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by orijing 15y ago
But I don't want to retire! I know that by doing what I love for the rest of my life, I'll have enough to sustain my basic needs. 500k seems excessive. It's simultaneously too much for me to spend efficiently for myself, yet too small for m
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by orijing 15y ago
It's true, and it's somewhat discouraging. When I was in my last year in college, I applied to various types of companies, in different stages of life, plus a quant fund. In the end, while the salary/potential bonus for the fund was very en
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by orijing 15y ago
Great observation. That's more true on Reddit and Hacker News than Quora, for instance. I think that's because your title (or any other affiliation with the topic) is prominently displayed next to your name.
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by orijing 15y ago
That's certainly true in tech now, when companies are scrambling to get any talent they can. But the unemployment in many other sectors of the economy is much higher, and there's not much of a competition between companies for talent.
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by orijing 15y ago
They want lower revenues for the government. I would hope that it's not the same philosophy for their businesses.
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by orijing 15y ago
GDP = Gross Domestic Product. In order to grow GDP, you must increase the production of goods and services domestically. Sure, more money for investors/employees is not bad. But an amnesty is no different than the government directly giving
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by orijing 15y ago
Wow, the numbers actually seem pretty conservative to me. This put Bush's stimulus at 200B. The Washington Post and NYT put it much higher (773b) [1]. I'm curious how the public will receive this. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ez
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by orijing 15y ago
I think seanmcq is referring to the implication that "getting by" means subsistence wage (of the wife). I don't think it was a sexist statement, but rather the focus is on "getting by." It could've been "getting by on his partner's wage" (i
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by orijing 15y ago
Per Facebook's advertising guidelines [1]: Copyrights and trademarks Ads cannot include any content that infringes upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary righ
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by orijing 15y ago
> Just so you're not surprised and disappointed later, I'll let you in on a secret- they don't care . EXACTLY! They don't care. That's why you have to care. Otherwise, who's looking out for you?
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by orijing 15y ago
Will insurance companies adjust rates in response to this, as it will likely lower expected costs?
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by orijing 15y ago
Which got bought by Bing...
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by orijing 15y ago
No one here mentioned the likely reason that the ads were blocked by the ad review system (a combination of ML and people in India or something). I don't know exactly how it works, but I'm pretty sure it is risky for Facebook to allow ads t
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by orijing 15y ago
Does that mean this is as secure as the user's email provider? What if I have an AOL email and AOL gets hacked?
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by orijing 15y ago
Without ads, Facebook would not be able to pay for the investments in various features like messages, video chat, etc. Plus, the goal is to create more relevant, social ads. Nobody is there yet, but that's the goal. The goal isn't to get pe
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by orijing 15y ago
But it would definitely lose the PR battle...
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by orijing 15y ago
Do you really think Facebook would stop innovating if it weren't for the threat of Google behind its back? Perhaps the timing is influenced by G+, but the actual introduction of those products are just evolutionary steps in Facebook's missi
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by orijing 15y ago
I don't know. I haven't touched that feature in a while. But there's a philosophy that you own your content, but connections are owned by both ends. I'm not even sure that being able to export your wall (including others' private comments)
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by orijing 15y ago
You have confused FB with Twitter...
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by orijing 15y ago
It's a competitive tactic to be open when you're small and less open when you're big. For example, you can download your entire profile as a .zip file from Facebook (not sure if you can get the email), and you can allow any apps to access y
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by orijing 15y ago
Perhaps they can have ellipses (...) that, when moused over, describe in legal detail everything they collect, so those of us who care for the details can read more into it. But I applaud them for trying to keep it readable and short. The t
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by orijing 15y ago
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/110701-c... Is that the predicted market share "growth" as the chart claims, or the predicted market share? I think they were trying to get at the latter, but if that's the case, by Dec
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by orijing 15y ago
Why was the direct link posted a few days ago ignored while we choose to promote the Techcrunch article which adds another layer? Personally I would rather try things first-hand than hear about it from TC. What does everyone else think?
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by orijing 15y ago
He's a relatively new engineer at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voloko
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by orijing 15y ago
You can see the source here: https://github.com/voloko/facebook-circles Pretty amazing.
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by orijing 15y ago
Dropbox must be super happy that half their bandwidth costs have disappeared!
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by orijing 15y ago
This may be a stupid idea, but here's the trick I use to force myself to not sit down for too long: I drink a ton of water, and I mean a ton. I drink so much that I HAVE to get up every hour (at least) to use the restroom. Usually that's cl
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by orijing 15y ago
adolescent-minded, untransformed individual, who traded his personal integrity for the fruits of lust - "success, sex, money, fame" - under the guise of "helping connect people"... The Movie does not count as a valid reference.
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by orijing 15y ago
He sits in front of me. I'm surprised the news didn't leak out sooner. He's a cool dude. I don't see any of the perceived threats hinted in the comments.
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by orijing 15y ago
The question that I have is whether this is a relative behavior (i.e. whether, for a given domain 'domain.com' Google prioritizes domain.com/short-url over domain.com/longer/url.html) or a global one (i.e. prioritizing short.com/url over ve

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