Ntrails

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by Ntrails 4y ago
Personal views entirely... Money is largely a product of working, but broadly uncorrelated with time or effort. If you think this is untrue, try working a minimum wage job or two for a while. This shouldn't stop you working hard for
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> Also no mention of CDS levels which are directly the thing you should be looking at Assuming they're incorporating all relevant info seems Hopeful (ie when did you see SVBs widen). I definitely agree they're an obvious datapo
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Expect the NLP stuff read the headline of "major investor refused to inject cash" and sold hard, yeah. There isn't much substance, but does not need to be
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> Do you think that the existing tools out there provide a good environment for those non-technical teams to learn SQL? I dunno. There are a truly extraordinary number of people I've worked with who query sql by going in to SSMS, o
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> - FDIC will probably have to be reformed. You cannot guarantee everything, all the time You absolutely can (should is the question)? The second question is whether you want depositors to care about the financial health of their banks o
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> they'd skim the headlines, maybe read the first paragraph of a few... Yeah, we have newspapers at work. I still read them that way, not needing to read a whole segment unless it is obviously interesting beyond the core story.
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> I don't think it should be up to the government to back these risks, because if banks think the government will always rescue them, they don't need to care as much about risky investments. Counterpoint - if depositors had kno
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> If you asked a hypothetical 100 people their thoughts on the Daily Mail the number who report reading it would be dwarfed by the number calling it trash. I think there is more socio economic bias in your belief of the above than you th
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> just how lowly most of society thinks of the Daily mail. This is really just a perfect example of how society splinters on certain lines. I give my mother endless shit for reading the daily mail, it is a pre-clickbait indignation gener
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>got jumpscared by a goatse pic hello
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> the Online Safety Bill has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. I wish people would acknowledge both sides of the coin instead of simply pretending the other side doesn't exist. Yes society uses surveillance to iden
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I'm told I was stopped from walking to school around the age of 10 (which did involve crossing a very busy road without any safe crossing apparatus) because someone reported it to the headmaster who then asked my parents to put a stop
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really ? There are only multinational corporations and early stage startups? There are multitudes of single office corps and even more where the predominant collaboration is with people located in the same office.
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> But saying how those who earn more should pay more, when they already do, is simply silly. I cannot tell if you're being disingenuous or genuinely don't realise that people saying that mean: "those who earn more should p
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This is obviously both true and not the point. It is a mazlows hierarchy style argument. You shouldn't be taxed on the income you need to eat. You should be taxed gently on the income you need for basic comfort. You should be taxed
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> Well, if you don't pass on knowledge this happens. Watching someone re-implement in technology C the same bugs I remember them fixing in their implementation in technology A tells me this isn't precisely about passing knowled
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I like to believe that someone somewhere is still playing wolfenstein:ET I had so much god damned fun playing that game
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Retail Banks were able to offer high risk loans with relatively low concern about the actual quality of the loan, due to the high demand for the repackaged assets. The repackaged assets used shenanigans to trick ratings agencies and make t
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I shared it by copy pasting a link to my friends. It really doesn't need to be any easier.
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Sounds a lot like chat rooms on early community websites. Just a bunch of people (who in my case loved a specific set of books), chatting about whatever under a handle and without needing to carry around your real self - but nor with any fe
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It drives me nuts that we could expect people who are not driving to maintain the same level of engagement as someone actively driving. It is absurd. Not to mention as peoples skills at controlling a car atrophy, via being a passenger, we
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> I've committed to the process of passing it on; I did a similar thing for a friend I've done the exact opposite, I am super lucky in all sorts of ways and the last person I want to help is someone with a similar background to
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I guess the point is you could just stick the results of each step that is currently a CTE into #table as separate queries, and you're only doing the work once to step through the stages? From a debug point of view that feels more conv
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> I've never heard of that happening. I have heard of it enough that I assume it is industry standard (much like the non compete). Admittedly I am more familiar with the quant side than pure dev
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> Deferred compensation is probably not relevant to any of the major quant firms, payment is almost entirely cash. Deferred != stock. > If you're high enough up to start receiving stake in a prop firm directly as part of your bon
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First, please repeat the standard mantra: past performance is no guarantee of future success. Then tell me the 95th percentile and the median geometric returns based of fixed periods (say, copy the 20 years.) Let us also grab what an infla
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I would assume JS has industry standard levels of notice, non-compete and deferred comp - which will sure help keep people around
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I would describe 3.5% real as pretty reasonable, I would not even call it overly conservative
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The answer is as simple as supply and demand. If there are 200,000 devs who want to work in game dev and 4,000 roles then wages will be depressed by over-supply. This is observable in all sorts of industries, often bordering on exploitatio
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I am probably a foot taller than my wife, I do more of the cooking but whatever counter top height we go for will be a compromise!

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