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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:51PM (#13040121)
Taking a stab at a naive calculation, $3B worth of $60K/yr positions is 50,000 employees.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:18PM (#13041151)
Yup except China uses like 100k workers for ~200m online users, so scale up a bit.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @12:07AM (#13041830)
At a rate of 0.5%, the job is going to have to be extremely unskilled in order to get enough hires.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:34AM (#13042320)
It's a rate of 0.007% for China by virtue of their 1.5b population.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:47AM (#13042374)
0.5% of online users.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @01:07PM (#13045008)
Right but they don't have to hire from only that pool.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:53PM (#13046453)
I think I'm not being clear. Using the China example, the number of censors required is 0.5% of the number of online users regardless of whether the censors are members of the "online users" group or not.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:17PM (#13047136)
Maybe, it could be that it doesn't scale linearly though. All I know is where the numbers are at now (or actually, a year or two ago).
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by MacsHeadroom on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:34PM (#13045450)
A $60k/yr employee costs more like $100k-$140k/yr, depending on the area. Taxes, Benefits, insurance, office space, equipment, support employment (HR, Legal, etc).
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