It does not have to go to NYC at all. If Waymo can show profitability is some city it is good enough. If it gets love in one city is is good enough for the rest of the world to put a red carpet before them.
He said it’s the absolute truth that “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them”
That's pretty dishonest. It's only an "unarguable fact" if you consider "X group does Y" to be true if any members of X do Y, in which case it's an "unarguable fact" that all races push hatred of all other races and we should encourage hatred of people based on race for that reason.
You can criticize organizations without lauding broadly hateful comments with no qualification on your praise, which is what Musk did. What happened isn't complicated or even particularly subjective, frankly, though the broader topic certainly is.
You can also engage in that broader topic without defending obvious shit-stirring specific examples/figures, like Musk. There are people making sound criticisms of e.g. Israel or the ADL. You can take their positions, instead of joining hands with a low-quality source of noise and trolling, like Musk and the guy he was praising.
The statement said "Jewish communities", not Jews. The ADL and Israeli government fall under those categories. This kind of response is just like the ADL, who attempt to smear anyone who criticizes their influence as an anti-semite.
You can also engage in that broader topic without defending obvious shit-stirring specific examples/figures, like Musk.
Sure, but when a topic that people don't want to discuss is brought up, people will spend eternity addressing the manner in which it is brought up to avoid addressing any of the concerns directly.
not a lot usually. "popular" places like the guardian are way less visited than you might think. In a similar vein a best seller book is only 5000 - 10000 books.
Are you talking about his feuding with the ADL for their defamation activities? This was the closest reply I could find to what you described (feedback welcome).
> And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.
In the past it was sales&marketing only with smattering of a few "guest desks" for visiting engineers. And the site leads at Waterloo (at least) lobbied hard to prevent Toronto from ever really having engineering for real. Probably out of worry about centre of gravity being sucked away, etc.
IMHO it limited Google's hiring ability in Ontario. And it made me (and others) have to sell my house in Toronto and move when my employer was acquired. I tried the van/bus commute for 6 months and it was too hard.
Then the Geoffrey Hinton folks moved in there I believe. And I think some AI R&D was happening there?
And then COVID happened, and everyone was WFH but when you did go into the office and book a desk, it became possible to go into the Toronto office instead.
I left after that so can't say how it is now. Google goes through waves of "defrags" where small groups and teams in peripheral offices are... purged and merged because there's a feeling that "strength in numbers" for a particular project pays off. I wouldn't be surprised to see what happen post-layoffs.
The Toronto office, when I visited it, was small. Food was good though.
Don't work for Google, but been to the Toronto office (it is on the smaller side).
It is in the heart of the Toronto downtown, near Richmond & Spadina, next to the old & new City Hall. Definitely disagree with GP, I'm not sure what better area you would pick (but I love downtown). Similarly in Taipei, the Google office is right in Taipei 101 (like having an office in CN Tower - very cool.)
To be fair, Amazon's office in Toronto is next to the CN Tower and has a great view of it - so maybe Amazon takes the cake here. You have to pay for the cake though.
> It is in the heart of the Toronto downtown, near Richmond & Spadina
No, it's Richmond and University or Richmond and Bay. It's basically in financial district which is as boring and corporate as it comes. My point was to the GP saying "Google always seems to lease the best/coolest office real estate"
Exactly, hence no true Scotsman: "Oh, it's not a true Google org!".
No, it is a Google org. Whatever was said in the top comment was applicable to Geo a few years back.
And the infamous "need-to-know" memo, which required everyone to start siloing tech docs and made using the internal search engine potentially a fireable offense (!) was company-wide.
Except I would rather have the cops punished along with their higher-ups. It's common in India to punish a low-level cop and call it a day. All this while the real masterminds go on to create even more problems for the society.
