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by tsycho 10y ago
Stock sales by executives is normally not a big deal, but 30% is a pretty large number, especially when TWTR is at a pretty depressed price at the moment. Then again, if he needed the cash, the low stock price increases the amount of stock
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by tsycho 10y ago
You have to account for selection/hindsight bias. There were probably many more things predicted by various niche groups, just selectively looking at the few correct ones later does not mean that the overall prediction success ratio is
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by tsycho 10y ago
Pre check is institutionalized racism. Given the criteria for qualification, it's not surpassing that predominantly white people are able to use it.
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by tsycho 10y ago
It's not just about money. Even if parents can afford to have one of them be stay at home, neither parent might want to be the one staying at home. Being a stay at higher parent is an incredibly difficult, stressful and under appreciat
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by tsycho 10y ago
Trump is playing "divide and conquer". Make every action benefit some segment of people, and sow discord among your opponents. That said, as a highly skilled, highly paid H1B person at one of those top companies who probably needs
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by tsycho 10y ago
Interesting viewpoint. The difference is that in the village case, the information distribution was much more symmetric. People knew about you and you knew about them, and you knew about each other's knowledge and presumably acted acco
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by tsycho 10y ago
Umm, WhatsApp might not be popular in the US but it's massively popular in India, Brazil and many other countries. IIRC they crossed 1B users a few months ago, and continue to grow. At acquisition, they were at 400M. If you look at how
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by tsycho 10y ago
I hear you (my wife has a similar problem). The sad answer is that Apple and others don't care for your business. If Airpods work well for the majority of potential customers, that's good business for them. Products don't ne
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by tsycho 10y ago
Have you tried living near a Caltrain station? I have, and IMHO the noise from the trains (they blow their horns when entering the station) is very annoying, and harder to ignore/get used to since it's discrete, unlike continuous
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by tsycho 10y ago
Google+ has a significantly more powerful API for its trusted partners, such as Hootsuite. And maybe Buffer, unless they are doing some headless browsing hacks. Their public API is read only for strategic reasons. Unless you have a clear bu
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Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight from an Asian Ethnoburb(psmag.com)
3 points by tsycho 10y ago|0 comments
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by tsycho 10y ago
/rant I am so tired of comments like yours. Google does a ton of UX research, so I am sure they have a much better understanding of whether normal iOS users find their apps usable or not. If you dislike their design, don't use the
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by tsycho 10y ago
I am conflicted about this, and see merits on both sides of the argument on Thiel's actions. So I tried to draw an analogy: Let's say that there is some patent troll that only extorts money from small startups, who don't have
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by tsycho 10y ago
I don't think it's because of his prediction accuracy. What I love about his writing is that he brings in a fresh perspective and an alternative way to think about tech and its future, whereas most normal tech press just reports w
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by tsycho 10y ago
My biggest problem with Hulu, even more annoying than the ads was that they didn't have all the episodes of the shows that they presumably have rights to. For a show like Modern Family for instance, they would have the latest episodes
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by tsycho 10y ago
You could just open hangouts.google.com in a browser window, why do you need a native app? Also, Hangouts would not need phone tethering
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by tsycho 11y ago
His advice falls in the same philosophical category as... 1/ use children as Labor in 3rd world countries since they are cheaper and more pliable 2/ cheat in environmental tests (eg: Volkswagen) 3/ dump toxic waste into poor
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by tsycho 11y ago
The funny thing about your statement is that you are drinking your own version of koolaid at Amazon. FWIW, there is definitely koolaid mentality at Google and Facebook (source: worked at, and have lots of friends at both), but it's not
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Searching For Sundar Pichai(buzzfeed.com)
132 points by tsycho 11y ago|20 comments
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by tsycho 11y ago
What are good resources/courses for getting into NLP? Where do I start?
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by tsycho 11y ago
What does 59/60 mean?
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by tsycho 11y ago
People seem to be getting confused between salary and total comp. Making 300k+ in total comp is pretty easy at the big Tech companies. Most level 5 Software Engineers make around that and there are >10 thousand of L5 SWEs at just Google;
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by tsycho 11y ago
One of the things that I did to compensate for that was to take on a significantly greater share of "common duties" such as dishwashing, laundry, paying bills, taking out the trash etc. Before our baby, these used to be generally
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by tsycho 11y ago
I don't know her work history, but I can easily speculate innocuous reasons why her name could be on a patent. 1/ A previous employer may have filed it on her work. There doesn't need to be any specific agency or effort on he
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by tsycho 11y ago
Not sure if you meant it this way, but the insight that I drew from your comment was: When we think that either A or B are not super important beliefs, or we are observing from such a distance that the differences between A and B seem small
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by tsycho 11y ago
Please post those screenshots with your denial as widely as possible to expose how scammy all this is.
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by tsycho 11y ago
A lottery would make it even easier to game/cheat. Corruption needs to be rooted out from the top with a transparent vigilance process, just changing the system would just shuffle who gets the bribe money.
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by tsycho 11y ago
Personally, I find it more amusing that you speculate a situation that hasn't happened, and has no precedent from Google's history, and then use that to confirm a speculation which "we all know deep down" :)
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by tsycho 11y ago
I don't understand. >> The Court has ruled that users—not craigslist—own the copyrights in their postings. >> ... Craigslist finally conceded in Court that no such harm or impairment ever occurred. >> Craigslist compl
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by tsycho 12y ago
I have the exact same complaint about ios notifications. This is definitely one area where the Android experience is far superior (it does what you suggested)

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