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by ng12 5mo ago
One thing I learned from consulting is if you position yourself as the "fix your mess" guy you have to be very defensive. Ask for more up-front, and bail at the first sign of underpayment. Be pleasantly surprised when a poorly run
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by ng12 6mo ago
According to levels the pay band caps out around $250k and a principal title. It's good but probably not enough for most to put up with the culture long term.
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by ng12 10mo ago
Outrage about what? I know people whose hobbies cab generally be summed up as "drinking alcohol". We already decided prohibition didn't work once.
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by ng12 10mo ago
Yes but the context of the thread is OCaml being "almost there". Having to build this stuff in-house is pretty good evidence.
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by ng12 10mo ago
Yes and they had to basically build their own version of the compiler to keep everything from falling over ( https://oxcaml.org/ ).
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by ng12 11mo ago
Short ETFs are usually leveraged and make for a really good way to lose money. Realistically, timing is the issue. "This is a bubble" is worth ~nothing. "This is a bubble and it will pop in late December" is worth a lot
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by ng12 11mo ago
Usually not, because shorting a broad chunk of market is very hard. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
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by ng12 1y ago
I was going to agree with you until the implication that it's learning the nitty-gritty details that's important. I can teach someone the details on the job. Give me a new grad with strong fundamentals, a love of programming, and
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by ng12 1y ago
Maybe it would be simpler to just impose a nominal tax on the total number of job openings a company creates throughout the year. Maybe as a % of the role's salary. You could even rebate it against employer payroll taxes so they get th
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by ng12 1y ago
Maybe Jane Street succeeds because of the people who are good at finance in spite of the people who like OCaml.
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by ng12 1y ago
Yeah, and I'm not anywhere near as distressed about it as this article implies I should be.
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by ng12 1y ago
> Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years. I've been writing React professionally for over a decade at this point. I don't know what this guy's on about.
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by ng12 2y ago
I don't know but anecdotally living in a major city every social event I attend has a Partiful attached.
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by ng12 2y ago
Huh? Lots of people are currently in jail for things they did on January 6th.
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by ng12 2y ago
Honestly while Trump is a little slimy he's also kinda funny. Visit some conservative spaces sometimes, they're having fun while liberal ones are all doom-and-gloom. It really does matter.
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by ng12 2y ago
Unironically probably. The only place I've ever worked that used LoC as a performance indicator was a hedge fund.
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by ng12 2y ago
I mean... how do you describe what Coke tastes like? Most soda is kind of mysterious.
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by ng12 2y ago
Safety, for one. Technology helps prevent spills.
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by ng12 2y ago
> and it was often considered a black mark if you went to work for a defense company (even Palantir) Yeah, this always tickled me. Obviously smart people should just go work somewhere innocuous like Meta or ByteDance. Also FWIW this is P
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by ng12 2y ago
What? This isn't a syntax generator it's building full components.
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by ng12 2y ago
Usually the new firm picks up the tab for the lost bonus.
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by ng12 2y ago
It's probably not the government's job to teach people wise investing practices. It is their job to protect them from outright fraud.
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by ng12 2y ago
But I don't know what the comparison is. It's definitely not London and Copenhagen. It's pretty amazing that you can take a 30+ mile ride from one end of NYC to the other for less than $3.
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by ng12 2y ago
> between Midtown and Brooklyn I don't follow. There are relatively few neighborhoods in Brooklyn without train access to Midtown (though those do tend to be the most car centric).
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by ng12 3y ago
Some, but places like HRT just hoover up the smartest n% of the top m schools and train them for what they need. Tends to result in a young culture.
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by ng12 3y ago
Yeah, LSD is very cheap to make. Research chemicals mostly only exist to skirt law enforcement.
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by ng12 3y ago
There are but there's a 30 day minimum unless it's owner-occupied. At that point it's just an expensive sublet.
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by ng12 3y ago
https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2024/02/10/nyc-hotels-flour...
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by ng12 3y ago
They basically banned AirBnB in New York. Net effect was it raised hotel prices without measurably affecting housing costs.
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by ng12 3y ago
You went back to finger sticks? I am floored. Do you follow a strict low carb diet? How often are you exercising?

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