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by kchoudhu 10y ago
So thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole :) Assuming Yale uses the IM calculation for financial aid, the problem isn't current income: it is savings and home equity. The financial aid formula actively penalizes savings in any for
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Only for this year? Or for your net assets? Because I'm totally willing to go on a four year sabbatical to get free tuition for my kid :)
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
"We deploy our own and other peoples' money to make broad spectrum investments in the technology industry." I could see both Goldman Sachs and YC operating under this mission statement. As much as PG wants him to be, Thiel is
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I used to work at a bank, which regularly required pre-clearance for employee donations to political parties and candidates to avoid conflict of interest issues. If YC is saying Thiel can't be managed on that basis, he is a partner. An
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I've been watching pg complain about Trump on Twitter with some interest. It is mind blowing to me that he has said nothing about Thiel so far.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Why just HK, though?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Global ATM fee reimbursement and 24/7 customer service. Helpful when you travel a lot.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Who the hell makes accounts on porn sites?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
...we're missing IPSEC_NAT_T. Brought to you from a custom compiled FreeBSD 11-p1 host :(
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Hey, I used to live in those red (Parliament adjacent) buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They were overly spacious (i.e. 20 foot ceilings) and ridiculously impractical. If Brutalism is back, we should show it the door again.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Let's just say that I have no intention of trusting a new Apple filesystem with important data anytime soon.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Congrats to RE@ for the release. Looking forward to that sweet, sweet IPSEC by default.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Straight from border control's mouth: you can't look for work on a B2. I got razzed about this a couple of times when entering the US as a foreign national.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We happily hired people from Lehman after the financial crisis. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, and it is tragic that the good people frequently overestimate their role in one-off events.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> rebel forces in Africa The Battle of Algiers covers that particular mess, and it was straight out banned in France until 1971, five years after its release. It took that long for the French to admit that they were perhaps not the agg
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The ending with Eli standing, looking into infinity was simultaneously terrifying and uplifting. SciFi at its very best.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The list all of the high points for me: Veronica Mars, Jericho and Freaks and Geeks. I also appreciate the presence of Stargate: Universe on the list. Everyone hated it, but I really, really, really enjoyed the different take on the Stargat
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I am sure we will be seeing numerous comments in this thread braying for the CEO of this criminally negligent financial firm to be thrown in jail.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
TBonds are hardly illiquid during crises -- as a matter of fact, they are among a select few securities that trade heavily when bad things happen. Source: looked on in dismay as the (legacy) treasury trading system at an investment keeled o
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Left field suggestion: The Honor Series. Start with "On Basilisk Station".
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> Musk has basically stated that he has no interest in being involved at that end. I don't think you get to control all transport to an isolated colony and disclaim all responsibility for the social cohesion of said colony.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> Decreases the chances of them being politically abused. Isolation and distance do terrible things even to supposedly well educated people. I wouldn't count on people to not drop straight into barbarity after prolonged exposure to
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> Whoever pays So Mars is going to be a colony of the developed world elite. > Who cares A million people generate is not short term or small scale. Property rights, criminal law and all of these other things that make civilization c
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The scenario in which the bet does not pay off results in 1 million people and their descendants being stuck in a terrible situation, with distance making aid or relief impossible at scale. This is something that could be mitigated by makin
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I just finished reading these books for what seems like the millionth time, and Mr. Musk hasn't even begun to answer the questions they raise. What is the legal structure going to be on the 1MM person colony? Who gets to go? What are t
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Uber is the way to go; failing that the number of a car service somewhere in your neighborhood.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Given the state of taxis in Brooklyn, a two year old with a tricycle is probably bigger than taxis.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
"You can partake in moderation in a limited fashion" Didn't/Doesn't Slashdot do this?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Yup, this was pretty much our experience.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I watched the first one being A/B tested on the UES Mom's group on Facebook. I'm convinced that it is the first proto-useful thing to come out of New York's Upper East Side in the 21st century.

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