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Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by hiram112 »

Nullabillity wrote: post #212
s73ver wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now, which do you value more? It's entirely possible that, in the near future, a competitor will show up that won't make you choose between the two. However, that time is not now.

Lineage without GApps gives you both, at the cost of some convenience.

Without GApps / Play Services, I'm wondering just how helpful an Android device would be for the typical techy on the go.

Sure, I could text, check email, use open source maps, check my account balances, and play some simple games.

But I've learned both from my BlackBerry which had Android emulation and Kindle Tablet, both of which can't use apps that depend on Google's APIs, a lot of pretty important apps won't work: any maps that show traffic or turn by turn directions, Uber / Lyft, almost all popular social apps like Twitter, Facebook, most popular games, payment apps, dating apps, streaming music, etc.

That's a big loss. Not sure I want to go back to the days of my old Nokia smart phone with Symbian apps or even BlackBerry QNX which had a decent browser.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by Denzel »

dragonwriter wrote: post #317
Denzel wrote: post #295

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TL;DR It looks like she donated $150MM when in actuality she only donated $37.5MM Can you imagine the optics of an active board member, of a multi-billion dollar company, profiting from said company -- she's on the board of -- buying the company she runs? Good grief that reeks. She understood she couldn't take that money in good conscience. So, she got out in front of the optics for a small fee by "donating to charit…

> Which means, in any year, she can take $150MM in income taxed at say 55%, and pay $0 in taxes on it. 55% is greater than the maximum combined federal and state marginal income tax rate on normal income, and no one making that much does it as normal (mainly, labor) rather than long-term capital gains (which pays lower rates) income in the first place, because no one pays that kind of money for labor, you only make i…

Firstly, 55% is not greater than the maximum tax rate one could pay on income (especially in CA) [1].

Secondly, you understand that RSUs (restricted stock units) are taxed as normal W-2 income at the time of vesting, right! You pay capital-gains tax on any appreciation in value after said vesting -- should you choose to sell the stock.

You should probably stop spreading misinformation on topics you don't have experience in.

[1]: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

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Post by kahnpro »

Zach_the_Lizard wrote: post #235
bilbo0s wrote: post #231

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Does Netflix use Google Cloud? Or do they just support it with Security Monkey?

I thought Netflix was mostly or exclusively in AWS. Could certainly be wrong though.

Pretty sure they don't serve the actual video from AWS.

And now considering the competition from Amazon Prime, I doubt it will move there in the future.

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Post by rmc »

Gustomaximus wrote: post #300
oh_sigh wrote: post #268

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That's nice, but let's be honest: She is a billionaire, and will continue to make hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars during her future tenure at Google. A person of average means donating $500 may be a bigger personal sacrifice than Greene donating $150M.

I dont know why this is being down-voted. While what she did is great, it is a true point in terms of personal sacrifice. I saw an interview with Bill Gates where he said much the same thing to a comment about his generosity. He pointed out he doesn't sacrifice a single item/experience he wants in life giving away what he does. And a ordinary person that gives a few hundred gives up more than him in terms of what it…

Y'know Bill Gates' current charity, and anti-malaria work, do make me forgive him for his anti-competitive behaviour in th 90s/00s.

How the world changes, eh?

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by cosmeen »

lettergram wrote: post #10

I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane. I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing. The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that…

You can also try Brave which blocks ads and trackers. And is based on firefox afaik.

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by mswift42 »

oh_sigh wrote: post #268
dmoy wrote: post #228

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She donated all of her share ($150m) to charity to boot.

That's nice, but let's be honest: She is a billionaire, and will continue to make hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars during her future tenure at Google. A person of average means donating $500 may be a bigger personal sacrifice than Greene donating $150M.

How can you say "let's be honest", and than simply pull random numbers out of thin air ?

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by saiya-jin »

nine_k wrote: post #312
Denzel wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TL;DR It looks like she donated $150MM when in actuality she only donated $37.5MM Can you imagine the optics of an active board member, of a multi-billion dollar company, profiting from said company -- she's on the board of -- buying the company she runs? Good grief that reeks. She understood she couldn't take that money in good conscience. So, she got out in front of the optics for a small fee by "donating to charit…

Isn't it how tax incentives work? Effectively she donated a bunch of money to a charity instead of the federal tax fund. Hopefully the charity is more efficient!

hate to break it to you, but charities generally consume at least 95% of the budget on organizational management and bureaucracy, and actual help to needy is the remaining there might be some run more efficiently, but that's the industry average. not even going into details of chaos of said charities during some proper disaster, where they all swarm at said place, uncoordinated, ineffective in costs and human rescue efforts.

state is a poor manager of given budget, but sincerely doubt it's as ineffective as this (plus it helps mostly locally so taxes affect taxpayers more directly)

Re: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

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Post by tudorw »

rmc wrote: post #334
Gustomaximus wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know why this is being down-voted. While what she did is great, it is a true point in terms of personal sacrifice. I saw an interview with Bill Gates where he said much the same thing to a comment about his generosity. He pointed out he doesn't sacrifice a single item/experience he wants in life giving away what he does. And a ordinary person that gives a few hundred gives up more than him in terms of what it…

Y'know Bill Gates' current charity, and anti-malaria work, do make me forgive him for his anti-competitive behaviour in th 90s/00s. How the world changes, eh?

Me too, almost as if acquiring all that wealth, primarily from corporations then redistribution was not something that was pre-considered, surely he is not that smart ;)
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