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I'm not an expert on this, but when you exercise stock options you have to pay taxes on the fair market value at that time.

In some cases it might make sense to exercise stock options before you can actually sell them (e.g. if you expect the price to keep going up to save on taxes or if you're leaving the company when you typically only have a limited amount of time to exercise or lose those options).

So in these cases you now own the stock and paid taxes on it, but if the stock price falls drastically after that you might have actually paid more taxes than the stock is worth now.

It just seems like a national pastime to post as little information about yourself or anything you're associated with anywhere online at all. As an expat that it makes it hard to stay in contact with many people.

It's everybody's right to do whatever they want with their personal information, but in Germany it often gets to a point where you're being judged if you yourself decide to post something on a social network site.

It also leads to all kind of weird regulations from the government (again, see Street View as an example or the more recent EU-wide regulation of a minimum age of 16 to open social network accounts).

Oh yeah, sorry, I missed the part of the text between the 2 images.

I find the whole premise of this article a bit weird. It starts with "Good news". Why is it automatically good news that educated people use social media less?

I'm a German living in the United States and find this part of German society pretty annoying: Being super careful about anything that could potentially encroach on your privacy (for example see the fate of Google Street View in Germany).

I thought that was just based on URLs. Similarly when I open a yelp.com link in my mobile browser it asks me whether to open it using the Yelp app or the browser.

On the one hand I agree but on the other hand I think group work is an important skill to learn. This will be almost always necessary in a work environment.

I think a good compromise is to require each team member to be responsible for an identified part of the group work so that the teacher can adequately grade each individual.

The fact that you see it as self-entitlement when someone wants to come back to their job after a pregnancy and cancer treatment shows how wrong the current attitude in the US towards a healthy work / life balance is.

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I wouldn't call it a delusion. Investors were valuing Twitter at close to $40 Billion because they were expecting Facebook-like growth. Now that they don't see that growth they currently value it at around $20 Billion. Based on simple things like P/E that's still a good number.

I still think there's a good chance of a turnaround for Twitter. It's widely used by the media and celebrities. If they come up with a better way to consume this then I think they have a good chance of getting back to their recent highs in their stock.

Easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

I think the main benefit is that they could easily do night-time delivery with this. Usually people have their cars parked at home during the night and they don't have to wake you when they just leave the package in your trunk.

That's a good point, but it also depends on disposable income. If after rent (or mortgage), food and other basic necessities you have $1000 left per month then it doesn't make a difference whether you earn $100,000 in SF or $60,000 in Ann Arbor.

And then for both examples a $50 Lego toy is 5% of the monthly disposable income.

They positioned themselves very well in certain critical areas and I doubt that they will be easily replaced by competitors. For example in the ebook reader space most competitors already went our of business and Amazon is now close to being a monopoly in this space. At this point they should be set up pretty well to increase their margins. I don't know how much percent of each ebook sale they take but similar to Apple's App Store I'm sure this is a nice cash cow.

I think you're very wrong here. In-house recruiters also use Linkedin, I don't know why that would put anybody in the "high risk hire" category. I got my recent job through a recruiter contact on Linkedin and I'm pretty happy about it.

Sure it can get complicated, but there are also some safe ways to fork. Imagine you fork at the very beginning of your program before starting any threads. No danger in that. So the language could at least allow it (but provide the proper warnings around it).

The salary in this example is per year, the rent is per month. So actually a 10% rent increase is $1200 per year and a 1% salary increase is $1000 per year for a net loss of $200.

I definitely would not say that most people agree to this. Otherwise it would be very surprising to see Google, Facebook, Apple, Samsung and many others growing their presence in Silicon Valley.

If you look at labs distributed world-wide then a 5 hour drive is really not that much.

Maybe, but I doubt people buy a $500 watch just because it will still be nice in 100 years. That might be the case for $10000 watches.

Isn't that what US labor and immigration laws are intended for? To promote hiring US citizens or legal residents?

I actually liked sites like eHow, but I'm probably in the minority here. If I wanted a quick answer for a question these sites were providing a good, quick answer. They are not going into a lot of depth, of course, but if I want that then I just use a bit more specific search terms.

Both GM and Chrysler went through bankruptcy in 2009.

Yes, but only a show of hands of those still in, not of the player who folded. So how would they be able to analyze that he had the better hand?

I don't understand this part: "91 percent of all reviewers gave it one star. The next lowest-rated movie on IMDb — 1.8 stars overall — has a more even distribution of ratings, with only 71 percent of reviewers giving it one star. The evidence suggests the push to down-vote “Gunday” was successful".

To me that's just stating the obvious. Of course if there is such a thing as a worst movie then it will have a higher percentage of 1 star votes than other movies. So I don't know how that's evidence for anything except that the movie seems to be bad.

I'm not sure if it's actually a lane reduction, they might have also just added 1 lane to the previously existing 2 lanes.

The big benefit I see is that you're never entering the opposing traffic lane, so head-on collisions are much less likely.

If you move on to the next problem, then your test finishes and forces you to move back to the original problem then you just had to do 2 context switches. If you never had to wait for the test result then you could have eliminated those.

Interesting, but are people actually using this?

Here in the San Jose area I can also get groceries delivered by at least Safeway, Walmart, Google and Instacart (I might be missing some). But personally I'm not using this and I don't know anybody using it.

Until you're dead? Why? What sense does it make to have a lot of money saved once you're dead?

In general spammers deal with those things pretty quickly. They can just quickly add a regex to remove everything starting with the "+" and then you don't have any unique identifier any more.