waterfowl

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by waterfowl 5y ago
who do they manage? or what is meant by "capital-M managers"? If they're managing junior PMs(or product management folks with a lowlier title, analysts, etc?) wouldn't that mean you have non capital-M people "doing
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by waterfowl 5y ago
KCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.
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by waterfowl 5y ago
she's 4'8 - that's not like an extreme left end of the curve dwarf height on a global scale, is it? NBA centers are all 7 feet tall which precludes most people from being NBA centers, but there's a whole world and someho
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by waterfowl 5y ago
PT says interesting and thoughtful stuff. A thing I dislike about much of his coverage, including in this piece, is how much is surface level ad hom of various people who have talked to him, or supported him, or he has supported, e.g. in th
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by waterfowl 5y ago
this was how things worked before supermarkets in general - you'd ask the general store clerk for x units of y good, think the deli counter or auto parts store model.
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by waterfowl 5y ago
even on trains? amtrak specifically questions people about cash? This seems weird -- compared to traveling by air amtrak has approx 0 security, no TSA equivalent, bag scan, etc(unless you check maybe).
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by waterfowl 5y ago
maybe the implication is that it is surprising he would be cracking whipped cream chargers vs. using his billionaire concierge connections to get a tank(crooked dentist, whatever). Would look classier than 10000 little chargers in piles --
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I am not a banker and so some of my terms might be wrong, also some of my views are probably wrong, but here's my lay understanding of the work for front office IB folks in groups that do deal advisory(so not sales & trading or &#x
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by waterfowl 6y ago
this is false. First year associate all in is slightly sub 300, but compare to similarly type A hoop jumping prestige chasing programmers in NYC(or SF) it's a bad deal - plus taxes, CoL, etc. Analyst is low 100 as someone said below. A
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I hear, anecdotally(n<10) that things are very bad at analyst/associate levels at BB banks right now. They send surveys around about how much people are working(what they are actually writing down and reporting, though hours aren&#x
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by waterfowl 6y ago
The federal inmate locator lists him as not in BOP Custody. Did he get extradited somewhere? House arrest for covid?
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by waterfowl 6y ago
In (technical) outerwear things with no labels it seems are either low end(uniqlo, rei white label etc) or you end up paying a super premium for unbranded stuff. Think Veilance(Arcteryx), or Acronym.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
LV stuff being leather the costs of an equivalent quality knockoff(if such a thing exists) aren't dirt cheap like cotton. The heavily branded stuff(monogram canvas) tends to be on the lower end, entry level luxury aimed at a more aspir
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by waterfowl 6y ago
this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday. https://sahillavingia.com/work discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I recently "kondoed" my books down to like ~2xx total volumes and once I had them all organized it only took me an hour or so to scan all of them into the LT iOS app. Very few wouldn't scan but those were mostly findable by m
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I think those are worth a lot because there isn't a comparable thing in the market anymore. At least there wasn't when I looked a few years ago.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I just ordered one of these for my bad at computers dad yesterday - having to wait longer for the 16gb upgrade but consider it 10 year proofing. This article makes me want to buy one for myself(but I have several serviceable older MBPs alre
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by waterfowl 6y ago
So $225M lawbreaking fee on $11B? Maybe 2.25B on 11B if you count the company bk, if they were still invested. edit: the above seems wrong. More like $8B + 2.25 maybe? https://www.forbes.com/profile/sackler/#bf7fa1
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by waterfowl 6y ago
Palantir does not pay well, or at least used to not. They had a disclosed relatively low salary cap back in the day. https://www.quora.com/How-does-Palantir-attract-talent-if-it...
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by waterfowl 6y ago
it's ~$2000, or $2500 for the new "plus" bike. I was a skeptic but peloton is a super compelling product, esp in the quarantine.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
Yeah I have the relatively plain old nokia 'body' scale and it's nice -- does the job and syncs into apple health(which is great and plays very well with everything else I use - myfitnesspal, strava, peloton, etc). Made me re
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by waterfowl 6y ago
It seems to me that most schools with substantial D1 football revenues are also R1 universities. Thinking of the "P5" football conferences(SEC, Big 10, 12, PAC 12, ACC) I am not coming up with many low research activity schools. I
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by waterfowl 6y ago
Apollo is also maybe the only iOS app I have used that put real thought and effort into idiomatic 3d touch/pressure/etc UX patterns. It's lovely and pro was like $3? $5?
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by waterfowl 6y ago
minor nitpick - B&J was purchased by Unilever which is similar but less reviled online than Nestle.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
Are these that unusual/dated? I read the article and couldn't tell if these are distinct from mail chutes in general. Both my home and office buildings in DC have them and they're neither very like, historic grand buildings.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
The book is by the same author as the article.
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by waterfowl 6y ago
Nissan sued the guy(named nissan) for infringement so I think he got pissed. Notably his small computer shop(bearing his name) predated Nissan operating as Nissan(vs. Datsun) in America. Similar things -- peloton.com is not the smartbike, c
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by waterfowl 6y ago
These are the newsletters in question. Looks like a normal niche trade community kind of site. https://www.ecommercebytes.com/about/ Imagine being a (literally) mom and pop internet newsletter and having a giant come a
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I looked on reddit -- seems like it is https://www.ecommercebytes.com/ and maybe a sub-thing "auctionbytes"
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by waterfowl 6y ago
I see doordash/grubhub/ubereats folks with big insulated bags(or backpacks in the case of bike/moto folks) pretty regularly. Not sure if they are required(or provided or sold) but they are definitely available.

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