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by solaxun 8y ago
That is nothing compared to interest expense on CD's or other interest bearing accounts. Checking accounts are one of the most attractive sources of funding for banks (notwithstanding maturity mismatch).
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by solaxun 8y ago
Why does everyone keep referring to checking accounts as "loss leaders"? They are more like "income leaders" - the banks are funding themselves at basically 0% and then earning the spread on whatever they invest in....
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by solaxun 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted... I've lived here the same amount of time and absolutely agree. It's maddening the complete inaction and lack of desire to fix the problem.
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by solaxun 8y ago
This article's title is pretty terrible... "say hello to full employment" - then proceeds to discuss the employment situation in Iowa for the length of the article.
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by solaxun 8y ago
This is something that I feel continually comes up when dealing with implementing data structures in a higher level language, and repeatedly confused me when I was learning this stuff. I always found it misleading for example, to use an exi
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by solaxun 9y ago
you left out one little detail... > When we arrived in Austin [in 1980]
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by solaxun 9y ago
This is a hard problem... I also wanted to do something similar for years, but EatThisMuch beat me to it and did a fairly good job. It's challenging because you can't optimize using continuous variables, since you aren't goin
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by solaxun 9y ago
True, but i don't have to remember 5 different map implementations either :)
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by solaxun 9y ago
Fair point... I think I just wanted to give a few examples that quickly came to mind. Maybe Volkswagen wasn't the best one.
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by solaxun 9y ago
I figured there would be fact checking: "what about this person?". Yes, I know there were some repercussions e.g. Schmidt for Volkswagen, and some really small players in the financial crisis, but overall most of the top guys wal
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by solaxun 9y ago
The sad reality is, this type of behavior is not confined to one party or the other. Money should have no place in politics, otherwise you end up with a plutocracy in a democracies clothing, which is where we have been for some time now. E
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by solaxun 9y ago
How the eff would he know that? If you've spent your entire life in one state, and it changes, how can you possibly know what was the normal state?
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by solaxun 9y ago
You sir, deserve all of the up-votes.
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by solaxun 9y ago
It's been a problem for a long time with which I've had first hand experience. Years ago when I was in college a collector called my parent's house after being rebuked by me and convinced them to pay off the "debt"
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by solaxun 9y ago
Wow... that was a cathartic read. I wish I could meet Andrew, shake his hand, and buy him a beer or something.
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by solaxun 9y ago
Great course, learned a ton from it, but yeah lesson 3 where you had to build / follow him building a regex interpreter was definitely a beatdown for me. Everything else was pretty manageable, but still challenging.
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by solaxun 9y ago
I found 4clojure great when starting out as well. I am definitely more of a 'hands on' learner, so these exercises were great for me. However my absolute favorite language agnostic tool for learning, like you, is Advent of Code.
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by solaxun 9y ago
I disagree w/ this comment. The types of problems where it disallows using built-ins are typically those that have you re-implementing a function for purposes of learning. The implementation of that function, in my experience, is sti
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by solaxun 9y ago
Ask all you want for citations, I live here and see it every day. It is definitely getting worse, I have coworkers who have been punched walking to the BART for no reason.
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by solaxun 9y ago
I thought the Nexus 5 was the best phone I ever owned (I've owned many Android phones, across the spectrum, as well as several iPhones). It was a really great phone, for a while. After about 10 months the battery starting dying at 15
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by solaxun 9y ago
I've been asking this question for years - I think they are great in theory but probably hard to actually enforce.
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by solaxun 9y ago
Because you buy at a given yield, dictated by the coupon and the purchase price / maturity. Duration (sensitivity to interest rates) affects the price PRIOR to maturity, not at maturity. If you buy a bond at a 5% yield to maturity, a
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by solaxun 9y ago
That's all find and well, and using the "dividend discount model" is one of the many methods of valuation, but not every stock pays a dividend. Those that do can cut them at their leisure.
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by solaxun 9y ago
It is not manipulation. The stock is tremendously overvalued and has been basically forever, but that doesn't mean it will go down. Unfortunately "fundamental value" doesn't mean shit in a popularity contest where you
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by solaxun 9y ago
Do the words "per capita" ring a bell? :)
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by solaxun 10y ago
that was the first thing that popped in my mind when i saw those notebooks too... so much nicer looking than what I was working with.
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by solaxun 10y ago
I knew he was working on these from seeing the leaderboard, and was reeeeally hoping he'd share the solutions, so I'm super happy to see this. What about you, Darius? Did you participate this year? I remember you from CS212 and
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by solaxun 10y ago
On paper, yes. Consumer deleveraging lasted for a long while after the 'end' of the recession though. If people are paying off debt with their money, that doesn't really help grow the economy. Google 'debt deflation&#
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by solaxun 10y ago
I know it's easy for me to be an armchair quarterback but I have to say it. Although I am currently and somewhat reluctantly paying for it (for now), Spotify's UI makes me want to strangle someone every time I use it. I can never
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by solaxun 10y ago
I know it's easy for me to be an armchair quarterback but I have to say it. Although I am currently and somewhat reluctantly paying for it (for now), Spotify's UI makes me want to strangle someone every time I use it. I can neve

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