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Did you translate that yourself?
Is there a website that offers such bidirectional translation?
I want to be a CEO too!!
Advancing our amazing bet
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#172A nation-wide rollout would have been one of the most transformative things Google could have done. Growing their profits now depends on a thirty year bet on unproven technologies.
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That's absolutely fascinating, because I personally always think the same "way." Are you aware of any research on this subject?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity "Linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or Whorfianism, is a concept-paradigm in linguistics and cognitive science that holds that the structure of a language affects its speakers' cognition or world view."
What OP is mentioning is only tangentially related to linguistic relativity - more precisely Sapir-Whorf was making very general statements (most of which have not been found to be empirically supported) about the affect of language on world view (e.g. including differences in color word).
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's very interesting that you say the biggest hurdle was regulatory capture, that is certainly depressing. Why is that depressing? Do you feel any company should be allowed to build a phone line above your street, instead of being a regulated monopoly? This is what happens when you do that: http://io9.gizmodo.com/photos-from-the-days-when-thousands-o...
You know, returning home to the USA a couple times a year, I am really struck by how many freaking power and phone lines are everywhere. It seems like every single street, except for the very core of cities downtown, and only the very wealthiest neighbors, have buried lines. In Germany, almost every town and every highway is free of these (IMO) ugly poles with lines everywhere. It's really an eyesore when you finally…
Germany is also a significantly smaller area with more of the population in high density zones compared to most of the USA.
Aboveground cables are easier to repair and much less expensive to string up over thousands of miles.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
> investors would have priced the loss into the stock price long ago That's a misconception. The investors had done expectations. They were either met or unmet. But unless there is insider info, a project going bad won't get priced before the news is known. Stuck prices isn't some magical thing that knows all. It's simply an average of what everyone believes. Beliefs are sometimes wrong.
Thinking about your last statement: If the price were an average of beliefs, we would have people that believe it's worth more and people that think it's worth less. Those that think it is worth more would, logically, buy Google stock, and then the price would increase until we reached the price where people are somewhat on agreement that it isn't worth more. So, either there is a lack of funds to make the purchases,…
Every stock trade reflects a disagreement between two parties about the value of the company, not an agreement on what it is worth. The buyer would rather own that stock than that amount of money. The seller would rather have the money. They can't both be right about which is more valuable.
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#176Quick story: here in Apex, NC, Google announced they'd bring Fiber here and everybody was really excited. A few months later when the website went up, everyone I know entered their address to check availability and it turns out that Google decided to draw the "line" just outside our town, stopping short of including Apex (a suburb of Raleigh) but including other suburbs like Cary and Morrisville. The whole town was p…
That sounds like it was deliberately orchestrated by AT&T to me...
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Thanks, nice job. I must say I am more saddened by the way Google chose to word it than by the fact that they are killing it.
Google have been spewing gratuitously specious numbers for some years now. A piece in VentureBeat from 2012: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/20/google-skews-google-plus-s... "This post on Google+ statistics is a billion* times better than any other post" But what concerns me most is that Google is touting these meaningless statistics in the hopes that journalists will misunderstand them and report that Google+ is seei…
what's the trend on G+ usage? Any chance that in the near future we'll be able to search for anything with a '+' sign in it and get a relevant answer rather than some G+ page?
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#178This announcement needs a little bit of translation from the marketing language it's written in: > And thanks to the hard work of everyone on the Access team, our business is solid: our subscriber base and revenue are growing quickly, and we expect that growth to continue. "We're not yet profitable." > We have refined our plan going forward to achieve these objectives. It entails us making changes to focus our busine…
"Advancing our amazing bet" = "Pausing our struggling bet"
"bailing out of this losing bet"
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just because google fiber had a side effect of helping consumers doesn't mean it was googles motivation.
What reason did google have to believe Comcast was going to "cut off" access to users?
Comcast and the other ISPs are ever going to "cut off" access to anything.
What they have done and will continue to do is to make it extraordinarily difficult to use other companies services that replace their own. For example, many ISPs today are now putting in bandwidth caps. They claim that they only affect the top 1% of users. This may be true today, but once 4k 60FPS content becomes the norm. those bandwidth caps will affect everyone.
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Pretty much exactly the interpretation a Googler posted earlier: https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/TJwzGb5dt1W "We have refined our plan! "We're going to push technology, remain a leader, enhance our focus, and in general optimize our synergistic long-term 'outside the box' thinking for high-impact de-risking of our core vertical integrations for enhanced customer satisfaction. "Oh, and practically speaking…
The shit's not even selling on the inside. Googlers are quite good at translating executive messages. I wish I could see the internal memes for this.
You have to wonder why they bother with the newspeak though, it seems to pointless.