Google Brain Residency Program

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Re: Google Brain Residency Program

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Post by dboreham » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 5:17 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #60

dboreham wrote: post #59

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Probably not a good idea to start a thread on this, but...it irks me every time I see one of these "BigCo only pays $5.34 in taxes despite making $35,923,233 in operating profit" comments. Corporations, like the rest of us, pay taxes on the money they make (profit). Profit may be reduced, perhaps to zero, intentionally, by paying money made to people (employees, shareholders, managers). Those people like the rest of…

There are a lot of smaller companies paying tax on profit right now. If you cancel that form of tax, the money needs to come from somewhere. Hence, income tax (and salaries) will increase and things will be fair. So that scenario would be perfectly fine with me. This is, of course, no excuse for Google not paying taxes at this moment.

Are there? (genuine question) I own two small companies. Our accountant would have a fit if we left significant taxable profit in the companies. We pay any profit to employees and shareholders. Isn't Google just doing the same thing (modulo increased complexity due to their size and international reach)?

Re: Google Brain Residency Program

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Post by balladeer » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 7:48 AM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #32

balladeer wrote: post #19

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Such examples and on one of those grad forums and other places like Reddit about how horrible and how political grad programs are (I mean PhD mostly) I must say it added a lot to my decision of not trying for a PhD (maybe ever). Is it an accepted environment in academia by now and very widely known and people still go for the same environment? Or people, students, don't know how it is actually there, or the severity…

Or, is it just the hope that - oh that place cannot be that bad? Or is it really not this widespread as people make it out to be, or as it seems to be (to me at least)? Just curious I did my PhD in The Netherlands. I had an awesome time, both professionally and socially. I worked with great people, had a great social life, and wasn't paid badly (for Dutch standards). Afterwards, I was in industry for a short time. Up…

Thank you for your response. Fortunately, even I am going for my MS in Europe. Most probably in Germany. I've an accept from Bonn. I may try for other universities, e.g. TuM, RWTH etc.

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