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by kolbe 14y ago
Obviously the school you attend doesn't determine your future, but it matters. Harvard is better than UW and any other state school. You could share whatever stats you want, but Harvard is better, and using racism (lets call race-based di
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by kolbe 14y ago
> you have approximately as good a chance of becoming CEO of an S&P 500 company if you go to the University of Wisconsin as if you go to Harvard. I would love to see that data, if you could make the effort. Because I have no faith
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by kolbe 14y ago
When you come here and completely fulfill all of the other presumptions what are we supposed to think? You think saying nerds were friendless, then spouting off meaningless one-liners about it is a way to entice people into moving beyond
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by kolbe 14y ago
This is such macho-induced cliche drivel that I feel like you're caricaturing one of these 'MBAs'. First you try to belittle geeks for having been friendless, then call them ignorant. Then you break out the whole 'number one' nonsense, and
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by kolbe 14y ago
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by kolbe 14y ago
I'll just leave this here. http://www.theonion.com/articles/metric-system-thriving-in-n...
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by kolbe 14y ago
What does "offered stock options" mean? I'd like to have a complete understanding to total average comp, but I need to know the total present value of these stock options.
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by kolbe 14y ago
Can substantiate your three bullet points in any way or are you just listing some qualities of a few people you've observed?
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by kolbe 14y ago
You're on Hacker News, but you think that destroying jobs with technological innovation is a bad thing?
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by kolbe 14y ago
How about efficiency? People call the liquidity providing aspects of HFT 'bullshit', but computers have vastly reduced the manpower necessary to manage a market. Each futures pit used to have hundreds of traders, who required several assist
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by kolbe 14y ago
Given a max loss of 2k, we already know the Sharpe Ratio was pretty good. 2009-10 was more than just a huge rally, it was also a period where vol and skew were massively mispriced. I know this is high frequency, but like I alluded to, you n
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by kolbe 14y ago
FWIW, I couldn't see your pnl chart. I develop algorithmic strategies for a living, and my first reaction to reading your post was skepticism. I'm skeptical for two reasons. (1) because your methods are so unconventional in an industry wher
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by kolbe 14y ago
Is this another one of those stats that is supposed to divert people's attention away from facebook's inability to produce income at a level that justifies its valuation? Because even if it's one of those, it's not very impressive.
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by kolbe 14y ago
I think proving the sqrt(2) is irrational is great. That was the very first question on my first college math homework assignment. It's a great way to weed out people aren't even close to the level they should be at math-wise. Don't worry t
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by kolbe 14y ago
Some. What are you wondering?