jcnnghm

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by jcnnghm 13y ago
If they're willing to do the job for that and they're not appreciably worse than you at that particular job, maybe that's what you're worth for that role, too? Or there could be a collection of people that decide to en
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Do the majority of staffers make normalish wages? Anecdotal, but I have had a few friends working in support roles at investment banks making about double what they would make elsewhere.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Who can't negotiate? It's your fault if you can't/won't negotiate. If there is a pool of labor willing to accept a free lunch and campus-like atmosphere, coupled with cheap imported labor, in lieu of perhaps $100,
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
That is an excellent question, and I wish I knew the answer. I have tried finding data on that before, but was unable to. My inclination is that GS has a much higher standard deviation than Google, with the data skewed right.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I posted this in response to a comment the last time this came up. That article was killed, so I'm reposting: Whereas the reason there are open positions for programmers at high tech companies is that these companies want star progra
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The article talks about the requirement to release source code to the public, if modifications are made. This is a common misconception, but generally not the case, depending on the license. Typically, source code release is required if
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I think the real failure here is the belief that the majority of people need to pass for something to be worthwhile. It doesn't seem likely that online learning will work better for everyone, but I strongly suspect that it will work b
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
A slight miss or hit of earnings expectations in a quarter really can make a rational person change their valuation of a company by 20%. Stock prices are generally considered to be the present value of all future cash flows. In other wor
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Actually, the premium is usually a multiple of the present value added by the combination of the two companies. Imagine two airlines with many different routes, but a bit of overlap. If they merged, some of those redundant routes could
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
What "popular vote" are you talking about. It's meaningless in this context given every congressional district is a separate race.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The finance industry majorly stepped up stock grants after the financial crisis to decrease moral hazard. How often do you hear about SV engineers getting million dollar spot bonuses? Tech bonuses are peanuts compared to finance bonuses.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Whereas the reason there are open positions for programmers at high tech companies is that these companies want star programmers Maybe they should try paying like stars. What percentage of engineers that aren't founders or within the
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
So, anyone with less than 15-20 million in the bank is financially insecure. Depending on your age, yes. If you are old enough you can draw down your savings, though that's a tricky game because if you live too long you run out of m
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Yeah, but the reason its the hedonic treadmill is because when you ask people of any income bracket if they have enough money, they almost all say that they need 15-20% more. High income doesn't always imply high net worth. In 2011,
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I recall a recent study asking millionaires if they had enough money, and most of them said something like "no, I won't feel secure until I have 10-20 mil." That's a rational response, given that's about the minim
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
If the risk and time-adjusted reward is greater than $60,000, probably. But in the long term, the cost structure of online courses is radically different than in-person. I would expect institutions that don't adopt to fail in the long
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Of course, many other countries cook the infant mortality books be not reporting premature babies that die shortly after birth or are "hopeless" because they don't have the medical tech that the US does. Consequently, that s
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Take a step back and look at the secondary market offerings like Twitter. A company with a speculative run-up and no business model is very high risk. Also, the limiting reagent in secondary market trading is investor count. At 500, the
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I'm just waiting for this to blow up like it did right before all these rules were added (i.e. the great depression). Startup investments are hugely speculative, the vast majority turn a lot of cash into nothing. The public is risk
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
informed the audience earlier in the news cycle and led to less speculation Interesting. Does reducing audience (public) speculation actually matter? What if the person that captured the video immediately sent it to the NTSB and FAA so
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The entire transaction strikes me as a bit tasteless I agree, but it does cause me to pause to consider the entire news business. CNN would pay for a video like this because they'll generate substantial revenue from it. If it were
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Google it, stop being lazy. You're welcome to do your own research and refute something.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Not that hard to google it yourself: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/bart-strike_n_34931... . Simple interest isn't additive, that should be the first clue.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Plus 2% cost of living each year. That's actually 22.5% over 3 years.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
BART jobs are quite supply constrained That's because they pay way too much. If they paid commensurate to required skill level, demand would drop because the true equilibrium price is much lower.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
$71,000, which is high, but not astronomical They also, on average, get a $50,000/year benefits package, including a fixed-benefit pension. Plus paid overtime. That's not high, or astronomical, it's absolutely outrageous.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
You can make as much doing menial work for BART as you can in engineering. Except that you don't actually have to do anything difficult when you work for BART, it's almost impossible to lose your job, there is no unpaid overtime,
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Estimated casualties were thought to be up to a million people. The US ordered 500,000 Purple Hearts in anticipation of that, so many that those ones are still being given out today.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Disney's agenda is to make money.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Where did I say there's a hidden agenda? It's not hidden, it's front and center. subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version. It's horrible! Merida was created to break that mol

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