You know how I know he's in love? He put on a tie.
Mark Zuckerberg married
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Losing half your wealth when things go south also kills the mood. You are right it comes down to rational vs emotional decision. From what I have seen of the public persona of Mark you would think there would be something there. The guy has carefully crafted deals up to this stage to ensure he keeps maximum control.
Losing half your wealth should have approximately zero effect. Any computer scientist will tell you that "a factor of two is close enough". I'm joking, but there's a hint of truth here. I can't imagine any level of wealth at which suddenly having half (or twice) as much would make any difference to me at all. A factor of two either way really wouldn't change my life appreciably.
Wouldn't he lose the 50+% majority of voting shares?
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for the fun of it, "married" is ambiguous as it may mean he married years ago (supposing we did not know whether he was married or not), but "got married" signifies a change. http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/99745-got-marr...
Additional fun (and ambiguity): The verb "to marry" also means to perform the marriage ceremony. "Mark Zuckerberg married" could, in theory, mean Zuckerberg married two other people. "Got married" doesn't suffer from ambiguity and for that reason i think preferred.
No. He married. It’s unambiguously intransitive.
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#155I cannot comment on the content at all because I can't access the submission. Pages submitted to HN should simply not be behind login walls, which is why I flagged this. This thread already has multiple references to the fact that you have to log in to see the submitted post. There are many HN users without a FB account. For them, the headline of the submission cannot be verified by clicking on the link. Although the…
Dis-allowing links like this seems extreme. I think appending something like "[requires facebook]" to the title as a matter of etiquette would work. As a kind of loose analogy, no one really has problems with links to pdfs, but you don't need to have a pdf reader to sign up for HN (and I often see the "[pdf]" notice appended to such links).
Disallow
Re: Mark Zuckerberg married
#156Sorry but... how is this relevant?
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#157Ok. In what way is this Hacker News?
Yeah, I too was surpised by how many people in the HN community love gossip news...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg married
#158Ok. In what way is this Hacker News?
Yeah, I too was surpised by how many people in the HN community love gossip news...
Random celebrity gets married: off-topic
Tech celebrity gets married: 200+ votes
Reddit is at least aware of the inevitable failings of any successful community and lets me hide boring stories and collapse boring discussion threads.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg married
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Losing half your wealth when things go south also kills the mood. You are right it comes down to rational vs emotional decision. From what I have seen of the public persona of Mark you would think there would be something there. The guy has carefully crafted deals up to this stage to ensure he keeps maximum control.
Losing half your wealth should have approximately zero effect. Any computer scientist will tell you that "a factor of two is close enough". I'm joking, but there's a hint of truth here. I can't imagine any level of wealth at which suddenly having half (or twice) as much would make any difference to me at all. A factor of two either way really wouldn't change my life appreciably.
I can't imagine any level of wealth at which suddenly having half (or twice) as much would make any difference to me at all.
You sure about that? I think $40k down to $20k could be a pretty jarring transition, especially if you have established expenses like dependents or a mortgage.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg married
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Additional fun (and ambiguity): The verb "to marry" also means to perform the marriage ceremony. "Mark Zuckerberg married" could, in theory, mean Zuckerberg married two other people. "Got married" doesn't suffer from ambiguity and for that reason i think preferred.
No. He married. It’s unambiguously intransitive.
Correct. "To marry" is actually one of these rare verbs that can be both transitive and intransitive.
And like somebody pointed out earlier, it can either mean that the subject is the one getting married or that they are performing the ceremony.