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by orijing 16y ago
I also am subscribed to the RSS feed, and scan based on topics. Unfortunately, some titles are just not very informative or well-written. I wish titles were more descriptive. What inspired this question?
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by orijing 16y ago
This isn't what the OP is asking about (Correct me if I'm wrong, OP). He's referring to valuation of the project in the sense that Google is worth $200b, not how much to charge customers of the application. As for your strategy for deciding
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by orijing 16y ago
"Cause" is a very strong word. Even if more water in the ocean created pressures that contributed to the recent earthquakes, there are certainly other factors--by which I mean even without global warming, the EQs would have occurred anyway-
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by orijing 16y ago
Who are the other members in his organization? Is he the only founder? (Does he own the other 95%?) How much funding does it already have/does it need in the future? (Dilutive potential) What are your alternatives? If you have a 250k salary
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by orijing 16y ago
I think they read your HN posts to assess your application, so you may want to be careful what signals you're sending here :P
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by orijing 16y ago
Sorry for being unclear. I was referring to: > Americans move much more frequently than people in most other countries. That fact may be true, but my point is that it may hide the effects of uncontrolled-for variables
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by orijing 16y ago
Possibly true, but what if employees had the additional flexibility that being tied down to their homes prevented? I think you are confusing this effect with a more general bias towards mobility relative to other countries. The most recent
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by orijing 16y ago
It certainly is a market failure, not a lack of a market, unless you define market differently than the convention I'm familiar with. This specific form of market failure is a failure in market structure. Of course regulatory failures exace
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by orijing 16y ago
This is a subset of "require price close to marginal cost" option.
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by orijing 16y ago
I would expect Verizon to follow AT&T in this move within short time, just like how VZ eliminated the unlimited plan very soon after launching the iPhone. It would make sense if Verizon and AT&T had these patterns of interaction (fr
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by orijing 16y ago
Terrible chart. There is no scale or legend to map color to "tax burden." Tax burden is not specifically defined anywhere (Overall tax rates? Absolute taxes paid? Taxes paid as fraction of total wealth?), so the chart is basically meaningle
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by orijing 16y ago
The first observation was the glaring red making me turn away from the app. Interesting idea, but what's to prevent people from selecting everyone--just for fun?
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by orijing 16y ago
Of course there are uncontrolled variables, but there are those in every experiment. With large enough samples, those uncontrolled variables become less significant. That's how statistical sampling works--if you expected everyone to be exac
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by orijing 16y ago
I apologize if this comment makes HN readers uncomfortable, but this article is just another one of those trite "There is discrimination in [field X]" articles with the whole basis of argument on anecdotal evidence. I don't profess to know
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by orijing 16y ago
I am surprised nobody mentioned this yet: Japan has a much MUCH lower level of income (and wealth) inequality than the US, Haiti, etc. [1] There are just a lot fewer poor people in Japan. So if your house got leveled by the tsunami, you can
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by orijing 16y ago
The irony is that if you were to fly out of Tokyo today, you'll be receiving a lot more radiation than what's present there because the radiation is much stronger in the stratosphere.
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by orijing 16y ago
> We speak to our "friends" all at once, no matter what we might want to say to one group of people or another. And thus we often feel less comfortable than we might saying anything at all. I don't understand. We can do that on Facebook
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by orijing 16y ago
You can already do that on Facebook easily.
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by orijing 16y ago
Of course, I've dealt with many search problems using A* (in particular, in the context of machine translation). I understand the algorithm and the proof of optimality. And I agree, the algorithm is very simple (not much different than unif
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by orijing 16y ago
> the primary culprit is the reinflating of the commodities market that helped drive the Great Financial Crisis. The author doesn't claim any special knowledge, yet makes a rather vacuous guess: "The primary culprit [for the reinflating
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by orijing 16y ago
Not to be pedantic, but where's the recursion? Seems like an instance of a common metaphor: while queue.hasElements(): element = queue.pop() explore element if we haven't already put element's successors into queue u
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by orijing 16y ago
These things make me afraid of setuid security vulnerabilities... To clarify, the shell will have the permissions of its owner. So if its owner is the admin, for example, any common user that has access to the shell can do bad things.
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by orijing 16y ago
Perhaps. He's changed his post since I replied.
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by orijing 16y ago
ARM holdings licenses. I think Nvidia may do what you're talking about.
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by orijing 16y ago
The real joy is if you bought 100 shares of Microsoft then, and switched teams to Apple around 1999 or 2000.
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by orijing 16y ago
Something I observed from reading the comments here: A lot of us can function on much fewer hours of sleep regularly and don't believe it adversely affects our performance (It does affect mine though). Does anyone think there may be some se
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by orijing 16y ago
Heh, the last sentence was a joke akin to "Absolutes are never absolute."
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by orijing 16y ago
Whenever an article (like this) presents a false dichotomy--either that Facebook IS the cure or it isn't--I just roll my eyes. Take a look: > But the reality is that when it comes to improving blog comments, anonymity really isn’t the
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by orijing 16y ago
I got the impression that insurance companies build a large Bayesian network and do parameter estimation using their tons of data to estimate, given a person with a specific profile, what his expected costs are (plus calibrated "error rate"
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by orijing 16y ago
I know this isn't what the OP was thinking, but this is the first thing I thought after reading his question. Isn't it illegal to have some implicit or explicit agreement not to hire from each other's firms?

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