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by blue11 10y ago
It's quite a stretch to portrait Leicester as a "moneyball" club. If you actually looked at the statistical data, they should be losing. A lot. Cherry-picking a few statistics and building a narrative around them is just s
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by blue11 10y ago
I must be missing something, but how exactly would this simplify tax filing? Presumably this bill would break the grip that TurboTax has on the market by, say, enabling cheaper and/or free solutions. But using the alternatives would n
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by blue11 11y ago
I often hear people talking about IVF as if it's some sort of a luxury service that anyone who can afford will choose voluntarily. Clearly anyone who thinks like that hasn't actually had to go through it themselves. The physical
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by blue11 11y ago
I really enjoyed the article until he got to the audition process. That would shrink the pool of candidates so much that all the previous advice about widening and diversifying the pool becomes irrelevant. Almost no one with significant e
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by blue11 11y ago
After unfollowing 90% of the people, I had a different problem. Facebook kept filling my news feed with "X liked this" or "X commented on this" from the remaining 10%. It seems that one of the goals of the news feed al
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by blue11 11y ago
Google and startups are two extreme ends of the spectrum, and neither is that great in terms of risk-reward balance. Personally, I'd recommend joining an established, but still growing, medium-sized company. That means shortly before
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by blue11 11y ago
I don't get it either. The story is very short and barely funny. And, frankly, the whole thing feels like a PR stunt of some sort. Whatever the motivation, they seem to be succeeding though, it's definitely going viral.
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by blue11 11y ago
Personally, I've always found Redfin so much better than Zillow in the areas that are covered by Redfin (better data, better UI, overall better user experience). Having lived only in such areas for more than 10 years, I was surprised
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by blue11 11y ago
I am not sure about Europe, but that's the law in the US too (there are a few exceptions).
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by blue11 11y ago
My idea of a percolator has always been this: http://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Express-6-Cup-Stovetop-Espres... The water doesn't cycle, it goes through the ground coffee exactly once. I think that the difference with dr
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by blue11 11y ago
Even if RT removed their limits, there are still government imposed ones (supposedly to protect unsophisticated investors from risk): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Sta... RT's limits are
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by blue11 11y ago
Option #1 is actually fairly easy. But it often means taking a less exciting job than, say, an early stage startup. I have to agree with you that the author didn't have his priorities straight.
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by blue11 11y ago
The GC application should follow the H1B immediately. Don't accept an offer from an employer that cannot promise you that they will do that. Either they don't know what they are doing or they can't imagine you still working
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by blue11 11y ago
Basically, the rule is that your first job after college should be with an employer that will sponsor your green card application. I knew that when I graduated and it was my number one criterion when looking for a job. Most of my foreign-
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by blue11 11y ago
I found the article very interesting, but it seems to me that the metrics are the wrong ones. You cannot treat hire and no hire outcomes equally. Let's not forget that the goal of the interview process is to actually hire people. A
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by blue11 11y ago
I believe that it's mostly a question of incentives. IMO/IOI are very prestigious competitions for high school students. Doing well there can help you get into the college of your choice. This is true for US students as well as
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by blue11 11y ago
Technically, most US medical schools don't require an undergraduate degree. However, the amount of coursework required is so large (about 3 years) that it makes sense to do a little bit extra work and get the BS anyway. It's goo
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by blue11 11y ago
No, you can't. Some Shanghai-listed stocks you can buy through the recently opened Hong Kong-Shanghai Connect. But those are mostly well established companies that are listed in Shanghai. You can read more about it here: http:/
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by blue11 12y ago
I am curious why they are launching the rocket from an area so up north, especially in the middle of winter.
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by blue11 12y ago
> Taxation in the States is at an all time low Not true in 2014. Obama raised a number of taxes for the top bracket: Ordinary income: 35% -> 39.6% Capital gains: 15% -> 20% Medicare tax: 1.45% -> 2.35% Meanwhile in California
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by blue11 12y ago
All of that is just marketing talk. IEX is currently not an exchange. What they offer is a dark pool connected in series with a Smart Order Router. That's what all the big brokers (e.g., JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Deutsche Ba
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by blue11 12y ago
The salaries aren't low. The data capture mostly the lower end of the distribution. Keep in mind that the data are from H1-B visa applications, so these are relatively low level positions. There are lots of recent graduates (foreign
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by blue11 12y ago
The ratio of attending physicians to residents must be relatively low, something like 1:4, so a hospital cannot get more residency spots approved unless it also hires more attending physicians.
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by blue11 12y ago
The monospace version of the font has too much vertical spacing to be used for programming. Everything looks double spaced.
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by blue11 12y ago
Buying a home is not an investment, it's a quality of life improvement. Something that I usually don't see mentioned in rent-vs-buy arguments is that the housing stock that's available for sale can be very different from wha
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by blue11 12y ago
This was probably the best critique of Crossfit that I've read so far. Personally, I've been doing Crossfit for 2+ years and I've got a lot out of it. In fact, I have been in the best shape of my life because of it. At the
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by blue11 12y ago
The contest is for the best predictive model for ... an undefined objective function! Unless I missed it, I didn't see a formula of how the models will be scored. For example, you can have an objective function where predicting the w
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by blue11 13y ago
I'm not saying that it's mostly wrong. I am saying that it's a biased perspective, but most of the contents is factual. You can learn interesting things about the markets, and about the individuals and the companies involve
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by blue11 13y ago
You don't have to agree with Michael Lewis' views or buy into the story line 100% in order to enjoy the book. The fact is that this is a well-written book that is full of mini-stories and anecdotes that present very realistic des
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by blue11 13y ago
Many points have already been covered, but there's one really important one: the data. It's not just about implementing a niftier interface to look at financial information. You must have the information itself first. Bloomberg

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