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by vostok 10y ago
> The first solution that comes to mind is to legislate that certain pieces of property must be the legal primary residence of the owner. I am not sure I understand this solution. Are you saying that San Francisco's housing problems
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by vostok 10y ago
I was going to say that it's center right, but Brexit has made me realize that Britain's center is more to the right than I realized.
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by vostok 10y ago
I don't think that's true for authors who are not anonymous. I used to read Matt Levine when he wrote for Dealbreaker. I now read him on Bloomberg and rarely visit Dealbreaker.
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by vostok 10y ago
> If you are happy with the NBBO then you are right and I wouldn't worry too much - however if I recall correctly the NBBO is usually pretty wide You still haven't shown evidence that price improvement is worse on Robinhood tha
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by vostok 10y ago
> Can you be more specific? I believe you are talking about a market order. No, I am not talking about both limit orders and market orders. I am talking about nearly all orders that a retail trader would use. As an institutional trader,
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by vostok 10y ago
> Order execution quality. RH sells order flow. How much this matters is probably beyond my knowledge. I'm inclined to think that it wouldn't matter too much, and is more likely to adversely affect competing HFT firms who are i
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by vostok 10y ago
You can't get filled at a worse price than the lit exchanges are showing. I have no affiliation with Robinhood and think that they're bad for the markets, but what you listed is FUD.
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by vostok 10y ago
The irony is that it's Erd\H{o}s
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by vostok 10y ago
Hey JPM has a meal allowance if you stay late. You can even stretch it to tomorrow's lunch if you're smart about what you get.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Hiring manager A doesn't want subordinate employee B who knows more about the work of A than A does, or is better at office politics, meeting customers, managing people, etc. Or, manager A wants only subordinates (secondary, submi
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by vostok 10y ago
And South Asian!
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by vostok 10y ago
> I knew just about as much as any other AP CS kid in the country. I think you do your high school a disservice. Almost everyone I have interviewed from your school has done better than average.
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by vostok 10y ago
> 1) As colleges degenerate from being an intellectual addition, to a pre requisite for jobs well paying or not At least in the Anglosphere, elite colleges were elite finishing schools before they were tickets to middle class elite jobs.
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by vostok 10y ago
> It's ass on fire, all the time for 70 years (save 18 years before college) The crazy thing is that if you want one of those high paid jobs where you work all day and all night then you don't even get those first 18 years. I w
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by vostok 10y ago
It is my understanding that the Alabama bar is not very quick to disbar attorneys. It is also my understanding that no court has ruled that Sessions perjured himself.
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by vostok 10y ago
I wasn't aware that Morningstar had publicly available hedge fund performance data. What do they show for Renaissance's Medallion Fund over the last 29 years?
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by vostok 10y ago
Deep out of the money options have optionality whereas BitMex contracts are delta 1 products. They have literally nothing in common. The relevant difference in this case is that the option caps your upside.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Second off a lot of the high cost of living has nothing to do with solving hard problems Actually, it's directly related. People who solve hard problems at companies that value that sort of thing make a lot of money. Generally, pe
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by vostok 10y ago
> Most people do not live in the bay area for various reasons and salaries like that are extremely uncommon outside of there and the upper echelons of the NY finance market. As someone who has actual experience with this, it's easie
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by vostok 10y ago
No. It's comparable to buying stock or options with your own money at a non-finance firm. I would never do this either. Bonuses are comparable to RSUs/options at non-finance firms.
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by vostok 10y ago
> If you work at a fund you believe in, you want your money there. If you work at a startup you believe in, you want equity. There's a 90% chance I don't believe in the company I work for, whether it's a startup or a hedge
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by vostok 10y ago
Completely agree with this. You can't count your hedge fund's returns as compensation. Most hedge funds are terrible and I don't want my money anywhere near them.
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by vostok 10y ago
India has huge inequality among software engineers. While $5400 is possible, but 35 lpa (and more), about 10x that number, is also possible for someone who is not exceptional.
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by vostok 10y ago
I believe the $100k number includes bonuses.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Are you really willing to tell me that that the average engineer in 3-6 years can pull in $250k? I just sent you a link saying that the average engineer makes $100k. I am claiming that (1) the average developer is awful and (2) you can
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by vostok 10y ago
I can get median pay data from the BLS [1] without visiting the cesspool that is reddit. The median software developer is shockingly bad. Some developers will claim to be 4+ sigma talent, but you don't need to be one of them to make $2
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by vostok 10y ago
These articles are correct and $250k is not exceptional for a few years of experience. They are talking about total compensation and not salary. If you think this is exceptional then you owe it to yourself to respond to some of those Linked
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by vostok 10y ago
They used to post total compensation for the computer programmer role and they were lower than Google was paying at the time.
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> Now there is probably some salary inflation going on here where people are counting compensation that is restricted over a few years as though they earned it all in the current year. I've actually found that people tend to be very
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by vostok 10y ago
I agree that, in principle, system design interviews are great. The problem is that, in practice, I have seen them generate way too many false positives. This was at great companies and with people who had absolutely stunning resumes.

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