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Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by musicale »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #41
tialaramex wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you're not going to let people work from home and only come in one day a week Huh, I guess I dreamed the first start-up I worked for (a couple of decades ago) where indeed I only came in one day a week. Yes of course you "work like hell". We had a nasty leak bug and I set things up so that day or night if the leak was detected my stereo would go maximum volume and play "Straight Outta Compton". How does commuting c…

If I'm sat in a car There are other ways to commute. Commuting via train gave me a chance to go for a walk through parts of the city I'd otherwise not spend a lot of time in. Being stuck in suburban hell currently, working 100% from home is a nightmare scenario for me. Asshole neighbors. Constant noise (far worse than e.g. Oakland). Shit infrastructure (electric, telecom, whatever). And, in my experience, collaborati…

Commutes can be great when they aren't crowded. But overcrowded trains and subways, highway traffic jams, and risk-your-life city cycling are commuting nightmares.

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by dlg »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #31
gorgoiler wrote: post #17

> Brynjolfsson: ”I asked Sundar [about Google losing the initiative]. He didn't really give me a very sharp answer. > Schmidt: Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning. The reason startups work is because the people work like hell. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is if you go found a company and compete against the other star…

Eric has a penchant for saying things he thinks before thinking about how they might be heard. He famously said, "There is no privacy, get over it. If you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about."

Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by Rinzler89 »

andreiursan wrote: post #62
inferiorhuman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm sat in a car There are other ways to commute. Commuting via train gave me a chance to go for a walk through parts of the city I'd otherwise not spend a lot of time in. Being stuck in suburban hell currently, working 100% from home is a nightmare scenario for me. Asshole neighbors. Constant noise (far worse than e.g. Oakland). Shit infrastructure (electric, telecom, whatever). And, in my experience, collaborati…

On other ways to commute: You assume that people who commute by car do so because they want to, instead of going by train. I don't think that is the case. On people who refused to get a good WFH setup (e.g., WiFi): I bet those are terrible people to work with in the office, too. & I agree with your last point.

>On people who refused to get a good WFH setup (e.g., WiFi): I bet those are terrible people to work with in the office, too.

Huh? That's some crazy generalization Batman. Many people who rent have little control over their home office setups,. especially in a bad housing market.

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by esalman »

goshx wrote: post #56
inferiorhuman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm sat in a car There are other ways to commute. Commuting via train gave me a chance to go for a walk through parts of the city I'd otherwise not spend a lot of time in. Being stuck in suburban hell currently, working 100% from home is a nightmare scenario for me. Asshole neighbors. Constant noise (far worse than e.g. Oakland). Shit infrastructure (electric, telecom, whatever). And, in my experience, collaborati…

> There are other ways to commute. There are better places to live. See what I did there? Not everyone has better options to commute.

Better places might be more expensive.

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by JKCalhoun »

Maxious wrote: post #4
metadat wrote: post #2

Why was it deleted? Are there non-youtube hosted copies out there, perhaps an archive.org or torrent link?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schm... https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221353/eric-schmidt-say...

Yeah, that was the part that caused me to sit up — you can steal music and get away with it if no one uses your app.

Oh, your app is popular? Hire lawyers, they'll clean up your mess for you.

Move fast, steal things, lawyer up.

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by electronbeam »

andreiursan wrote: post #62
inferiorhuman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm sat in a car There are other ways to commute. Commuting via train gave me a chance to go for a walk through parts of the city I'd otherwise not spend a lot of time in. Being stuck in suburban hell currently, working 100% from home is a nightmare scenario for me. Asshole neighbors. Constant noise (far worse than e.g. Oakland). Shit infrastructure (electric, telecom, whatever). And, in my experience, collaborati…

On other ways to commute: You assume that people who commute by car do so because they want to, instead of going by train. I don't think that is the case. On people who refused to get a good WFH setup (e.g., WiFi): I bet those are terrible people to work with in the office, too. & I agree with your last point.

Often there are not other ways to commute

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by benzible »

dlg wrote: post #72
ChuckMcM wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eric has a penchant for saying things he thinks before thinking about how they might be heard. He famously said, "There is no privacy, get over it. If you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about."

Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)

Sure was. https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #41
tialaramex wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you're not going to let people work from home and only come in one day a week Huh, I guess I dreamed the first start-up I worked for (a couple of decades ago) where indeed I only came in one day a week. Yes of course you "work like hell". We had a nasty leak bug and I set things up so that day or night if the leak was detected my stereo would go maximum volume and play "Straight Outta Compton". How does commuting c…

If I'm sat in a car There are other ways to commute. Commuting via train gave me a chance to go for a walk through parts of the city I'd otherwise not spend a lot of time in. Being stuck in suburban hell currently, working 100% from home is a nightmare scenario for me. Asshole neighbors. Constant noise (far worse than e.g. Oakland). Shit infrastructure (electric, telecom, whatever). And, in my experience, collaborati…

I commuted every day in London, for 6 months, going to work in Croydon, from Blackfriars. It was the worst six months of my life, you make it sound like you're the only one commuting via train, every morning I would get covered in armpits, train delay, train canceled, people standing on top of each other.

Re: Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview

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Post by benzible »

dangus wrote: post #38
ldjkfkdsjnv wrote: post #27

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I took this more as Schmidt being disappointed in what Google has become. He really did build Google, its completely valid for him to be mad about the state of the company culture wise.

Or maybe mad that he wasted his life having no work-life balance and then realizing that lots of companies with work-life balance are productive and profitable. I’m ordering something from Europe where the factory is shut down for the entire month of August. I just have to wait an extra month for that item. The company still gets my money because I need the item. I also use a piece of software written by a European c…

> Or maybe mad that he wasted his life having no work-life balance

He's been trying to make up for it... https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/eric-schmidt-google-sc...

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