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>so why hire someone for 5-7% of the purchase price

What's a few hundred basis points of exaggeration when trying to make a point, right?

>who doesn't have a college degree

Anecdote time: I know well five brokers, all who have degrees, one with an advanced degree.

>and has been in the industry for 3 years or less.

Now here, you have described Redfin agents almost perfectly. Huge turnover, low compensation, bad broker work and no long term interest in a career that facilitates a race to the bottom.

> Furthermore, notice the incentives if you're a buyer literally everyone in the transaction from real estate agent to mortgage broker wants the price to be as high as possible.

Yes some buyers can avoid involving intermediaries, and that's where Redfin and its ilk can work well. But it is a fact that without negotiation skill and deep experience in the product, all that upward price pressure goes unanswered. Markets aren't magic, they are collections of people, and agents who earn their keep are persons skilled at high touch, high risk transactions between people.

> We're going to fix this.

Redfin's had 12 years and what's more, its flat-rate business model predates the web. Would you like a few more decades?
Risk vs reward. An insurer only wants the gains, but without taking a risk on the outcome? That's why you have insurance -- insurers just need to have proper risk management in place and correctly determine a price they want to charge to insure an event.

A festival that has had 10+ annual successful runs will likely be (much) cheaper to insure than a startup project.

If drugs and/or alcohol are the problem, then you raise the premium to account for that.
This does not necessarily follow. I have (ahem, my username is not anonymous but I don't think this is controversial anymore) enjoyed porn of a nature that I wouldn't necessarily participate in. You can also enjoy porn that is completely fantastical and thus impossible to participate in, such as the infamous "hentai", or (I will never understand this) that "my little pony" porn genre, or from an unrealistic (or is it... fantastically realistic?) flash game such as "Super Deepthroat" (introduced a while back to me by a female Redditor who claimed she could ONLY orgasm to it, perhaps surprisingly), and if this article is to be believed, human women are generally turned on by ANY sexual expression, even if they claim not to be, which would ostensibly include scenarios they would be unwilling to participate in: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/fashion/12bisex.html

(To any future employers, friends, clients, interlopers and all others who encounter this after getting to know me... None of this should terribly surprise you. ;) )
As others have pointed out, something doesn't seem right.

There is a red flag in your application and you need to find it.

Are you 50+ years old? A non-citizen (visa required etc)? Degree is from a foreign school?

If no to all of the above then you should be fine as soon as you had a few people review your resume.

If you answered yes to any of the above then the situation may be different.

Edit: ok I checked your profile - you are based in Dublin, and you are not 50 years old... Given your Chinese(?) background, do you have any problems working in Dublin (visas etc) that might scare an employer? Are you a citizen so you are free to find work anywhere in the EU? Would you want to move?
It's been discussed as a problem since at least early 2012, see https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...
Wow.. that indeed was a very very good advices. Thank you so much for your time to give a very detailed list in the areas that I must improve.

1) I did not understand about "most code on the initial commit". I have been updating the code basically every day. Is it because I have a dummy account? Like the accomplishment I wrote in the README, I recently put the dates I accomplish them.

2) About the repos, I think it has a lot because I recently cancelled the subscription. And I can't put them back to private. I will consider paying for the subscription and add back to private.

3) CalendarData is a repo where I can modify it with my app called: "MyAgenda" which is private since it contains a key to make HTTP requests via Basic Authorization.

I will definitely rework my GitHub page. :)
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I rather find the trend going upwards. My 2002 VW Golf 4 Variant (station wagon) consumes 5-6l/100km(47-39MPG) (Diesel), and I often drive rather fast and furious, can get it down to 4,5l (52MPG) by slowing a bit down. Try to find a current car that size and power (1,3tons empty, 100hp) consuming less (measured, not the manufacturers claims).
The downwards trend is not coming from similar vehicles slurping less, but from more people buying extremely small cars, like VW Up. At least in Germany. All my humble opinion.
You say you can do whatever you want with a physical book, but you cannot - you are still restricted by the state from making copies of that book. You cannot take passages from that book and reuse them as your own, unless given permission by the author.

