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DE Shaw is a quant firm and tends to hire out of STEM fields, not arts like business.

That's not true. I have the experiences of having prepared taxes professionally and counting and reporting donations at a church. By combining those I can observe that the majority…

I think the author of the article used it intentionally. The premise of the article is that sometimes developers find themselves having to or choosing to do a death march despite k…

I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are …

Germany has not had nearly the problems with homeschooling that you imagine. Its prosecution of homeschooling families has been appalling, though. Seizing children (at gunpoint) an…

I think it actually has a good reputation here. The people who seriously oppose it today either are committed to mandatory state education for political reasons or have not met man…

I think that you misunderstood me. The majority of child abuse happens at home (~72,000 parents vs. ~58,000 known non-family [0]), but it happens in broken homes, second marriages,…

That is not true. Parents use quality textbooks and lesson plans. They also get together to pay specialists to teach difficult subjects one or more times per week. Also, by the tim…

No comment on Monsanto in particular, but it's frequently, but not exclusively, lobbying and regulatory capture that libertarians dislike about large corporations. This tends to es…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a story about this.

This is a good idea. I would just like to be able to ask questions without using the camera, and to have a favorites list that would make it easier to email or text the URL to the …

You said that $3,600 was nothing. I explained its relation to $15,000 and $100,000, two numbers you apparently thought were significant, and how an extra $3,600 per year can turn i…

$3,600 is a little less than 25% of $15,000, and it's about 3.5% of $100,000. If a person spent as much as they earned in a year and had no savings, $3,600 a year would accumulate …

He quoted part of your post directly and responded to it. It was this part: "Talking of bankruptcy in that context is a nonsense introduced by politicians intent on doing away with…

For footnotes, to make space for the hands, because we slightly perceive vertically centered text as below center, because culturally we expect documents to start at the top of a p…

The combined 30 day volume of the five exchanges on the homepage of http://bitcoincharts.com/ is about 140 bitcoins per minute. Adding 100 per minute all on the sell side would be …

It's not easy to say she is evil; it requires consideration of what is evil, what is an evil person, her particular situation and how it might apply to the definitions. Concluding …

In order for a basic income program to save costs on bureaucracy and replace existing programs, those existing programs must be closed by legislation or executive order, and the pe…

Two possibilities: 1. You didn't say your third paragraph or didn't say it loudly/clearly/often enough. If this is the case, be more clear about it next time. 2. You said it but th…

That is encouraging. However, you are not entirely free from your past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UtsSPOdQzw

As you know, any field is constantly advancing and sometimes it returns to an older idea and uses it in a new way. This is happening in obstetrics right now. It isn't that the down…

The USPS pension obligations are around 100% funded (has been overfunded at 105% in the past; may still be the case.) The average private company funds its pensions at about 80%. I…

Correct. I wasn't saying that they have to be unprofitable going forward, just that the pre-funding doesn't entirely explain the losses. I think it's a sensible document and it sho…

This is not true. The USPS loses billions every year before pre-funding. However, pre-funding pushes them against their statutory debt limit. You can see in their annual report tha…