployment doesn’t show laid off employees who aren’t yet collecting unemployment benefits. These tech workers got at least 60 days of severance thanks to the warn act.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
You assume they wouldn’t provide the same benefits as being separated entities. Id wager they’d be more valuable to the government as separated entities. That would open the company up to more military cooperation as certain alphabet subsid
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by bushbaba 4y ago
I worked at google in the mid 2010s. It was definitely a perk then with many colleagues booking massages every 2-3 weeks for free.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
dropbox needs sales teams to sell their product to the enterprise. That’s easily 100-200 people. Then you need support for when those enterprise customers complain, easily another 50+. Infrastructure is done in house with massive storage ar
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by bushbaba 4y ago
He’s Woz. A household name. I suspect the secret service agent also noticed it being a fake ID but didn’t want to deal with the litany of paperwork in arresting woz for the crime. Maybe the agent also got a chuckle out of it as well.

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