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by log_n 2y ago
Yeah the problem is that the average rat lives for less than four years, which doesn't let them see multiple market cycles. We must selectively breed or biologically engineer longer lived rats or else we will be curve fitting for a si
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by log_n 3y ago
Yes they have done great work and discovered some really cool stuff, but they have not been able to commercialize it. That's what a CEO/management chain should ultimately be measured by, not whether they've built a great Xer
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by log_n 4y ago
Those kinds of people are generally stuck at a lower level. L7/8/9 is very much a political game. To get there (generally) you need to make your entire org/company look very good, and generally to make your team look good y
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by log_n 4y ago
A shell of Allston (formerly big Java shop) lasted until last year.
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by log_n 4y ago
Yeah, Jump got on the map by being the first Chicago prop shop with a microwave line between Chicago and New York. They dominated the equity basis trade for a while. Keeping your name out of the press and staying secretive is incredibly im
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by log_n 5y ago
Monday.com spent $191 million in marketing to get $161 million in revenue in 2020. Granted they are only spending $1.2 in marketing per dollar in revenue now so they are doing better than the $1.5 per $1 they had last year in 2019. GnA bum
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by log_n 6y ago
I'm probably not understanding something. How is $250k ARR enough to build a team with? I would think you would need to be a magnitude higher at least to support a team off of that, especially if you are bootstrapped and have no cash
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by log_n 7y ago
Humanity's colonization of the stars will eventually be spurred on by the desire improve the resiliency of SaaS.
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by log_n 7y ago
You don't have to go that far. You could also have automated roll-back of individual servers if they sense something is off, for instance. Another alternative is low bandwidth flag based roll-backs (for instances such as this where th
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by log_n 8y ago
Potentially leaving them open to the pettiest securities fraud suit ever.
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by log_n 8y ago
There's an In-N-Out on the north side of SF and Chinatown has a ton of cheap eating options. You can eat for cheap in either city.
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by log_n 8y ago
Looks like the PyMC maintainers are taking over Theano (but only as it helps PyMC): https://medium.com/@pymc_devs/theano-tensorflow-and-the-futu... There is a PR to get TensorFlow as the backend for PyMC3 too.
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by log_n 11y ago
Blind belief in credentials is just as wrong in nutrition science as it is in tech. Check out this amazing paper re-inventing calculus: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract The author h
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by log_n 11y ago
Why not both? I am not in academia but I was under the impression that some academics might be publishing 'questionable' results that cannot be reproduced at all in order get their paper count up for tenure review. Not to mentio
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by log_n 11y ago
Heh it's options writers or buyers (just options market makers in general). A lot of stuff is electronically traded but there are still some very large orders with huge deltas that are put up on telephone calls. And yeah it makes sens
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by log_n 11y ago
Yup, orders that are placed well outside the bid/ask just fill every order in the order book until they are filled. It's commonly called sweeping the market and happens on 1-2 ticks (price levels) around the best bid/ask pre
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by log_n 11y ago
I think Josu was actually correct and you two are talking about two different things. Josu is saying that if the purchasers cannot find another (greater?) fool to flip the company to then they will have to manage 12 billion dollars in tran
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by log_n 11y ago
Ah, I think I was not terribly clear when making my point. I don't think that candidate scores are static and, even if they are, there's a significant amount of measurement error no matter the interview process. Ideally I want a
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by log_n 11y ago
I liked the part about internal recruiter's incentive structure. It's basically the old standby that nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM. This implies to me that there's a huge amount of value for companies that can chang
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by log_n 11y ago
Companies in the second category are going to be in the market for lemons. Company A has inside knowledge of how each employee is performing and can easily match a price increase for employees that are worth it while letting go of those th
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by log_n 11y ago
But when you rent you have the option to move to another city if you don't like how your tax dollars are being managed. Especially when you are retired/unemployed and thus don't have to worry about living close to your job.
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by log_n 11y ago
The compensation part is actually really interesting. My particular industry is notorious for using really strongly worded non-competes. Those don't fly at all in California but they do fly in a fair number of other states. In Illin
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by log_n 11y ago
I agree with you on back-testing. Trying to model order book dynamics across multiple exchanges accurately is something of a fool's errand (especially in pro-rata markets). Running stuff in sim generally lets you iron out flaws and t
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by log_n 11y ago
Valuing companies based on revenues is a bit of a stretch in my mind. Actual income/earnings/cashflow makes a lot more sense. If you don't take into account expenses then you get some really wacky valuations: ie a company is
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by log_n 11y ago
The coal miner strikes are fascinating (and the teamsters). During WW2 the continental US was bombed (pretty uneventfully) by the Japanese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Fujita
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by log_n 11y ago
I'll play too! Hawaii was a self-governing territory at the time and thus not a part of America (and they stayed that way until 1959, along with Alaska and the Aleutian islands). But, during WW2 America was bombed (by sea plane) by th
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by log_n 11y ago
Heh, I also solved it a few months ago and didn't get a response (though I wasn't nearly as snarky as you good sir, hat tip ). I agree that they should at least send a response to every participant. Even an automated one with a
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by log_n 11y ago
Why not a jelly donut with powdered sugar? Boom recurring revenue stream!
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by log_n 11y ago
This product looks awesome but since gyms get a lot of their revenues from personal trainers I can imagine it might be a semi-difficult sale. How about putting it in home gyms though? If a home user already has a Kinect and a tv you can p
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by log_n 12y ago
I am super excited for these gaming hiring funnels to take off due to your first reason. Dollars to donuts there's a ton of unidentified talent out there that is being filtered out due to those biases (I would also add in academic ped

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