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Not sure why the other comments are so negative. I don't see how you can dispute that having a large part of your net worth in a single stock leaves you vulnerable if anything happ…

"This equity is provided in order to align incentives." That leaves out the other - probably more significant - reason - it's provided because it can increase the (real or perceive…

The original version of the "10x" idea didn't require the productivity distribution to be bimodal - it could be a bell curve or skewed bell curve with high variance. I think it's c…

You could probably conspire with another party to sell your shares back and forth at +10% every day. That way the official market price of your shares would eventually get to the p…

Your analysis of the arbitrage is faulty - if there's a cost associated with time-shifting energy, then the gap will only narrow to the extent that it's still economically justifia…

In special cases multiple string concatenations can be optimized into using a StringBuilder calls. Not in the general case.

Do you know for sure that RethinkDB can't work out what columns are being filtered by a function? In the examples it would certainly be possible with some analysis.

Right, I'd be a lot more forgiving of MongoDB if they had been bringing the product to market 10-15 years earlier.

'When you query with ReQL you tack on functions and “compose” your data, with SQL you tell the query engine the steps necessary (aka prescribe) to return your data:' ... what? ReQL…

Hey, he's too busy working 300 hours a week to worry about things like "averages" and "mathematics".

Uh, it's completely acceptable to "discriminate" against people based on factors that relate to their ability to succeed in the job. I don't think it's controversial that people's …

I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-wi...

They can't selectively block parts of github when it's going over HTTPS. All they see is an encrypted connection from inside China to github.com.

Great, another person who doesn't understand marginal tax rates.

If you're learning, it's really important to have the skill of narrowing down what it is you don't know and formulating a clear question about it. I've seen all sorts of failure mo…

Yeah I have a hard time telling what's definitely going on from the OP's description. I personally find the most difficult people to work with are the people who have trouble filli…

It means he doesn't have the commitments that come with being a full-time faculty member but that he can teach classes.

Even if Toyota went away, it wouldn't be so hard to just go and buy a Mazda or whatever and drive that around.

My bias is better than your bias ;)

Um, you can practice for anything that involves communication or demonstrating your skills. Its just arrogant to think that you can go into an interview cold and rely on the interv…

You are wrong about the Dunning-Kruger effect - there is not a negative correlation between perceived and actual ability, just a weaker positive correlation than you might expect. …

It sounds like #3 was a good thing to happen - you learned a lot.

Nice feature or cunning conspiracy you be the judge.

If those numbers about grad students are right, that's pretty weird - it sounds like they're being overly picky about who they admit and only admitting the people who were accepted…