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sweetishfish | 8 years ago | on: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

With regards to your first point - it's not really costing taxpayers in Wisconsin $4.5B . At least for the tax credits portion, those are taxes that would not have been paid in Wisconsin otherwise.

sweetishfish | 8 years ago | on: Confidential metrics for Snapchat features

Any idea what happened around July 7 that would've caused those dips in almost every chart? I initially thought the July 4 holiday, but I would imagine more people would actually be using Snapchat on that day. Perhaps it's the hangover day on July 5th?

sweetishfish | 8 years ago | on: CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)

I know this bug (and it is a bug Intel) is causing a lot of headaches for people, but now that the details are out it's clear there is a good amount of genius and ingenuity that goes into designing exploits like this. It's also even clearer given the June 1, 2017 posting date that Intel knew about this issue for some time. This should give more credence to people claiming insider trading by Intel's CEO.

sweetishfish | 9 years ago | on: Y combinator, X chromosomes

The economics behind women earning less just don't add up. If I'm a CEO and know I can hire women who do the same work as men for 20% (or whatever the figure is) less money, I'd only be hiring women. If the pay discrepancies are that great, why isn't this happening?

sweetishfish | 9 years ago | on: Should America Have Entered World War I?

Worth noting that we were shipping supplies and arms to both sides up until the UK blockaded Germany with their first-rate Navy. After that, the only side left to ship to was the Allies.

edit: changed 'embargoed' to 'blockaded'

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