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- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 21 hours ago:
And when it succeeds, next update will push ads directly in your brain.
- Comment on The best way to keep feeling young is to remove all of your mirrors. 4 days ago:
Not like your muscles are going to remind you or anything lol
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
They learnt about consent from Elon.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 week ago:
That’s what I thought. They have already relaunched 3310 few years back.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
- No, that’s not something that’s common.
- India also has ~6-7% inflation based on official numbers, with the chance of it being much higher in reality. So even those who get hikes are only gaining just a bit more to keep their head above water.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
It would increase the wages in India and at some point the pay would equal to the person who lives in the USA.
You would make a fantastic fantasy writer. 🥲
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
Coworkers from USA for Indian teams = hope you like to work from 4pm to 4am.
- Comment on animals you need to know 1 week ago:
Where’s Muad’Dib?
- Comment on US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio 2 weeks ago:
January? The news had been coming since November 2019 AFAIK
- Comment on US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio 2 weeks ago:
ShAItshow
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t. That’s just you.
- Comment on Slacker 2 weeks ago:
That can’t be true! Who lies on the internet?
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
That was an ad guy doing ad guy things. Why the fuck the product guy do what he did? Cause he didn’t give a shit about his domain.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
They also fired entire QA department and crowdsourced it to paying customers.
And it’s not my racism. I’m a born and raised Indian who everyday meets people like these. Our culture is fucked up.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Is there something specific about Indian leadership that pushes growth above anything else?
Yes. They’ll micromanage the shit out of everything and throw you under the bus to save their own skin.
And the mods have removed my comment for ‘Rule 3’. What the fuck.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
And I’ll tell you what I told others.
Come here and try to live like how we live and you’ll understand first hand what I’m trying to say.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 weeks ago:
Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said ‘it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media’. I said ‘do it’. And they then replied about totalitarianism.
So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 weeks ago:
PRISM is European?
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Not really. Unlike other three, he was not born and brought up in India.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Broadly applicable cultural norms aren’t a thing?
Please come here to Mumbai, try to live as a wagie, and see how far can you go it before the grind breaks you.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Did you see my other comments?
Google under Brin and Page introduced many useful products, Microsoft became a household name under Gates, same with Photoshop.
What have these CEOs done after they took the reins? All I can think of is pushing for ‘cloud’.
Pichai in particular I dislike the most. Hewas heading the Android team. But last few years Android feels stagnant. He could’ve done much more for his supposedly passion project as the CEO of Alphabet.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
there are a good number of Indian people in tech.
Yes, as grunt workers (myself included).
I legit can’t recall many Indian innovators in tech. Even most tech companies here in India are copies of American companies.
Which again brings me back to my question. What have these CEOs done during their tenure other than rent seeking?
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
It’s not funny. Our culture tells us to bow to authority. Be it old people in house and neighbourhood, or boss at work. We are not supposed to criticize them lest we get labelled troublemaker. Just keep your head down and walk down the beaten path.
These CEOs are just a shining example of these.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
I’m not talking about Zuckerberg after 10 years of being a CEO.
I’m talking about Zuckerberg when he dropped out of college, started Facebook, and actually developed features for his new venture.
We can hate him for being a piece of shit ghoul that he is, but we can’t deny his technical skills.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Three people who are steering highly influential mega corporations.
Piss off.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 weeks ago:
Protecting citizens’ interests is not totalitarian.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe since 2008)
Tech companies with Indian CEOs have defined and refined rent-seeking over innovations.
Unlike Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, Gates who had interest in technology and the product, these are just fucking yes men who exist to please the board by trying to keep the line going up, as long as they’re not required to take risks themselves.
They’ll buy competition, give shit pay to employees, and cut costs even if that harns the company in the long run.
Fuck them.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 weeks ago:
Fucken do it.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
replaced him with the same person who killed Yahoo, Prabhakar Raghavan.
Pulled a Boeing
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 3 weeks ago:
Why not both?
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