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Readit Newssangupta commented on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly theverge.com/2024/11/20/2... · Posted by u/jancurn
Your analogy isn’t accurate because the child wasn’t exceptional, it only exists a vehicle for maintaining Google’s ad dominance.
It’s like raising an exceptional child who is a criminal and having people come out of the woodwork saying “he was so good, he didn’t do anything wrong”
Agreed that it brings search dominance. But, it's like siblings helping each other out in life. A child excelled in a field where other failed. Now this child also helps promote his/her sibling's business.
Many Apple products only connect with other Apple products. Microsoft keeps poking/pushing to use Edge on Microsoft. Brave browser did eat into share and made a mark.
What is stopping from other kids in the field (FF, Edge, Opera etc) to be better, beat Chrome and also blocks ads?
sangupta commented on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly theverge.com/2024/11/20/2... · Posted by u/jancurn
Just thinking: So, Google makes life easier for users by creating Chrome and getting us respite from IE. When they moved the web really forward and way faster than others (Edge/Opera switched to Chromium too) - the DOJ wants them to give it away. It's like raising an exceptional child only to be asked to be adopted when they grow to be an adult.
sangupta commented on Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell dingdongdoorbell.com... · Posted by u/dirkc
Choose better UX design.
1. Get a QR code to put at your door
2. Visitors scan the QR code using their smartphone camera
3. Get a notification on your phone wherever you are!
OR
1. Install doorbell at your door.
2. Visitors press the doorbell using any of their extremities.
3. Get a notification on your phone wherever you are!
And not everyone carries a smartphone to scan QR code - read, elementary kids coming over every evening to play :)
sangupta commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
It's challenging but not impossible. A key is having less than 50% ownership interest in the company and an employment agreement with the company. It's close to impossible where the ownership is vested and at or above 50%. Again, not impossible but extremely challenging. The other owners also can be foreign nationals; they don't need to be U.S. citizens. So, where there are three foreign national founders, each owning a third, this should be fine.
Thanks - this helps.
> employment agreement with the company
I believe this means that once the entity is founded and funding secured, all participants will need to transfer their H1B to this new entity in order to work for it, right?
sangupta commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Is there a possible track for H1B holders (solo/team) to be able to start one? What I have usually been briefed is that you need a US citizen as a majority stake holder. Thanks.
Small nitpik: On empty text it still makes a request and changes to "Processing text"
sangupta commented on Google releases smart watch for kids store.google.com/US/produ... · Posted by u/goeldhru
> I need control to see who they are talking to, chatting with, what apps they use, and controlling screen time.
I'm just some random on the internet, but this rubs me the wrong way. Trust is important in relationships, and this doesn't show any trust. Some of this is perfectly fine, but tracking their chatting is an invasion of privacy unless you have a specific reason to be worried.
I should have mentioned that I am talking about 8-9 year olds.
sangupta commented on Google releases smart watch for kids store.google.com/US/produ... · Posted by u/goeldhru
Did we turn out great or did you turn out great?
There are many cases where unsupervised use of the internet or getting lost did not turn out well at all. Why view someone opting into this (my entire family has "find my" enabled on our phones.) Where is the negative? Kids can still be free range while allowing for the parent to know where they are.
That's my point. This has minimal features. I can track my kid without fearing unsupervised internet access to them.
The question that really matters to most people is, "What will these tariffs do to the prices of these things that actually matter?" And that it actually rather hard to predict.
The economists who claim that tariffs will harm normal Americans were also the economists who claimed that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy. They had the opposite effect, for reasons that still remain somewhat unclear. It may be that global trade makes certain classes of society very very wealthy, while not necessarily being such a positive for the middle class.
It is also notable that Chinese competitiveness has only increased as they have engaged in decades of state economic planning and market barriers. The economists who have told us since Reagan that this is inefficient and stupid might be ... wrong.
Middle class expenses may arise around 5-10% at the very least.