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by orijing 15y ago
This is where HN shows its Reddit-esque Hivemind mentality that I thought I'd escaped. While I don't agree with your opinion, and while I'm not surprised that this stuff happens, I don't think it's right that your views are silenced. Dissen
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by orijing 15y ago
I wonder if Skype acquisition will follow the same fate
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by orijing 15y ago
EDIT: I know you are all downvoting me because I open with "I was an intern", expecting some fuzzy comment in Facebook's defense. No, someone asked what Facebook thinks about this, and I offered my views: I am as confused as the rest of you
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by orijing 15y ago
Good find. Guess the revolving door never stops.
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by orijing 15y ago
On the bright side, at least she isn't in the FCC, biasing the decision with more corruption, right? Or has the damage been done, and is irreversible?
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by orijing 15y ago
Even if they could, why should they, if they don't have to?
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Facebook Will Be A $1 Trillion Company (businessinsider.com)
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Hack for Egypt: Connecting Democracy Activists with Programmers(hackforegypt.eventbrite.com)
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by orijing 15y ago
All of my documents (presentations, Word documents, etc) sit on Dropbox. Most of my photos are also on Dropbox, Facebook or Picasa. I have some music files on Amazon Cloud Drive (although a lot of my files are WMAs...). Some code is on Gith
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by orijing 15y ago
Microsoft perhaps overpaid for Skype, which is reminiscent of something that happened in the past. Google wanted to acquire a 2.5%-5% stake in Facebook at a $10 billion valuation in 2006 or 2007 (forgot), but Microsoft came in for a 1.6% st
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by orijing 15y ago
Didn't see this before I posted my comment. Don't you need to add the new shares being issued?
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by orijing 15y ago
The share price will drift downward for years (which happens to most IPO's) Do you have data to support that? IPOs are highly volatile, but would surprise me if most IPOs drift downward for years.
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by orijing 15y ago
Of the 7,840,000 shares being offered, 3,012,196 are from existing holders, and the balance (4,827,804) are issued. Therefore, post-IPO, LinkedIn will have 94,498,627 + 4,827,804 = 99,326,431 shares outstanding. At a median price of $33 per
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by orijing 15y ago
Please read my conclusion again: So to conclude, "This chart only shows correlation" is a useless comment to make unless accompanied by an analysis of the possible probabilistic models that the evidence supports. I offered more than a simpl
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by orijing 15y ago
Correlation implies causality until proven otherwise? Where did I say that? I said that a comment like "this chart only shows correlation" is as useful as "The sky is blue." The sky is probably blue. Scientifically inspired voodoo is sti
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by orijing 15y ago
It launched people into orbit, hasn't it? It's been much more successful than India, for instance. But you're right that compared to Russia its accomplishments are fewer. Perhaps it's just a matter of time.
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by orijing 15y ago
This is the oldest, yet often useless, criticism in the world. Statisticians know that when they are observing correlations they don't have statistical evidence for causation. That requires you to take a step back, decide what other variabl
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by orijing 15y ago
That's me. I'm surprised (sort of elated) that someone dug up an old answer of mine to link here. I would've linked it, but it would've seemed a little self-promotional, and strangely ironic given my answer.
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by orijing 15y ago
It makes more sense when you see that Charlie Cheever (co-founder of Quora) asked it.
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by orijing 15y ago
Good point. It may seem intuitively true given that the constituent states in the EU are probably as diverse as those in the US. However, the US had a Gini of 45 [1] while the EU had a Gini of 30 [2], suggesting that despite the vast differ
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by orijing 15y ago
Just be careful not to get sued. Now that OKCupid is owned by eharmony (or some other big company--I forgot), they're more likely to enforce their trademarks and such. Or else, they lose it. Funny idea--how did you come up with it?
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by orijing 15y ago
OK, I see what you mean. I was speaking from the perspective of the advertiser.
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by orijing 15y ago
But effectiveness isn't about the number of clicks you get, but ultimately the value you derive from the impression (and the probability of a click). If advertisers get 30% less out of Facebook ads but it costs 30% less, then the effectiven
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by orijing 15y ago
Ads in google are pretty damn effective for everyone who is using them Possible, but don't forget Google has nearly a decade on Facebook in that arena. With that amount of time, most of those advertisers who found it to be ineffective wou
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by orijing 15y ago
Great article. I gotta say, I hadn't personally seen those ads (I don't watch TV). But they were worth the time. Why are Microsoft ads so...strange sometimes? Did anyone see the Windows 7 ad with someone throwing up? Microsoft had decades o
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Apple at Center of Employee Compensation Conspiracy(blogs.forbes.com)
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Shares of RenRen rose 56.6% above its IPO price in the first day of trading(reuters.com)
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by orijing 15y ago
> That way it can milk higher CTR from ads with CPC bids by putting them at the top of the same page, and still get just as much money from your CPM bid at the same time. That’s my theory, at least. Sneaky. It's just the result of their
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by orijing 15y ago
I am curious, why did you apply for support, not engineering?
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by orijing 15y ago
The word was productivity, not production. "Productivity is a measure of output from a production process, per unit of input ." "the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time" [1] http://wordnetweb.

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