GP is describing a well-known phenomenon that spans countries, cultures and history: majority culture having a love/hate relationship with minorities, with extraordinary individuals on one side and diffuse fear and hatred on the other. Go read Othello's speeches.
Not every instance of white people liking or consuming black culture is that of a racist parasite trying to bleed the culture dry though. Sometimes white people just like stuff, and their interests overlap (as in this case with esotericism and music.) Culture works that way for everyone. The author doesn't seem to be trying to redefine anything or whitewash John Coltrane or what have you.
Engineering: QA automation is huge, closes the loop on "fully automated" software engineering if another computer use system is able to click around and help identify bugs in software
Deep Research: probably the biggest use case for computer use right now, finding information that isn't easily indexed or accessible via APIs.
General RPA: This is industry specific, but lots of just everyday knowledge work involves data transfer between many platforms that sucks and no one wants to do. A great example is Epic in Healthcare. SO much labor is employed just to write and read information from this desktop app that isn't easily accessible. Imagine a computer use system that can do automated data pulls at scale for legacy desktop apps. This is a huge huge use case, and something that we're excited to try and improve with simulators of things like Epic, SAP, Salesforce, etc.
Consumer: Lots of just general everyday tasks. I would recommend checking out https://yutori.com/ if you're interested in seeing how a computer use agent can be helpful in your day to day. Its fun for daily news reports, restaurant reservation checking, etc.
Just reading it, I am a bit confused. I was a free range kid starting in about 1st grade. We had boundaries, but let's be honest, little boys push the limits.
Now im in my mid 30s and have my third daughter on the way. I would never let my kids go play outside in the front yard unsupervised, just for the simple fact that I don't want them getting hit by a car, the oldest is 6, and understands things, but still, that just seems neglectful.
It could be because they are girls, and im more protective, but I also just generally gauge a Childs "readiness", and I don't know many 6 year olds that I would be comfortable going to explore my neighborhood without some form of supervision.
I also generally despise the use of CPS in this way, but from what I gather, this lady seems like a pain in the a*, and her neighbors clearly do not like her, for whatever reason it is. It doesn't mean they should get CPS involved, but it's honestly shocking that this lady would continue to live in a place like this, it's pretty unreal actually.
Not sure what to make of all of this, and it reads like a very one sided piece, would be interesting to hear all the other drama that led to all of this transpiring.
I agree. I for one was riding my bike all around the neighborhood as a kid, going everywhere. I guess starting in 1st grade it was walking around apartment complex and then we got. a house in 2nd grade, and probably 3rd grade we were off on our bikes with "boundaries" our parents said we couldn't go past. A 4 year old, hell even a 6/7 year old I just couldn't trust to make a proper decision, even with older siblings around.
Also, the way this article reads, this lady just seems like a pain in the a* and clearly her neighbors do not like her. The best bet is for them to move...
You're right, we struggle with this at our company, getting CS to just pick up the phone and call the customer. Sales, no problem, but any other function of the business they dont prefer phone.
I think its less about more risk etc, and its more like, they are the ones starting the company lol.
1. They are providing jobs
2. They are responsible for growing business
3. They are accountable to not only the employees but to board and investors, etc.
They take money off the table because they are in a much different position than say an engineer. It might be bad to say, but the engineer is responsible for one part of the business, the founders and CEO etc are responsible for all aspects of the business, and should be compensated appropriately for it, whether secondaries or higher salaries etc.
Also, secondaries at seed and A are not as common as they were during the 2020-2022 run up.
Are founding engineers not also taking on risk? They're typically taking a much lower salary in exchange for their shares. They're avoiding vacations, nice cars, fancy houses, and other expenses that they could purchase if they worked for a larger, public company. In the example from the article WeWork founding engineers would've gone 9 years without seeing any value from their shares while the CEO was cashing out billions.
The difference in responsibilities is already accounted for in their disparate salaries and ownership stakes. I don't think it's very relevant to whether or not they should have the option of cashing out some of their stake during funding rounds.
Not to be to conspiracy theory, but I just don't trust these types of companies with supplying satellite internet to the world. Something about Musks Free Speech, anti big gov, while at the same time effectively being one of the largest government contractors makes me trust him. And as im writing this im realizing how much I now don't trust him or anyone anymore lolol...
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