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I think the point here is that there is no effective standard by which we can define "wasting time". Many people would consider a lot of the startups you fund as "wasting time". In…

The main problem with your argument is that you assume some central authority is able to correctly judge what activities are worthwhile and what activities are not. They tried that…

This is a valid concern. But by preaching democracy and human rights on the one hand and supporting dictators like Mubarak on the other, we just end up providing ammunition to radi…

Very interesting. I work for a competitor of Jane Street and I have to say I am surprised that they are not using C++

Consider this: if they can predict unplanned admissions, they can a) better plan for these admissions b) try to work with these individuals to help them manage their health better …

I noticed weird behavior recently with my spam filter in gmail. For example, some emails from midventures.com are getting through and other ones are marked as spam ( none of them a…

"...Overall, the picture doesn't brighten much over four years. After four years, 36 percent of students did not demonstrate significant improvement, compared to 45 percent after t…

I guess it means that all who signed up are not currently hipsters.

interesting, does this mean Google does not care about the Russian market much? also, why doesn't Yandex try to expand beyond Russia ?

This is disingenuous. It happened in the context of trying to prevent an even bigger number of civilians dying in an inevitable invasion and continuation of the war. Your comment c…

if you don't have a strong resume, then follow the advice rather than give up. But first at least try to make sure your resume looks good :) the two are not really mutually exclusi…

I don't know if the twins have a case or not and I don't know why they just don't take the money and move on. But I am getting tired of this "it's not the idea, it's execution" bul…

yeah like solve an actual problem, you know what I mean?

I hope you end up using your talents for something worthwhile in the future

extreme claims have low probability of being correct. For example, I am not sure that it is impossible due to laws of physics for 5-6 men to pull all the strings, but common sense …

Your argument is silly for the following reason. Imagine that a firm was able to profit from discrepancies between values of two stocks that last 100 microseconds. Say this firm ma…

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what possible justification could there be for this article to be posted to Hacker News?

man I am glad my parents were nothing like this nutty woman

the reason is it is not as big a deal as it seems is that it only applies to affiliates who have a physical presence in the state. For example, if I buy an e-book for my Kindle, it…

thanks. performance and reliability both

IBRIX seems to suck as a parallel filesystem for big datasets. Constant performance issues with it. Does anybody know of a better solution ?

it is very unlikely that you will be able to successfully start something that is outside of your area of expertise and the opportunity cost of failure is quite high for you. Inste…

if my children could vote, they would vote for cookies and cake