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by wdr1 8y ago
For folks in the United States, if you want to help, your earnings history is available via the Social Security website. https://blog.ssa.gov/tag/earnings-history/
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What's messed up is the CEO had the access to do so, and was allowed to retain that access after the incident.
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The process has changed in significant ways since you left.
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A good step forward, although I wish they required explicit consent to continue. I.e., opt-in, not opt-out, for the renewal.
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> I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted. The devil in the detail is how well the targeting is done. I
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Los Angeles paid $300k for an untested and unreliable earthquake alert app(iamprettydamn.cool)
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What you've described sounds like my son & I when we get our Lego catalog. It's not just digital.
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OmniGroup
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> they're still raking in the dough from their original product category. I'm not sure which you mean The Apple II product line, or desktop computing in general? Either way, pretty sure neither would be considered their cash co
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I think Facebook is benefiting from everyone having learned their lesson. The saw their trust woefully violated by Facebook, and they'll never give another network the same access to their data again. And, thus, stay on Facebook.
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> I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission. I mean, it's obviously possible because it's reality, but it's
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Why Olympic tickets for the 2008 Games wouldn't print on the Chinese version of Windows. The short version it came down to Java on Chinese Window XP had a different $CLASSPATH than the versions in the US & Europe. The longer versio
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Yep. http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
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Funny. I never used Flock & would get spammed notifications (via SMS) from them. My 2012 Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/wdr1/status/255454270160244736 It later which switched to email wherein the justific
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Someone else has already said it, but location. I live in Santa Monica and would love a space like yours. But going between the westside & downtown -- particularly during rush hour -- just isn't reasonable for a regular thing.
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I'm sure Google+ is a dumpster fire, but reading this my only takeaway was... fuck, I hope I never work with anyone this toxic. The hate, the vitorial, the attacks, the arrogance, the lack of accountability, paranoid, passive aggress
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> You must be either the most naieve person on the planet or a complete moron to sell your company to an advertising company and not expect them to put advertising in your product. I know both Acton & Koum from Yahoo!. To describe e
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> Americans on the Internet frequently react as if you are insulting their nation I'm surprised someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, inaccurate statement. Personally, I've seen a lot of debate. Not all o
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Which big ads networks? Can you give examples?
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> Volker's plan of raising interest rates massively would cost him (Carter) re-election. I believe he would have survived even the Iran crisis but for that, but it was the right thing to do. Reagan got all the credit for it since it
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"With Blind, users are completely anonymous, but are required to submit a verified work email to join a company channel." That sentence seems to contradict itself.
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+1 I believe there's sufficient evidence to justify action on climate change. However, it's a complex topic with complex solutions. I've found even basic questioning results in a kneejerk "climate denier!" reaction
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> They introduced it as ISPs were starting to inject advertising via their own DNS cough OpenDNS cough
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Yep. Ticketing is actually fairly complicated, both technically & as a business.
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Just as long as you pay me the $3 downvote fee.
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Worked for them before the merger.
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Don't call them "ads." Call them "promotions."
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Worked at Ticketmaster.
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OP doesn't present the full story. Specifically the EU started far lower than the US, but it does show the US falling at faster rate.
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I believe it. It's just very misleading. Amazon obviously has a huge catalog. There's lots of niche products, where quite honestly, there just isn't enough money for fake reviews. Not to mention some products like books,

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