A car is used for a maximum of 1-2 hrs a day but we pay loads of money for it. A Bed is only used for 8 hours, an apartment for 12 hours but we pay a lot for them. If you are trying to look at things we use the most, after underwear, smartphones probably come second. Compared to other costs almost any price for a smartphone is not a stupid price
As compared to Europe ; a much better case for being a continent is India. Its large, its separated by natural Geographic boundaries which have prevented cultural and linguistic mixing (Himalayas and Thar Desert) and it sits on its own tectonic plate.
Yet we call Indians Asians even though they dont look the same, dont speak similar languages, dont wear similar clothes, dont eat similar food as Asians.
What is defined as a continent is a matter of politics than Geology or Geography.
All this guy is really saying that you are not an AI company if you dont do the things we at Google do. Go ahead Drink the GoolAid. Next they will say you are not an AI company if you dont have the dysfunctional Open Offices. News flash Genius - most progress in history was made by introverts who like a quiet place to work where they can concentrate. Google started out as a good company but now it pushes toxic trends as a bunch of politicians managed to get hired. I would take anything coming out of Google with a pinch of salt.
30000 points on your face scanned to create a map which is then hashed. If you get hacked and the 30000 point map is misappropriated than what? The attacker can has it on demand.
Here's a business Idea. Lets create a Mobile App to social and geo enable Unionization. Have it funded by VCs. Revenue Model is that Big companies like Google will fund Series A or else their unionized employees on the app will strike. Profit!!!
Guilds mean the exploitation of the young by the old. When the young agreed to Social Security and paying for the elder's retirements they also expected the old to get out of their way. So you want guilds? Lets cancel social security and Medicare and use the corpus to pay off college loans of everyone below 35.
They have to balance. As the stage was full of white males. Note how while 50% of the on ground workforce at Apple is Indians the executives have no Indian representation. Contrast this with Google and Microsoft which reflect the makeup of their companies more realistically in the CXO levels.
Apple never does user surveys and asks customers what they want. In Apple philosophy customers are dumb , they do not know what they want. Apple builds it and they come
Will it open if your eyes are held open with Tape?
Biometrics as identifiers are flawed because a password can be changed but a body part cant. if your Face ID pattern gets stolen or hacked thats it you can never use any devices which unlock with faceID forever. FOREVER.
Yeah well sensible people who live in Hurricane country build using Concrete not wood and they build on Stilts. Bemuda is right in the middle of the Atlantic but they dont panic when they see a hurricane coming
If 2-3 foreign workers can do the job and cost as much as one American worker than to justify paying that much to an American worker you need the American worker to do the work of two to three foreign workers. Its basic logic.
Matching with the culture is important. We have a no asshole rule. Even if an asshole is 100% more productive if he/she reduces the productivity of 5 other people on the team by 20% each its a wash on the productivity of the team and in addition you have made 50% of your awake hours more miserable.
The main reason companies are unable to fill low skill positions is that they have strict drug check programs where if marijuana is in your blood you are an automatic fail even if you smoked on the weekend and its legal in your state to smoke recreationally. Companies need to change their drug screening processes to match with the reality of American society where almost all poor people are doing drugs
This is what happens when you start using American components. Indian rockets were pretty reliable when India did most of its business with Russia who build rugged stuff. Now India is buying a lot of shit made by Boeing and it shows. Probably the Quality guy had Monday night football to watch and just signed off instead of doing his work
Somebody already created a malware that changes everyone's default search Engine to Google. In fact they created 2 - iOS and Android. Witness the dumbing down of an AMerica addicted to "smart" phones - smart because between the phone and the person using it we know only one is smart.
It was pretty suspicious that it was mostly affecting Russian banks. Seemed like a targetted attack against the Russians and now we have confirmation that the MAN has come down hard on this guy for interfering in an existing operation
The analysis also does not count the money that local manufacturers of safety nets will make selling anti-suicide nets to the factory. Enough suicide nets and the breakeven point comes closer.
