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Eventine said:
Excludes stock based compensation. Which is most compensation for tech. workers. I know people working at Open AI & they are very much looking for an eventual payout from the stock grants.

For companies like Meta, it’s close to 3x their actual “salary” so do the math. $200,000 salaries with $500,000 stock grants / year being common.
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Stock thing can be a bit of a scam though. Amazon for instance won’t let you cash out before five or four years.
 
coolgod

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GulfLander said:
Indian Foreign secretary visits CN today.. (whats diff of foreign sec vs external minstr?)
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Some indian media speculating abt resuming flights between the 2 countries...
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Indian External Minister Jaishankar is an elected minister who is assigned a role by the PM (Modi). China hates his guts since the guy is super pro-US and anti-China. He is also technically the boss of the foreign secretary.

Indian Foreign Secretary is a bureaucrat, the current guy Vikram Misri was thought to be chosen by Modi to establish closer ties with China.
 
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tamsen_ikard said:
Such an embarassing loss for Beijing if this is true. What was all the talk about China not allowing robbery of its companies. Huh. So disappointed at Beijing if this is true.
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If this "global operations sale" goes through, it should force a reevaluation in this community of how strong Beijing believes its hand actually is. The only way I can see Beijing cave to this degree is if it believes the US has a "kill switch" on the Chinese economy or at least Chinese consumer software (which, to be fair, it does in the form of a global App. Store ban - 99% of the world outside of China still use Android or Apple), such that there is no choice but to do a face saving "sale".

I agree that $200 billion is no where close to the strategic compensation you'd want to surrender Tik Tok, especially since the sanctions on high-end chips & GPUs aren't going away.
 
9dashline

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Eventine said:
If this "global operations sale" goes through, it should force a reevaluation in this community of how strong Beijing believes its hand actually is. The only way I can see Beijing cave to this degree is if it believes the US has a "kill switch" on the Chinese economy or at least Chinese consumer software (which, to be fair, it does in the form of a global App. Store ban - 99% of the world outside of China still use Android or Apple), such that there is no choice but to do a face saving "sale".

I agree that $200 billion is no where close to the strategic compensation you'd want to surrender Tik Tok, especially since the sanctions on high-end chips & GPUs aren't going away.
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You got it backwards, its China that has the killswitch over the US AI and US economy

Killing Huawei was 100x more important than Tiktok. US already used up all its cards, best one was EUV.

Even supposing US had a magical killswitch, why would they waste it on TikTok? Does not pass litmus test
 
9dashline

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Temstar said:
Looks like reactionary elements of intelligencia have woken up to DeepSeek R1 and some of them are not taking it well:
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"Ban open source software to China"
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Tells you how much "PhD" are worth in USA.

No wonder OpenAI was hyping up its o3 as "expert PhD" level AI

btw, Sam Altman is how calling himself an (honorary) Doctor... lol... he fancies himself as the 21st century Oppenhimer
 
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