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by msellout 14y ago
There is a trickle-down effect, but it's not nearly as strong as some people think. You can think of progressive taxes as a form of insurance policy on the misallocation of resources by wealthy people. Wealthy people may on average make bet
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by msellout 14y ago
Yes, someone's wealth would be affected. I have no idea what you mean by that question. I'm an economist, and it really aggravates me to hear such misunderstanding of the profession. Try replacing "economics" and "economist" with "medicine"
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by msellout 14y ago
Why not? If I grow some wheat on a farm, don't I get to take credit for photosynthesis and perhaps the nearby river? How is creating a company any different from growing plants?
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by msellout 14y ago
If the company you work for provides office space, equipment, and sets your hours, you may be able to force them to pay for half your social security tax, etc. It's a fuzzy line between employee and contractor.
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by msellout 14y ago
Consulting is a good way to end up as a "Sr. Manager" or "Director" at some mega-corp. If you like that kind of thing.
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by msellout 14y ago
To increase speed, you must decrease computation and memory access. The less computation and memory access possible, the smaller the variety of strategies possible. In regular timescales, the strategy space is much larger than the number of
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by msellout 14y ago
I haven't heard of any organization with ~100k+ people without rules like these.
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by msellout 14y ago
Actually, I found that Craigslist was the best resource for apartment hunting in NYC. None of the other sites (with better UI) had the same quality of listings. By quality, I mean good deals.
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by msellout 14y ago
Yeah, it's all a question of if you have the time, resources, and most importantly a good sample. Testing 41 shades only sounds bad because we typically have far too many design variables relative to the population of users. In those cases,
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by msellout 14y ago
The problem of logging in at public computers will decrease after you leave school. I am content with 1Password.
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by msellout 14y ago
It's a standard problem for all engineers -- being forced to interact with managers instead of users.
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by msellout 14y ago
A mixed portfolio can provide both a solid annual income and a hedge against inflation. $6M well-invested in your 20s means you don't have to worry about money again.
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by msellout 14y ago
Are you suggesting we blame the victim?
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by msellout 14y ago
Perhaps. Or maybe you should come here and see how unwell most of the projects are? I think it's very easy for the engineers to think they did a good job while the end-users do not. The deals keep flowing because of the middle-men managers
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by msellout 14y ago
Not that I'd be so aggressive, but why does that not belong here? Is it wrong to suggest that a criminal is a "scum-bag"?
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by msellout 14y ago
No surprise. The one-model-to-rule-them-all will over-fit.
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by msellout 14y ago
Why not buy white tshirts instead?
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by msellout 14y ago
Ah. Language drift.
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by msellout 14y ago
So I can sue smokers for polluting my air as I walk past them? How about my neighbors who play loud music at 4am? Oh, and that guy who urinated on the plants outside my apartment? Hmmm. I'm not sure that it's so easy for courts to take on a
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by msellout 14y ago
I pay my landlord in cash. He doesn't accept checks. Though I suppose AirBnB does force you to accept credit card and that's a bit harder to hide.
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by msellout 14y ago
You're right that you should keep practicing engineering, but you can also deliberately practice your social skills: public speaking, networking, coordinating groups, recruiting, etc. I suggest volunteering for a local non-profit. You can h
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by msellout 14y ago
GaTech ranks very high (inter)nationally in most engineering disciplines. Resulting salaries are not surprising.
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by msellout 14y ago
If you don't take legal action to protect your copyright / trademark, you will lose it. That's part of why big companies are such jerks all the time. If they weren't, they'd be out of luck when it really mattered. Edit: whoops, should have
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by msellout 14y ago
A/B testing is linear regression against a single binary variable. There are many better techniques. Multi-armed bandit is just one of them. A more direct comparison would be simply using a continuous independent variable, or at least one w
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by msellout 14y ago
If you write code and you don't have recruiters contacting you through LinkedIn, then you probably live in a city with a bad market (and you should move) or you don't have a thorough LinkedIn account.
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by msellout 14y ago
Not the most scientific of books, btw.
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by msellout 14y ago
Many of the people responsible for reviewing qualifications are not capable of assessing ability by reading source code.
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by msellout 14y ago
For R, MATLAB, or Python in a cloud Map/Reduce framework, try out Opani. http://opani.com/help/wiki
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by msellout 14y ago
A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Check it out.
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by msellout 14y ago
Agreed. All plots should be scatter plots with line-of-best-fit drawn over it.

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