Looks like the number of employees increased from 174,014 to 181,798. This includes the 12,000 laid-off employees.

I just added this comment on another reply further down below, copy-pasting here, the numbers compare last year Q2 to this year Q2, if you compare it to last quarter they are actually down in count.

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I thought this was interesting, so I compared it against their count last quarter (instead of last year) and they are indeed down.

  - In Q4 2022 [1] they had 190,234 employees.
  - In Q1 2023 [2] they had 190,711 employees.
  - This quarter Q2, they have 181,798 employees.

So they are down almost 9000 employees from last quarter, close to their 12K layoff number.

[1] https://abc.xyz/assets/c4/d3/fb142c0f4a78a278d96ad5597ad9/20... [2] https://abc.xyz/assets/a7/5b/9e5ae0364b12b4c883f3cf748226/go...

This is interesting because it then is such a sharp U-turn since last Q2. "Keep hiring!" -> "Layoffs!" with very little pause in between?

Yeah pretty much all major tech companies did this exact same U-turn.

Yeah, but seeing the sharpness - compared to "ok let's slow down... ok ... shoot, we probably actually need to trim some headcount" - really highlights the follow-the-herd, here's-a-handy-excuse, done-for-PR nature of them vs actually responding to revenue trends or such.

The layoffs aren't finished.

Opportunity cost. Landlord can use the money to invest elsewhere and make more than the minimum 12% APY. It is like 0% interest loan for the length of the tenant stay.

Isn't it against the ToS of Youtube to download videos?

Technically, yes, but what do you think is happening when you watch a video from their site?

What if Uber started distributing free Uber-requesting devices to its customers?

I'm not in favor of bring back the Bat Belt. It wasn't too long ago, on one's belt you would find: cell phone, iPod, Palm Pilot, perhaps even a pager.

Misleading title. I don't think they want the result of the grant to rival Google

I feel the game is missing an exit option.

Oof, yeah, overriding the back button so heavily is really bad.

Yes, I use it to check weather and get traffic updates. quite less information is shown on cards. But, if you are not using it, you aren't missing much!