consz

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by consz 6y ago
Using a tool available to you is not bad just because it would be bad if the other side could also use it.
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by consz 6y ago
Absolutely much higher in HFT. I worked in HFT, my 3rd year bonus (at age 25) was 1.9m as maybe a p75 member of a high performing team. Even the median, across the front office at that firm, for 2-3 years out was 600k-1m.
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by consz 7y ago
Printing money only leads to inflation if you are full employment/resource utilization. Otherwise the money just facilitates transactions that wanted to occur anyways but didn't have the financial capital to do so; you can always
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by consz 7y ago
I keep my expenses at 20% of my post-tax income, in part to avoid any impact from deep or prolonged crises.
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by consz 7y ago
This is silly. My professional cohort doesn't have anyone working sixty hour weeks, and these are people making mid-6 to mid-7 figures. Lot more to life than working, buddy.
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by consz 7y ago
Is there actually a difference? If he had memorized every detail in those documents, that would have been okay -- but taking the documents isn't? Is the former only okay because it seems practically unlikely for one human to memorize e
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by consz 7y ago
This currently exists, but for student loans. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8502456/
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by consz 7y ago
I think it's an interesting phenomenon.
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by consz 7y ago
Why is it we "definitely cannot" say that in general? That's not obvious to me at first glance.
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by consz 7y ago
Prior to the civil war, slaves were the single largest asset, by value, that America held -- more than it's land or agricultural exports; more than it's railroads, banks, or factories. Cotton was the number one export across all o
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by consz 8y ago
Light signals in an optic fiber bounce off the walls (repeatedly, frequently) of the cable they're in -- the actual physical path the light is taking in this case is approx. 1.5x the path of the cable itself.
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by consz 8y ago
>For the massacre, the killer actually hated Trump. That doesn't disprove that he was right wing. >For the bombing, consider this: people who want to actually hurt their targets, rather than running a false-flag operation, tend t
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by consz 8y ago
As someone who personally makes high seven figures and who's met dozens of people of 9, 10-figure net worth -- I think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks becoming phenomenally wealthy is not overwhelmingly determined by luck. Non
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by consz 8y ago
>People die on the list to get treatment. This doesn't appear to be any different in the US, though -- people die often in the US from either waiting to get enough money for copays or from having their treatment be rejected by their
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by consz 8y ago
>The only requirement is insurance, which the vast majority of people have. However, the vast majority of people do not have access to $8000.
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by consz 8y ago
>you can’t buy houses around the world (and staff them) in a whim. you can’t go to davos and mingle with the true global power brokers. you can affect social change but only on a small perhaps local scale. I can't imagine any of the
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by consz 8y ago
I think it's sometimes hard to understand how quickly marginal utility of money decreases. As someone who makes high seven figures, I have genuinely no idea how more money could possibly affect my happiness -- there's just no appr
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by consz 8y ago
I'm interested in the tapeworm pictures.
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by consz 8y ago
What do you think was omitted that would change that quote?
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by consz 8y ago
Could you explain why someone should believe official sources over those his reporting?
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by consz 8y ago
>If you're confident and in fact the entire industry is moving in the wrong direction, then you should probably invest as much as you can afford in an airline that is offering simpler plans. I think people should be heavily criticiz
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by consz 8y ago
>The way I see it, it should be modeled as {both-boys, boy-and-girl, both-girls}; by telling me that one of the kids is a boy, you eliminated one possibility out of three, leaving us with 1/2 as an answer. This would be like saying
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by consz 8y ago
Can you expand more on what direction your "team" is researching towards?
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by consz 8y ago
You don't need eyes and a brain to observe, a photon can be an observer.
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by consz 8y ago
What does a rich person actually lose (ie. materially how is their life different) when they're taxed at a higher rate?
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by consz 8y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be artists than to train artists to be astronauts?
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by consz 8y ago
Multiple HFT companies would be top 10 on that list.
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by consz 8y ago
First, I have no argument. Secondly, that detail was mentioned because, as I am neither a woman or a POC, my original question was less likely to be coming from a place of personal bias (“talking my book”, so to speak).
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by consz 8y ago
I'm not sure where you got the impression I was speaking for other white males, as I don't think I was speaking about anything at all in my post. "It normalises racism and sexism" still seems pretty deep in the territory
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by consz 8y ago
As a white male -- presumably the victim of the fund mentioned in the OP -- could you explain to me what is bad about the way this fund is set up? I don't mean ideologically, but empirically what you think are negative consequences of

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