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I’ve wondered if the pandemic and quarantining has exacerbated this. I don’t have much going on in my life right now besides work, and get little human contact beyond Zoom calls with my coworkers.
It seems like a few short-selling banks will take a beating, more banks will make a killing, and a lot of Redditors are going to die on the cross of “diamond hands.”
I don’t really know anything about the stock market though. This is interesting enough to watch from the sidelines.
But in context, he didn’t mean Uber needed self-driving to exist. He meant Uber can’t be left out if self-driving becomes a reality.
In that sense, the sale seems pessimistic. They no longer see self-driving on the horizon, or they aren’t on track to deliver the technology themselves.
The compensation just won’t seem so great when you’re paying off millions on a mortgage and wondering if the industry will still employ you once you’ve got a few gray hairs.
Maybe this time is different with the advent of better online collaboration tools. But these tools do little to help with real-time communication across time zones and language barriers.
YouTube is a business.
Hosting and serving your content costs them money.
If your content provides no means to recoup those costs, you’re not doing them a favor, they’re doing you a favor.
“Free” means he doesn’t need to pay for hosting, and he doesn’t.
He can't be 50-100 points higher than himself. Hikaru is #1.
OP going to the park or boarding a train without a mask might not cause anyone to die. But if everyone shared OP's view and went to parks and crowded onto trains, people certainly would die.
Some people are just bad at extrapolating beyond themselves and their own immediate wants.
He's probably somewhat of an outlier, since most business owners are younger and will have better chances of starting over, but some business won't recover from this.
EDIT: I found a non-paywall version of the article on MSN and that's essentially what they're reporting. "Nowhere in Italy has been harder hit than Bergamo, a city of about 120,000 people. In March 2019, 125 people died in the city. This March, 553 people died."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italys-coronavirus-deat...
But Covid-19 has kind of forced my hand. They've consistently provided same-day deliveries on Prime Now, whereas Instacart almost never has any available delivery slots, or if they do, the shortest delivery time is almost a week.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman...
Sounds like not much has changed. Of course, she lives for free in the UC presidential mansion, and had the school spend $620,000 to renovate it before she moved in, so she’s all set.
It’s right there in the first sentence. Nothing about eating concrete or sand.
And why wouldn’t they have had him knocked off sooner?
I regret not using “their,” so the reader could infer whatever gender they want, but I don’t think your argument that this isn’t a fictional person carries weight.
The book is 35 years old, and Drucker himself was 76 years old when it was published. He was considered a well-respected guy in the field, to understate it somewhat, and he had also seen this stuff for decades.
Maybe it would expose you to information that's outside your own personal experience?
AT&T was quite a big company in its prime, a monopoly in fact, but extremely innovative. Same goes for Xerox. I suspect Google's longer-reaching research efforts (quantum computing, machine learning) could pay off similar dividends eventually, if they aren't regulated out of existence.
Yes, big companies are often hampered by bureaucracy. Many are not innovative. And in all cases, the majority of employees need to focus on the bread-and-butter work that keeps the lights on. But big companies also have the resources needed to invest in long-term R&D with potentially big payoff down the road.
Conversely, you could make the case that most SV start-ups are actually not that innovative, and that SV as a whole gets perversely fixated on the past: every occasional success, whether it's social media or mobile apps or the gig economy, spawns a thousand imitators hoping to cash in on past success. Do we really need to be funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to create more "Like X but for Y" smartphone apps?