Given that the govt does very little for individuals and spends most of its budget on creating an environment where businesses can operate without people just looting them or stealing their IP or bouncing cheques on them you have it ass backwards. Individual income tax needs to be abolished and only corporations should be taxed on their revenue (not profit). They are welcome to distribute all their after tax profits to the owners tax free once they have paid their fair share.
Googler: "Sundar, Have you stopped abusing your children"
Sundar: "I have never abused my children"
Googler: Thats not the Question i asked. Have you Stopped?
Sundar: I never started
Googler: So you are saying you havn't Stopped?
Sundar: Speechless
Googler : And thats how your Diversity training is run. They assume that the White Male is biased. Well this particular White Male is not biased and feels no need to atone for the sins of others.
Sundar: Has a moment of absolute clarity, resigns from Alphabet and moves to Tibet to study Buddhism. (I wish)
The Spaceship is reserved for corporate, designers and marketeers. So duh it is open plan. Most programmers at Apple just book the conference rooms for coding sessions. Its absolutely impossible to get a conference room at short notice on any of the campuses.
A major form of corruption in India is giving internships to the kids of prospective clients governmental or non governmental. The elite already know internships improve employability. This measure is now forcing the first gen folks to also get internships which wont be that easy without the existing social capital.
Any company which will not do hikes unless someone gets a competing job offer is one where HR and COmp are not doing their job. Its their job to study the competitive market and have a number ready for what a person's market value is and then raise it to 15% less than Market. Noone leaves for less than 15%. If HR is not providing this number to the reporting manager they are not doing their job. Rather they are depending on the HR of other companies to come up with a suitable comp for their own employees and then matching that Comp. What this means is the company is having to pay 15% more than what it would normally need to pay because HR is being lazy.
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A car is used for a maximum of 1-2 hrs a day but we pay loads of money for it. A Bed is only used for 8 hours, an apartment for 12 hours but we pay a lot for them.
If you are trying to look at things we use the most, after underwear, smartphones probably come second.
Compared to other costs almost any price for a smartphone is not a stupid price
As compared to Europe ; a much better case for being a continent is India.
Its large, its separated by natural Geographic boundaries which have prevented cultural and linguistic mixing (Himalayas and Thar Desert) and it sits on its own tectonic plate.
Yet we call Indians Asians even though they dont look the same, dont speak similar languages, dont wear similar clothes, dont eat similar food as Asians.
What is defined as a continent is a matter of politics than Geology or Geography.
All this guy is really saying that you are not an AI company if you dont do the things we at Google do. Go ahead Drink the GoolAid. Next they will say you are not an AI company if you dont have the dysfunctional Open Offices. News flash Genius - most progress in history was made by introverts who like a quiet place to work where they can concentrate. Google started out as a good company but now it pushes toxic trends as a bunch of politicians managed to get hired. I would take anything coming out of Google with a pinch of salt.
A passcode can be changed. What do you do with a face map? Plastic Surgery?
30000 points on your face scanned to create a map which is then hashed. If you get hacked and the 30000 point map is misappropriated than what? The attacker can has it on demand.
Here's a business Idea. Lets create a Mobile App to social and geo enable Unionization. Have it funded by VCs.
Revenue Model is that Big companies like Google will fund Series A or else their unionized employees on the app will strike.
Profit!!!
Guilds mean the exploitation of the young by the old. When the young agreed to Social Security and paying for the elder's retirements they also expected the old to get out of their way. So you want guilds? Lets cancel social security and Medicare and use the corpus to pay off college loans of everyone below 35.
They have to balance. As the stage was full of white males. Note how while 50% of the on ground workforce at Apple is Indians the executives have no Indian representation. Contrast this with Google and Microsoft which reflect the makeup of their companies more realistically in the CXO levels.
