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X labs actually does great things. Nobody has invested into such different areas of scientific research as Alphabet. I love SV, but hated that potato cannon joke. They painted X Labs as a joke, which it isn't. Sure, they have had their failures,but I'd rather take their failures rather thn "successes" like Snapchat, Tiktok. Craig Frederighi demoing Memoji is much more laughable.

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Agreed. When the problems they try to tackle are orders of magnitude harder than...making Snapchat, you have to attribute their failure more to difficulty of the problem than incompetence of the people.

Yes. And thankfully, Ruth Porat has controlled the losses otherwise around 2013 they were on fire,bought so many robotics companies etc. Though, the incentive structure at the Self Driving project led to a lot of great engineers leaving the project and making tons of . I was also excited for Project Soli. Haven't seen any update regarding their work in 3 years. Waiting to see how Loon, Wing monetize as they graduated this year from X. No idea why I got downvotes on my 1st comment above. Probably, Snapchat or other insignificant Social startup employees.

I didn’t downvote you, but I wasn’t surprised to see that comment downvoted. The person you replied to said that they thought the show’s satire was really good. You replied, saying Google X does great things. That is either an off-topic reply or a weak way to disagree with whether the satire is good. Like Gates said, the high technology industry can accomplish great things and have some funny aspects at the same time.

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