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by tdees40 11y ago
I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.
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by tdees40 11y ago
There's a software engineer at Google making $1.1M. That is all.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Oh sure, it's completely solvable. In fact some companies have solved it, but most lack the expertise. E-mail me (address in profile) if you have any further questions.
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by tdees40 11y ago
There's lots of issues here. One is simply that people don't submit jobs during non-working hours, and most jobs don't take more than 4-8 hours, so unless you have a pile-up of jobs during working hours, the grid tends to si
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by tdees40 11y ago
Variable annuities generally have guarantees, which are essentially just embedded options. To price and analyze these options you have to run large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. Many shops have >100K policies and are running 30 year M
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by tdees40 11y ago
I think the big thing at the finance companies I've been at is that corporate IT was created to enable people to use Microsoft Office applications. There is no real provision for how to deal with developers writing code, and forget ab
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by tdees40 11y ago
Confirmed. I'm in insurance too - variable annuities specifically - and it's the most perfect problem for parallelization. In practice everyone maintains their own in-house grid (which is massively expensive and idle 90% of the
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by tdees40 11y ago
I've never met a quant trader trading for their own account. It requires some infrastructure that would be hard to justify unless you have lots of money to invest, and you're really good at it.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Amtrak as a whole might be unprofitable, but Amtrak in the Northeast does okay. The problem is that the Senator from Utah, or Nevada or wherever wants Amtrak is in his or her state, so we have long, nonsensical lines that are expensive to
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by tdees40 11y ago
It's hard because McDonald's has negative brand equity in a lot of people's eyes (certainly in mine). It would almost be better if they were starting from scratch.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Maybe let's put it a different way: if you and I are partners in a business, and I decide to take out a second mortgage and buy you out, is that a bad thing? What if I have to sell a slice of the business to pay off that mortgage? I
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by tdees40 11y ago
This is a deeply strange article. Why are stock buybacks manipulating? If there are 100 shares of a $1M company, each share is worth $10K. If I own 800 shares and you own 200, and the company has some cash lying around, maybe it will buy
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by tdees40 11y ago
We didn't ask, and they didn't mention it. When we did ask (only 2-3 days after we booked it) they made it clear that there was no chance of a refund.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Sure. But who's going to enforce that "should"? This is why regulation is popular; it's about recourse.
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by tdees40 11y ago
We just rented a place for a month on AirBnb only to find out that the owner kept two cats there (undisclosed); my wife has severe cat allergies. Now we're having to fight tooth and nail to get our money back, and the property owner is
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by tdees40 11y ago
I wonder if there will come a day when you can still drive your car, but you'll have to pay exorbitant insurance rates. That seems like a reasonable midpoint.
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by tdees40 11y ago
He's not criticizing religion; he's just calling it weird.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Hey guys, Saul Kripke is an observant Jew. WEIRD!!!
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by tdees40 11y ago
One day we'll all laugh at sentences like: "Disrupt to differentiate by becoming a dream-execution machine."
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by tdees40 11y ago
I bought a bunch of New Balance Minimus on sale for around $70 each. Many of them have >1000 miles on them, and they're going strong. I have yet to retire a pair. And the upside to running clothes is that they're all synthet
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by tdees40 11y ago
Running. It's free, fun, you can do it anywhere, and it's a great way to get to know places. My favorite thing to do when I get to a new city is a long run: you get a great sense of the city and you can find the parts you want t
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by tdees40 12y ago
If YouTube can increase ad prices without losing advertisers, why aren't they doing that now?
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by tdees40 12y ago
My understanding is that under most scenarios water for humans is fine, but agriculture will be totally dead in California.
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by tdees40 12y ago
My Great-Uncle (~89) has a Windows laptop. He virtually never uses it. One time I decided to start it up, and it literally had about ten updates that each required a restart. It was a disaster for me, and I do this for a living. I just
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by tdees40 12y ago
Sadly I think it's disappeared into the ether. I also tried to find the Faroe Islands News Service blog that my friend put together, but it seems to be dead as well.
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by tdees40 12y ago
A friend of mine once played an elaborate prank where I got a Wikipedia page. He made me a Faroese cricketer. It was pretty great, but eventually things spiraled out of control when I spontaneously combusted. http://en.wikipedi
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by tdees40 12y ago
Crimes are what we decide they are! Criminalizing this sort of behavior is something that most Americans don't want [1]. Expecting someone to be ashamed for violating a law that isn't particularly popular seems silly. Should Ub
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by tdees40 12y ago
She came over when she was 14. The whole problem is that there is no process for her.
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by tdees40 12y ago
The derivatives market IS NOT valued at over $700T. That represents the gross notional of all derivatives, but most of those trades have equivalent offsetting positions. Gross notionals are virtually meaningless.

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