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This is PR.
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> Harvard could charge $500K per year They do, they just price discriminate.
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> Rich people tend not to loudly enjoy the show, so the atmosphere isn't there Citation needed. Rich people are the main audience at all organized events of all kinds. Do you think you can take you and your kids to an NFL game if y
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> It seems like engineering guidelines, if composed carefully, would help solve at least some of these problems. That's now how this works. It's hard to know how to design programs, it comes from experience, you are paying your
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Engineers especially are some of the most persuadable people I know, they just respond to different kinds of marketing than most people. I think academics have a weird susceptibly to grifting because they feel morally reassured that other p
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I am so confused why HN is so tolerant of startup grifting, but dismisses cryptocurrency as an absolute evil. Are concepts like proof of work not even interesting? I would rather have fast and cheap online payments than a chat bot I have to
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> deregulation lead to the consolidation of airlines Explain. I see a handful of identical mega corps with a government protected monopoly (regulations + access to airports). Hasn't regulation increased consolidation to share the co
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Automation + human judgement. It works for iOS.
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A 15 minute human review process that checks if it: - is copy pasted from another source or the internet - respects copyright - is written in the language it says it is In graduate school nobody can understand each other's papers, so t
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> hire US workers outside of sheer competency It's not a competency it's a network effect. > Yet we're not seeing Samsung massively moving institutional operations to US centers for instance. Samsung probably has great
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I agree. > You certainly don’t want to ruin a $1MM contract for your firm but pressing too hard. Only in the west would you get any push back at all. The auditor would feel some duty to bring up an issue even if it reflected poorly on th
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> western companies are bound by stronger ethics I wouldn't say people in the west are "better people in their hearts" but they absolutely follow more strict norms regarding honesty and theft. This is one of the main reas
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Yes. I expect that the comment above describing jobs in finance as a "waste of life", with no other content is also unacceptable.
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> Risk has a particular meaning in investment Risk in finance definitely takes on more meaning than the narrow definition in modern portfolio theory (stddev of price).
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You can specify which variable names are valid, reducing the likelihood of a collision.
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it's a crazy concept, but people are willing to learn to use a new tool for their hobby project.
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Instead of `m4` or `sed` find and replace, the author should try `envsubst`. It's a program that replaces bash style variable references (for example `$TITLE`) with their value in the environment. export CURRENT="..."