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by tomsun 7y ago
I like the spirit of the ideas, but yeah I gotta say it's a little extreme to me. Forcing people to spend money in their life time is going to incentivize consumerism. So I was super rich, and you want me to be forced to spend rather t
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by tomsun 7y ago
I think the point of the Latte factor, isn't that you shouldn't buy expensive coffee drink. The bigger problem is mindless spending racks up the expense column without adding much value. Once you get into the habit of getting a co
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by tomsun 8y ago
I think if you can get a decent tech job and if you speak French. Montreal is definitely a better pick than Toronto.
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by tomsun 8y ago
I think of it like mechanical art pieces. A blend of mechanical engineering, art, and craftmanship. Plus if it's made out of precious metal it's a hedge against inflation. And like art, it has a robust secondary market, which mean
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by tomsun 10y ago
Windows and OSX are products, and Linux is more like a free commodity. It's great to use it at scale because you save a shit ton of money on licensing fees, but not great for end users. Getting end users to use Linux is like asking dri
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by tomsun 10y ago
Graduated 2 years ago and been working as a QA. Looking for QA automation and Junior front-end engineering. Location: Toronto, ON. Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS/HMTL/CSS, Python, R, SQL Resume: h
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by tomsun 10y ago
From a business perspective, they can convert and retain a lot more users if they actually try to dampen the racism on the website.
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by tomsun 10y ago
I don't know what I'm more sad about in this article, the fact that so much economic activity is dedicated to boast oneself's social status by paying to gain proximity to celebrities, or that these parties are insidious to a
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by tomsun 11y ago
Soooo, facebook is trying to be slack?
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Bernie Sanders on Fixing the Fed(nytimes.com)
3 points by tomsun 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomsun 11y ago
Wow. To call this article a fluff piece is an insult to fluff pieces.
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by tomsun 11y ago
I think a good way is to split your emergency fund with cash and credit. Sock 3 months of cash and get low interest LOC to cover whatever else comes up. That way you don't get opportunity cost of saving all your money into a low intere
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by tomsun 11y ago
I'm Asian too. I don't think it's because of raw intelligence. Asians work hard, but in a very confined way, and visible way. For example in high school, you work hard in school to get into a great college, your hard work is
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by tomsun 11y ago
I had an interview with Salesforce as a new grad and they spent one round asking basic algo questions, one hour long phone screening asking specifics of Java, Python, C++, Javascript, one onsite whiteboard round designing tests with an in h
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by tomsun 11y ago
Waterloo represents. :)
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Sheltered Students Go to College, Avoid Education(bloombergview.com)
2 points by tomsun 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomsun 11y ago
Also a lot of the take home interviews are time limited. So you would only have a certain amount of time to implement a solution.
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by tomsun 11y ago
>"Synergy, You know what that means?" >"Does it mean take a stack of cash and light it on fire?"
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by tomsun 11y ago
This makes perfect sense. The reason why debt/fixed income products were stable in the past is because of the lack of liquidity. But now with the advent of structured product and ETFs, a lot of bonds are behaving more like publicly tra
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by tomsun 11y ago
I don't think a lot of people will get offended if you address a group as guys. But if you address a group of girls as "girls", or even "gals", you are walking a fine line.
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by tomsun 11y ago
>Nassim Taleb summed this up for me: “3,000 years ago people were doing math on tablets. Now…people are doing math on tablets.” >If something withstands the test of time, use it. Every leader learns from the past. Every leader uses th
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by tomsun 11y ago
So the writer didn't like it because it's too geeky? She's too cool for tech gadget.
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by tomsun 11y ago
The author of this piece is self-rightous. But the bigger problem isn't his inability or his relent to honor the student loan debt. The bigger problem is the detachment of the value of education, and prospective students' understa
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by tomsun 11y ago
I'm assuming the government gets the interest payments in this case. Or else this "loan" is really just a subsidy for the banks.
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by tomsun 11y ago
Uber usually utilizes the phone GPS which the driver always puts on the dashboard. Makes it a lot harder to trick the riders.
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Twitter CFO's Email to Evan Spegiel Regarding Facebook(wikileaks.org)
2 points by tomsun 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomsun 11y ago
"On Writing" is the only Stephen King book I've read. Definitely left a huge impact on my perception on fiction writing.
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by tomsun 12y ago
Well, you're basically asking more than a billion people to change their cultural value on a fundamental level that has been instilled starting 5000 years ago. I wouldn't casually put it aside as a minor issue that can be solved b
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by tomsun 12y ago
As someone who spent more than half of his life in China, I'd have to agree with you, at least from an anecdotal perspective. Trust is hard to build in China. A lot of people care about making money but people scarcely think about crea
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by tomsun 12y ago
Have a failing business? Not to worry. Just lobby for legislatures that can render your business relevant. Problem solved.

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