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I'm sorry, I don't seem to recall mentioning anything about COVID. Let me check my reply....nope! I mentioned stuff that happened in the last year. So even if you were right about COVID, what you just wrote isn't a rebuttable to anything I said. Though I suspect you know that. It's almost like your response is dishonestly trying to muddy the waters.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "he literally can't and he literally doesn't" but he's got PHD in CompSci and did everything at Google in the past from writing complex code himself to managing small teams to managing huge teams. Exactly what do you think he can't do? Certainly he's well qualified to manage a team of a few thousand (?) AI people and understand what they are talking about and get the best out of them. Li…
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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and extremely badly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470097
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461928
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460655
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426226 (Dec 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425616 (Dec 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420674 (Dec 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394806 (Dec 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293387 (Dec 2025)
This is such a high proportion of what you've been posting that I think we have to ban the account. I don't want to do that, because it's clear that you know a lot about things that people here are interested in—but the damage caused by these poisonous, aggressive comments is greater than the benefit you've been adding by sharing knowledge.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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I'm sorry, I don't seem to recall mentioning anything about COVID. Let me check my reply....nope! I mentioned stuff that happened in the last year. So even if you were right about COVID, what you just wrote isn't a rebuttable to anything I said. Though I suspect you know that. It's almost like your response is dishonestly trying to muddy the waters.
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Living as we do in a society where basic needs are not guaranteed without a giant pile of money, most humans don’t get to experience what it feels like to be in a place where you don’t base your life decisions on financial well being. Thats very limiting; it isn’t that surprising that someone who has achieved that is now looking for meaning in other things. Besides: if you’re Sergey Brin, I imagine you can get to tal…
I don't think this is really accurate because the traditional state of society, and one that remains in the 'developing world' which is almost certainly still the wide majority of the world at this point, is families living in multi generational housing with many people contributing. This enables older to generations to comfortably 'retire' when they see fit, and provides financial comfort and security. It's basicall…
When I started my company, we suddenly found that we were in a good small fortune, not enough to be millionaires or billionaires, but enough to get people to run the business semi automatically with very minimum input from the founders. I took a semi retirement approach to the business, there really wasn't a lot of things to do, my role was sort of just "managing" programmers. I got so much free time that I could eve…
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Sergey unretires, Gemini suddenly becomes the top LLM (for a week or two at least) Google has made some subtle moves that a lot of folks missed, possibly with Sergey's influence. Like hiring back Noam Shazeer, who practically invented the backbone of the technology. It's good to have folks with presumptions of being scientists actually run companies for once. That being said, I wish his ex-wife hadn't spent her milli…
It's not just millions. Shanahan received over a billion dollars when divorcing Brin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan Today's unscientific gutting of the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule is what is being accomplished with all that $GOOG money. It's honestly very disturbing and rather than discuss it as a matter of politics, I'll just say that as a parent I'll be following the AAP's vaccination recommend…
When I started my company, we suddenly found that we were in a good small fortune, not enough to be millionaires or billionaires, but enough to get people to run the business semi automatically with very minimum input from the founders. I took a semi retirement approach to the business, there really wasn't a lot of things to do, my role was sort of just "managing" programmers. I got so much free time that I could eve…
"Because it's the meaningful work that sustains life and provides happiness." For you. For me, it is having the time to do what I wish. Currently helping a friend with recovery after a major surgery. Next month, who knows? No, it's not at all the same as "meaningful work". At least in part, I do not need the attaboys or regular 'sense of accomplishment' that one get from plate-spinning or other meaningful work.