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by vostok 10y ago
> To me being creditworthy meant not to have debt. To a lender being creditworthy means having a history of managing debt correctly.
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by vostok 10y ago
I don't necessarily agree that you should move early and often, but you should absolutely be checking the market at least annually. If you care and you find that you're underpaid then you should find a new job immediately. It&#x27
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by vostok 10y ago
In my experience, prep schools have a higher proportion of Asians than would be expected based on the proportion of Asians in the US population. Of course I'm not adjusting for things like income. http://www.usaschoolinfo.co
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by vostok 10y ago
> I've already told all my friends to forget my Google Voice number. Why didn't you migrate your GV number? That seems a lot less painful than telling everyone to update your contact information.
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by vostok 10y ago
How do you feel about paying for content with product placement or native advertisements?
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by vostok 10y ago
It's not necessarily for propaganda purposes, but I agree that this is a highly nonstandard terminology and it's not obvious to me that it improves anyone's ability to communicate.
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by vostok 10y ago
> If everyone gets $1000 every month guaranteed for "basic needs", the prices for those basic needs will increase accordingly. Couldn't you just inflation adjust the $1000 as the prices for those needs increase?
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by vostok 10y ago
> But this is really pathetic. to ban algebra. I would leave the country. If mathematics education at the pre-university level is a priority for you then I'm not sure that leaving the country is the best approach. https:/&#x2F
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by vostok 10y ago
One could make the argument that their use of basket options was not uncontroversial.
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by vostok 10y ago
> HFTs like Virtu are just front-running, scamming retail investors like you and I out of pennies on every trade. There's no trading or investing happening here, just arbitraging broken market rules. Do you happen to have a referenc
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by vostok 10y ago
It's even more frequently than every year these days.
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by vostok 10y ago
I mean right now we hire people who already have work authorization. Right now we can't sponsor a foreign new grad who goes to Cambridge and has an IMO gold medal because their H1B has a high probability of not being approved. We'
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment. It is not obvious to my why you think that we underpay. Can you help me understand by elaborating? We just end up hiring people who already have some form of work authorization instead of sponsor
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by vostok 10y ago
> All the new proposed legislation will do is drive up wages (and therefore income inequality) for both Americans and H1-B holders. It will also allow the big firms to shed their worse employees and hold on to only their best, thereby ma
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by vostok 10y ago
I like that the "lip" on the Mirra 2 drops off more quickly so it doesn't press into you. The Embody is another Herman Miller option.
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by vostok 10y ago
In finance, there are lots of instances where having a physical presence give you some sort of regulatory benefit.
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My guess is that they pay much more.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Sure all the "senior" programmers with 3 years' experience get paid a lot less than in the US, but I don't think the VP level does badly at all. I think this is true from looking at my family. That's exactly wh
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by vostok 10y ago
The Economics job market has actually been much better than the Physics or Math job market. Marketing and Accounting are good too.
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by vostok 10y ago
Isn't the restriction on investing in IPOs imposed by banks and not the government? You're just not going to get an allocation if you're not a "good customer".
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by vostok 10y ago
It needs to be much easier to switch employers on H1B so that workers are not abused. There are also needs to be a bidding process. It's absurd that a small company that is desperate to hire someone for $400k needs to participate in th
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by vostok 10y ago
L1, H1B1, O1, etc.
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by vostok 10y ago
This seems to be an advertisement [0] for Paysa. Too bad that it's paywalled. > More than one-third of tech professionals are earning at least 10% less than they could command if they looked for a new job today I agree that many tec
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Algorithmic collusion and price-fixing(mathbabe.org)
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by vostok 10y ago
I am not aware of trading firms that start at $500k, but this is, broadly speaking, correct. The pay is similar to the high paying tech companies, but the mean is higher as the left tail is chopped off due to somewhat higher requirements fo
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by vostok 10y ago
This is total liquid comp, not base salary. I hope I didn't mislead you. If you're still interested, I suggest that you speak to a headhunter. It's their job to place people and I'm not interested in breaking anonymity.
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by vostok 10y ago
There are lots of companies in the Midwest that will pay mid six figures for a non-manager SWE. I will concede that there are fewer such jobs in the Midwest. I'm not convinced that jobs in the Midwest generally pay less than in Califor
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by vostok 10y ago
> For example company B might not have the resources/revenue to outbid company A. If Company B doesn't have the resources to outbid Company A then we've decided, as a society, that whatever Company A is doing is more impor
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by vostok 10y ago
Yes. There is no shortage of anyone who is paid under $100k.
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> If you define it based on salary you exclude people who are skilled but in locations, industries or professions that don't pay well, say barbers or teachers as an extreme example. Is that fair? I don't know. Shouldn't th

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