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Remember that this is about Ontario, not Canada. Ontario happens to be the largest sub-sovereign debtor in the world and has had spreads over underlying CAD govie benchmarks increa…

Well the line between traders and quants has always been blurry to the point of no differential at Jane Street, D.E Shaw, and Citadel since inception. Traders have always had quant…

>That was really really dumb. They should have gone from 0.25 to 0.3 or something. That's not how interest rate setting works at all. Plus, the Fed is still using a banded window t…

A quote that stuck with me from a molecular biology class taken a year ago, "It's not who wins a Nobel Prize off of CRISPR work, it's how many there will end up being".

I'm not equating them absolutely, however I'm pointing out the Planatir began utilizing existing tech to make in roads into national defence while using that cash flow to create mo…

Yes, operating under the assumption early stage rounds were predicated on the technology existing and being sufficiently robust to carry out a certain percent of tests, that would …

Without knowing the term sheets and early investor negotiations that were held, I shy away from using the term fraudulent in the strict legal sense of the word. Certainly you can a…

The latter half of that paragraph is articulating what I think Theranos is currently doing, not what I think they should have done. What I said they should have done is described t…

Many in SV find it hard to grapple with traditional startups not penetrating health care to a greater degree; in Rise of the Robots (one of the Financial Times and The Economist bo…

Stanford has a transfer acceptance rate of 2%, so good for him. As for your second point, that's likely true, but it'll still be much more difficult for them to transfer than to ge…

I largely agree with this, but would add that traders (and even investment bankers in their 30s/40s) will work very little on the weekend. Certainly no senior trader is in the offi…

Princeton doesn't do transfers, Harvard/Yale have 1-2% transfer acceptance rates, etc. When transfers are admitted every year to my school (usually just 5-10) there's a writeup in …

I'm about half-way through the book. Very easy, enjoyable read. Left wondering why some of these Amazon reviews try to make it sound as if it's quite academically/technically rigor…

That's fair. Would say that, in my experience, there wasn't much explicit nepotism at GS. If there was it'd be a case of someone's son getting good freshman/sophomore internships a…

Mildly impressive in the spectrum of potential jobs, not just jobs at Goldman. Plenty of folks in the SSG leave to jobs one-off kids go to immediately after undergrad. This, of cou…

> Stairway to Paradise: Between drags on her cigarette, one student says that she will be working for Goldman Sachs. As someone who worked at Goldman and is college-aged, I think t…

> Funny how the discussion is never to simplify the code This has been the conversation in every political debate for (at least) the past decade. It could be the one broad sentimen…

When Matt Levine includes anything in quotes, assume it's snark. He's written lots about "front-running" being, innaproporatiedy, a catch-all term, much like HFT itself.

That all seems like quasi-maths, however. What hopefully was being referred to earlier is algebra and analysis, at least up to the 2nd iteration, so one has real understanding of m…

What has been your experience with the Macbook? When have you hit practical limitation in your day-to-day coding and hacking around? I have a 13" rMBP, 16GB, but would love to give…

"He starts with the assumption of 100dB as the max power but OSHA's ultrasonic recommendation[1] is actually 145dB which is 31,000x more power.. Even if you use 130dB, it's still 1…

There was already a lengthy discussion of this piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091 The piece aside - which I won't make a commentary on - I wonder whether this is j…

Would be interested in hearing how you got involved in this and get more color on your role, if you wanted to share.