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by _cs2017_ 8y ago
Just take ad revenues (not just gross profits since we also want to count the money going to publishers) of large tech firms. Then deduct however much of that you think was the reduction in offline advertising (most of it, non personalized)
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The economic value of ad personalization is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A part of that value goes to Facebook, Google, and other social media and advertising firms. A part goes to publishers, who provide free shit su
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MV was just an example. SF is roughly similar, and if your job is in Cupertino or San Jose, it's even cheaper. I guess higher tax rates eat up another 5-10% of pretax income? I think there's still a largish premium in comp after a
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You're right. But I was talking from a perspective of a recent CS grad who is choosing between a good job in SV and a good job elsewhere. I'm sorry, I should have clarified. I thought (I guess incorrectly) that this was the prima
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Hmm a room in a shared house in mountain view, 10-15 min bike to work along a forest trail, can be rented for $1200-1500. Restaurants are about 30% more expensive than elsewhere, but that's still a tiny amount in absolute terms. Most o
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Today, there is far more connection between contribution to society and personal wealth than in the past. If you have good ideas about how to make this connection stronger, share them in a blog, research paper, book, talk. If you have nothi
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To summarize the article: maybe we'll never discover a unified theory and will have to live with approximations for each context. But maybe we will. But nah, we should be skeptical about that. Probably not. Just like pretty much any ph
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One party rule can still have different levels of checks and balances. Until recently, the power in China was divided between several people in the Standing Committee, loosely organized into two factions. The two factions alternated every s
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Of course it's possible. And much better examples of that are post war Japan and Germany. The changes there literally made them global leaders. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's risky, especially for C
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They are not always equivalent. But in the case of China, changing from the current state to some new form of government carries a high risk of a prolonged chaos, which would destroy safety and prosperity for most families. Russia risked th
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I didn't mean that Georgia and Yugoslavia are doing badly now. I meant that the civil war there erupted from very minor issues, and it was very painful to the generation that experienced it. I have those places as examples of how easy
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In today's world, many governments use nationalism to help control their domestic situation. China, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam all do that; and one way in which they do that, is by claiming some territories in the South Chin
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I agree with you completely. In the earlier years, CCP was responsible for some of the worst suffering that the 20th century has seen; worse, it was totally without purpose. It was not even helping some people survive at the expense of othe
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About re-education camps and imprisonment for being critical of the government. Horrible acts are occasionally better than the alternative, if you think of the number of lives lost compared to the number of lives saved. I am not sure that
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Yes. I don't disagree.
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Yes yes, I misused the term. I meant the USSR, of course.
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1) Absolutely agree, the Chinese government after the war was absolutely horrendous. That, however, is only slightly relevant to the question of what to do today. 2) You can always use the excuse "I don't want a billion people tha
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Because keeping a large diverse country stable and safe is very difficult, and a failure causes enormous tragedy. The approach that works to keep the US stable does not always work well in other countries. To keep the billion people who liv