saryant

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   by saryant 11y ago

   Only if the contact information they have for you is still correct and hasn't also been compromised and changed.
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   by saryant 11y ago

   It's absolutely true. Daniel Yergin wrote what is largely considered to be the definitive history of oil and makes the compelling case that modern humanity is only possible because of our 20th century transformation into Hydrocarbon M
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   by saryant 11y ago

   Yeah, that was what I was assuming as well. I would ask the range, they'd give one, I'd flinch at the top-end of it and inevitably they'd come up 5%ish percent right away. From there I was generally able to wind up 10-20% a
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   by saryant 11y ago

   I was recently on the job market and read Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson. I'm relatively inexperienced and that book gave me a huge confidence boost. I can directly attribute 15% of my compensation to reading it. Even
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   by saryant 11y ago

   Those visits to Moscow were in fact so secretive that the BBC covered them! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32214140
6. 666.▲
   by saryant 11y ago

   Yeah, HN is surely a huge source of traffic for the WSJ...
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   by saryant 11y ago

   I absolutely agree. I was mostly replying to the uninformed belief that the benefits of investment accrue only to the "rich" (a loaded term I'm loathe to use).
8. 668.▲
   by saryant 11y ago

   Energy is the sole basis of modern civilization. We are Hydrocarbon Man.
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   by saryant 11y ago

   When Bush Sr. was head of the CIA, agents would routinely meet with American businessmen after overseas trips for off-the-record conversations. Both sides learned from the other. My father once cryptically told me "every American busi
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    by saryant 11y ago

    The "rich people" you're talking about includes pretty much every Average Joe with a 401k or IRA. For instance, of that $1.5 trillion, $50-$100 billion is held in Vanguard's investor shares (by definition, retail investo
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Excluding online dating, maybe 20.
12. 672.▲
    by saryant 11y ago

    Then what would you recommend? I personally haven't had a date in a five years so I'm rather interested in the answer.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    I don't know where this trope came from but the big hotel chains most definitely do not own all their properties. They provide brand standards, a common reservations system, customer service and a loyalty program (which can be incredi
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    Keeping Scala Simple(underscore.io)

    2 points by saryant 11y ago|0 comments
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Throwaway with a blatant canard. I'm calling false flag.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Ironically, the reason the CS site hasn't been updated is because it's implemented in J. So naturally no one is willing to touch it.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    I've marked my calendar.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Trinity University in San Antonio. The founder of the CS department was a big fan of J and had been there since the 60's so no one really wanted to tell him to stop. J was only used in the Intro FP course. He retired the same year I
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    by saryant 11y ago

    We run into each other every time there's a submission about J.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    J is fun when you're just starting. Hey, you can take the average of a list of numbers with four characters of code! When you go from that to writing a minimal CMS, things are less fun (actual assignment from a professor who loved J).
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Ah, I didn't realize it was new. All my domestic stays have been at Hyatt this year.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Huh? I have HHonors Gold and I can't think of a single instance when I haven't been asked for an ID and credit card. What would they do in countries that require hotels to scan ID?
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    by saryant 11y ago

    https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/613034680779051008
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Lufty's site has always had bugs like that.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    > because consensus is how all decisions are made This is the crux of it. All decisions are not made through consensus and I would wager that's true at most companies.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Depends on the company. Options in, say, Shell Oil are a completely different beast to options in a just-graduated YC company.
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    by saryant 11y ago

    The richest man in history, John D. Rockefeller, kept to a strict schedule including 7.5 hours of sleep a night and ample personal time in the morning and evening. Somehow he still managed to accrue $660 billion (inflation-adjusted).
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    by saryant 11y ago

    36 is REALLY bad these days, especially with the current construction. I live in Boulder and when I was recently looking at jobs I made that drive to see if I could deal with the commute. Nope!
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    by saryant 11y ago

    According to the National Association of Realtors, that's actually not the case. California attracts only slightly more international buyers than Texas. Texas has stronger ties to Latin America and the Middle East while still attractin
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    by saryant 11y ago

    Compare the population growth in the Houston MSA against San Francisco's: the Houston area grew by 9.6% between between 2010 and 2014 while the SFBA grew by 5.9%. Compare that to the two regions' 5-year housing price index (a meas