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by auctiontheory 13y ago
I am certainly less snarky about kids going to do unskilled construction labor. Most middle-class Americans could find a neighborhood within 15-minutes drive that could really use their help. But "my adventures in East Palo Alto&quot
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You're suggesting he should have taken his $400,000 and gone back to living in a village in Ukraine?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
The irony is that he is still living in a country where phone lines are often tapped - probably more so than in his youth.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
That is not how to use "let alone."
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
In the sense that they would have the down payment on a condo in the Mission, yes. But that's not what "winning the lottery" implies.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You can ask anything you want. On the other hand, you should realize that your questions convey your state of mind, and anything you say can and will be used against you. But that's not necessarily a bad thing: apparently you have a fa
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
What doesn't ring true about this article is that the advertiser would spend $100K/day without building up to it with a whole lot of testing first. Facebook may have declined requests for comment, but we are still only getting one
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
A woman who becomes a doctor or lawyer or banker (because nowadays she can) is a woman who is not a nurse, librarian, or K-12 teacher.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
When you're just so damn rich , and the money keeps pouring in, it's very hard to stay focused, to relentlessly innovate, to admit (if only to yourself) that you're just as imperfect as everyone else, and make just as many m
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Yup. Another example of this (from economics) is danariely.com.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
It is certainly one reason that keeps men (and many highly-qualified women) from being teachers. Someone made the point long before I did that while we are grateful that women have so many more professional possibilities, it does mean a l
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
And teachers? That has to be the MOST important group where we should absolutely have equal representation. As a "traditionally female" occupation, K-12 teaching is woefully underpaid relative to, say, police or firemen. In the
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
I first read about this work a few years ago, but had I encountered it before college, I think I might have majored in statistics. Such powerful results - feel like magic.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You don't see anything like this in female-dominated professions. You absolutely do. K-8 teaching and psychotherapy come to mind. Anecdotally, the ratios are the inverse of what we see in tech. Men are in huge demand.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Speaking of J2ME, $16B is more than twice what Oracle paid to acquire Sun in 2010.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
I have a hard time believing that the density of WhatsApp-capable phones is higher across the developing world (where WhatsApp is popular) than in the US.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
The parallels are striking : Whatsapp is to messaging today what Hotmail was to messaging in the late '90s. With 10 million users, you could grow 100x, or more. With 400 million users, 100x growth is harder.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
How is getting drunk and high and drag racing on a public street remotely private or equivalent to the story?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Running is a "low-impact exercise" if done right.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
If the point of your previous message was "don't be discouraged by the rejections," it sure doesn't read that way.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
My shins ended up hurting so bad for months afterward. Overweight people cannot run. Running should not hurt. We were Born to Run , like it says in the title of the book. Shin pain tells me that you may be running with bad form, impactin
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
If we're only the cause of 50% of the warming that implies curbing our behavior only has half the impact that it would if we caused 100% of the warming. No, it does not imply that, not unless we know of a linear relationship between
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
would we reason against sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to stop it Yes, because Tom Cruise could stop it better.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Maybe when Bill quits curing malaria and gets his hacker groove back.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
My first thought was similar to yours, but reflecting that most of Apple's iDevices cost as much or more than a low- to mid-level laptop or PC, I don't think the comparison is so unfair. The trend may be even more important than t
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
I've worked with 10 Indian employees that could easily be replaced with a single competent westerner (of any descent whatsoever) for 1/3 the price. Funny. IIRC, in One Night @ The Call Center , Indian call center employees are
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
the severance and extended benefits are far more generous than any layoff I've been through here in the states Six weeks full salary is generous? You have worked for some very small or very cheap companies.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
What if the sheep want their own?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
IF you get good teachers, etc. to live in your technocratic war zone, their high salaries jack up the cost of living I've never heard of the cost of living anywhere going up because of an influx of highly-paid K-12 teachers.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Switched from my Android to WP If only there were a third mobile OS for you to try, one that's actually well-designed, one that even many Google employees use ...

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