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What will happen to Google?

Doomsday Scenario: People start to use Bing with ChatGPT integrated, force people to download Edge. Google starts to lose the market share in both Search and Chrome. Google makes a comeback with Bard but 1. Data Microsoft has accumulated via first mover's advantage makes ChatGPT perform better 2.

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Feb 20, 2023

Why don't remote 🇨🇦 companies allow working from abroad more often?

Digital by design/default, but only to very limited countries that would apply to the few. Canadian government can hire citizens to work abroad because Canadians can be factual residents of Canada while living abroad, to be paid in their home country (as long as you have work permit & the money doe

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Sep 7, 2022

Work abroad as an American

I’ll be using Google as the example tech company in this question. I have questions surrounding working abroad for an American tech company like Google. Let’s say I want to move to Paris and work there for Google (since they hold offices there). I understand work visas will be required and probabl

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Jun 24, 2023

Immigration Ban v2 injunction granted

I speed-read the decision. I am not a lawyer and would appreciate corrections from anyone who is. Here's my notes: * This suit, unlike Washington v. Trump, has an individual plaintiff: Ismail Elsikh, American citizen whose Syrian mother-in-law has no visa, is in the middle of I-130 processing (the

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Mar 15, 2017

Amazon was better when you cried at your desk

I used to work late nights to make things right for customers, but now I work all night to make things look good for managers. Before 2016, Amazon had a formal performance review process which involved the following: 1. Developers wrote in-depth self-reviews about their past-year performance and

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Feb 19, 2021

Terrible dev plan & PIP culture in Amazon and FMLA.

The worst thing in Amazon is most of the managers are only threat to employee and company. PIP comes after a dev plan. A dev plan is reasult of a dumb, jealous, technically unfit or a drunk manager. Do not matter how good or bad you perform in dev-plan , managers have the permission to prepare man

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Apr 20, 2021

why $spy is best

Please read before commenting about a slightly higher fee. I instead hope to share some perspective about why blindly recommending the lowest expense ratio ETF may not be the best strategy. The point of this post is to explain that the liquidity SPY offers is worth the tradeoff of a minutely bigger

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Aug 17, 2023

11 reasons to use your own judgement instead of believing media narratives blindly

(This post isnt about any particular story, but general; and it not only applies to Uber but generally to any hot topic ) One thing I have learned from this February onwards is that it's dangerous believing the media narratives blindly, esp any stories about "uber-is-bad", as these stories sell lik

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Nov 22, 2017

11 reasons to use your own judgement instead of believing media narratives blindly

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Nov 22, 2017

Free speech vs first amendment, in the context of Twitter

I just want to clarify some stuff that many people mess up pretty badly. I expect to be misunderstood here as well, and for this thread to instigate civil war II. Free speech is the right to say anything at all without any repercussions at all. Completely unfettered. Free speech is an idea. It's n

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Apr 25, 2022

Expose on FLG: Part 10 FLG’s Media Develops

This is part 10 of my expose on Falun Gong, the Chinese meditation practice that grew into a huge global right wing disinformation machine. A former FLG practitioner of nearly thirty years, I am using the anonymity of Blind to share my info on how FLG went off the rails. As mentioned in the previo

Sep 23, 2023

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