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That's a poor comparison and I think most people understand that, even if the current environment discourages them from admitting it.

For anyone who is really looking to understand how the stock market works, I would recommend picking up a copy of "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners" b…

Thanks for this informative post. I currently live in the Middle East and was just about to pick these up last night - but I was under the wrong impression they were the same as Eu…

I believe I read the article this person is referring to and it did say 18 months: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/06/eindhoven-university-o...

Policeman make 400k? Not according to this https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/careers/sworn-j...

I personally use beancount [1] and love it. There are also many similar alternatives [2]. 1 - http://furius.ca/beancount/ 2 - https://plaintextaccounting.org/

Does it? Where is the "transformation" happening? In mind of the viewer?

Imagine you are paranoid and you suspect someone is deceiving you. The reality of whether or not they are actually deceiving you does not have an impact on how much pain you feel. …

> If you mail a torn banknote to the Treasury they will send you a brand new one. Torn, yes. Lost/destroyed, no. I don't think the torn analogy represents the scenario being discus…

> For example, what happens when a piece of bread is worth less than 1 satoshi That does not seem to be an imminent danger. The price of Bitcoin would have to increase literally 1.…

Out of curiosity, what are you fighting Amazon about on this? (full disclosure: I work on Alexa, but not on the team that handles skills)

Cool! I use one of your competitors, Fax Fresh. One thing I like about them is that they clearly state they delete the fax from their servers once it's sent. I couldn't find such a…

Hi there! Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply to this earlier. So my basic response to that is "it depends". I have previously been in a different team at Amazon and that team def…

"Amazon is a sweatshop" I wouldn't agree with this broad generalization. I work in Alexa and the work environment on my team is pretty awesome. Lots of freedom to try new things, g…

Not sure I'd call myself financially literate, but I do have an MBA and computer science degree for whatever that's worth. The short answer to that is it's necessary to encourage p…

This. I'm a hiring manager at Amazon (in natural language on Alexa). One thing I can say about Amazon culture is that teams can vary quite a bit. This is because Amazon gives a hug…

It'd have the features of fish shell ( https://fishshell.com ) and would be able to pipe structured objects between programs like Windows Power Shell.

Serious question about point #1: I've thought about contacting local manufacturers, but I don't know where to find people such as yourself. Do you also get discovered through Aliba…

Would love to know how to go about finding places that build physical "stuff" both at a prototype stage and at scale. I have hardware + software ideas but I'm not clear on how to b…

This is probably one of the most concise and easy to follow articles I've read on this subject. Thanks for the great post!

Holy crap, those are some beautiful designs.

On #1, I will say that the finance and consulting people I know in Europe (particularly Germany, Switzerland, and the UK) seem to work just as hard as their U.S. counterparts. I do…

If you think pricing is confusing at an American store, you should try figuring out how much anything in the American healthcare system is going to cost you. I've honestly gotten a…