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by vostok 10y ago
> How high? Why is 100k a magic number? 100k isn't even a big deal in SF or NYC. While a high skilled scientist working in say, Corning, NY at Corning Corp or Niskayuna, NY at GE's research labs, 100k enables a king's life
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by vostok 10y ago
As someone who works in finance, I'm shocked at the level of fraud and corruption that is tolerated in other industries. I'm glad to see that at least some action is being taken.
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by vostok 10y ago
Traditional elite jobs such as sales, banking (not trading), and management seem to have also resisted automation for the time being.
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by vostok 10y ago
Are there any programs to help get men into nursing and similar professions? That seems like a great idea.
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by vostok 10y ago
It's been popular in the derivatives space for a while now.
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by vostok 10y ago
Do you have kids? Because this glib reaction signals that you don't because the schools in most expensive areas are terrible too.
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by vostok 10y ago
I can see how the Economist might be described as liberal by a European, but they are decidedly not left-leaning. I would say that they are right-leaning even by American standards.
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by vostok 10y ago
You will have to pay penalties if you underpaid over the course of the year. This makes it not interest free.
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by vostok 10y ago
I agree with this so much. Because of strict regulations, non-financial sales is infinitely worse than anything you'll see in finance.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Does your skin colour, sex, how you dress affect your bonus? I am not aware of a study on this, but I would bet my annual income that those factors affect your bonus.
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm including things like annual equity vesting in bonus. This is not uncommon for senior individual contributor positions in high paying tech and finance companies. It's also not uncommon for sales and senior management roles in
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by vostok 10y ago
It depends on what you were able to negotiate. You might have a guaranteed bonus in your first year, but you might rely on your employer's generosity in future years. In some cases, the bonuses may be based on certain targets, but thos
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by vostok 10y ago
> That's just for tax avoidance, those 'bonuses' Can you teach me how this tax avoidance works? It seems that I am missing out. Can you also specify the jurisdiction where this works? > mostly part of their contract I c
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by vostok 10y ago
> At most companies, how you get a bonus and how much it is is very clearly defined, and so in that regard, it's not similar to tipping at all. I'm surprised that this has been your experience. In many cases, even cases where b
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by vostok 10y ago
As someone who relies on a bonus the way that waiters rely on tips, I dislike bonuses very much. It's possible that they're unavoidable given the volatile nature of business revenues and perhaps a system with no bonuses would resu
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by vostok 10y ago
> No, because unlike a bonus, tips make up a significant portion of waitstaff's regular income. Bonus makes up a significant portion of my regular income. I'm sure that's true for many other HN readers. > It's a co
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by vostok 10y ago
I find that python requires the least boilerplate code out of the most common programming languages. I mostly dislike it on aesthetic grounds. I really like the modern incarnations of C++ and statically typed ML-influenced, but not necessar
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by vostok 10y ago
> It's now possible to make your way through a university education in CS without ever touching or understanding C. This is a problem. I did not study CS, but I had a number of CS modules/classes. LaTeX was the only programming
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by vostok 10y ago
Fair point. When I said "mission critical systems that aren't as mission critical as nuclear submarines" I meant that a mistake can result in us losing $400 million in 30 minutes rather than the destruction of civilization as
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by vostok 10y ago
Very interesting choice. I work on mission critical systems that aren't as mission critical as nuclear submarines. I don't think we'd ever consider anything other than an open source *nix.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Basically, a person like Ackman and some friends could (in theory) bid up a stock 1000%, mark it there at the end of the month or year (or whenever they account for the performance fee), take their performance fee on that mark, and let
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by vostok 10y ago
> The LPs in big PE funds tend to be large institutional investors--pensions, endowments, and the like. Hedge funds tend to have mostly high-net-worth clients. The LPs in big hedge funds also tend to be institutional investors.
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by vostok 10y ago
> So the groups running the really high sharpe stuff (HFT latency arb, for example) don't even bother taking outside capital since they wouldn't know what to do with it. This also allows them to keep a higher portion of the pro
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by vostok 10y ago
I understand the origin of the phrase, but I always thought I would be somewhat upset if pension funds started buying yachts. Pension funds are the customers here and it would be pretty bad if they started buying yachts.
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by vostok 10y ago
> It isn't even like its closest competitor: private equity. They only get to take performance fees on exits, which can take years or even decades (or never) to materialize. I would argue that private equity is much worse on fees th
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by vostok 10y ago
> my source is my own experience working with Solaris, which beyond ZFS and OracleDB, has very few things going for it At a minimum, I feel like DTrace and Solaris Containers belong in that list too.
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by vostok 10y ago
Are those diacritics? I tend to think of them as separate letters just as å and ä are separate letters in Swedish. Of course, ё is usually written as е so I may well be wrong about that. This is different from è, é, ë, and ê in French where
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by vostok 10y ago
I don't doubt your claim, but do you have any hard data on total comp in China? This comment would a lot more informative if we knew how much more they are paying and so on.
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by vostok 10y ago
Cyrillic is not an abjad as far as I know. I'm a native of a country that uses Cyrillic, but it's possible that I misunderstood the meaning of "abjad".
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm obviously referring to the last degree that the person received and not to learning in general.

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