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by mathattack 12y ago
Remember that the signing bonuses are often to pay people for equity that they're walking away from. This isn't common in east coast tech, but it used to be very common in financial services. 60% pay hikes - well, you have to get
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by mathattack 12y ago
The authors are really onto something with programming as a means to learn other subjects. I think this is because of the precision that programming demands. You have to really nail down every edge case, and think about things down to th
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by mathattack 12y ago
That's what I assumed. It was written like such an amateur that I assume he's day trading.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I'm painfully aware of 2008, but the martial law piece is a stretch. It's like the folks who answer every question with "Let's get back on the gold standard."
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by mathattack 12y ago
By the time it gets to this, it's hard to view the writer as anything other than a quack. Second, it did so just as the housing fraud and financial insanity which characterized the late 1990s and early 2000s nearly destroyed the U.S.
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by mathattack 12y ago
They could capture the high end of the market doing this, if not the whole market.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Republicans have been right on other issues, just ones that I didn't mention. - Shortening unemployment insurance from 99 weeks did help nudge some folks back to work. - Encouraging housing development is better than rent control. Perh
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by mathattack 12y ago
This helps get around lock-in. Smart!
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by mathattack 12y ago
They're wrong on every issue if you assume that Obama is right no every issue. My sense is that Obama is right on some, wrong on some. On most of the issues that he's wrong on, the Republicans are right purely for allowing him to
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think there is a large strain of the population who thinks, "If Obama is behind it, it must be part of a Muslim Socialist plot." They listen to radio and TV that feeds this narrow worldview. For context, I'm neither for nor
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes - very important. Google has failed entering other markets. The name isn't enough. But... This involves some hard science, which they're outstanding at.
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's not just name recognition - it's the data, and already being the first app on someone's phone to do the task.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Apple is getting into automotives - the question is for what. They're hiring engineers away from the other auto firms. I think it's for something bigger than car stereos.
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by mathattack 12y ago
True. It's hard. And the industry may not have a winner. That Uber is at all in contention is a big surprise. It's also what justifies the valuation.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Google Maps has destinations and directions. Not sure if they store histories of where people searched for directions. (Anyone in the know have thoughts?) Uber has, or eventually will have, "User 1VB7X has hailed an Uber from 45th an
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by mathattack 12y ago
I don't see that happening any time soon. More likely to have the automated cars first.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I'm not saying that Uber wins, just that it has quite a bit of value independently. And similar to Google with search (which learns each time someone searches) there is a reinforcing edge when you're first. The key probably isn&#
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by mathattack 12y ago
The value is only partially in the driver base. Drivers are tangible. But the true value is intangible. There is enormous brand value in thinking "I'll get an Uber" as a synonym for "I'll get a taxi, but right wha
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by mathattack 12y ago
I look at this with great anticipation. This will be an enormous reducer of congestion. Driverless cars will remove many of the headaches and hassles of high-density commutes. Imagine being able to pop a beer in the backseat as an automate
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by mathattack 12y ago
We'd all be more attuned to power laws if we thought in base 3. :-) I like the -1, 0 and 1 concept, but is there any way to pull it off from an electrical engineering concept? Or would it all have to be overlayed as software?
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by mathattack 12y ago
I have heard similar anecdotal evidence on Italian, and it's linguistic similarity to Spanish would support that. I'm a little surprised that Portuguese strayed so far.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I am a natural skeptic of much of the whining in the humanities. (It sounds too elitist and unmeasurable to my ears) That said, this seems like a very interesting way to connect both modern and ancient culture.
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by mathattack 12y ago
This isn't necessarily true. The article largely explains it. The interaction of particles trends to infinity faster than time. Another way to think of it... Let's say that t is trending to infinity starting from 0. There are
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by mathattack 12y ago
Once a run happens, the central bank has to make a choice on who to lend to based on imperfect information, though. The central bank might say, "I don't know about all these local real estate loans, let's let them fail.&quot
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by mathattack 12y ago
True. The ability to sanity check is very important.
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by mathattack 12y ago
The disdain I have for sports is letting an external event (like a team of free agents branded by my hometown losing) impact my happiness. That said, I love going to a baseball game outdoors. It's like a happy hour that happens to hav
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think we agree on 99%. My point is just that a good bank can still have a run in the absence of the FDIC guarantee. Let's say a bank has $100 million in deposits. They keep $10 million in liquid assets, and lend out $90 million in u
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by mathattack 12y ago
Exactly - the human with domain knowledge is vital. I get scared when I see people trump up black boxes. Black boxes don't help with "Which questions should we be asking?" and "What are the missing variables?"
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by mathattack 12y ago
In theory that's the central bank's job. 2 issues, though... 1 - It can be hard to tell the difference between solvency and liquidity. What's a derivative of an MBS really worth? Or a CDO that's made off of other CDOs
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by mathattack 12y ago
I agree with everything you say up to “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works” In todays fractional banking system where bank

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