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by thedufer 8y ago
It sounds like you meant flexible, not optional.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think you need to read that sentence with emphasis on "seem". They make this clear two sentences later: > In recent years, however, security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to fool many, if not most, forms
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by thedufer 8y ago
I don't know about the others, but Hong Kong's system has far fewer stops and is mostly cheaper (it's distance-based and exceeds New York's flat fee at the high end) than New York's. The reliability difference rings
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by thedufer 8y ago
City fires are completely different from forest fires. For example, the parapets you're so focused on don't make much sense when houses are 100s of feet apart, as is the case in a lot of places that are burning. Also, London is a
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by thedufer 8y ago
15k? Maybe it widens as you gain experience, but my last job search (at ~3.5 years of experience) resulted in a 90k difference between the highest startup offer and lowest non-startup offer.
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by thedufer 8y ago
The JSON spec doesn't bound numbers in any way, and plenty of languages have support for arbitrarily large numbers (for example, Python's number type).
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by thedufer 8y ago
An integer suffixed with the letter "n" is not valid JSON and will not parse if you follow the spec. The "n" suffix is how you write BigInts in JavaScript, not JSON.
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by thedufer 8y ago
The other problem is that this would be a bizarre JavaScript-specific quirk, and would fail to interop with JSON implementations in other languages.
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by thedufer 8y ago
But the stock gain that accounts for a significant portion of comp is between grant and vest, and thus is still taxed at normal income tax rates. Gains after vest can't really be counted as comp, since anyone else could have bought tho
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by thedufer 8y ago
> the leveling data is local to each company. No, it's not. They explicitly try to match up levels across companies. You can see this in action if you go to the page for submitting leveling data for a company: https://w
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by thedufer 8y ago
Statically enforcing behavior helps the human as well - in this example, it would make it more clear what types of things you can do with an open connection vs a closed one just by inspecting the types, whereas otherwise you would have to e
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by thedufer 8y ago
Sure, most SEC complaints are for lack of transparency, because they don't have laws against a lot of the stuff they want to stop. But they don't go around prosecuting for lack of transparency of good things. If they fined som
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by thedufer 8y ago
I'm having a hard time believing this is actually a common case. The flow you've laid out almost certainly breaks SEC rules - Credit Suisse's (now closed) retail execution unit was fined for this exact trade less than a mont
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think you're right that comparing to profit isn't right, but I still contend that comparing to revenue isn't either. What I meant is looking at per-unit profit margins (i.e. excluding things like R&D) - if just produci
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by thedufer 8y ago
Comparing to revenue doesn't make much sense. If you look at profit margins they could easily be spending more than all of their profit on R&D. Also, that's a rather low estimate for average compensation for devs at Google.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think the intent is that the main implementations are those in files like `[Ff]ib.*`. There are additional memoized implementations for some languages, but presumably these are only used in the "Optimized code that breaks the benchm
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by thedufer 8y ago
That's obviously a better choice if you actually want Fibonacci numbers, but it defeats the point of a benchmark if you implement a completely different algorithm in one of the languages.
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by thedufer 8y ago
Smoothing volatility is expensive in some businesses. Plenty of rational people would prefer $90 this year and $120 next year over a consistent $100 each year.
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by thedufer 8y ago
The post you're responding to specifically calls out "illegal discrimination" - for better or for worse, youth is not a protected class (in the US, at least). Age discrimination is only illegal against those 40+ years old.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think you're looking for let syntax ( https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_let ). It is syntactic sugar for monads and applicatives.
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by thedufer 8y ago
> In the 40s and 50s a middle class household could get by just fine (and the house be bought) by a single income earner. Such a house now would be on the verge of bankruptcy. I dunno, it feels like responding to that with a comparison o
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by thedufer 8y ago
The first post in this thread explicitly compares the present to the 40s. It seems somewhat unreasonable to expect ams6110 to foresee you moving the goalposts.
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by thedufer 8y ago
> The vast majority of student loan loans are issued by the federal government since private lenders are cut out of the federally-guaranteed Stafford loan program, so changing rules on discharge won't meaningfully effect loan issuan
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by thedufer 8y ago
Can you cite a case of this happening? As far as I can tell, chapter 7 cases are only ever denied for failing to file properly (missing deadlines, failure to disclose, etc), or kicked over to chapter 13 (which would be pretty remarkable in
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by thedufer 8y ago
> let students discharge student loans via bankruptcy This is a fine idea, but you have to recognize that this just means approximately no one gets student loans (and those who do get them don't need them). Think about it: if you c
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by thedufer 8y ago
No, they have different units. GDP is measured in currency/time (the denominator is usually a year) whereas market cap is measured in currency. Think about how much sense it makes to say "200 miles? That's about as far as the
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by thedufer 8y ago
Not necessarily. Charter schools do much better if you measure just output, but are frequently quite average once you control for their advantageous population.
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by thedufer 8y ago
Yes, I agree that leaving NY permanently is a different situation. But this thread was explicitly about leaving temporarily before either you or I posted in it, so your post telling me I was wrong was at best a non-sequitur.
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by thedufer 8y ago
Note way upthread: > since I had moved back to original state by then In NY if you leave the state and come back, legally your domicile never changed. Change of voter registration and driver's license are explicitly called out as n
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by thedufer 8y ago
None of those are considered evidence that you've lost state residency (otherwise a second home would be sufficient for New Yorkers to avoid taxes). I'm currently preparing to move out of New York temporarily, and the advice from

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