rongenre

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   Google will no longer make its own tablet devices(businessinsider.com)

   106 points by rongenre 7y ago|136 comments
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   This could be easily solved using the blockchain /s
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   While that's cool, you can do it with way more functionality by loading comma or tab-separated data into sqlite.
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   What's a cigarette pack? /s
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   The only advantage I can see to going for an MS straight out of undergrad is that your lifestyle should be pretty low-rent. But doing grad school because you're good at school and don't know what else to do is a trap lots of other
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   Grad school really needs to have a cost/benefit analysis applied. I'd have loved to go and really deepen my understanding, but it's pretty clear that both in terms of income lost and not a huge premium paid by the industry o
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   Isn't this what Trinet or Gusto are for?
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   No, an investigation is necessary for legal action. Without, the likelihood is 0, with it's higher although clearly not a certainty.
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   by rongenre 7y ago

   Yeah, nuts are pretty much my staple snack food. I try to reduce sugars, though -- they've got an addictive quality -- which takes out fruit and most snack bars and cookies.
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    I stopped eating meat 6 years ago. I miss it, but decided to try going veg-only + eggs/dairy and see how it impacted my life. If I found myself unable to keep up with my exercise routines (bicycling and sporadic weight work), I'
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    In 2003, steampunk was really big, and this seems like a throwback to that neo-victorian terminology.
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    I think it's more that prior to 2001, investors gave web companies a free hand to figure out how to make money. We saw how that went -- both in the giddy highs and crash. Afterwards, the MBAs came in and decided that ads and saas were
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    I wonder how much of it is that Facebook isn't all that much fun anymore, and working there would provoke all sorts of "I don't use it anymore" comments from one's peers.
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    I've been through two acquisitions and part of the deal terms if the valuation of the acquiree's shares (which the cap table and liquidation preferences have a huge effect on). First time my options were converted to options in th
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    Interesting -- I'm super rusty on my physics -- is there discussion of the exercises anywhere? It'd be fun to go through this and feel like I "got" it.
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    by rongenre 7y ago

    I'm middle-aged and have some injuries so I pay a trainer. Correct form is super-important, and it's not worth it to hurt yourself.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    I've been in recruiting discussions where we specifically wanted an ABD in CS (we wanted ability, but also eagerness to work in a new subject area). Although, it's conceivable that being both ABD and not specifically in CS is seen
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Yeah it's very much like that with my math degree. Demonstrated ability to torture myself with difficult concepts.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Libertarian koan: Next year, that's gonna be my boot.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Has TSA ever taken credit for stopping something? No. If they could plausibly claim they stopped a "major plot", it'd be 3-4 news cycles. They've caught idiots with handguns and drugs in their luggage, which is fine, b
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    How many terrorist incidents has TSA credibly prevented? The answer is zero.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Just World Fallacy is great when you're unaffected.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Given that TSA has never stopped a terrorist, and this is all theater, choosing to continue makes it biased theater.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    It'll have to be a lifestyle business /s
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Apparently the best hires at Alibaba are blessed with the inability to do arithmetic.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    I'm noticing that there's a lack of hot products that I "must have" and would jump onto Amazon to buy. Lately my consumption is largely driven by stuff I have wearing out -- this wasn't the case a few years ago.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    It's against any competently worded lockup agreement. "“Derivatives” is sort of a vague term, and there is a persistent folk belief that they have magic powers, that any legal or financial problem can somehow be solved by doing a
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    I really loved discovering the Winning Ways books as an undergrad: https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Ways-Your-Mathematical-Plays/... I had the opportunity to meet him while he was at Berkeley Quantitative, and it was an
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Because short sellers increase liquidity, and help the market determine an accurate price for the company. Also short selling is far more risky than taking the long side. On the long side, your downside is the money you invested (if the
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Wow, when companies complain about short sellers, it's generally pretty dumb (and a sell signal), but this sounds like MS was trying to help people get around lockup agreements which is pretty bad behavior if true.