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by vostok 10y ago
I actually like tech interviews specifically because it's hard to BS your way through them. I've definitely seen smooth talkers with great resumes get through any other filter, but I've never seen a false positive with the te
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by vostok 10y ago
So by this definition, buying a broad market index with 10% leverage would be investing and advantage play or skilled poker would not be gambling?
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by vostok 10y ago
> No matter how much feminism pretends otherwise, women are not keen to form lasting relationships with unemployed men. I am a feminist man and I would not be keen to form a lasting relationship with an unemployed woman unless she was al
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by vostok 10y ago
> gamble and speculate, not to invest What is the difference between gambling, speculating, and investing? In my home country, speculant was just an epithet for a capitalist.
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by vostok 10y ago
It's not uncommon to sell your personal shares in the IPO. Even if you don't sell your own shares, selling 10% of the company at $5 billion (no pop) is strictly better than selling 10% of the company at $3 billion (assuming a 60%
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm not a banker so maybe I'm missing something, but I wouldn't be too happy if my company popped after the IPO. The way I see it, that just means that I left money on the table. If anything, this increases my respect for Zuc
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by vostok 10y ago
> How do you pay people on a basic income government program enough for a livable situation without making it unfair for people who are working for maybe just double the poverty limit? What about progressive taxation? Someone at double t
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by vostok 10y ago
I just took a quick glance at it and it doesn't seem to be similar. Here's an item from its from page. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vx3af/ (NSFW) I don't think I've e
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by vostok 10y ago
> They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps I'm not familiar with the situation. What similar subs have been banned?
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by vostok 10y ago
> "Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy' says Navy Seal who brought down Osama Bin Laden". What is this an example of? This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that I would expect on the
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by vostok 10y ago
I guess I'm just not convinced that going from a 25% programmer to a top 0.1% programmer is an efficient way of making $1 million per year. I think you are far better off working on your social and business skills. Maybe that's &q
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by vostok 10y ago
I think that a sufficiently motivated person could find a leaked list of bonuses from that firm and check for themselves if there were any new grads that made $1 million+ and also check how many such persons there were.
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by vostok 10y ago
Having worked as a trader, a lot of it comes not from personal skill, but just from being in the right product, at the right firm, at the right time. Even at firms/desks that are in the right products at the right time, few people actu
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by vostok 10y ago
I've heard this as well. Didn't Chris Sawyer make $30 million from the RollerCoaster Tycoon?
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by vostok 10y ago
This kind of pay is very highly correlated to excellent social skills. There is also luck involved and you need to be at the right place at the right time. I agree with Patrick that you are far more likely to achieve this through entreprene
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by vostok 10y ago
Note that this is not guaranteed or even expected at a prop shop or hedge fund either. I know of a very large hedge fund where pay is not as good as you think. I will just say that I have never seen a trader who makes $1 million per year cl
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by vostok 10y ago
> Why would anyone hire this guy who has no social skills, is arrogant and expects to be paid more than everyone else who brings the same value as him? I think OP is asking how to add enough value as a top 25% programmer to justify getti
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by vostok 10y ago
I was under the impression that we were talking about mathematics and not physical reality. In mathematics, cos/sin are just functions cos:R -> R and sin:R -> R. As far as functions go, Dirac delta is kind of a fiction because we
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by vostok 10y ago
Right. That was kind of my point. It is a "mathematical trick" in the sense that it's not a function, but a distribution.
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by vostok 10y ago
> I used to think, for example, that the dirac delta function was mathematical fiction - a mathematical "hack". Can you expand on this? The Dirac delta function is not a function from R to R for example.
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by vostok 10y ago
The article says the exact opposite. > However, I think what we’ll actually see are large companies in tech hubs like the bay area, Seattle, Chicago, New York and others, start to absorb the largest swatches of the immigrant talent pool,
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by vostok 10y ago
> many non-tech trading/quant/exec jobs on Wall Street certainly pay far more And many do not. I actually came from the trading side and there are a lot of VPs [1] who cap out at lower total comp levels than you would think [2]
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by vostok 10y ago
My experience is that many tech jobs on Wall Street no longer pay more than tech jobs at tech companies. I probably know more developers who have capped out at high 100s or 200s at banks than I do at Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.
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by vostok 10y ago
> And a lot of the proposed immigration changes won't actually reduce the price of these workers either. If anything, it's a power grab by large consulting companies and bigger software shops to be able to hire up the best tale
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by vostok 10y ago
Downtown Vancouver is a bit of a dream (early) retirement destination for me. It's clean, beautiful, close to all sorts of outdoor activities, doesn't get cold, and apartments are actually not that expensive.
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by vostok 10y ago
Hopefully this will free up some H1B visa space for small companies.
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by vostok 10y ago
Hollywood is being disrupted as we speak. Look at the incredible success of Annapurna, A24, and the original content by Netflix and Amazon.
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by vostok 10y ago
Would you also like me to not tell you that the president will sign an executive order banning people from "Muslim" countries? I do agree that it is extremely unlikely that my citizenship will be taken away. Being denied naturaliz
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by vostok 10y ago
I would worry about it if I was still a PR. Even as a naturalized citizen I worry about it.
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by vostok 10y ago
Forgive me if I am skeptical about whether or not you have moved from one country to another with a family while maintaining a certain level of comfort. Yes, it's possible to move with an economy class ticket and a backpack. Indeed tha

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