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by vostok 10y ago
What's with charging a custodian fee to the employee? I've worked at multiple employers that don't do that.
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by vostok 10y ago
Companies can afford to give massive payouts to founders and investors so I don't see how they can't spare a few dollars for developers.
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by vostok 10y ago
> Sure, there is probably a shortage of Bay Area engineers if you're paying $70K, but I bet there is no shortage if you're paying $400K. Just to reiterate this, I know many people who would become developers if they could make
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by vostok 10y ago
It seems especially wrongheaded as client certificates are used in certain academic environments.
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by vostok 10y ago
> It is incredibly hard to lay off federal workers, not to mention a typical GS14 will make more than a good dev after adding in federal benefits, pension, etc. Do you have some more information on this? To my uneducated eye, it looks li
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by vostok 10y ago
I agree. I wouldn't do that either.
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by vostok 10y ago
To provide a counterexample, P/NP was doing quantitative trading before RenTech. I will say that I wouldn't comment on implementation details in this industry unless I've worked at the company in question.
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by vostok 10y ago
It's talking about someone in Indiana who is not making the kind of money that GP mentioned. > Yet in financial terms, there is almost no way for Mr. Acosta to climb out of the crater he dug for himself in law school, when he borrow
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by vostok 10y ago
I think it is relevant because I would be willing to take a quality of life hit to be in the "top 1% of 1%" that I wouldn't take to make $200k. I make more than $200k, but I suspect that I'm nowhere close to the top 1 bp
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by vostok 10y ago
There is no way that $195k ($180k + $15k) is the top 1bps of wage earners at 26. That's pretty comparable to, if not less than, what you could expect in tech at that age. This is ignoring finance, small business owners, etc.
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by vostok 10y ago
I have a pet theory that the articles about HFT are actually placed [0] by big financial interests. I have personally seen a trader at a bank feed a story to a reporter in a different product. That article was pretty fair, but it was on an
582.
by vostok 10y ago
Maybe my mind is warped, but I actually agree with that. The conjecture isn't the point. There are plenty of interesting counterexamples, but a direct search does nothing to advance mathematics.
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by vostok 10y ago
I don't work for a startup, but I do work for a small business. The current system does not work for us because there is a lot of uncertainty in the application process. An auction system would actually be an improvement for us and man
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by vostok 10y ago
I am in an immigrant community where the EB5 is used. It does not cost $500k/year and it is an investment rather than a expense so it is not all comparable to the H1B program.
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by vostok 10y ago
The wealthy can already buy their way into a US visa. I am in an immigrant community where this happens. Quite frankly, I think those programs should also be expanded.
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by vostok 10y ago
Is there a shortage of botanists or harpsichord teachers if they are paid less than software developers? This is not obvious to me. I know plenty of people who went from biology (I know it is not botany exactly) to tech because there are &#
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by vostok 10y ago
The current system also puts small companies at a disadvantage. I work at a tiny company that pays more than the companies you listed and we have a lot of difficulty getting new H1Bs. If we had an auction style system then at least small co
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by vostok 10y ago
They can still hire devs. They just need to pay more. Total comp is not adjusted for cost of living for doctors, salesmen, traders, bankers, attorneys, and managers. Why do you expect it to be adjusted for software developers? This is less
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by vostok 10y ago
If salaries in those areas are not as high as in the Bay Area, it means there is no shortage. It just means the salaries are too low to attract talent. There are plenty of companies outside the Bay Area that pay comparable salaries. I have
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm not sure that it makes sense to target STEM graduates in this way. Most of them would receive visas based on their high salaries whereas an explicit rule would only serve to increase the number of low quality STEM degrees.
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by vostok 10y ago
This is why I strongly believe that H1Bs should be given out to employees that are offered the highest salary. Clearly there is no shortage if you are not willing to pay one of the highest salaries. Yea, this wouldn't be perfect, but i
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by vostok 10y ago
I'd wager that a Camry is still more comfortable than a 20 year old Merc. The Prius is debatable.
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by vostok 10y ago
> 20 years old Mercedes is more comfortable than a brand new Toyota Is that true? It's been a long time since I've been in a 1996 S-class [0], but the Toyota Avalon Hybrid is rather comfortable. [0] https://upload.wi
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by vostok 10y ago
>People with older homes in cities fall into this category frequently. Would this not be a good example of just the sort of thing that would be fixed by this tax? There are many people in places like San Francisco and Manhattan that are
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by vostok 10y ago
It's not a custom piece of terminal hardware. It's just like Excel or other software that you run on your computer. There's also a version that runs from a browser plugin, which is what I use when I'm running Linux.
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by vostok 10y ago
These keyboards are so unpleasant. At one point I wished I could get keycaps printed for a different keyboard, but now it doesn't matter as I've memorized the keys anyway.
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by vostok 10y ago
I guess it depends on your definition. It would seem that, from a layman's perspective, ETFs and ABSs are both derivatives. If we look at GGP's comment > Buy up crap, package and obfuscate it, then sell it off as "high qua
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by vostok 10y ago
This is actually a pretty typical example of a derivative. You can buy these bonds to get exposure to the loans without having to worry about managing them directly. A CDS would be a derivative on a derivative. It would allow you to get exp
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by vostok 10y ago
Is there a good deal of wealth around München? Where does it come from? A kid with a Tesla sounds like "entrepreneur" or "inherited" level of wealth rather than "good engineer" level of wealth.
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by vostok 10y ago
I have an additional data point of someone who didn't finish any university.

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