kchoudhu

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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   Mortgage default swaps (and other asset backed default swaps) are exactly this.
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   I forget which theater chain it was, but I had one of these subscriptions when I was in London alone, semi-broke and super bored for an entire summer back in 2007. I must have seen every damned movie that came out over a three month period.
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   I've been playing around with graph databases for a while (I am writing one that turns Postgres into one of my own for kicks[1], [2]) and one of the things that became obvious after using the project in production was that it promotes
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   Don't knock 90s technology: Hubble is still sending us gorgeous pictures of the universe...
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   The G train saves lives. https://twitter.com/kchoudhu/status/909648674958872576
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   Wow, they actually found a running R train.
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   I'd be okay with this -- if they made universities pay into FICA for the taxable amount.
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   Message me. I'm looking for other finance refugees to do tech things with.
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   by kchoudhu 9y ago

   Cherish The Day is my favorite unintentional 9/11 tribute. https://twitter.com/kchoudhu/status/913295169868328960 (Not that it was ever intended as such... circumstances have kind of retconned it into the rol
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Sade needs to be on HN more often.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    People trotted that one out a few days ago when trying to justify spending $80MM on a ball park in Summerlin: we didn't pay for it, the tourists did! Guys, you realize that that $80MM could have been used to make the CCSD not the but
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Obviously there's excess rent to be had, otherwise Buffet wouldn't have entered the fray. I would like to see that excess returned to customers.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    There's also his ownership stake in NVEnergy, which exploits Nevada's citizenry using a government sanctioned monopoly. Solar died in Nevada in no small part due to Buffet's lobbying; don't be fooled by the aww-shucks de
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    It's also undergrad, so the quality of the department doesn't actually matter. You also get to put Yale on your resume.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    I would be careful about calling the crimes committed by Communists and their fellow travelers "minor".
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    > dramatic and scary results for us all. This is a call to reform your government's tendency to overreact, not sign away your rights.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    As it turns out, they knew full well that fully automated production wouldn't be possible in the upcoming quarter when the statement was made (i.e. they were manufacturing cars by hand, without an assembly line). They lied to investors
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    And nothing of note will be lost. Cavendish bananas are disgusting, and I am proud to say that I haven't eaten one since accidentally biting into one on my first day of school in the US over a decade and a half ago.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    You're supposed to upgrade to point releases pretty much immediately.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    You understand that missing material estimates has legal implications if you do it too many times? Regulators can and do start thinking that you have something to hide. Tesla isn't a startup working out of someone's garage -- it i
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Yeah, by the time I plan on heading back to school, I'm going to have a six year old and a seven year old, and I don't think money will really be a problem (I'm effectively coasting and working on random side projects now any
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    I'm probably going to go back to get a PhD at some point in my 40s. Not because I want to become a professor, but because I think it'll be good to sit down for a period of four or five years and just think in the company of othe
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Because I've worked with outsourced IBM tech.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    An inability to compile on nothing but GCC is a feature for a lot of zealots out there.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Man, how different would the world be if Samsung had become a Windows Phone OEM?
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    You really should include a trigger warning with comments like this -- I still have nightmares about that class.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Given that justice reform for low level drug offenders has gone precisely nowhere in the last 30 years, I'm thinking we haven't really learned anything from the epidemic in the 80s. I'll let you fill in the blanks: If the 80s
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    And the majority could just as easily have done the right thing and refused to pass the laws, while lending a helping hand and attempting to preserve these communities. You're going through this thread and blaming victims for their mis
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    Now that's just crazy talk.
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    by kchoudhu 9y ago

    I think we will find that suburban white folk are backlash-proof. And a good thing too, because they need all the help they can get. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to feel regret for society's past (and indeed ongoing) fai