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by chadash 6y ago
I think that they are measuring the correct thing. It’s useful to know how temperature affects the molecular structure of the virus. From a quick glance at the study, they aren’t trying to determine how weather is going to affectHuman behav
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by chadash 6y ago
Outwit certain parts of wall street, maybe. Any hedge fund making money off of deal flow is gonna make a huge profit when there's a big spread between buy/sell prices.
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by chadash 6y ago
I commonly find this advice on the internet and it’s never worked in practice for me. Most companies have standard legal contracts for all employees. Changing them is expensive because they need to pay lawyers and convince managers. On the
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by chadash 6y ago
I have an uncle who is an employment lawyer. I go to him when I have questions. People on the internet are obsessed with edge cases. “I once had a former employer come after me for X” might be a true story (or might be exaggerated) but you
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by chadash 6y ago
Focus on making your code consistent with the existing style. Don't make big changes to code bases when you first see them, no matter how much better you think you can make it. There's nothing worse than a new dev who thinks the
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by chadash 6y ago
$40K is not much to put into a business. You'd likely be putting down more than that just to open a convenience store. Sure you need to spend a lot of money to grow a $1B+ business, but the same is true for a $100M business or a $10M b
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by chadash 6y ago
For unit costs, sure. Some HFT funds are relentless in shaving fractions of cents off of their costs. I’m not sure I would call them frugal though. When I hear frugality I think more in terms of buying used furniture or decreasing travel
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by chadash 6y ago
A piece of advice I once got from an old boss and very successful entrepreneur was to focus on increasing revenue, not on decreasing costs. I said don’t both ways increase profits? He responded that your costs could only go down 1x but your
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by chadash 6y ago
If you have $100 of stock you can’t borrow $100 in cash against that.
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by chadash 6y ago
Good point :) My mistake!
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by chadash 6y ago
Cash, or gold, artwork, whatever... Sure you can purchase with stock. But you can't easily purchase with $180 billion in stock without affecting the stock price.
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by chadash 6y ago
> "To solve this problem many firms have their own internal programming language." Any examples other than Jane Street?
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by chadash 6y ago
Bill Gates is the wealthiest person in the world (or arguably Arnault). You might say, no, Musk and Bezos are worth 50% (or ~60 billion) more. On paper yes, but that's not a great metric. When I think of wealth, I think of what you can
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by chadash 6y ago
No. In length yes but not close in width. But same order of magnitude.
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by chadash 6y ago
I worked in investment banking (as an analyst, not an engineer), so very different part of finance, but this was my take as well. Companies might love to talk about how important engineers are, but at the end of the day, if you can't d
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by chadash 6y ago
Just to clarify, the linked article isn't really talking about false positives. It's talking about people who are carrying the virus, but perhaps aren't contagious due to it being only small amounts.
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by chadash 6y ago
A parler message quoted in this article: “On Jan * we need to start systematically assassinating liberal leaders, liberal activists, BLM activists...” I’m not on parler but it seems like this stuff is not uncommon there and since they aren’
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by chadash 6y ago
A reasonable but not too fancy two bedroom apartment might run you high hundred thousands or low million. If you are coming from SF it doesn’t sound crazy but at least got tech, salaries are far lower.
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by chadash 6y ago
It’s quite ironic that people think this is a first amendment or censorship issue when the real first amendment issue would be if Twitter were not allowed to do this.
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by chadash 6y ago
Examples? I've never come across anything heavily political, aside from maybe "free software" advocacy, which I assume isn't something most governments find particularly threatening.
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by chadash 6y ago
This is being pushed by Florida politicians who want later sunsets in the winter, which is better for tourism (and general quality of life for many residents there). If you are on the Western part of a timezone (e.g. Michigan), you may pref
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by chadash 6y ago
I think this is part of the overall issue with the handling of this pandemic. No one wants to take responsibility. The FDA's job is not to decide which lives are more valuable than others, or what our society's risk tolerance is.
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by chadash 6y ago
I generally don't downvote because I disagree. I downvote because I think a comment is detracting from the discussion. It's my opinion (and feel free to disagree with me) that saying that your local 15 floor office building that w
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by chadash 6y ago
> really I had no idea this would bring me to negative points. Would love someone explaining what I’m missing in these downvotes. I downvoted you and I'll give some insight as to why. - "I’m hard pressed not to find anything
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by chadash 6y ago
I can imagine this being true at a micro level. But at a macro level, Obamacare has a rule that insurers can have a maximum profit margin of 20%. So you have two ways to increase profits in the long run: 1) Increase number of subscribers. P
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by chadash 6y ago
In a sense, they aren't dangerous because you wouldn't dare to compete with them in some areas. Most notably, every freakin business in the world uses their Office Suite and there's no serious competitor. Think about that..
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by chadash 6y ago
Gold has terrible historical returns compared to equities. If you bought gold 30 years ago and sold now, you'd have about a 5x return. You would have done significantly better if you bought stocks 30 years ago and sold them at the bott
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by chadash 6y ago
~$25,000, sure. That's pocket change for some people. But this article is talking about payments of $10 to $100 million. And in any case, I'm not convinced that 400,000 people would pay $25k.
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by chadash 6y ago
I don't think it's a crazy idea, but the numbers here seem a bit hopeful. I don't think you're gonna get 100 people to pay $100 million for an earlier spot in the line. Or 1000 people to pay $10 million. Particularly bec
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by chadash 6y ago
I think the issue here is that I want a chat app that allows payments (which exists, but maybe isn’t widely adopted yet), not an expense app that does chat. That’s why I don’t live the name.

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