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If this were true, why would anyone choose the option that generates lower revenues?

I don't have the same experience with Apple. My MacBook had to get replaced multiple times due to a bad graphics card. My subsequent one had to get replaced multiple times because …

Consider another example. Google suggests an alternate route that will presumably save 15 minutes. Let's say enough cars take the suggestion to slow down that route by 10 minutes a…

You're describing the generalized second price auction (GSP) which is NOT incentive compatible, which means the optimal strategy isn't to bid truthfully. VCG is.

I'm curious, if the message saying that "FB will also import contacts if you proceed" were still visible, would you still consider it "unauthorized access"? Is it really "unauthori…

The article claims the practice "was uncovered by Business Insider last week", implying FB was being sneaky about it. But if you look at the Business Insider article ( https://www.…

The Business Insider article has this: https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5ca400acc6cc5023740b5... https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-millio...

Have you never committed a bug before? > A Facebook spokesperson said before May 2016, it offered an option to verify a user's account using their email password and voluntarily up…

Is it a coincidence that the stock price would move on the day when FB releases earnings?

It's almost as if the company reported earnings that beat expectations...

Are you sure about that? I live in California, which was previously Mexican territory. I also have friends from Texas, which was also Mexican territory. Perhaps your point is that …

For the same reason that you would link to another website on the web.

"Creator of Facebook Ads" is quite the title

> Random IO is processed first through the SSDs (the thing that they are really good at) while sequential IO short-cuts to the hard drives - which is pretty slick. Any idea why the…

> I was still working full time at Powerset on July 1, 2008 I'm curious how this works normally. He was employed full time at PowerSet nine months after he started working "full ti…

Like a butt-load of positive PR? I think they calculated that the positive PR value (or maybe mitigating negative PR) was worth the incremental cost of capital from the normal mark…

Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/icad.html

This is interesting and expected for evenly distributed request patterns. How about for more typical request patterns that follow power-law distributions? I would guess that it'd l…

> I am confident, this confusion is intentional on Facebook's part. How can you be so confident about someone's intent ? I disagree with your assessment but didn't downvote your co…

I wouldn't consider that growth, though.

Yes. I have a page with nearly 140k fans, and this is what I see if I choose US residents only: http://i.imgur.com/khYDf.png

That's not true. The target icon lets you target page posts, and the promotion will inherit the targeting of the page post. Example: http://i.imgur.com/khYDf.png I'm a page owner (…

The "break fast and move things" mantra isn't black and white, nor is it universal. It is a general alignment that, at the high level says, don't be afraid to make calculated mista…

And TV