It is still not wholly your own property. It depends on the mires of the draconian copyright system, but there are things I can buy and then duplicate - if I buy a generic pill of a drug, I am fully within my right to use that pill to produce more pills like it, and nobody can sue me for infringing their IP.

Probably the scariest thing is that probably none of us can even reasonably conceive of how the world would be without this spectre hanging over everything. It influences our brain development extraordinarily fundamentally to contextualize that nothing we interact with is truly our own to learn from, because someone else almost always owns the idea behind it.
If you need to comment in the body of a function itself (there is a difference between functions and methods), then your code isn't well-written. You should be able to read the code itself and know what is going on - otherwise, it is bad code.

As far as not-indenting the conditional statement bodies: That is a stylistic choice available to C programmers. If a conditional body is only 1-line, we can make the entire conditional a 1-liner, effectively reducing our total LOC-count and making fundamental understanding of what the code is doing much easier to understand.

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It probably has little bearing. Gay women watch straight porn, and male gay porn. It doesn't mean they are secretly straight and just don't know it.

Likewise watching natgeo animals mating doesn't make someone a zoophiliac.
I love this! If I had to ELIA5 it, I would say: if you get lucky you get rich quickly. If you get unlucky you get poor slowly. So some people will get lucky and some will get unlucky, but the first to get unlucky will get below 100 and the first to get lucky will get above 100, explaining the initial behavior.
>This doesn't really fit with my own experience. I've bought 2 brand new Fords and kept them for about 6 years each. In sum total I had about $100 of unscheduled maintenance for both. However older cars always have expensive maintenance: timing belt, suspension, brakes, and other things all start to wear out somewhere around the 7-10 year mark (timing belt will depend on distance).

So, which option is cheaper?

Isn't that the ultimate question?

In another comment, I showed how a good 8 year old car had depreciated in 6 years (including repairs) as much as a new Forester did in 2 years (no repairs). Even for the 8 year old car, most of the loss was in depreciation, not in repairs. Yes, this included:

1. Change in timing belt + water pump (most expensive)

2. Changing brakes.

3. Changing tires.

Everyone seems to want to avoid $200-500 repairs on their car, but few seem to be concerned about avoiding $10K on the price of the car to begin with.
I wonder what their point is though? Like, are we supposed to be surprised with the shape of the distribution?

Also, while I agree this is theoretically possible to "see everyone hit the maximum amount of money possible for one individual"... given enough individuals the possibility of someone ending up with nearly all the money is close to zero. I've run a simulation with 500 individuals (here: https://github.com/subroutines/DollaBillz ) and it seems like the distribution of money reaches a steady-state. What should we make of that?
Without copyright, this concept actually has traditional grounding in right to repair laws. Not distributing the source code of software is the exact same battle that has been fought for decades between machine manufacturers trying to deny access to documentation about how their machines work. You can have a right to repair legal system wholly independent of copyright.
Wall Street bailouts were necessary to keep our country and economy intact. Most if not all of the money has been paid back. Agree on the war part though, it sucks that we spent so much on it.
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Never heard of any of them either - from the Midlands and used to travel around UK a lot for work and never heard anyone use them in any conversation.
I'm from Manchester but I don't think I've ever heard Mancunian in usage, although I'm fairly certain at least in NH that demonyms are really not culturally significant outside of the national ones. NH isn't easily demonymed, which probably contributes.

Maybe the rules are just different in the US.
In a deflationary environment, you can lend out with 0 interest or even negative interest as long as it is smaller than the deflationary rate.
I think the Linux kernel source code is also very clean and it's worth reading. I prefer its coding style.
Where did you get the idea about what I know and what I don't know about Africa? Is Malaria really mainly a problem for the city dwellers with high living standards? Brasil is destroying their rain forrest. And one reason why they can is because they don't have the same problem with Malaria.
We are growing our own food and exporting excess food to other countries. What do you think we are doing with our land? Just play on it? Only countries who are unable to grow their own food are those who are at war. War which is started by the very same West who pretend to be feeding us.
Short-term, yes, but long-term? Who knows.

