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when I was driving back I was passing payson and cottonwood and listening to an old school hiphop channel, then when that broke up I flipped it and a horse with no name was on and I was like e: gently caress you awful. fawful
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 03:37 |
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Apple stock is getting high.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 04:47 |
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when I was driving back I was passing payson and cottonwood and listening to an old school hiphop channel, then when that broke up I flipped it and a horse with no name was on and I was like e: gently caress you awful. fawful
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 04:47 |
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what is this pic referencing and why have three people posted it without reading the thread, this implies external context, am i supposed to know whose loving house this is? how do you people keep space in your brain for this poo poo, i can't even remember what i had for lunch yesterday e: it was a salad
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:05 |
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code:
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:08 |
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idgi what does "farknumrwf" mean, why are you doing this weird poo poo? are you trapped? do you need help? just say so
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:12 |
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froward posted:what is this pic referencing and why have three people posted it without reading the thread, this implies external context, am i supposed to know whose loving house this is? how do you people keep space in your brain for this poo poo, i can't even remember what i had for lunch yesterday San Andreas
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:13 |
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froward posted:what is this pic referencing and why have three people posted it without reading the thread, this implies external context, am i supposed to know whose loving house this is? how do you people keep space in your brain for this poo poo, i can't even remember what i had for lunch yesterday froward posted:idgi what does "farknumrwf" mean, why are you doing this weird poo poo? are you trapped? do you need help? just say so as an infrequent shitposter I don't say this often but
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 05:16 |
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Wild EEPROM posted:
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 18:34 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:lol i'm working on it. i'll make sure the pos is first to know when it's ready! ok it's rolling out today ymmv
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 18:51 |
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LOL google just did this massive reorganization and im still reading the PR but im so excited because this is bound to be a poo poo show http://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-operating-structure-2015-8
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:51 |
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As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have. We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion users, like Google Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and Android. And we haven’t stopped there. We are still trying to do things other people think are crazy but we are super excited about. We’ve long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant. Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable. So we are creating a new company, called Alphabet. I am really excited to be running Alphabet as CEO with help from my capable partner, Sergey, as President. What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity). Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren’t very related. Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence. In general, our model is to have a strong CEO who runs each business, with Sergey and me in service to them as needed. We will rigorously handle capital allocation and work to make sure each business is executing well. We'll also make sure we have a great CEO for each business, and we’ll determine their compensation. In addition, with this new structure we plan to implement segment reporting for our Q4 results, where Google financials will be provided separately than those for the rest of Alphabet businesses as a whole. This new structure will allow us to keep tremendous focus on the extraordinary opportunities we have inside of Google. A key part of this is Sundar Pichai. Sundar has been saying the things I would have said (and sometimes better!) for quite some time now, and I’ve been tremendously enjoying our work together. He has really stepped up since October of last year, when he took on product and engineering responsibility for our Internet businesses. Sergey and I have been super excited about his progress and dedication to the company. And it is clear to us and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google. I feel very fortunate to have someone as talented as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations. I have been spending quite a bit of time with Sundar, helping him and the company in any way I can, and I will of course continue to do that. Google itself is also making all sorts of new products, and I know Sundar will always be focused on innovation -- continuing to stretch boundaries. I know he deeply cares that we can continue to make big strides on our core mission to organize the world's information. Recent launches like Google Photos and Google Now using machine learning are amazing progress. Google also has some services that are run with their own identity, like YouTube. Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth. Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort. We are also stoked about growing our investment arms, Ventures and Capital, as part of this new structure. Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Our two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG. For Sergey and me this is a very exciting new chapter in the life of Google -- the birth of Alphabet. We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search! We also like that it means alpha-bet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark), which we strive for! I should add that we are not intending for this to be a big consumer brand with related products--the whole point is that Alphabet companies should have independence and develop their own brands. We are excited about… Getting more ambitious things done. Taking the long-term view. Empowering great entrepreneurs and companies to flourish. Investing at the scale of the opportunities and resources we see. Improving the transparency and oversight of what we’re doing. Making Google even better through greater focus. And hopefully...as a result of all this, improving the lives of as many people as we can. What could be better? No wonder we are excited to get to work with everyone in the Alphabet family. Don’t worry, we’re still getting used to the name too! Posted by Larry Page, CEO
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:52 |
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og my god
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:52 |
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its happening. larry actually thinks hes going to be a warren buffett
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:53 |
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:alphabet:
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:55 |
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Linguica posted:As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have. lmao
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:55 |
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please summarize or highlight the funny parts as i have internet induced adhd, thanks
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:58 |
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b an cre mnob
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 21:58 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:please summarize or highlight the funny parts as i have internet induced adhd, thanks larry is making a new parent company called alphabet that google is under as the "g" so to speak. this is probably because almost every product they make fails miserably and it's starting to make them look like a loving dumpster fire, so now they can just act like these google things are not really google's
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:00 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:please summarize or highlight the funny parts as i have internet induced adhd, thanks Google's pulling an HP except they aren't spinning off the profitable parts completely
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:00 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:please summarize or highlight the funny parts as i have internet induced adhd, thanks google went through a merger and this is bad for some reason
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:00 |
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alphabet soup
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:02 |
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isn't this gonna lead to investors pressuring them to spin off google loving all their weirdo technolibertarian pipe dreams?
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:06 |
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the talent deficit posted:isn't this gonna lead to investors pressuring them to spin off google loving all their weirdo technolibertarian pipe dreams? half their stock is non-voting [goog post-split] and larry & sergey still have enough Magic Founder Shares to ignore people who complain
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:11 |
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my early take is that this is larry trying to be a silicon valley version of warren buffett and berkshire. google will be the insurance companies that generate the float that buffett uses to invest and acquire other profitable firms with moats the difference is that larry will invest the cash in speculative startups and other ~life changing~ moonshots that will probably never pan out
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:12 |
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its glorious because if its true this basically validates my entire thesis of larry's empire building
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:15 |
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lafffff at https://abc.xyz/ someone register abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:16 |
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they're basically gonna be a big VC firm and the capital to invest comes from google lol
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:17 |
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google is graduating from the ballpit finally graduating to alphabet blocks
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:19 |
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chestnut santabag posted:lafffff at https://abc.xyz/ it's taken but has nothing on it
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:19 |
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so uhm, how long until the non-voting stockholders take them to court for violating fiduciary responsibility or whatever it's called?
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:20 |
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lmao he's been alluding to this for a while now. i first noticed it in an interview with the FT a while back when he name dropped warren buffett
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:22 |
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yea the nyt has written it up as a "taking a leaf out of berkshire hathaway" lmao
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:27 |
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the gently caress is happening
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:27 |
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Logikv9 posted:the gently caress is happening good avatar post combo
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:28 |
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Nice Silicon Valley joke https://twitter.com/alexweprin/status/630848214892191745
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:32 |
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they know, they're watching us
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 22:32 |
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chestnut santabag posted:google is graduating from the ballpit finally
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Anroid.
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