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by lhh 11y ago
Nutrition. A lot of this might just be meta-research, but I feel like we still don't really understand what an optimal diet looks like, and if optimal diet might differ from person to person. We learn more every day about how big of a
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by lhh 11y ago
As a banker, I figured I'd offer my perspective: I don't think Goldman did anything illegal, but they certainly did a terrible job serving their client. In my view, investment bankers have an obligation to offer whatever financial
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by lhh 11y ago
Sure, maybe coming up with a good rigorous definition is difficult, but I think it's pretty obvious that standard of living is rising drastically. Smart phones are now ubiquitous, for example, whereas they essentially didn't exist
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by lhh 11y ago
This article is deeply flawed... change in wages != change in standard of living. But that aside, in addition to people wanting to take part in higher standards of living, I'd hypothesize that another driver is social status. In our cu
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by lhh 11y ago
"..the standard of living for the rich has risen and the standard of living for everyone else has dropped" Really, standard of living has dropped? Just to pick one counter-example, something like 500 million iphones have been sold
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by lhh 11y ago
Seems like a lot of people aren't really convinced of the value of this kind of tech (and maybe of IoT in general), and I'll admit that I'm a little skeptical of parts of it as well. I don't really see the value in linki
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by lhh 11y ago
This isn't really them "losing money" then, right? Generally, a bank's business model is to borrow money at X% (where X = interest paid to depositors) and lend at Y%, where Y > X, and where that interest revenue excee
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by lhh 11y ago
Also known as "mutual insurance", which has existed for centuries. Or am I missing something?
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by lhh 12y ago
I've worked in M&A for several years. In terms of actually processing the transaction, yes it's generally true that it takes about the same time to process a deal regardless of size (there are legal, accounting, regulatory, ba
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by lhh 12y ago
Having worked for a major bank for several years, the way huge deals like this get placed isn't too far removed from crowdfunding, it's just that the dollar amounts are higher and the participants are big institutions instead of i
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by lhh 12y ago
In my experience, the best thing you can do for anxiety is to give yourself permission to have some guilt free fun once in a while. If you're constantly keeping your mind churning on work/career related stuff, you'll burn you
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by lhh 12y ago
Do you happen to have examples off hand of sites that do this well? Thinking about implementing something like this for my current project
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by lhh 12y ago
"Dead end" is a bit of a hyperbole, but in two years I certainly don't want to be doing the type of work I'm doing now (finance). What keeps me here is my massive student debt balance and the prospect that this job could
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SnapJet: A portable, open source Polaroid printer for smartphones(snapjet.com)
48 points by lhh 12y ago|41 comments
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by lhh 12y ago
When a scientist makes a new breakthrough that adds a lot of value to society, X by definition is large (X = value created). "Value" doesn't necessarily need to be monetary, it could be lives saved or some other metric, thoug
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by lhh 12y ago
I really enjoyed this - really energizing and inspiring. It's always great to get that jolt once in a while. >> "We now, for the first time ever, have the technology and resources necessary to make the world a great place fo
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How Google Could Soon Tell When the Next iPhone Will Be Released(idownloadblog.com)
1 points by lhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by lhh 12y ago
> Yes, some of my friends who did investment banking internships (it's near impossible to get the full-time offer without an internship) ended up being miserable. However, some enjoyed the internship very much, and they return for f
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The 5 Psychological Traits of Successful Startup Founders(davidjaxon.wordpress.com)
1 points by lhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by lhh 13y ago
hourlynerd.com
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by lhh 13y ago
In case you're interested and missed it, I wrote about my time as an analyst a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6255290
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by lhh 13y ago
Thank you, that's very generous of you to offer.
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by lhh 13y ago
Ha, good question. In my first year, I learned an absolute ton. A huge portion of the work I'd be doing was mindless, but there was some really interesting stuff interwoven. I now know how to build complex financial models. I have a de
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by lhh 13y ago
Glad you enjoyed it
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by lhh 13y ago
I finished my two year stint last June. Since then I've worked on several different startup projects and have been teaching myself how to code. I've been working on a personal finance site for the past few months that's getti
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by lhh 13y ago
I spent two years working as an analyst at a "bulge bracket" (ie top 10) investment bank in NYC (plus a summer as an intern). It seems that a lot of HNers are unfamiliar with the world of I-Banking, so here's the my view of w
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by lhh 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote I'm a full-stack developer looking for new interesting projects. So far I have experience with the following: -Python/Flask/Django -PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy -HTML/CSS/JavaScript/J
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Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be(nytimes.com)
89 points by lhh 13y ago|33 comments
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by lhh 13y ago
"The whole premise of stakeholder capitalism offers a powerful and distinct message, because it gets at both our desire to be competitive in the global marketplace, but also to be more fair and equitable in the way we share our wealth. True
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by lhh 14y ago
For 1, see point 1 in here: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

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