dev_jim

9 ms·

31.
by dev_jim 13y ago
You don't understand how corporate accounting works.
32.
by dev_jim 13y ago
The problem with this whole profit "debate" about Amazon is that most people don't understand that public corporations are not like households or small businesses. Generating a profit is not the same as a person's savin
33.
by dev_jim 13y ago
As with most libertarians when you point out fundamental flaws in their reasoning, they deflect the conversation and try to talk about an ideal as opposed to anything based in reality.
34.
by dev_jim 13y ago
This is a good example of why very few libertarians exist in NYC. Fantasy solutions like a thousand different HOA's to plow the streets just don't make much sense when you think about 8 million people spread across hundreds of squ
35.
by dev_jim 13y ago
> MMM being rich just seemed obvious to me, Do you actually believe he is rich or are you just saying this to be contradictory? You make a big deal of owning his home outright, but it's actually not that much money when you think ab
36.
by dev_jim 13y ago
All of these passive income stories fall into three buckets: 1) The passive income these people generate is from selling suckers who want to believe in free money a book for $9.95. 2) Their definition of a good passive income is at or near
37.
by dev_jim 13y ago
1) Raj is Sri Lankan, not Indian. 2) Kerviel is French, grew up and was educated in France, and worked for a French bank. He isn't a racial minority. 3) Jett was a minority sure and Milken, Boesky, etc. were not minorities. Not exa
38.
by dev_jim 13y ago
As a New Yorker I'm always amazed as to how inconvenient of a city San Fran is. The BART has one track in the city, the Muni takes forever, walking is an absolute pain with all the hills, and there's so little mixed use developme
39.
by dev_jim 13y ago
> The only difference that matters between friendly exchanges (cooking and room/board) and AirBnB or underground restaurants is that one set of actions threaten the existing power brokers who have the ear of City Hall. I think it's a sh
40.
by dev_jim 13y ago
> When you forced to pay $300/night in Manhattan at the W hotel, Atlas Shrugged. No one is "forcing" you to spend $300/night in Manhattan for a hotel. You should read that book again because you are also not using "Atlas Shrugged" in a
41.
by dev_jim 13y ago
> If it's your own property, go right ahead. Yep, this is the problem with services like AirBnB and Uber. It's embraces a purely selfish attitude in individuals with blatant disregard for the rest of the community.
42.
by dev_jim 13y ago
Agree. AirBnB is the ultimate John Galt system in NYC. Apartment renters get cash for their apartment (that they usually don't even own) and then everyone else in the building gets to deals with the fallout of a revolving set of neighbors
43.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Lighten up.
44.
by dev_jim 14y ago
25 years ago I started gaming because I was 4 and was given an NES and it was fun and stuff. I now have a great job and girlfriend, none of which I attribute to all the video games I continue to play. Give it up people, trolling the Intern
45.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Not really. After his stop he went up the FDR or West Side Highway to head to Conn. The highway traffic usually moves just fine.
46.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Peter Schiff has been screaming about hyperinflation for years and has been completely and utterly discredited.
47.
by dev_jim 14y ago
"Works in cents" can be generalized for an integer with implied decimals. 4 or 5 decimal places gives you plenty of room to work with if you are just using a double to exactly represent an integer value.
48.
by dev_jim 14y ago
In general, you should take the time to learn the rules and regulations before writing things like these up: - If the off duty light is not on and your trip is in the five boroughs then the cabbie cannot refuse to take you. In my couple ye
49.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Maybe IBM is just a shitty company, but finance doesn't work this way. All the H1-B holders I know make a lot of money and have freely switched jobs multiple times.
50.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Who do you think it was who brought the stock market out of the stone age? That would be the electronic market makers constantly pushing for innovation. The old guard was perfectly content with eighths and fought as hard as possible to pre
51.
by dev_jim 14y ago
You don't understand how secondary markets work. Higher liquidity and lower spreads give an investor more confidence in their investment. They always have the option of getting out of the investment and at a lower cost. More confidence in
52.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Before HFT spreads were measured in 1/8ths of a dollar. Spreads of a penny (or pennies) matter a lot to your retirement. To the tune of billions a year saved for investors.
53.
by dev_jim 14y ago
Urgh, Hacker News gets worse and worse every day. When did crazy Libertarian rants become part of the popular discourse here?
54.
by dev_jim 14y ago
There's nothing stopping the company from letting you take a vacation that is not a working vacation. The $7,500 is irrelevant to the conversation.
55.
by dev_jim 14y ago
I wonder if you are exaggerating to make a point or you actually believe Americans take little to no vacation because the laws don't mandate it. In finance you get 8 market holidays a year. The federal government has 10. On top of that, m
56.
by dev_jim 14y ago
<Braces for the piling on by Europeans about how inferior our vacations are> It's a nice thought, but I'd rather my employer (and my girlfriend's employer) just pay top dollar and let us figure out our own vacation plans.
57.
by dev_jim 15y ago
I live in Manhattan (formerly in the Village and now in TriBeCa) and I think you are exaggerating/cherry picking the lack of costs in NYC. Sure, you can find a few $2,000 1BRs here and there in Manhattan, but they are rare, tiny, and not
58.
by dev_jim 15y ago
> It's not about exchange rates and never ever will be. It's about purchasing power. It's just normal market segmentation, like how textbooks are cheaper in India/China than in the U.S. A blanket statement like this is not correct. iPh
59.
by dev_jim 15y ago
Really harsh on the eyes. There's a reason image backgrounds went out with MySpace.
60.
by dev_jim 15y ago
I'm always fascinated as to why people on this board fervently defend scammy self-help books. Tim Ferris' completely phony 4-hour series provoked a similar reaction.

More ›