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by aianus 9y ago
According to their audited financial statements [0] grants accounted for only $388 million against $917 million in expenses (or about 42%). [0] https://uwaterloo.ca/finance/sites/ca.finance/files/uploads&
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by aianus 9y ago
What do you think a fair wage would be? From personal experience it's a bit more than minimum wage after all expenses which feels fair because the alternatives for unskilled labor are so much worse (retail, McDonald's, etc.)
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by aianus 9y ago
30 students? Many of my lectures at UWaterloo in Canada were closer to 300. I guess that's why my tuition was only $10k.
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by aianus 9y ago
This was somewhat of a solved problem with sites like Satoshi Dice. They could still cheat but everyone would find out the next day and stop playing.
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by aianus 9y ago
Costco is 20% cheaper than all other stations in Toronto. So either Costco is selling at a loss (unlikely) or there's plenty of profit in gas for gas stations.
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by aianus 9y ago
Nobody buys a new car and sells it two years later with low mileage. That would be a very unusual thing to do (and tax-disadvantageous where I live). They lease it and then ownership ends up with some dealer at the end of the lease.
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by aianus 9y ago
The manufacturer warranty has a mileage limit which at least in my case was 80k km (less than 60k miles); that's probably why it's missing from the listing you linked to.
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by aianus 9y ago
Why is it so dumb to buy a used car off the lot? I bought an Audi off lease last year. It's still under warranty, free maintenance (until 80k km), low mileage (37k km), fully loaded with options, and I saved $20k vs a new one.
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by aianus 9y ago
You obviously don't think it should be free because you think it should come with the obligation to stay in your poor country of birth after graduation. That obligation is worth $100,000s in opportunity cost or more.
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by aianus 9y ago
Woosh (it's a play on current PC tropes on the lack of women in tech and how insane they sound when applied to race/nba)
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by aianus 9y ago
Go to any co-working space outside the US/Canada and it's basically exactly this. Pretty fun.
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by aianus 9y ago
It's a rather marginal difference when you're already forgoing $13k a month or more in salary to be an entrepreneur instead of a bigco developer, no? Like, you'd just have to work a month or two extra before quitting to cover
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by aianus 9y ago
Or maybe they don't have an alternative to earn a decent living and would quit crime if they could find a good job? I don't know that I wouldn't sell drugs if my alternative was flipping burgers at McDonald's for $1000 a
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by aianus 9y ago
White men represent only 23.3% of NBA players despite white people representing 63% of the greater population of the US. Clearly this is evidence of systemic discrimination against whites and the NBA needs to step up their diversity efforts
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by aianus 9y ago
The injustice is not (just) Yelp paying $200k instead of $150k, it's an engineer in India with the same skillset earning $30k. Or any number of projects not being undertaken at all because the return is less than $200k. I don't kn
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by aianus 9y ago
American is not a race so it's not racist, no. But I do feel that it's wrong to restrict the supply of foreign programmers so that an engineer in Silicon Valley can earn $200k instead of 'only' $150k. The average SV prog
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes? Paying someone with American citizenship more than someone with Chinese citizenship for the same work should be regarded as unethical as paying a man more than a woman or a white person more than a black person.
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by aianus 9y ago
Fwiw I lived in Vietnam for 6 months and had girls stop me in the streets to take a picture with me and give me their numbers.
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by aianus 9y ago
I would prefer a push based system like Bitcoin where I can assume 100% control and liability at near-zero cost but I know I'm in an extreme minority. People love zero liability so that's where we are and we all have to pay for it
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by aianus 9y ago
Of course the products are all marked up to cover the fraud, but it's not like you can opt out of that markup so you might as well take advantage of the convenience.
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by aianus 9y ago
Why don't you like retailers storing your card? You get all the convenience with none of the risk (if there's any fraud the merchant eats all of it!).
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by aianus 9y ago
It's a big company and there are lots of other products and opportunities that have positive gross margins. Just not the product my office primarily works on.
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by aianus 9y ago
Countless AWS instances with less than 1% utilization costing millions of dollars a year. It's easier to raise more money than try to fix it, so it just keeps getting worse. Focusing on pumping vanity 'growth' metrics when ou
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by aianus 9y ago
> considering they'd have to start from scratch with channels like carrier partnerships, retail presence, and advertising OnePlus has none of these and seems very successful.
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by aianus 9y ago
Seriously. I could take years off between jobs if I wanted to because my salary in Canada is so much higher than it would be in Europe. I consider that much better than 5 weeks a year or whatever.
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by aianus 9y ago
Don't forget retirement. That's the number one lifetime expense for most people and it's priced at a global level. You reach that point so much faster working in the Bay Area.
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by aianus 9y ago
In general the price of a futures contract is that which avoids arbitrage opportunities. If the interest rate in EUR is 2% and the interest rate in USD is 4% and the cost to maintain a EUR/USD hedge is less than 2% then you can make fr
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by aianus 9y ago
The cost of hedging forex is at least equal to the interest rate difference between the currencies.
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by aianus 9y ago
Because not everyone can afford to spend $20k on extra sensors that make the car 1% safer. And holding back autonomous cars until they're perfect can kill more people than near-perfect autonomous cars. It's an economic tradeoff li
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by aianus 9y ago
Any examples of companies that have done significantly better after publicly ousting their founder CEO? I've worked at more than one where it turned to shit...

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