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by orijing 16y ago
I think most of the $2B (1.5B in fact) is a "liquidity" opportunity for employees with significant amount of stock. In that light, Goldman's clients are getting a good deal (and obviously Goldman) and so are the employees selling the stock.
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by orijing 16y ago
> COMPACT SOLUTIONS LLC 4 SOFTWARE ENGINEER 1801250 > EMORY UNIVERSITY 12 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 794454 > COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC 3 ENGINEER II 308533 Does this surprise anyone else? Wow!
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by orijing 16y ago
Oh... That was really stupid of me! I didn't notice the responder (you) was the same person! Thanks.
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by orijing 16y ago
If you're mad at your client for any reason, it only means you're not charging him enough. It's very hard to be mad at a client who's paying you a ridiculous amount of money for something you're fabulous at. I totally agree. It really hel
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by orijing 16y ago
The title is misleading in multiple ways: 1. It isn't China that is proposing to cut its foreign reserves. It's the Chairman of the "China Everbright Group" (whatever that is), and the governor of the central bank of China. What he says isn
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by orijing 16y ago
It would be nice if it controlled for various factors like income, and gave it in a more parsimonious form. For example, it claims that while 54% of PC people have completed a college degree, 67% of Mac people have. But perhaps the linkage
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by orijing 16y ago
How do you know it's downvoted? I sort of miss the karma number next to each post :(
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by orijing 16y ago
I wouldn't say that the linkbait title is completely wrong, but the author is misguided about the severity and scope of the Amazon downtime. If you read Quora's account [1], it's clear that this was regionwide, not just limited to a single
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by orijing 16y ago
Exactly. Transportation infrastructure produces benefits far beyond the direct benefit for those who choose to use the system. There are environmental benefits, congestion benefits (reduced road usage), convenience benefits, etc.
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by orijing 16y ago
Exactly, and the weakening dollar is making food, gas, etc more expensive to the poor in the US. The strong dollar is especially beneficial to the consumers.
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by orijing 16y ago
A strong dollar doesn't necessarily benefit the rich because the rich have very mobile assets, and it's likely diversified/spread over many regions like Britain, Russia, China, etc. Additionally, most of their assets are in equities whose v
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by orijing 16y ago
I agree with your assessment of the Fed's influence on the dollar, but I think it's wrong to say that it's the "only governmental force." For example, if Congress decides to cut spending by 50% (hypothetical obviously :P), assuming the anti
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by orijing 16y ago
Perhaps they are doing this for three reasons: 1. They view this as a cheaper way to get the word out to potentially interested people at a relatively low cost. For example, this gets their name plastered on deals websites, Hacker News, Web
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by orijing 16y ago
That's what I would think, but what about the danger that it means foreign governments (potential rogue regimes) have access to the same source?
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by orijing 16y ago
But that doesn't change the number of requests. Perhaps it lowers the total bandwidth consumed, but what about the number of requests?
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by orijing 16y ago
> I assumed that the average user will make 10 put/copy/list requests and 10 get requests daily Did those assumptions seem ridiculously low to anyone else too? My Dropbox is constantly syncing. Every time I save a file, move a file, del
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by orijing 16y ago
You could try using C to solve some problems on Project Euler, or puzzles like Facebook Puzzles, or even past problems from Google Code Jams.
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by orijing 16y ago
Well, I didn't mean to say that the 60k and 240k families are "similar" but my suggestion was that they are much more similar (despite the 50 percentile gap) than the 240k is to someone 4 percentile above him. So it's relative similarity I'
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by orijing 16y ago
I don't remember the source, but there was a great article that discussed a similar topic and showed that the income inequality isn't really that skewed unless you look at those making above some threshold (maybe top 0.1% of the populatio
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by orijing 16y ago
What do you think about their efforts with Atom?
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by orijing 16y ago
I do, but I'm not sure if I should say anything about it. Sorry. It's not open-sourced (yet), like everything else is.
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by orijing 16y ago
It worked well in the past. They made significant improvements to it. However, it's not as well-suited for multi-datacenter usage. For example, they needed another replication layer. I think they're working on a current system that will rep
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by orijing 16y ago
It's basically accurate. Also, there are upvotes from notable employees at Facebook like Andrew Bosworth
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by orijing 16y ago
How is HN at handling duplicate submissions?
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by orijing 16y ago
This is a great idea to put our spending in perspective, but one thing this sorely lacks is any way to incorporate "tax expenditures," because otherwise this assumes everyone is homogeneous in terms of deductions, etc. For example, the subs
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by orijing 16y ago
Unfortunately, it suffers from the same hivemindism that infects the rest of the site :( I used to be subscribed to it, but I've since been demoralized enough by it to unsubscribe to it.
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by orijing 16y ago
The chart is somewhat deceptive because the vertical axis does not begin with zero. With that said, that recent spike to 200 is pretty astounding.
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by orijing 16y ago
I think the link is too far, so you'll be exposed to a lot more than just the housing market. In finance, if you have a certain bet, you bet on that (and hedge against all other changes), in order for your returns to be based on your bet. T
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by orijing 16y ago
That raises an interesting point. How would you take advantage of such a conviction? Can you short the property market in China, for instance?
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by orijing 16y ago
Perhaps this is just the clarity of hindsight, but it wasn't surprising that operating expenses have shot up due to the competition in hiring and its recent across-the-board raises. I'm actually surprised the impact wasn't greater.

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