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by orijing 15y ago
How well-known is this to webmasters? If it's not well-known I cannot see how the second part could be. But the first could very much be true, and is what I would've surmised.
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by orijing 15y ago
I work at Facebook, but am not part of the platform (or platform integrity) team. In general, since we have so few engineers (in the hundreds), we have to resort to technological means of solving problems like spam and bad apps. I can't spe
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by orijing 15y ago
I understand that the CTR makes a difference to the network, but I am pointing out that a low CTR doesn't necessarily mean that the advertiser is worse off. It means two things: it means the advertiser's ad is terrible, or the targeting is
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by orijing 15y ago
I don't understand why CTR should matter (except as feedback for whether their ads are performing or not) if they're paying per click (CPC)?
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by orijing 15y ago
Companies can sue you for anything. The question is whether they have a case that involves taking your ownership of your startup. Have you been making minimum payments (at least) on your credit card? If so, they won't do anything about it.
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Sega Customer Database Hacked(pcworld.com)
4 points by orijing 15y ago|0 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
In theory, why can't some student who wants to work in that professor's lab just request the books that the professor checked out (or are likely to check out)? Seems like hacking the hack.
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by orijing 15y ago
Which kind of people? Those receiving financial aid, or those who aren't (like me)?
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by orijing 15y ago
I agree it's tough, but it's not that my parents refuse to pay... I just don't think they can afford to pay, given the amount of stress they have from paying their mortgage. There's such a crude measure of "ability to pay" that it doesn't t
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by orijing 15y ago
I was a computer science student (thankfully), so finding a job wasn't a terribly difficult task. However, I do think a CS student with a MBP is overprivileged. Throughout college I had a single laptop that cost $800 (which I paid for mysel
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by orijing 15y ago
Apparently to give to those who need it more. For example, because my parents had a median Silicon-valley income (which was above the national median), I did not get any financial aid, reasonable financing options, etc. My parents, limited
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by orijing 15y ago
But by spreading risk, peer-to-peer loans tend to have lower interest rates than comparable bank loans, consumer-credit experts say. That doesn't make sense. Banks make tons of loans, which by definition spreads out the risk of any indivi
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by orijing 15y ago
I think the solution would be variable pricing, much like buying or selling a financial asset. If the rates for things could be adjusted to encourage activity around some number (say, to keep the number of available cars in a region at 1 fo
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by orijing 15y ago
I wasn't saying that high speed internet is not good, just wanted to be careful in declaring that it'll make everything feel as fast as LAN. Not to mention the fact that the other endpoint needs to be as fast if you want fast communication.
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by orijing 15y ago
That's mostly true, but there's still the latency benefits of physical proximity. For example, just for an electric signal to travel 6000km across the country, it will take t=6000km/v where v=c/n (c = speed of light, 3e8 m/s and n = refract
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by orijing 15y ago
Here's the sad part (unless you bought into their shares early): You're paying for their dividends (i.e. payouts to shareholders). It's their fiduciary duty. However, companies like them need to realize that there are more stakeholders (lik
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by orijing 15y ago
You mean 17.5% of the profits on top of the 35%?
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Our Fantasy Nation(nytimes.com)
3 points by orijing 15y ago|0 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
Does anyone know where they got the $30b valuation from? That's crazy. We thought LinkedIn was overvalued when it filed for $3b valuation IPO, but at least it generated some profits and has a greater barrier to entry.
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Groupon Plans I.P.O. With $30 Billion Valuation(dealbook.nytimes.com)
5 points by orijing 15y ago|2 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
I wonder whether they are confident enough to trade on this information. If it's as "definitive" as they claim, they can make a lot of money in the long run.
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"No doubt" LinkedIn's share price was a bubble, based on definitive bubble model(reuters.com)
1 points by orijing 15y ago|1 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
> I can't understand why our goverment allows this shit to go on. It's because Congress has been embroiled in a bitter fight of brinkmanship over who can stall longer over raising the debt limit over the past year. Not much actual prog
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by orijing 15y ago
Pros: Readable Cons: Unreadable What does that even mean?
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by orijing 15y ago
In fact, Warren Buffett said this in an interview: Owning talent is the only way to hedge against depreciation of your currency (equivalently inflation).
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by orijing 15y ago
This reminds me of those penny-stock pump-and-dump articles/spam emails I used to receive. "Why I'm Putting All My Savings Into BITC". As soon as the pump scheme drives up the stock, you dump it and move onto the next thing. I'm not saying
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by orijing 15y ago
A flat use tax is the equivalent of no use tax at all in terms of purchase incentives. How does compromise address the competitive discrepancies?
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by orijing 15y ago
How much of a competitive disadvantage are they at relative to Amazon due to the sales tax situation? Speaking of which, how many people actually report and pay the use taxes on purchases from Amazon?...
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by orijing 15y ago
If you aren't putting in the requisite time to make a quality content-based website, you can probably generate many more websites of lower quality. Perhaps the profits from having more websites (albeit of lower quality) exceed that of fewer
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by orijing 15y ago
Do people here generally think that Bill has been much more valuable to society now that he's working at his Foundation? I think we need a visionary leader with his fiery passion and dogged persistence to tackle some of the biggest problems

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