Apple never does user surveys and asks customers what they want. In Apple philosophy customers are dumb , they do not know what they want. Apple builds it and they come
Will it open if your eyes are held open with Tape?
Biometrics as identifiers are flawed because a password can be changed but a body part cant. if your Face ID pattern gets stolen or hacked thats it you can never use any devices which unlock with faceID forever. FOREVER.
Yeah well sensible people who live in Hurricane country build using Concrete not wood and they build on Stilts. Bemuda is right in the middle of the Atlantic but they dont panic when they see a hurricane coming
If 2-3 foreign workers can do the job and cost as much as one American worker than to justify paying that much to an American worker you need the American worker to do the work of two to three foreign workers. Its basic logic.
Matching with the culture is important. We have a no asshole rule. Even if an asshole is 100% more productive if he/she reduces the productivity of 5 other people on the team by 20% each its a wash on the productivity of the team and in addition you have made 50% of your awake hours more miserable.
The main reason companies are unable to fill low skill positions is that they have strict drug check programs where if marijuana is in your blood you are an automatic fail even if you smoked on the weekend and its legal in your state to smoke recreationally.
Companies need to change their drug screening processes to match with the reality of American society where almost all poor people are doing drugs
This is what happens when you start using American components. Indian rockets were pretty reliable when India did most of its business with Russia who build rugged stuff. Now India is buying a lot of shit made by Boeing and it shows. Probably the Quality guy had Monday night football to watch and just signed off instead of doing his work
Somebody already created a malware that changes everyone's default search Engine to Google. In fact they created 2 - iOS and Android. Witness the dumbing down of an AMerica addicted to "smart" phones - smart because between the phone and the person using it we know only one is smart.
It was pretty suspicious that it was mostly affecting Russian banks. Seemed like a targetted attack against the Russians and now we have confirmation that the MAN has come down hard on this guy for interfering in an existing operation
The analysis also does not count the money that local manufacturers of safety nets will make selling anti-suicide nets to the factory. Enough suicide nets and the breakeven point comes closer.
Given that the govt does very little for individuals and spends most of its budget on creating an environment where businesses can operate without people just looting them or stealing their IP or bouncing cheques on them you have it ass backwards. Individual income tax needs to be abolished and only corporations should be taxed on their revenue (not profit). They are welcome to distribute all their after tax profits to the owners tax free once they have paid their fair share.
Someone should go in there and ask the Question
Googler: "Sundar, Have you stopped abusing your children"
Sundar: "I have never abused my children"
Googler: Thats not the Question i asked. Have you Stopped?
Sundar: I never started
Googler: So you are saying you havn't Stopped?
Sundar: Speechless
Googler : And thats how your Diversity training is run. They assume that the White Male is biased. Well this particular White Male is not biased and feels no need to atone for the sins of others.
Sundar: Has a moment of absolute clarity, resigns from Alphabet and moves to Tibet to study Buddhism. (I wish)
The Spaceship is reserved for corporate, designers and marketeers. So duh it is open plan. Most programmers at Apple just book the conference rooms for coding sessions. Its absolutely impossible to get a conference room at short notice on any of the campuses.
A major form of corruption in India is giving internships to the kids of prospective clients governmental or non governmental. The elite already know internships improve employability. This measure is now forcing the first gen folks to also get internships which wont be that easy without the existing social capital.
Of Course wealthy want to use their wealth to give a boost to their kids. Otherwise whats the point of working hard to accumulate wealth?
Any company which will not do hikes unless someone gets a competing job offer is one where HR and COmp are not doing their job. Its their job to study the competitive market and have a number ready for what a person's market value is and then raise it to 15% less than Market. Noone leaves for less than 15%. If HR is not providing this number to the reporting manager they are not doing their job. Rather they are depending on the HR of other companies to come up with a suitable comp for their own employees and then matching that Comp. What this means is the company is having to pay 15% more than what it would normally need to pay because HR is being lazy.
Solution. Clean your panic room manually