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Then what are they doing at work all day??? If they spend 20% of their week slacking off then they would get paid more if they just worked the whole time and got more done

Tbf, this is page 13 of the list. If you go to the first page, Saudi Aramco made $230B with 73k employees according to their website. This is still ~3x as much profits/employee as …

>Today, Verisign is the single most profitable company in the stock market, a great example of an economic termite This is just blatantly false. VeriSign is in fact the 1215th most…

Sounds like they're already using Rust where performance matters and are looking to switch

This is a terribly misinformed take. If you throw enough resources at Python then sure, you can probably get adequate throughput . The problem is that in finance a lot of problems …

Well they only publish trades ~30 days later. There's no real chance of front-running a politician and for all you know they could've closed their position before the 30 day period…

I think maybe the key idea I was missing here is that the type of a variable is not always the same as the type of the scope it was defined in? If I'm understanding correctly, ther…

I find the explanation for the sequencing rule rather unsatisfying. Why shouldn't the following be true? b : lb d : ld ------------------------------- a := b :>> c := d : max lb ld…

I've interviewed with a reputable company (mentioned on HN frequently) that performs background checks before interviewing you on-site

Doesn't Tesla pay more than GM?

I think you may be comparing salary to total comp here, though I'll admit I haven't looked for the source for your $105k figure.

As an American o had the exact opposite impression -- every European company I've applied to has requested one. Interesting to see that it was just an outlier experience (and I sus…

I suspect that removing that functionality would take more work than can be accomplished in 1 day, which is why they temporarily suspended it and why they're adding "limited buys" …

Either way, it would be illegal to say that they closed their position for the sake of influencing the market. The SEC really doesn't play around with that type of thing in such a …

That connection is like 3 degrees of separation at best, though. Robinhood sells order flow to a number of market makers, one of which is Citadel Securities [1]. Citadel Securities…

After I stopped using non-stick, I realized it was kind of a cheat method for cooking. Non-stick is super forgiving because you can cook anything too hot/too cold with too much/too…

>For whatever reason, papers ... that ... use data to make arguments about productivity, safety, etc. always seem unconvincing to me. ... maybe it's just because the way most progr…

>while those of us who worked on crypto without any specific feelings are early retirees I'm sure all the Enron investors said something similar before they went bust

That mindset pisses me off so much. Every time someone asks me about advice for an interview and I don't mention doing hours of leetcode studying they accuse me of lying and trying…

I think the 2008ish version of the internet was just a much happier place. Part of why HN feels like a breath of fresh air still

Someone needs to do the same for YouTube ca. 2007

I'm a little disappointed that there's so little analysis on the free form questions. I can't remember what I answered, so I was looking through some of these free form questions t…

> High speed trading has no societal value And investment banking does? >Even just charging a dollar for every "bad faith" bid or offer made that expires without being within, say,…

Jane Street is not a hedge fund and they're pretty well-known for having a huge emphasis on high quality/maintainable code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUqvXHEjmus

Because they would hire the person in hopes of new ideas.