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by felipe 13y ago
You forgot to subtract the amount you "paid" for the RSUs by not making an optimal salary.
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by felipe 13y ago
That would be the same of accusing Apple of being evil for overlooking environmental laws, while other companies (Samsung, etc...) use the exact same practices and end up getting a free pass. Walmart gets labeled as "evil" simply
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by felipe 13y ago
Would you call FB high-growth? At least from a VC standpoint "high-growth" is a 10x return, and not 2.5x like FB (on a good day)
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by felipe 13y ago
Apparently this is the software currently being used to replace Outlook: http://www.expressolivre.org/modules/conteudo/conteudo.php?c...
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by felipe 13y ago
As a non-believer, I've never touched a sacred book and never will, and I don't understand the need to "indoctrinate" everything. Why can't there be a culture of having just good clean fun, no religion, no wars, no
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by felipe 13y ago
I do not read Chinese fluently, but I do follow news from China pretty closely (I lived in China for a couple of years) and I am not denying that top-members of the party are taking advantage of their position (Wen Jiabao as an example). Al
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by felipe 13y ago
I understand the problem of rising wealth gap in China, but I missed the part in the articles you linked where it says that a very small and tight group of connected people owns a substantial part of the country. Obviously guanxi and party
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by felipe 13y ago
> "given that I live in a very big, liberal city" I don't know what city you are referring to, but your post alludes to a good point which is the fact that people normally associate Silicon Valley and San Francisco as libe
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by felipe 13y ago
I don't think it's right that Twitter is being singled-out as the evil chauvinistic company out there, but it is undeniable that positions of power in Silicon Valley are indeed reserved for the privileged white-male, and that&#x27
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by felipe 13y ago
> "Bay Area VC-funded companies are now the conservative, boring choice. They don't involve much risk" The question I love to ask around is whether any of these VCs or so-called "angels" of today would write a ch
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by felipe 13y ago
No, I never said only foreigners can complain. And I am far from nationalist: Like I said, I am normally the first one to criticize Brazil, and I was accused of being "unpatriotic" on every country I lived, so I am pretty sure my
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by felipe 13y ago
The parent commenter is correct: This is specific to speech, and not in general. You also have not explained how your argument invalidates President Dilma's UN speech. (side note: you don't need to be arrogant like that to defend
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by felipe 13y ago
Many other countries also do not have free-speech in the strict sense that the US guarantees in its Constitution. For example, in Germany one cannot protest in favor of neo-nazis, and in South Korea one cannot praise the North Korean regime
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by felipe 13y ago
"here in Brazil (native)" Ah, that explains your negativism against the Brazilian president. For the benefit of the foreign audience: President Dilma faces fierce opposition from the Brazilian elite, because of her party's so
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by felipe 13y ago
> Today Silicon Valley sounds more and more like the old money club of Wall Street ... or Holywood, where VCs (producers) minimize risk by funding well-known formulas betting that a blockbuster will save the summer, while talented progra
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by felipe 13y ago
Actually #2 is a false assumption: Keep in mind that California approved prop 8 and just recently the courts rejected it after a long and tough fight. In addition, my wife was a teacher and advocate for at-risk minority kids in SF, and I ca
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by felipe 13y ago
As a side note, that's a good example of my biggest problem with Glass as a product. Not even Google knows what to do with it, and they are expecting hackers to "show me something cool" -- Wait, what?? No, YOU TELL ME FIRST what Glass is su
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by felipe 13y ago
I am simply pointing the fact that if you are going to claim yourself as the "good guy" the community will hold you to a higher standard, in reply to the parent comment. No one is expecting Google to do any charity, but Google themselves se
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by felipe 13y ago
None of these companies you mentioned have a "Don't Be Evil" policy, nor they have a lawyer posting here claiming that they are doing a "public service"
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by felipe 13y ago
That is incorrect. Any company must act in the best interest of its shareholders. A publicly-traded company must maximize profit because that's the implicit nature of it: I buy stock in the market because I want a return on my investment. B
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by felipe 14y ago
Tesla is focused on a niche: Luxury / high-performance cars, which is a tiny fraction of the market in units, and even if they were wildly successful they would not even make a blip in the carbon emission statistics.
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by felipe 14y ago
I have high-grade apnea and I use a CPAP for years (and yes, it changed my life for the better!). Just last week I started an acupuncture treatment in which the doctor applies very small electric shocks to a muscle that pulls the tongue a l
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by felipe 14y ago
This is great advice, thanks. On that subject, I use CPAP since 2008 but I occasionally did not use it for intervals up to a week (for example, when I traveled I would not bring the CPAP with me). It turns out I had an episode of atrial fib
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by felipe 14y ago
Basically you sleep in a hotel-like room but with a bunch of wiring hooked-up to your head and body. It's painless, except for the discomfort of sleeping with all those wires. The "output" of the test is an index called AHI, which indicates
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by felipe 14y ago
You make an excellent point regarding IP, and in fact BG's letter likely set the foundation for the entire software industry as we know today. However, I believe the point of the article was that Jobs, Woz and BG did something contrarian to
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by felipe 14y ago
> Very reliable, great tooling and it's the fastest VM out there for any language. The JVM also has a very rich open source ecosystem. If your language-of-choice runs on the JVM, very likely you can leverage any Java-based library right
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by felipe 14y ago
That's excellent! I got confused because as I was looking at your web site I saw the "Pricing" link at the bottom and assumed that was the price of the tool. Maybe you could create a separate web site to help clarify this point?
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by felipe 14y ago
This is an excellent concept that targets a real pain-point I faced many times, which is: How to properly lay-out or template emails without the pain of actually sending transactional emails through SMTP and looking at them in the client (G
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by felipe 14y ago
It's also important to note that Bill Gates' high-school was private and very rigorous. In fact, it was one of the first high-schools in the US to make computers available to its students. Excellent point about connections... Also note that
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by felipe 14y ago
Exactly my point... That's what we saw in the west (that's what the western media focused on), because it neatly fits the narrative of capitalism-as-freedom of our mainstream media. According to the sources I referenced above the educated s

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