jegutman

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by jegutman 11y ago
Huge mix of incentives here. I agree with you from a financial perspective, but it's just more complicated (for all kinds of dumb reasons). A) Publicity. Do you want good headlines or bad headlines from the IPO? B) Secondary sales: I
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by jegutman 11y ago
Thanks for sharing moneydance, looks interesting and I was unfamiliar.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Well, you might want a computer to do all of the work and that's easier via a command line app (for most programmers) than doing it all in VBA including parsing a bunch of files and generating the entries. As for the GUI, still needs t
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by jegutman 11y ago
It's only kind of an arbitrage. There's also a huge onshore / offshore spread for Renminbi, but you can only move currency onshore for very specific purposes.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Their incentives are to burn the dead crops to maximize profit. There is not a system of property rights and a government willing to enforce them to prevent them from burning. I kind of doubt it's even a Coasean outcome given that it
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by jegutman 11y ago
Worth noting based on a paper linked from the pypy 4.0 thread[0] that maybe the most fare would be a geometric mean of salaries instead of an arithmetic mean. [0] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5673
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by jegutman 11y ago
As a former Caltech undergrad it's hard to really disagree with the conclusions. I wouldn't be surprised given what I've seen / read if this changes dramatically over the next decade based on changes already taken place
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by jegutman 11y ago
The structure of the company gives you the right to future dividends at the same rate as other classes of stock. So as long as they think they're creating something of value and the marketplace does you own an equal equity share of th
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by jegutman 11y ago
Also I recently discovered that pypy supports non-ASCII characters pretty well which at least doesn't work with my version of python 2.7.6
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by jegutman 11y ago
Evolution doesn't have a direction, it's an explanation of a thing that happens. Diversity in the gene pool is almost certainly a plus for the long-term survival of the species, but it's marginal, must like everything that w
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by jegutman 11y ago
That's completely silly. Yes tail events are important to consider. But major terrorist attack are already events on part of the tail. All of the successful attacks around the world in the last 15 years probably could have been far m
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by jegutman 11y ago
This does assume the form factor and visual re-enforcements don't contribute to the effect. You can call this "placebo" if you want, but the perception is real and might not have a clear "alternative placebo".
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by jegutman 11y ago
Yea, this was kind of giving an upper bound. Actually that's not very impressive given that people CAN burn more than 8000 calories in a single day.
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by jegutman 11y ago
Quick google search is about 100 wH per square foot of surface area. I'm just estimating about 8 square feet of surface area (one sided) for a human. Assuming 12 hours a day at that rate you get about 9.6 KwH or ~8000 kcal. With per
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by jegutman 11y ago
Really, so if your neighbor smokes pot in his home that's a safety issue for you? It's possible that as a result of policy changes we're arresting and keeping incarcerated more people who would have committed crimes, but at
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by jegutman 11y ago
This is an important point that not that many prisoners are in for-profit prisons, but many of these groups are also lobbying to privatize existing public prisons so they're not an inconsequential influence. They also benefit at the m
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by jegutman 11y ago
I agree that the FGC deserves some credit, but it's weird to credit it with eSports much since they were the community most resistant to the term. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/26llfc&#
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by jegutman 11y ago
There have always been partners you can get the entire suite of results from.[1] I don't know how they haven't been restricted, but my guess is the FDA can't ban telling you what a SNP does, but the FDA can ban 23 and me sel
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by jegutman 11y ago
An airport security screen is about equivalent to eating 2.5 bananas, don't tell OP that bananas are so scary.
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by jegutman 11y ago
The scare people is bad, and immediately feels like worse reporting than the "makes you angry kind", but in the long run I'm much more concerned by the trend of news consumption heading towards the "makes me angry"
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by jegutman 11y ago
I actually think NY is a pretty compelling case for driverless. A large number of people go from hubs into the city, travel around the city, and then leave the city. Also there's an issue with balancing taxi load in the outer boroughs
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by jegutman 11y ago
You bring up a valid point, but it's worth considering that Taxi drivers have homes. Let's think about driving from SF to Palo Alto at 11pm. This is probably not great for a taxi driver who: a) might have wanted this to be his l
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by jegutman 11y ago
You make a totally fair point, but I think it's also a fair criticism of the state of proper computer security that plenty of people opt-out as a result of the inconveniences. Someone will solve this someday and make a lot of money, b
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by jegutman 11y ago
It's a little bit of a mis-measurement of things though. I'm not sure quality software engineers make so much more on average, it's just that the percentage of the population that are quality software engineers is much highe
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by jegutman 11y ago
It seems like the biggest issue here is the compensation structure of startups. People who have been working for a long time are those least likely to take a huge pay cut for upside even if they're the people who are often well-suited
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by jegutman 11y ago
"They're a growth incubator that pushes companies to grow fast over growing well." Any evidence for this comment? Any evidence that there's even a tradeoff you can make? Any evidence that your hypothesis (which seems t
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by jegutman 11y ago
Yea, normally in a fund with 10 investments you pay carry on the net performance of the fund. So let's say the fund is $100 and 10 investments of $10 each. One ends up being worth $110 and everything else goes broke. Normally the ca
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by jegutman 11y ago
I think they do. Only explanation: time travel
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by jegutman 11y ago
I agree with your general assessment. I think one sane area for regulation is tracking large losers and having mechanisms to help addicts create self-enforcement (banning themselves effectively). However, I think the mobile gaming industry
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by jegutman 11y ago
Very cool. I remember back at Caltech when Adam D'Angelo wasn't a Quora founder and was just a hacker dude he made buddy zoo and it had these awesome social graphs. I think this was ported into the early version of facebook and

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