The first advocates for abolishing slavery probably weren't slave owners, most of the first to fight for women's suffrage didn't have the right to vote, nor are the first to fight against DRM the ones on the power side of that debate.
Ah now wool would not describe a Scouser. I'm from the Wirral and so I'm a wool to a liverpudlian.
Free software would not go anywhere. The only difference is, without a right to repair law for software in a post-IP world, people writing software may or may not choose to withhold source code. But the trick is anyone who ever gets that source code can (unless under an NDA or contract not to) distribute it all they want. And the receivers of software will be able to distribute it however they want. The profit motive of artificial scarcity goes away, and if you try to use your holding of the source hostage as a way to keep users dependent on you all it takes is one leak to end your monopoly.

That being said, right to repair goes hand in hand with the abolition of IP to resolve these edge cases. The problem of not providing the manual to your distributed invention goes far beyond just intellectual property, and is largely an independent issue, but good right to repair legislation is all encompassing, and is a consumer protection that naturally fits with IP-less software as well.
May want to reevaluate the color-scheme -- it's currently unusable for colorblind folks. Also it works great on a desktop browser, but was too laggy to use on mobile.
I think the most insightful part of the article was the use of HR as a signal. I can see it being a particular problem for companies with young founders who never worked at large companies with HR so there's less awareness of workplace norms, particularly issues like sexual harassment or maternity leave
There's a comment lower down that says Wool is about anyone from Lancashire as they used to carry the wool down...
DRM and other anti-piracy measures are all about making piracy harder, not impossible. It's not an all or nothing venture.

Every little bit you make copying harder results in fewer people copying.

Cntrl C Cntrl V makes it so my mom can pirate. And she did during the Napster days. But she can't figure out BitTorrent on her own. Well, she could, but there is a learning curve, and most people aren't interested in it.

They don't have to make it impossible. They just have to make it annoying.

Easy piracy destroyed the music industry. The other media industries are rightfully suspicious.
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True, but I think Grue3's remark is more about the fact that this Markov chain is not irreducible than the number of states being wrong. Because you can go from the state where one person has all the money to the other states but not the other way around.
Put another way, the key is that for n people and n dollars, you can receive up to n-1 dollars in a given turn, but you can only ever lose 1. Therefore, whoever is lucky early will accumulate faster than they can distribute.
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The article lies. The US still uses and reserves the right to use land mines in the Koreas.
I wouldn't say it is complex, that we have unsigned comparison for unsigned numbers, and signed comparison for signed numbers.
Think of it as "entropy mostly increases". It's theoretically possible that a bowl of soup left to itself could become hot in one corner and cold everywhere else, but it's vanishingly improbable compared to a mostly uniform temperature distribution.
Right, but that information is irrelevant to the cause, it's there to color opinion. Accused (not even proven) fraudster, therefore adds to possibility of fault thru negative association.
And they could all refuse to sign, or demand a much higher salary, due the high risk of that contract easily being broken by accident. 1 stolen unencrypted laptop, or source control checkout over an unencrypted channel, is all it would take.
Reading from your comment, it is clear you are commenting from an ignorant and misinformed position.
Or transition to a system test role that has embedded software with lots of real world hands on work. Your software experience is relevant. Troubleshooting is the hard and rewarding part in common with software development. For example track testing drivetrain software, flight testing gn&c subsystems, testing robotics controllers. Lots of new testing will be needed with autonomous systems.
Man must one day stop being inhumane to animals.
>whereby the cost of insuring cars of 10+ years of age increases.

Have not seen this. Keep in mind that insurers only care about the cost to replace the car. If the car's value is so low (which it will be after 10+ years), the cost to insure would be low too.
By "sender" and "receiver" I mean person, not server. I truly don't understand why you're on about servers and transport protocols when this thread is about social networks.
This is basically what the Gates Foundation does. The primarily focus on infectious disease and malaria is a big one (along with HIV, TB and others). They also dabble in charter schools and some other business, but the goal is always bang for buck.
You can say that, but I don't think the price levels of current media (particularly digital media) are set to maximize profit. I think they're set to embed an idea of high value, and I'm uncertain of the purpose. It could be for legal reasons, prestige, accounting, I'm not sure.

