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by muzz 4y ago
Greed. Those were yielding close to zero and they wanted the 1.x%
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by muzz 4y ago
Not sure if the economics of it are as simple as the author suggests. Espresso-based drinks take time to prepare, and while people are willing to wait, there is still a limited number of them that can be made per unit of time. On the othe
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by muzz 4y ago
> Android Pay -> Google Wallet -> Google Pay -> Google Pay and Wallet These all sound like the same thing. If they are different, then I guess it would be confusing.
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by muzz 4y ago
Nothing new in this piece. Same tropes regurgitated.
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by muzz 4y ago
What do you mean by "its own identity"? If you're saying that Android and iPhone/iOS are very similar, that seems like a good thing?
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by muzz 4y ago
Immediately turning off access is common practice in a layoff
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by muzz 4y ago
As should be your reaction to any new product or service, since that is how innovation works. Things are introduced to the marketplace, and most will fail.
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by muzz 4y ago
The reaction to the layoffs is a good example of this. Lots of CEOs in the past have conducted layoffs pretty much the same way-- notify everyone at the same time (per local laws) and write an email blaming themselves as the cause. Yet the
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by muzz 4y ago
Sounds more like Tim Cook
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by muzz 4y ago
Every new thing gets hyped up as the "killer" of existing businesses. Siri, Alexa, etc. were all supposed to be existential threats to Google's search, and then they weren't
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by muzz 4y ago
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard Google has lost its mojo. Same thing with Wave, Google Plus, Allo, Reader, countless examples.
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by muzz 4y ago
There seems to be an inordinate amount of venom directed at Pichai relative to other CEOs
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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Maybe: The Great AI Chatbot Race(bloomberg.com)
1 points by muzz 4y ago|0 comments
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The AI Bubble of 2023(thereformedbroker.com)
4 points by muzz 4y ago|4 comments
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by muzz 4y ago
This seems like one of those things which is perfectly okay for private companies to do-- one was even mentioned in the article-- but somehow not for government
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by muzz 4y ago
An accounting change: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15387/why-did-...
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by muzz 4y ago
Almost the opposite. Tech is mostly conservative in the classic sense-- limited government, personal freedoms, etc.
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by muzz 4y ago
Capitalism at its finest
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by muzz 4y ago
The title now says "as Sales Growth Cools" instead of "as Return to Office Stalls"
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Google Layoffs: Why [laid off employees] are being called 'Golden 12K'(businesstoday.in)
3 points by muzz 4y ago|2 comments
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Decoding the Hype About AI(themarkup.org)
2 points by muzz 4y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 4y ago
Someone has to? Tons of people have pointed that out. It's pretty much the most popular bandwagon right now.
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by muzz 4y ago
Article seems to take much from this: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
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2023: Year of the Down Round?(medium.com)
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by muzz 4y ago
Companies often keep visa'd employees on payroll so they have more time to find another job. I personally feel this goes against the temporary intent of the visa, but it's a very common practice.
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by muzz 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the uptake on the last bullet point, ie the percentage of people who didn't get laid off but took a voluntary severance
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by muzz 4y ago
I'm not the GP, but the rebuttal to your point about interest rates is that it is not about using cash vs debt. GP was making the point that interest rates affect NPV calculations ie future cash flows of the company have to be discount
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by muzz 4y ago
Palo Alto joins the room too. All this talk of "just relax zoning and build housing" is so simplistic that it's actually kinda cute. As if everything else just multiplies accordingly-- streets widen, schools are built, water
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by muzz 4y ago
Agreed. There is a shortage of _low-cost_ housing. This isn't because of "zoning", it's because low-cost housing became considered undesirable. Think housing projects, SROs, "flop houses", etc. As gentrific
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by muzz 4y ago
Geneva Towers. Oh wait, that was so dangerous they literally had to tear it down.

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