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by finance-geek 11y ago
Because a large number of sites use Bootstrap, Materialize, or one of a small set of base themesets.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Other comments already explained what an activist investor is. It is adversarial...but that is the price to pay if you want to be a public company. If a company wants to raise capital from the public, they then need to deal with sharehold
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by finance-geek 11y ago
I went from Accenture's management consulting practice to Goldman Sachs. Sweet gig. Totally on point to what the parent says.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
There is probably a diff history, so if the notes get out, encrypting only protects you on new notes going forward.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Is that really the case? Would liquidation take priority over contracts (EULAs in this case) -- I wonder what happened when St. Vincent's Hospital went bankrupt...were all the medical records sold off to the highest bidder(I dont remem
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by finance-geek 11y ago
I think a great test for the font would be to have Quran readers read the Quran with it, and perhaps test their speed. It is a pretty good benchmark. I have a HUGE problem with reading the Quran electronically because i'm used to the
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Very very true! This comment sums up my fear exactly. I'll take it further, not only losing one's job -- but the fear of litigation is also a big deterrent. Now imagine in court you just say...Google Tensor Flow made me do it (
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by finance-geek 11y ago
The same argument was made (correctly IMHO) before as well. "The best minds of my generation destroyed by Wall Street and Hedge Funds." Perhaps i'm naive but on average, the product shipped by the west coast is a whole lot
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by finance-geek 11y ago
I am absolutely fine in allowing foreign competition. But that is a decision the American people need to make, weighing the pros and cons. That cant happen when the primary banner is "Shortage." The conversation cannot be short
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by finance-geek 11y ago
I'm doing Caffe setups for learning on XRays...and I also feel like a pigeon going thru all the scripts. Now that's meta!
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by finance-geek 11y ago
That is the central debate isnt it? The market fix is to increase wages until "shortages" disappear. The disingenuous fix is to claim there is a "shortage" and import workers to broaden the supply. That is great for h
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Except that you dont get to decide whether someone is being exploited at a certain salary or not. The Market Decides, that is how markets work. If you want to pay below market, usually the only way is to broaden the labor pool by import
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Yes, this is indeed what a typical staffing company does -- except citizens at staffing companies can jump ship anytime when a better opportunity comes their way. H1Bs, while not shackled, have a lot of tethers to their current employer wh
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Are you saying they can leave with the same ease that citizens can leave? That's not true.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
A major reason my previous employer hired H1s was their inability to easily change jobs. This provided stability to the company. It also provided the H1 workers near-zero ability to quickly jump at opportunities, change jobs, negotiate sa
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Can you provide a source that shows the laws of economics not applying to technology labor markets? As for your source -- how about common sense and the most basic econ 101 chart on supply, demand and price? http://www.investop
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Luckily, you are just one person. Here, we're speaking about an entire market. And yes, 2x and 3x market wages would absolutely cause major shifts in labor. Even < 2x market wages would accomplish this. It already happens the ot
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by finance-geek 11y ago
For one thing...the pay is often too low. Qualified individuals may be on the market, but not on the tech market. Same reason why so many Physics PhDs who can program C++ in their sleep choose to go to Wall St instead of Silicon Valley.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
> "a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society." Not sure where you got that statistic, but the much better documented statistic are those of...say...US Republicans. An actu
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Totally on point. That is why 100-yr events seem to happen every 7 or 8 years :-) Normal distribution assumptions are great for coursework, terrible when you are managing real money.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
So many ways... For small timers: inverse ETFs, put options, CFDs (for non-US folks) For big timers: the above plus: short futures, OTC options, equity swaps, CDS, plus anything bespoke you can afford
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by finance-geek 11y ago
This is one of the big points Ben Graham makes in the classic book The Intelligent Investor -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor Essentially -- unrealized losses don't matter unless they are
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by finance-geek 11y ago
No one is really worried about H1B workers "receiving benefits"...we're not speaking about laborers. The core problem is that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of local graduates are sitting idle, unemployed,
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Mr. Aaberg has nuthin' on Mr. Aaaron
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Back then, you could shop for your regulator. Often companies shopped for the most lax regulator. AIG purchased a tiny credit union and then got themselves to be regulated by the "Office of Thrift Supervision": https:/&#x2
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Very true, but how else would you do it? How would you pay them to help each other?
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by finance-geek 11y ago
"The stays usually turn into uncollectible debts for the hospitals." --> "The stays turn into bankruptcy for the patients" Incidentally the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is unpayable hospital bills.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Very well put!
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by finance-geek 11y ago
You only see volume on listed transactions, not on contractual derivatives.
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by finance-geek 11y ago
Everyone in the Bay Area lobbying against high-density housing is to blame. Don't blame one guy who happens to taken advantage of this vast collective "conspiracy" to keep property prices inflated by reducing the inventory o

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