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by orijing 15y ago
What's to prevent popular Tweeters from front-loading Wall Street or otherwise intentionally manipulating it through carefully-crafted tweets?
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by orijing 15y ago
I suppose it's possible for you to have a 1 gigabit connection, but you're entitled to only 2 gigabytes per month... So you can use your entire capacity in 16 seconds. That would be bad.
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by orijing 15y ago
It's not clear to me how you defined "happiness" on the vertical axis. Can you elaborate more on that?
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Renren Seeks Twice Facebook Valuation in Social-Media IPO(bloomberg.com)
2 points by orijing 15y ago|0 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
Well, that was unsatisfactory. First it gave an account of how it's possible that health insurance does not induce moral hazard (by giving the patient a lump-sum). But then you realize that that's not how the world works. What's the solutio
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by orijing 15y ago
We must understand the trade offs in each decision. False positives are MUCH better than false negatives. It's safer to reject a valid cert than to accept an invalid cert.
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by orijing 15y ago
Most of your taxes to the federal government actually get spent for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense and Interest expense. Unfortunately, just Medicare, Social Security and interest expense cost over 2.4 trillion dollars. And ye
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by orijing 15y ago
If Christy Walton alone gave up just one-eighth of her wealth, she could fund the wage increase by herself. For a year. This is an incredibly irresponsible comparison, demonstrating the author's confusion of the difference between wealth
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by orijing 15y ago
I'm confused. Isn't McDonalds franchised? How come it can direct its franchisees to hire people that it (maybe) does not need? Can someone clarify this, since it appears that I'm the only one confused?
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by orijing 15y ago
Do you think Antitrust pressures will force Apple to accept competing services for the iOS? (Amazon Cloud Player on the iPhone/iPod/iPad)
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by orijing 15y ago
Maybe Amazon can have a publishing label that hires freelance editors. Amazon already handles a large portion of the publishing role, which is marketing.
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by orijing 15y ago
I know this might not be so helpful for you, but I don't think it requires anything above a basic understanding of math. The "deepest" math was in the beginning, when it covered Newton's Method for square root approximation. SICP is used as
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by orijing 15y ago
In fact, Microsoft spends around $2-2.5b on R&D per quarter [1] while Apple spends $500-600m [2]. That certainly more than makes up for the difference. [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT [2] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASD
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by orijing 15y ago
No worries. Perhaps my use of "misleading" was itself misleading!
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by orijing 15y ago
It says Bose donated a majority of the shares. How much is Bose (private company) worth? And how much in dividends can MIT expect from Bose on an annual basis?
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by orijing 15y ago
Sorry, that was a bad comparison. I just wanted to compare Apple's most popular platform to Microsoft's. But you're right, the circumstances are different. Apple s and Oranges, I know.
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by orijing 15y ago
I was not trolling. I had a fundamental disagreement and wanted to understand where he was coming from. Additionally, whether some anti-competitive action benefits you in the short term is irrelevant because it often does. (For example, Mic
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by orijing 15y ago
Guys, I didn't mean to start such a discussion over the wording. I said it was misleading, not "cannot be interpreted correctly." In particular, by saying that X's profit dropped below Y's for the first time (without context of X and Y) sug
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by orijing 15y ago
While it is significant that Microsoft's falling behind Apple, I'm not particularly surprised that OS sales are slightly lower than it was last year at Microsoft. Last year was the start of the launch of Windows 7.
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by orijing 15y ago
Do you think Apple's walled approach to iOS apps and content on iOS platforms is more honorable than Microsoft's open development initiative? (i.e. letting anyone write Windows applications). To me, their decision to prevent iOS apps from g
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by orijing 15y ago
Misleading. Microsoft's quarterly profit grew pretty quickly (above 30%). It's just that Apple's profit grew faster, causing it to take the lead in the race.
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by orijing 15y ago
I'm not sure if you already got the invitation to the new Facebook Messages, but yes you can contact people off Facebook. It gives you an email address that other people off Facebook can contact you. I'm not sure why they're doing the Gmail
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by orijing 15y ago
While I agree that spelling mistakes are painful to bear, I believe you are being too harsh on the author. As someone said on Quora [1]: "Sarcasm is most appropriate when shared between two people who have similar thought patterns. That's w
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by orijing 15y ago
You can't generalize your claim to every case. Facebook ads may not be higher quality than you, but for many it is. Its goal isn't necessarily to take a purchase intent and turn that into a sale. Its target advertisers are similar to those
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by orijing 15y ago
It sounds like a hard problem to find a balance that satisfies everyone. What do the security experts here recommend?
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by orijing 15y ago
Perhaps that suggests that we need to redefine what we mean by "Recession", which officially is two consecutive quarters of economic contractions. (Or as the Romers say, "When I say so") Because the truth is, "recession" appears to mean ver
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Understanding Likelihood Estimates on Intrade.com(dailycow.org)
2 points by orijing 15y ago|0 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494231
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by orijing 16y ago
I guess you could say that about almost all of its acquisitions: Drop.Io, FriendFeed, Parakey, Beluga, etc. They call them "talent acquisitions."
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What do you think about hackathons?(quora.com)
2 points by orijing 16y ago|2 comments

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