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by smeyer 12y ago
Or if you're American and want to try it closer to home, buy some tickets from a scalper.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I went to Harvard and spent a lot of time at MIT. While not universal through the campuses, you can definitely find environments with the feelings described above.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think this is really a fair upper bound. Yes, I know a lot of senior guys making less than 150K. But I also have friends with starting salaries immediately out of college that were closer to 200K. (Also USA.)
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by smeyer 12y ago
Googling found me rates of about 4%-5% for a taxi medallion loan in NYC[1]. For an 800k medallion, that's 30k-40k a year in interest, which should still be giving a lot of wiggle room to a competitor not paying for medallions. [1] http
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yeah, as does mine. I agree that it's likely the case that most middle aged mothers living in suburbia aren't too familiar with it.
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by smeyer 12y ago
What's your "mom test"? My (mid-60s) mother uses Uber, as do some of my middle-aged friends, even if it's far less popular there than it is among my friends in their 20s.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think renting a medallion for a year in New York is going to cost you several tens of thousands of dollars a year. With medallions costing 800k, it doesn't really matter whether you'r
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by smeyer 12y ago
>when this process seems interesting and fun, I doubt someone will say it is hard That doesn't mesh with my personal experience. I know some very, very smart people, who have found the process itself interesting and fun, but who sti
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not a particularly big proponent of this or anything, but I've heard people in the know claim that humans would do a vastly, vastly better job than robots. I don't remember enough detail and it's too far outside of m
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm amused that that's the first thing to come to mind. I certainly went to schools with plenty of more criminal elements, but the first thing to come to mind was definitely the kids who marked up candy bars and sold them for pock
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by smeyer 12y ago
What makes you say this? Is it based on personal experience, definitions, or some consensus? I have definitely known people who found things interesting but still thought they were hard. I have friends who find math fun and engaging, but al
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think this is poor advice. "Just starting a business" is not a low-risk path. Yes, there are lots of businessmen making more than programmers, but it's also true that a massive fraction of businesses fail within a few years
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by smeyer 12y ago
It doesn't mean the certification (or marathon, or whatever) is intrinsically easier than it was before, but it does mean you may have been overestimating it.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Most Nobel prizes in physics are awarded for extremely technical work as well, but people frequently find ways to distill some of it into something understandable enough to make for good popular articles whenever the prizes are announced.
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by smeyer 12y ago
The numbers were split not just by race, but also by parental income. Yes, if you're in the bottom 10 percentile of parental income as a white kid, it's harder to get scholarships than if you're black. Still, these kids are m
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think accused is the right term, but it's also true that it is easier to "climb up from poverty" as a poor white person in the US than as a poor black person. Have a look at [1], particularly figure 1 on page 7 t
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by smeyer 12y ago
That makes a lot of sense, right? Stack exchange is designed around making it easy to find and get good answers to questions, not to have more involved or less focused discussions, even if they're more interesting to read.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>To skip a beat you'd probably play the rhythm for a bit normally, then leave out all the bass drum kicks so the audience only hears the snares....then put the bass back in While this might get your audience to switch over, this is
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Have you ever heard of one who would spend more than five minutes of their time, expertise or resources on your problem fi you weren't going to be paying for every single dollar of it? Yes, absolutely. All the time. For example, ma
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by smeyer 12y ago
Why do you think opening other offices is likely in the works? This is a genuine question. Sorry if it's obvious (I don't follow YC too closely), but what would you think has changed since their choice to stop doing YC batches in
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by smeyer 12y ago
Just in case you didn't know, your email is not in your bio. The "email" field is not public, so if you want your email to be displayed you have to put it in the "about" field.
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by smeyer 12y ago
The quoted wikipedia article gives a decent general idea. Basically, he did it in part based on personal slight, and lost a lot of potential gains he could have had if he'd put it towards the insurance purchases he was making with a lo
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by smeyer 12y ago
Right, but once you start talking specific locations, you get back to the fact that land isn't really in short supply in Detroit these days.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm attracting a lot of downvotes, and I feel like people think I'm supporting Verizon. I agree with you in that I think they're being scummy, but I guess I was just saying that when you ask "How can they discriminate li
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not clear why you think it would be illegal. There may be rules against not allowing people to opt out, I don't know. But when you ask "How can they discriminate like that?", there's nothing illegal about discri
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by smeyer 12y ago
I find it really interesting that you say this. My perspective as an American was that it was more the other way around. For example, in my undergrad field (physics), people in the UK seem to take fewer courses outside of physics and closel
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by smeyer 12y ago
Your assumption for those numbers is that it will keep doubling everywhere it goes, correct? For example, Nigeria seems to have stamped it out in Lagos, refuting the idea that it automatically breaks out exponentially in "3rd World urb
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by smeyer 12y ago
I chose Harvard over a state school, but I was driven primarily by the great research opportunities for undergraduates and the easy access to and funding for those opportunities, not by networking opportunities. I'm very happy with my
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by smeyer 12y ago
So why does this apply to chimps but not bonobos? Are bonobos in areas with less limited resources or naturally different territorial divisions? The argument seems a bit lacking without understanding the distinction (and I know very little
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not the guy you replied to, but your email is not in your profile page. Remember, the email field is not public, so you have to add your email to the about field for it to be seen.

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