TimPC

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by TimPC 9y ago
These rankings need to account for mobility of high profile graduate students. For example some of the top CS programs in Canada have 50-75% of graduates leave for the US tech sector. Canada gets rewarded for it's STEM grads who end u
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by TimPC 9y ago
Contract work in Toronto was pretty good, especially with clients from markets with higher cost structures. You still generally want healthcare coverage on-top of the public system in Canada, but you can often get a better rate through eit
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think it’s far better to develop a culture where code reviews are opinions and suggestions and if you disagree you can reply to a comment and discuss further. Using aggressive tone is not helpful for this, but documentation needed to corr
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by TimPC 9y ago
As much as I want the correlation to be causation looking at any of the maps in this article makes me almost wonder how much of the effect is due to the fact that downtowns get made walkable rather than anything else.
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by TimPC 9y ago
Depends, if the companies are holding some assets in bitcoin in addition to the branding efforts then shorting could be risky depending on how the bubble times relative to your short position.
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by TimPC 9y ago
Or perhaps most convincingly, as a former Canadian living in the US, I see the democrats as far to the right of the Canadian Conservative party (Canada's right wing party) on healthcare and the Republicans as some radical far-right. I
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think for the most part it's the two party system that causes us to see the separate solutions as opposite rather than the other way around. It's hard to think of the trump tax plan as the exact opposite of a democratic solutio
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by TimPC 9y ago
Erroneous comment referring to legacy tax rules. I've edited it away for clarity.
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by TimPC 9y ago
Problem relative to what other system. As far as systems that exist, Democratic capitalism with a social safety net has produced less starvation per capita than any other socioeconomic system that has actually existed. Most stories of peop
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by TimPC 9y ago
The original pitch for Diablo was to build the game with booster packs sellable in stores that added items and skills to characters. They eventually built it with the entire game being self contained, rather than the booster model. But the
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by TimPC 9y ago
Loot boxes are a similar level of gambling to opening a pack of magic cards or baseball cards, but for digital objects. Is there randomness? Yes. Does it affect the value of what you open? Yes. Is the primary purpose of the thing being boug
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by TimPC 9y ago
Except people tend to solve the prisoner's dilemma problem well enough that many research experiments lead to cooperative strategies. So it's a poor model of the real world. It's a dilemma for people who believe everyone&#x27
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by TimPC 9y ago
They can kind-of sort-of somewhat buy some of the data but the data sources they can buy from have errors, don't account for stock compensation, often misaccount for money going into 401K's or stock purchase plans, healthcare and
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by TimPC 9y ago
I used to somewhat enjoy Settlers but I now consider it a terrible game. Exponential Growth Cascade Failure games are generally bad, but they are even worse when the aren't over quickly Using die rolls as the mechanic for who gets to
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by TimPC 9y ago
That's a pretty big aside. Like big enough to be a valid reason in and of itself. The other part is performance and interface lag which still tends to be an issue on any reasonable amount of data.
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by TimPC 9y ago
The salary is roughly a wash and then the RSU's and bonus are serious bank. I've saved more in 2.5 years in the Valley than in 33 years outside it, and my bank considered me good at saving and ahead of the game before I left for
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by TimPC 9y ago
The college system as a whole does best when it functions as a matching problem for curricular difficulty. Past academic performance is a noisy predictor of future academic performance. Students admitted in the sciences at schools too har
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by TimPC 9y ago
Your instincts about pharma may be badly wrong. Many hackers are shocked that pharma stocks generally go up when they downsize in research -- it seems wrong to our builder instinct but it makes sense in terms of short-term opportunity.
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by TimPC 9y ago
This article cherry-picks a lot and makes quite a few distorted comparisons. To prove the rates on rich citizens are high, they show the rate on low-income citizens in America is lower than other countries, and that the tax curves upward in
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by TimPC 9y ago
It's actually a tax on wealth transfer, and it has far more favorable terms than tranferring wealth above gift limits while still living. In some sense, the entire estate process is a massive loophole that allows wealth transfer withou
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by TimPC 9y ago
The problem is that this question often goes unasked so you don't get to answer it you just get evaluated on the perception of this concern.
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by TimPC 9y ago
I'd suggest you drop the "or unethical" part if you're actually going to actually use this. The law is a fair amount more objective (still lots of subjectivity but it's not perceived to be as subjective) whereas per
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by TimPC 9y ago
If you're joining 3 months into what's often a 7+-year mission (where if you're successful you'll be underpaid for a long-time and make your money on stock) and you expect a 90-10 distribution of shares you better be get
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by TimPC 9y ago
Instead of self-driving cars maybe crashing from being hacked in some possible future we'll get kernel panics leading to crashes in all possible futures because we'll trigger car crashes on every false positive, because crashing i
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by TimPC 9y ago
I used to be a big believer in freer markets in these areas, but all the places that are cheaper appear to use monopsomy power to drive down costs which is kind of the opposite. Even if there is a widely competitive market you don't g
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by TimPC 9y ago
If I buy a computer for $2000 it goes on my asset sheet at $2000 and depreciates over time according to GAAP rules. Shouldn't my lease contract on a $1000/month 5 year contract be a $60,000 asset and a $60,000 liability with the a
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by TimPC 9y ago
I'm going to take the cynical view here. The issue is that there are rules around movement and use of cash that are clear that banks can follow to say 'not my fault' when terrorists use cash. No one knows what's illegal
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by TimPC 9y ago
That legal principle of "come-on-man" is extremely useful. If only it existed.
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by TimPC 9y ago
The other thing to keep in mind is how much comp is the right to in the future buy $100k present value of stock for $100k. Even if that option prices at 20% the “100k” is only 20k of comp. For many positions 100k/year of stock may be
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by TimPC 9y ago
It depends a lot on the pricing of that $100K. If that's based on price at time of vesting you run into big problems -- that's not how ISO's work currently but it's unclear exactly what is going to change in this bill.

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