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baloneyman

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    Comment #14462443

    None of your links on your jobs site work

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    Comment #14397372

    The point they are trying to prove is that there is no way of knowing what happens in the bathroom. It is theoretically equivalent to secrecy

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    Comment #14359639

    Uhhhh using Chrome?

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    Comment #14264855

    At the end of the day, they're all just humans making bad decisions But it seems like it would honestly be the opposite (i.e., government bankruptcy being bad). The more people tha…

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    Comment #14185395

    This isn't an issue in any other developed country. People don't want to shoot cops. Even if it was a gun, they shouldn't have shot him

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    Comment #14053878

    If the driver is paid as a percentage of the ride and Uber tells the driver that the ride is cheaper than it truly was, that's fraud

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    Comment #14024940

    Revenue is nice, but earnings are all that matters when you have debts to pay. Just look over to the recently IPOed Snap, Inc. for a company with less revenue and more eyeballs!

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    Comment #14023945

    This time it's different! This time bubbly companies with no earnings and tons of debt will create a new paradigm! Lol

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    Comment #13996521

    What "job" is that? There is no reason for these companies to exist. Incentivizing drug companies to raise prices in lockstep... to keep the middlemen happy? That is a very pervers…

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    Comment #13687908

    I think startup is a pretty generous term for the growth stage that Uber was in at the time

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    Comment #13619844

    Arbitrage that only exists due to the technicalities of market microstructure is parasitic to me. True HFT identifies trades with no risk; a long and a hedge at the same microsecon…

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    Comment #13617466

    The purpose of markets is taking risk. Any participant whose intention is not to take risk is a parasite Like many things in life, there are complete bullshit situations where some…

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    Comment #13617375

    HFT doesn't really do anything for markets since they take very little risk, and that is the purpose of a market... the magic coil will kill your business anyway I thought true HFT…

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    Comment #13405075

    I think the most interesting concept here is that a future with driverless cars is a future with almost no way to incriminate an American. Cars are the main way the government gets…

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    Comment #13404882

    I agree with this in large swathes, but I feel like bible beaters are all about nice clothes and clean hands and they're conservative as all hell

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    Comment #13361100

    I guess it depends on your perspective. Is it the older workers who rake in enormous paychecks for incrementally far less work or is it younger workers who work for much less to ma…

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    Comment #13064018

    I liked it :)