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by guyzero 12y ago
Working hours and paid vacation days are roughly similar between Canada and the US. Canada is no France. Specifically, Canada ranks 3rd last in paid vacations: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ranks-3rd-last-in
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by guyzero 12y ago
Nobody from Canada or Mexico would say they are "an American." Americans are residents/citizens of the USA.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Neighbours and HOAs are two completely different things. I'm not sure what your point is in conflating them.
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by guyzero 12y ago
But on the positive side for single-payer healthcare, there's no upper bound on how much you get to consume, subject to medical necessity. The problem is that medical problems are financially bimodal: they tend to be pretty cheap (take
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by guyzero 12y ago
"Autism isn't a fundamental property of the brain state." - for 10% of kids diagnosed with autism. For the others it's not really possible to say.
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by guyzero 12y ago
I had just finished undergrad computer engineering when the GoF book was published and it was a total revelation at the time. But as the author says, good ideas can be made terrible by too much slavish devotion and not enough thinking.
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by guyzero 12y ago
"I've often wondered why startups locate in the SF/Bay area instead of elsewhere." For a non-trivial number of startups, the founders were already working at a big tech company in the Bay Area before they started their o
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by guyzero 12y ago
They scan email for spam detection and to auto-classify emails into categories and their "Important" flag.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Google is more than capable of delivering a user a reasonably targeted ad in gmail without reading the message body.
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by guyzero 12y ago
That's the point. It's dead.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Yes, it's not very useful. But there it is. It's no worse than "Hispanic" which isn't really a race, culture or single national origin.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Cutts said on his Twitter feed that he's talked to Haughey.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Not really. Most people I know from the non-backlogged nations get their green cards in a few years. Part of having a good lawyer is knowing which processing centres to use. Some are definitely backlogged a very long time. I got mine in les
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by guyzero 12y ago
There are only long green card wait times for people born in India and China (maybe the Philippines?). Most other people should be able to get a green card in a year or two with a decent lawyer.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Maybe AdSense maintain such strong eCPMs by having a well-policed, high-quality network?
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by guyzero 12y ago
And no one on an SEO forum would ever try to get questionable traffic to their site for the purposes of pumping up AdSense revenue.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Large publishers have had account managers since 2008 and earlier. But you have to be pretty large.
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by guyzero 12y ago
Facebook monetizes things by selling ads.
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by guyzero 12y ago
But they were never even laid off, that's the point. How can layoffs "not stick"? If people were fired they wouldn't still have been working there.
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by guyzero 12y ago
He's been there nearly 7 years.
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by guyzero 12y ago
They'd have to pay taxes if they bring foreign cash back to the US to pay dividends. Google floated $1B in bonds earlier this year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/google-said-to-plan... Probably for
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by guyzero 12y ago
Well at some point they're limited to the rate of organic growth of the internet. If Google gets $X per internet user then they're going to only grow as fast as the internet grows.
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by guyzero 12y ago
It is possible to think about this the opposite way. Google is showing more ads than it used to. There are more search queries than ever and more partner sites and partner ad impressions. There's a marginal return on these extra impres
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by guyzero 12y ago
Given that a 4-year degree costs from $40K to $100K with all the costs, it's pretty trivial to spend $1K on applications. And application fees are probably self-funding. I doubt there's any incentive for schools to try to limit th
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by guyzero 12y ago
Right, is it really any "harder"? If we assume rational and consistent grading of applicants (I know, I know, but we have to make some assumptions) then if you're in, say, the top 3%, is it actually any hard to get in? Are th
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by guyzero 12y ago
Per the article, this is really an increase in number of applications per student rather than any other change. There hasn't been a net reduction in the number of students accepted somewhere .
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by guyzero 13y ago
It's a civil suit, not a criminal suit. It's a negotiated settlement or a judge-imposed settlement. But there's no law that was broken here with a mandated penalty.
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by guyzero 13y ago
OK my other comment got voted down - the potential extra dividend is not because of "laws" but because of a lawsuit settlement. http://googleclasscsettlement.com/
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by guyzero 13y ago
Sure. 21st Century Fox has FOX and FOXA. There are lots of others but I can't find a comprehensive list for whatever reason.
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by guyzero 13y ago
because lawsuits.

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