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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by sjg007 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:06PM (#17961481)
Get population estimate for all countries with adword revenue, get adword revenue for each of these countries, fit to a linear model, predict italy. Or calculate adword revenue per capita and apply.
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:56PM (#17962308)
Er, if you can do that, then why not "get adword revenue for each of these countries, read the value for Italy"?
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by gcatalfamo on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:08PM (#17961498)
No, you had to give out a number.
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by sjg007 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:10PM (#17961990)
How about $5B with a 99% confidence interval between $0 and $1 trillion. That's a number.
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by s73v3r_ on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:22PM (#17962090)
Sorry, that's not close enough. Can you do better?

(For the record, the person you originally responded to did not share that question with the intention of you actually trying to answer it. The point was the illustrate how ludicrous some of those questions are. You don't have access to any of the information that you mentioned in your response in the interview.)

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