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by vostok 8y ago
> Perhaps we can agree that fairness would be an adequate justification for making insider trading illegal I don't think that we agree on this. The way that I see it, investors always try to leverage information asymmetry and I don&
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by vostok 8y ago
Just to be clear, I'm disagreeing with you because I think you're wrong about the world as it is not because our interests are opposed. I would have far more money if the US had a super complicated batch auction system and everybo
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by vostok 8y ago
> Compare insider trading, which we make illegal because it is unfair, even though it improves the price signal. Insider trading is arguably illegal because you're misappropriating company information for your own use. There a few o
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by vostok 8y ago
That's not my argument at all. My claim is that technology is still a huge advantage with batch auctions. It might even be a bigger advantage with batch auctions. More complex market structure usually benefits those who understand it b
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by vostok 8y ago
Something that confuses people is that trades don't happen that often. Batch auctions don't change this. You still need to decide who gets priority in the auction. If you do time priority then it's not that different from cur
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by vostok 8y ago
Fortunately, the institutional traders who use that Cloud9 will never use this Cloud9 and the retail traders who use this Cloud9 will never use that Cloud9.
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by vostok 8y ago
UK STEM academic salaries are an embarrassment.
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by vostok 8y ago
It doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad people, but it's certainly a good indication that they're bad people at least on a personal level. Of course this is assuming that they operated in an environment with the sam
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by vostok 8y ago
That's true in the average case, but it's not true in the literal sense. I know people who did not graduate college and whose first jobs were at Facebook/Google. If you're talking about the average case then you might as
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by vostok 8y ago
> Look at Bitcoin over the past 1-2 years. It is completely common for it to trade at a 3-5% spread between USD exchanges. This has not been the case for a long time.
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by vostok 8y ago
Yup that's one of the few situations I was thinking of.
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by vostok 8y ago
> My buddy was actually lamenting the fact that his wife got a nice raise at the public library because it would actually mean less take-home money after tax day. There are relatively few scenarios where this would occur. It would have t
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by vostok 8y ago
You appear to have missed that this thread is discussing a specific person's choice to live in Berlin and not the article.
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by vostok 8y ago
SLC is not a nice, dense urban city in the way that Berlin is. It thus would not provide OP's lifestyle at any level of income. It is disingenuous to equate the two.
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by vostok 8y ago
> If you can't afford it, but refuse to try and work to turn a medium-sized city into the city you desire, maybe you should tone down your "why our families can't afford X" rhetoric, because it's disingenuous. If
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by vostok 8y ago
I know you're responding to a different comment, but I want to clarify that I am not claiming that suburbs are unreasonable places to live. OP said that they didn't want to live in a suburb, which is a reasonable view to have. I d
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by vostok 8y ago
I intentionally used the literal average. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... I am not arguing that this is or isn't a lot of money. For the record, I think that it is a lot of mon
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by vostok 8y ago
> It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist to certain people. It's more that the rest of the country isn't comparable to Berlin. The cities that you listed are a great example of this. > Austin, Dalla
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by vostok 8y ago
I guess I thought that their preferences were * Have space for two children, presumably with separate bedrooms. Potentially even more than one bathroom in the apartment. * Live in a nice, urban area. * Bike 15 minutes to work. They are able
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by vostok 8y ago
Perhaps an average developer couldn't as the average is around $100k, but a realistically high earning one could. Consider someone who is a staff/senior staff/principal engineer at one of the usual places or someone who went
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by vostok 8y ago
I feel like every statement of that form has an implied "with the lifestyle that I want". If you remove that constraint then it's always possible for a software engineer because they make more than average and that average pe
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by vostok 8y ago
I think 5% of AUM would be a fee based advisor or a wrap account. If it's 5% commission then it's 5% of each transaction.
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by vostok 8y ago
I use the XPS13 with pre-installed Ubuntu. All of the above work great. I usually use it plugged into an external 4k monitor.
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by vostok 8y ago
In many cases the input is known at compile time. For example instead of #define BTN_A 0x01 you have bitmask<Button>(A) Both of these are known at compile time and they are equivalent.
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by vostok 8y ago
If you do have the talent, you'll make more money selling Oracle than selling coffee.
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by vostok 8y ago
For the 30-34 age category, the top 10% is a household networth of $260k or so.
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by vostok 8y ago
I'm willing to bet that the AMA caps are keeping more smart people out of medicine than the costs are.
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by vostok 8y ago
> What drives the interest rates in the us? This is a very complicated question. There have been periods where short rates go up but 30y mortgage rates are unched or only up small or even down. I think most people use 30y fixed rate mort
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by vostok 8y ago
> Teachers at those schools are definitely making more than their public school counterparts. I'm sure this is correct, but do you have a reference? Anecdotally, I have heard that teachers at top tier NYC private schools make less t
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by vostok 8y ago
I actually think that American boarding schools can be quite good academically (Andover, Exeter, etc.), but sending your kid to boarding school in Switzerland is likely not about academics in the least.

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