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by kolbe 5y ago
This is probably because interview questions are more often than not just brainteasers stacked on top of into-level content. Much in the same way that juniors in high school taking Calculus still need to study for SAT math: it's not re
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by kolbe 5y ago
It’s also a survey, which is largely useless in the discovery of real information. Whereas in my county, ER visits for teen attempted suicides are up over 100% from pre-Covid. That seems more like actual evidence that something is wrong her
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A Fast, Compact Approximation of the Exponential Function (1999) [pdf](nic.schraudolph.org)
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by kolbe 5y ago
I find it hard to believe this is a net gain to Spotify in the long run. It may well have been legal, but Rogan signed on as exclusive to Spotify with the understanding that they would be a platform for him and allow him to further extend h
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by kolbe 5y ago
That’s a lot of ifs that need to be fulfilled. I don’t think your italicized “does” is warranted with so many unrealistic conditions.
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by kolbe 5y ago
What's the trickiest statistical method you employ that isn't embedded in this model?
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by kolbe 5y ago
So, let's assume you started on April 1st with $500k. That was 1.8045 years ago. At a compounded 75% returns, you now have $1,936,655 and you expect to make $124,904 this month alone on invested capital. And yet you bother to broadcast
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by kolbe 5y ago
I don't think anyone here is calling it a bad investment for the investors. We're calling it a bad event for the users.
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by kolbe 5y ago
There are a lot of legal problems like this. Like, all fines should be n*damage/probability_of_getting_caught where n is like a punishment coefficient. But law is weird. It tends to only be n*damages, and it’s hard to get everyone on b
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by kolbe 5y ago
But they did officially brand it—-it’s not just the idea of matching. One way in which this does have some real use is in protecting users. Maybe Match has some set of privacy values that people have come to trust, and by letting other comp
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by kolbe 5y ago
You need to establish that the use case of ‘the’ has a legitimate brand reconcognition that entitles it to protections. But yeah, if you make a million user social network company called The, you would get to have ‘The’ protected from compe
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by kolbe 5y ago
This isn’t new. It’s generally applied to specific uses, and match in the dating world has legitimate brand recognition to be protected. I think the whole thing is BS, but it’s not a secret, and musmatch/YC should be no more surprised
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by kolbe 5y ago
Plots is still a problem for me. Rust and Julia have a lot in common in this respect, but I will gladly take the advantages of their package management systems if it means a longer compilation time.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Joan Didion a couple days ago and Wayne Thiebaud now. Very sad. As a Sacramentan it's especially sad to see our two most famous lights on Earth get snuffed so close to one-another.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Overdoses are something like 10x higher than 20 years ago. I know there may be some cause for this that isn’t related to medical profession or BigPharma, but we are clearly doing something wrong today that we weren’t doing 20 years ago.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Overdoses are at record highs, and opium/opioids are the largest contributor.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I don't doubt that they hire some brilliant people, but I haven't encountered their product in the real world doing anything of note. It always seemed to me that IBM created some parlor tricks for PR, but that Google, Facebook, Te
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by kolbe 5y ago
My guess is your lawyers have been very clear about communicating to you what they believe is the best course of action, but nothing in securities law is ever clear. The laws are intentionally vague and leave a ton of enforcement discretion
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by kolbe 5y ago
You're the third person to reply to this with a third, different answer. It sounds super 'simple' as you put it. You should call the lawyers I consult with on this topic and let them know they're wasting all their time t
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by kolbe 5y ago
> If it has to do with a client. Keep it on the official medium. I worked for a BD where we had zero clients. Your rule would have gotten us fined. Trust me, it's not as easy as you think. We've spend tens of thousands on lawye
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by kolbe 5y ago
Don't feel bad. I've been in the industry. I've been fined for failing to log communications properly. I've been in conversations with Katten about this very topic, and you are not correct. My fine happened to be that we
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by kolbe 5y ago
Because life and business do not have clear delineations. The rule at my company became never use these communication tools at work: except work for investment bankers is 100 hours a week, except your friends and coworkers become the same p
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by kolbe 5y ago
This is all very incorrect, and I am surprised someone so intelligent and literate would ignore the obvious flaws in an argument like this. (1) all of your evidence comes from the prosecution side of a legal argument. None of their claims w
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by kolbe 5y ago
> The only measure I can think of is supplying a company phone and doing everything possible to encourage people to only use their personal phone for non-business work. This also assumes life can be neatly separated into business and non
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by kolbe 5y ago
That's exactly what this is. Bear in-mind that the SEC wrote this title. It was never litigated in court. The fact is that some JPM employees used WhatsApp, and the SEC hasn't the slightest clue what they were talking about. Whats
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by kolbe 5y ago
Please tell me the rules, since you're so knowledgeable and the rules are so obvious. I worked in finance. I read our company's rules. I attended compliance meetings every year. And I could not tell you for the life of me if a co-
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by kolbe 5y ago
Unless the complaints result in the elimination of the SAT without a good replacement. Which is exactly what is happening. I find it to be extremely destructive to spend all your time complaining about problems, and none finding solutions.
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by kolbe 5y ago
> Anyone can practice and improve their score. They're biased towards students whos parents or school pushes them to practice. You just stated a very objective and valuable thing: they benefit people who practice. And it turns out t
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by kolbe 5y ago
My history is a little outdated and hazy, but my recollection was that the Nazi Party suppressed voting via violence in 1933. By then, it was clear that if people marched on the government, they would be risking their lives. What little con
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by kolbe 5y ago
But you're now relying on the notion that a majority of a subset of people's opinions define moral good and bad. This has never really been true, at least in terms of majorities making objectively good decisions (moral ones are a

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