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by orijing 14y ago
That makes me wonder two things: 1. Is it bad (or unfair) for the IRS to use technology to fight tax fraud? I mean, every dollar not collected from a tax evader is an extra dollar that must be collected from a law-abiding citizen. It sucks
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by orijing 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think in this specific case user privacy or security conflict with Facebook's goals?
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by orijing 14y ago
Here is an answer from Quora that really resonated with me: http://www.quora.com/In-recent-days-trillions-of-dollars-of-... Basically, these wealth were expectations.
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by orijing 14y ago
While I agree with 2, I'm not convinced by 1--where can you get data that is unbiased without FORCING random sets of people to participate in a study in the way you want them to? Even FDA-mandated experiments are biased by the fact that it
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by orijing 14y ago
Did you mean AP? (Accounts Payable)
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by orijing 14y ago
What is "low-fragmentation heap"? Why would anyone want "high-fragmentation heap"? (since you imply that it's an option)
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by orijing 14y ago
Wait, I'm confused... Are you saying that it can be illegal to have hiring practices that are suboptimal? For example, you mention that brain-teaser tests might have disparate impact on some applicants--and they're also not that effective a
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by orijing 14y ago
I don't disagree that the US government should and tries to do what's best for itself (to the extent possible within the constructs of the political system...). I'm just saying that I believe it's not in its interests ultimately to levy suc
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by orijing 14y ago
That depends on whose perspective you're looking from. From the US solar manufacturer's perspective, of course it's not a bad thing, since it stifles competition. But from the perspective of people in the US who want solar panels, or Chines
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by orijing 14y ago
That's true. I just think of kilowatt-hours as a single unit, like Joule. That way it's no more bizarre than saying Newtons instead of kg m/s^2
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by orijing 14y ago
That's a great question. Take the US as an example, since it has plenty of sunshine. Nowadays investment in renewable energies is politically risky after the Solyndra failure, after the DOE gave Solyndra over half a billion dollars of loan
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by orijing 14y ago
That made me think of an interesting idea. No problem is not solvable with some level of indirection! A review aggregator website where the value of reviews from various sources is weighted by how reliable they are. For example, if there is
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by orijing 14y ago
Just curious, isn't selling below cost called "dumping" and is illegal in many places?
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by orijing 15y ago
It's true that the average clearly moved, but the author was trying to make a generalized inference from the average, that there was a structural break in the "true average" insofar as the measured average is just a sample/noisy measurement
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by orijing 15y ago
Imagine it this way. Your friends are data, you have limited capacity, and you access them with some pattern. Suppose you live in a world without Facebook. Your wife and kids are in your registers. You see them all the time, and generally t
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by orijing 15y ago
I have a question about what happens when an account gets disabled/suspended while there's a positive balance. Does Google keep that surplus, or return it to advertisers? If the former, that's truly evil, so let's say the latter. If they re
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by orijing 15y ago
If it really made 200k a day on ads, that's 73 million a year. That would be crazy if true and would justify a 200m valuation.
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by orijing 15y ago
The interesting thing is that Google itself has an internal hedge fund (or something close) that trades its cash hoard. I'm not sure if they do it algorithmically or whether they just buy-and-hold various indices, but my suspicion is that (
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by orijing 15y ago
4. is one of the points that's being addressed by the amendment you're mentioning. In particular, it'll limit the fees that can be charged for things like debit cards, checking accounts, etc--the fees that made unprofitable customers profit
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by orijing 15y ago
Not to be a troll but how much of that is patented by Yahoo? If its recent threat to sue Facebook is any indication, "Methods to reduce HTTP requests" could be one of its patents that it's willing to wield.
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by orijing 15y ago
Interesting man! What I wonder about is how banking fees impacted his ability to issue/buy back shares. For example, secondaries handled by an investment bank cost a fraction of the issue. So his shares must have been significantly under an
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by orijing 15y ago
Yup! That's the magic of open graph. I am an engineer on facebook's ads team.
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by orijing 15y ago
That would be a great app--Facebook content management utility. Write a few queries, like the UI equivalent of UPDATE posts SET visibility = CLOSE_FRIENDS WHERE ts < NOW() - 3600 * 24 * 365 DELETE FROM posts p WHERE COUNT(SELECT
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by orijing 15y ago
That's not the definition of a cryptographic hash. One of the four requirements of a function being a cryptographic hash function is that "it is infeasible to find two different messages with the same hash."
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by orijing 15y ago
It's up to each company's interview process to weed out the people who aren't likely to add value. Offering more would simply increase the company's available pool of employees. Put another way, the set of people who would work for you at $
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by orijing 15y ago
Demand is only outstripping supply because they aren't paying sufficiently. That's the essence of the market. If they would only pay more, then demand would certainly not outstrip supply.
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by orijing 15y ago
> Timeline also makes branded posts (ads) look nearly identical to the actual content we’re on facebook to see, so it follows that they’d be processed similarly. I'm not sure what the author is referring to, but the ads on the side (reg
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by orijing 15y ago
What is the daily variance like?
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by orijing 15y ago
They are also a public company that generates profits for shareholders.
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by orijing 15y ago
Here's the original post: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t...

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