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by merinid 14y ago
Have you ever taken a look at H1B Visa salary data from the Department of Labor? It's pretty fascinating. On average in 2012, Facebook paid its H1B employees $116,203.23 whereas Google paid $124,436.59. Raw data: http://www.foreignlaborc
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Bold. Before everyone pulls out, may be worthwhile to visit the vault itself: http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/visiting.html
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He likes to be at the nerve of it all. It's an honest place for him to be and work, and in all fairness, they have really supported his enterprise there.
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I meant this in a positive way, ie, that the breadth is so enormous and he is so prolific that I am constantly impressed.
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College
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My spin on it is more so positive. At least they still care about product and tackling very difficult questions. This is not some advertising backend optimization or yet another smartphone integration. The fact that most of the speculators
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The extent to which Chomsky has remained relevant in both political and scientific arenas never ceases to amaze me.
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You're right. everyone writes scrapers. Heck Google is just one huge scraper. It's what you do with the data (and in some cases, what you might intend to do with the data) that counts.
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If your only problem is appearances, like on the Google or Apple app stores, you could file multiple Doing Business As (DBA's). The law on this depends on where you are actually incorporated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_business_as
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If you're looking for a short answer, startups spend most of their money on people. And rightfully so. At such an early stage, the only assets that really count are human.
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I'm pretty positive this was also the case in 2012. Check it out, the official link from data.gov does not resolve to an actual page. Ah, the government and open data, always a tentative relationship: https://explore.data.gov/National-Secu