Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, is identical twins with George Kurian, CEO of NetApp.
Has anyone seen them together in a room, hmm?
Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, seems racist, why do it? Never understood the fixation in US of breaking every stat by ethnicity or skin color.
We Americans do it for "reverse discrimination," and yes it's racist.
Yeah I am sure there is no lingering racism in countries that were literally running colonial societies in Africa within living memory.
My dad grew up in a European country with colonies in Africa, with state sponsored racism against africans, but yeah it’s all reverse now.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US are a younger country and it's full of immigrants/children of immigrants. Most of the money here is old money. There are dozens of implicit rules. In France having a teacher as a parent is a better indicator of whether you'll get into a top school than being rich. Because you have to know all the tricks in the book to get anywhere. From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, appl…
> From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, applying, getting approved for a loan. Your POV is simply, factually, wrong; more people get high SATs and apply to the Ivy League schools than they can admit by a wide margin, and there are a lot of tricks (many of which leverage accidents of birth, wealth, and social circle) beyond that which go to getting to the top of the list. The bigge…
> The bigger ones involve the hyper rich buying buildings, and the merely very rich engaging in bribery which is higher risk when discovered, but legacies, padding applications with extracurrriculars for which opportunities are very much not equal, etc., all play a role.
Legacy and extracurricular are the big ones. Very, very few people are buying buildings or bribing.
Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
#134Kind of a tangent, but I worked for a Chinese company for a couple years as the only westerner mostly. My coworkers and I had so much confusion talking about family until the mutual realization that we were not using words the same way and understood some concepts differently. That lead to a lot of sitting around and pointing at a family tree going "ok who would this person be to you, how important?", and sometimes r…
Is it western European or anglo? My Portuguese family will call me uncle sometimes but perhaps that is just because first cousin or whatever is too difficult of a concept
There's some variation of course, but the family dynamics in western Europe all seem pretty similar to me, at least compare to the chinese clan system or other systems around the world. You can probably blame the Catholic church for that ;)
Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
We Americans do it for "reverse discrimination," and yes it's racist.
Yeah I am sure there is no lingering racism in countries that were literally running colonial societies in Africa within living memory. My dad grew up in a European country with colonies in Africa, with state sponsored racism against africans, but yeah it’s all reverse now.
I didn't say there isn't racism in Europe. In fact, I think Europe is more racist than the US.
Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I am sure there is no lingering racism in countries that were literally running colonial societies in Africa within living memory. My dad grew up in a European country with colonies in Africa, with state sponsored racism against africans, but yeah it’s all reverse now.
I didn't say there isn't racism in Europe. In fact, I think Europe is more racist than the US.
Just that we shouldn’t measure it. Agreed that Europe is more racist
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#137Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber and former CEO of Expedia, also has a pretty illustrious immigrant family - see the Personal Life section of his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
He also has a cousin who is the SVP of Engineering at Slack!
Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
#138Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber and former CEO of Expedia, also has a pretty illustrious immigrant family - see the Personal Life section of his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
Rich Iranians fleeing the revolution with their money and becoming rich Britons or Americans is not exactly a fairytale. Just because someone is an immigrant it doesn't mean they earned everything by their bootstraps.
> Just because someone is an immigrant it doesn't mean they earned everything by their bootstraps.
First of all, I never said it did. More importantly, though, they weren't able to flee the revolution with all their money, as most of it was confiscated by the Iranian government.
These types of folks are quite privileged, but not in ways that are often presented in arguments like the one you gave, i.e. "they were just born into money". Their main privileges are connections, their inherent confidence and belief that they have the power to be successful, and a deeply ingrained work ethic.
Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't say there isn't racism in Europe. In fact, I think Europe is more racist than the US.
Just that we shouldn’t measure it. Agreed that Europe is more racist
I don't think it's any of my school's, employer's, internship's, etc business what race I am, unless there are protections in place that make it only for govt statistics. The US Census is also fine.
Like it took until 2023 to finally outlaw intentional racial discrimination in American universities; that was A-OK and widely practiced before. And some of Google's internship programs publicly list what races they prefer, which is common in tech.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
"once removed" is not clear at all. To me, it reads like nonsense.
It's a standard term. I'll assume you're familiar with 'cousin' (in the strict English/western sense), aka (rarely, only really in contradistinction) 'first cousin'. 1. Your parents' [first] cousins' children are your 'second cousins'; 2. Your parents' second cousins' children are your 'third cousins' (and so on); 3. Your parents' [first] cousins are your '[first] cousins once removed'; 4. Your parents' second cousin…
"once removed" is such a strange term to me. It reads like they become first cousins only once something unspecified was removed. Like "once the tumor was removed the patient survived".
I'm obviously not a native English speaker.