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by vthallam 10y ago
I know some companies do this, but this is Google. There's no incentive for them to hire H1-B's if a equally qualified American citizen is available, since they are going to pay equal salary.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Wow! I kind of fit into your sterotype, except i graduated from a large private university. Isn't it stupid that you are putting a billion people in the same pool(Indian bachelors+ consulting firm exp+US State school = suckers)?
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by vthallam 10y ago
Is this just like the complaints about elite universities discriminating against Asians/Indians to maintain the diversity? Perhaps people who know about Palantir's diversity ratio can comment. I have seen some companies preferring
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by vthallam 10y ago
So that they can take the dollar and go back to twitter to tweet "how the new company is making a fool of itself?" :)
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by vthallam 10y ago
The credit score/ratings would be doomed when verizon sends the unpaid bills to external collection agencies.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Basically part of the answer and a hyperlink to the full answer. Guess, they will add it soon enough.
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by vthallam 10y ago
These are supposed to be Google's flagship phone intended for certain audience who wants great specs like Samsung phones and stock android. I for one was waiting for this kind of phones and just hoping that they live up to the expectat
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by vthallam 10y ago
Yes! It's October 4th 9AM PDT, so it shows users the local time.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Microsoft is definitely trying to change its perception among the people, from hardcore closed box to trying to be the typical silicon valley company which opensources time to time to entice engineers working for them and yeah, greater good
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by vthallam 10y ago
Just because Uber starting field trials with passengers first, doesn't mean they are ahead of the game. Google have been doing it for years and you know how good at they are at this. So, Google will not sell the data, rather they will
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by vthallam 10y ago
>if Google let anyone have access to their million+ miles of driving sensor data instead of needing to collect it all from scratch? You basically suggesting Google to give up their(only?) leverage. Open source is all good, but if they ca
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by vthallam 10y ago
I know, but still couldn't keep myself adding that comment :|
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by vthallam 10y ago
If shut down is in the plan, the move to the Google cloud doesn't completely makes sense, unless they think the big names customers will attract more adopters?
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by vthallam 10y ago
While you what say is true, countries compete for talent/jobs/economy. Its not like US thinks we have had enough of talent, so let China and India prosper. The point the author is making is that, the USA should compete for talent
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by vthallam 10y ago
Not really! The current Indian PM was son of a tea seller and i see people making fun of it on social media. I don't even know what to say to these kind of people.
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by vthallam 10y ago
Didn't knew until today that there are 7000 mAh batteries which can fit in samsung phones, interesting. Why do you think the companies are not going for these kind of batteries in the first place?
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by vthallam 10y ago
The annotations on the paper look informative, thanks for sharing!
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Facebook Messenger adds live video to augment your messages(theverge.com)
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by vthallam 10y ago
Scale is not at all a problem here, but i am not sure how they plan to pull this off considering so many privacy violations. Also, may be some people in India won't mind accepting this if Reliance gives LTE internet at very low cost, o
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by vthallam 10y ago
Glad the NLRB gave decision in favor of the student unions. Though it is true that unionization in universities "would threaten to undermine the primary relationship, that of student to professor, advisee to mentor" , the grad stu
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by vthallam 10y ago
Of course it's a marketing stunt but it also depicts one of the endless possibilities of deep learning. So I don't think its over hyped. For Google to invest more on making Tensorflow easy to use, there has to be early adopters sh
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by vthallam 10y ago
But that's not how progress is made. This whole concept of machines taking over has been happening and will happen more. Humans are good at adapting to circumstances, learning new skills and doing more productive work. So guess it&#x27
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by vthallam 10y ago
This happens in many places i guess. But when a company gets into picture to facilitate this, things like safety/insurance comes into picture. I am sure Google might have already figured that out, if not any small crime incident by a d
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by vthallam 10y ago
Guess this should be the case.
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by vthallam 10y ago
A great start for sure. >Receiving significant investment of capital (at least $345,000) from certain qualified U.S. investors with established records of successful investments Not sure what does the qualified US investors mean though.
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by vthallam 10y ago
So this was quite expected anyway. Though initially the acquisition seemed to be a defensive one where FB prevents Wechat kind of features coming from Whatsapp, the amount of data whatsapp has, is a treasure trove for all the advertisers an
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by vthallam 10y ago
> If you’re an iPhone user, you’ve come across Apple’s AI, and not just in Siri’s improved acumen in figuring out what you ask of her. You see it when the phone identifies a caller who isn’t in your contact list (but did email you recent
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by vthallam 10y ago
Haha! This happens at most places to tourists, some auto drivers, road side sellers in India try to rip off the tourists. It happened to me in Times Square when i first came to NYC. A guy was selling music CD's and when i was passing t
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by vthallam 10y ago
Haha! I understand the comment, but what i want to infer with that statement is that they are very serious about this app and not like other apps(Inbox/G-board/Spaces) which they launched and tested. Allo & Duo has been launch
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by vthallam 10y ago
Not very long i guess based on the comments from Sundar/VP of communications at Google's comments. They say they have a great plan for user acquisition. This is a new ground up video app and so the performance is better compared

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