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by bearmf 14y ago
A real estate market separated into 60% government-owned cheap housing and 40% privately owned expensive housing strangely reminds me of NYC with its rent control/stabilization policies. Most of the current problems will not go away with go
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by bearmf 14y ago
Surely rich people in Manhattan never travel?
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by bearmf 14y ago
The irony is that it is not only impossible to crack, it is now impossible to play as well. Unplayable games are impossible to crack, but this does not make them any less absurd. DRM has come to its logical and absurd conclusion, it seems.
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by bearmf 14y ago
> If you have kids, your bosses will ask where they go to school and it will affect your promotion chances. How can your kids' school affect promotion chances? I can understand buying expensive clothes, cleaning, expensive apartments e
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by bearmf 14y ago
What if it is a $1.5mil house?
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by bearmf 14y ago
I also do not buy the whole "shopping around" thing, even if it worked. The idea that patient should know almost nothing about costs is a right one. The current implementation of this idea suffers from various problems, but as more people g
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by bearmf 14y ago
Not long ago there was an article here which reached an opposite conclusion, for hospital costs. It is just unwise not to have health insurance in this country. Hospitals can charge you arbitrary amounts. If you pay cash and have not agree
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by bearmf 14y ago
I don't know much about Solyndra. But you are right that people getting the money for research need to be honest and motivated. In my opinion, this applies to most people working in science. It is just that research is hard (and possibly ge
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by bearmf 14y ago
But you also get Sputnik, Gagarin, Apollo, Voyager. You get microprocessors and Internet. You get nuclear energy (though you will be right to mention industrial fusion reactors which are always 20 years or so away :))
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by bearmf 14y ago
> We are all very similar genetically and we all have very > similar with our potential for greatness. Unfortunately, this is one of the biggest misconceptions in modern discourse. There is a whole "underground" (mostly online) cur
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by bearmf 14y ago
It depends entirely on the person asking the question. Some people probably don't care, but there are some fans of the most efficient possible solution.
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by bearmf 14y ago
Napping on balconies is indeed popular. But few people would leave a stroller with a baby on the street in a Russian city.
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by bearmf 14y ago
'select the second highest number in this list' is actually O(n) and does not require sorting.
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by bearmf 14y ago
Yes, you need a little logic. But for those puzzles it is (arguably more) important to know some key facts about the world which form a basis for your reasoning. I don't know, maybe reasoning based on wrong facts will satisfy some interview
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by bearmf 14y ago
The question is not hard if you are allowed to use extra memory: just tokenize into words, put them into array and reverse, then join them back into a new string. It is harder to do it in place. I actually did not believe it was possible un
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by bearmf 14y ago
I really don't understand why manhole covers or stars in the universe puzzles are considered "logic puzzles". Logic questions are not of the form "why?" and "how?". Their structure boils down to "is this statement true or not?"
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by bearmf 14y ago
Your argument seems to be that if someone is paying you for what you are doing then you are useful to that someone. Which is of course true. But then if you are really intent on figuring out what is going on, the next question is who is pay
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by bearmf 14y ago
Many of your points are spot on in that many of us had similar experiences. However, I would disagree that being able to program can be a disadvantage in any of good jobs you might be looking for. There is necessary communication between me
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by bearmf 14y ago
Well, they definitely had to have it checked by someone senior at Google. Usually they are very careful about disclosing what they do and employees have strict NDAs.
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by bearmf 14y ago
I work in finance. The vast majority of what quants do is meaningless work which is only (maybe) useful to their employer. Most of them, if you ask about usefulness of their work, will probably conjure some bs argument about "providing liqu
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by bearmf 14y ago
If you look at the data in article [0] carefully, it becomes clear that the problem in US is not movement in/out of the highest quintile, but movement in/out of the lowest quintile. Middle quintiles to highest quintile and vice versa mobili
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by bearmf 14y ago
Why is it on first page? This is probably the dumbest post I've seen on HN.
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by bearmf 14y ago
Does it have Stalin, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Eltsin, Putin dolls? :)
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by bearmf 14y ago
The page states explicitly that he is not really looking for a new job :)
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by bearmf 14y ago
200k would be reasonable for a senior guy in one of the best data science teams. Actually 106k seems low.
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by bearmf 14y ago
Does it only include H-1B wage data? What about PERM (green card labor certification) data? Also, what years are included?
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by bearmf 14y ago
An interesting question is if Google itself would consider "google skills" an advantage!
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by bearmf 14y ago
No, it is because you consider him a jerk, a liar or incompetent. That really does not mean he/she is any of those. Especially considering your attitude, which comes across as dismissive and self-assured. And what about "incompetent can't i
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by bearmf 14y ago
Public education quality depends very heavily on demographics, doesn't it?
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by bearmf 14y ago
Correction: most recruiters are terrible at their job. It is much worse than any other industry except maybe real estate brokers in New York :) In finance, it seems fake jobs are posted by every recruiting firm. And no, this is not the same

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