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Think again. AdWord/AdSense came out of "Applied Semantics", that they bought in 2003 for $102MM.

Here's the full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Have you tried the Yahoo Mail mobile app?

If you just throw beans into a slow cooker without boiling them, you can risk haemagglutinin toxicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_vulgaris#Toxicity

Then one day he decided to stop listening to others, and just work on his own. Six months later, he had a novel solution, closing the problem. His entire dissertation (including title, abstract, etc.) was 22 pages (single sided, double-spaced).

HN has had an anti=Yahoo bias for a long time; the reasoning behind the bias keep changing ("layoffs", "delicious", "WFH", etc.), but it always seems to be there.

If it makes you feel any better, I started at Rs 1500 per month in a top IT firm.

There are exceptions (but I'm not sure if they're from the Law Enforcement side, or the FDA). For example, you can't buy Sudafed (whose active ingredient, pseudoephederine(?), is used to make meth) without severe restrictions: not more than a pack a day, need a valid ID, etc.

The younger brother was just too much under the influence of the elder, it appears from what I've read. Maybe he looked up to him, and just followed him blindly. Who knows.

As long as we keep figuring out ways to hate each other, we'll keep figuring out ways to kill each other.

The solution that I think would work in SF is as follows. Charge a flat rate (say, $50K/year; though a Dutch Auction might be reasonable too) for leasing out a permit to qualified drivers. You qualify drivers by running background checks, and testing them on the knowledge of the city. Pass a law that makes illegally running a cab a serious offence. This will automatically solve the "tragedy of the commons" or "too many cabs" problem, because if there are too many cabs, they won't be able to make the $50K/year needed to break even. If 2000 cabs (a number 20% larger than the current fleet size) enroll in this, you're looking at an additional $100M/year.

To run the program, have a small enforcement wing of SFMTA (instead of the current gigantic bureaucracy that micromanages everything). Offer up an open API so people can build apps that track cabs, hail cabs, etc.

The medallion system is 19th century. We need a 21st century system.

You're missing a huge piece of the equation: politics and corruption. Medallions were currency used to do favors to politicians, power-brokers, etc. It was a cheap way for someone to make some cash by renting it out. The government created the monopoly and scarcity; then those in power used it to make money. A story that's repeated all over the place.

Take it for what it's worth (sample size == 1), but there are a lot of people who would love to be driving a cab in SF. Cab drivers who rent the cabs pay $300 for an 8-hour shift on weekends (Friday evening - Saturday morning), and still manage to make enough money to make it worth their while.

I occasionally suffer from lower back pain. From experience, tight hamstrings seem to be the cause. If I regularly stretch my hamstrings, I am without back problems. If I stop stretching, then, after a few months, I'll suddenly develop severe back pain. It's happened 3 times already, so I'm seeing a pattern.

So I guess my point is: stretching can help in other areas; it just may not help you improve one specific aspect of your performance. It can keep you injury-free.

Today's world is about soft power. India is woefully lacking there. It is beset by internal strife (the entire Northeast has been under some form of "martial law" (AFSPA) for 50 years). The central-western region has the Naxalite problem, which keeps on simmering and growing. And then there's Kashmir.

Aside from Bhutan, none of India's neighbors take it seriously. If India can't even project its power on its own borders, how will it do anything beyond?

The reality is: India's defence budget is basically a piggybank for political parties to fund the elections (and pad the bank accounts of senior politicians). The first thing a party does when it comes to power is sign some major defence deals (or "modify" deals in the pipeline, so they can get their cut also).

This just seems bizarre, and the price paid by the guy who got fired seems to be too much for what was, in essence, a private conversation. I can understand (to some extent) him being excoriated for making such a joke with her; but he was chatting with a buddy, albeit louder than intended.

Sometimes I wish people would just calm down a little, and fight the _real_ problems. And I'll be the first to raise my voice against sexism and discrimination, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Not every source of energy _must_ involve burning stuff and releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere.

In other words: there is no adequate punishment for violating a citizen's constitutional rights. At most, the evidence (if any) can't be used in a court of law. But there is never any punishment. For example: the dude who was imprisoned in solitary in NM for 2 years, without a trial or being presented before a judge (6th Amendment?). Sure, he got a boatload of money; but _no one was punished_.