I recently got an Amazon Fire stick, attached to a projector, after many years without any kind of television. Naturally, a projector hitting a 100+ inch screen magnifies any flaws in compression or image quality, so you want to play back good quality media. Amazon generally serves up just about acceptable image quality (I'd say they're about 1 standard deviation worse than Netflix in encode quality), but the prices are just ridiculously high - they're about 10 times more than I'd be willing to pay. As a result, I don't watch anything that isn't available via Netflix or Prime, and haven't bought or rented any other content. I'd spend low thousands GBP on media - I have in other form factors - but not if it nets me only 200 hours or so of content. The prices are just ridiculously high.
To me (from Wales, living in Liverpool) a scouser is anyone with a scouse accent, a plazzy is anyone with a scouse accent that lives outside the L postcode but within Merseyside.
$14T is an absurd exaggeration of the budgetary costs of post-9/11 wars and post-2008 bailouts.
The entire Iraq war/post-war cost $800B, most of the TARP bailout money was paid back. You can claim there were huge knock-on costs to the economy for either if you like, but skipping either or both would not have given the US Government trillions to spend on Midwestern infrastructure.
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Looks like it's not anonymous (requires my email address), and costs $0.15 per GB per month.

What advantage does this have over S3 (0.0245 per GB/month) or OVH ($0.0112 per GB/month)?
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You're not from the Manchester to which the article refers. Here, we are definitely Mancunian.
Exactly. I got the laptop because it's an excellent work horse, has specs suitable for what I need it for (programming), and runs Debian like a champ. The point, which I probably failed to get across, is that I find it funny how Lenovo put so much care into making a kickass laptop, then proceeded to carelessly slap a whole bunch of stickers all over it. Obviously the stickers can be removed but it seems like such a lapse in design quality for an otherwise very good laptop.
I would like to formalise this :)
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Because there's a difference between owning a physical copy of media and owning the rights to distribute it.
Now change the model to introduce even a small bias so that larger collections of money can shift the probabilities of routing that money to them...
> They do take a noticeably longer time to render, however...

That's mostly due to distinct lack of good JPEG2000 decoding libraries. We're building a PDF renderer library and JPEG2000 is a constant pain int he ass due to it - JPEG decompression is hardware accelerated on many platforms and also has a bunch of SIMD optimized libraries. For JPEG2000 there's practically nothing and due to complexity of the format we count decoding times in seconds for some images even on fast mobile phones.
The initial availability of the drugs was from a prescription. If it weren't for the ready availability of the drugs, far fewer people would be addicted.
Yes, the demonym for Manchester, NH is not the same as the Manchester in England. It's 'Manchesterite' in NH.
Could be, but that's just one option. Another one being: purely curiousity. Engineering (and other) minds often think in ways like "What does it look like? How does it work practically?" etc, and that goes for any subject, so if that happens to be gay sex then gay porn would surely be a good starting point (while keeping in mind that the depicted stuff might not exactly represent reality, like a ton of porn out there).
In Welsh classes in school we used to watch Gogs [0] but it was never once explained to us that it comes from Goggledd, nor do I remember learning that word.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VvGbHNBww

Edit: Having just watched a couple of minutes of the clip, it appears that it's independent of language (like Mr. Bean) so I'm not sure why we used to watch it in Welsh classes, but it probably goes someway to explaining why I don't know many reasonable basic words in Welsh.
One reason why we should care about culture at other companies is because it drags down the appeal of our industry. When talented people with lots of options choose a career outside of tech it hurts all of us.
Hmm, in my experience vim is actually pretty good at showing PDFs since not a lot of them use compression for text and other streams.
If it's the most notable bit of public info about the person, go for it. If they're cherrypicking out of dozens of factoids to make them sounds bad, then it's a problem. The same headline could be fair or unfair depending on how it came about.
"you are still restricted by the state from making copies of that book"

Is that true or can you just not sell the copies?

"You cannot take passages from that book and reuse them as your own, unless given permission by the author."

Again, pretty sure that's only when selling things.
Because expectation is linear and the total amount of money in play never changes, we know that the sum of the expectations for each player over a given turn is equal to 0. If no players have run out of money, this means that the expected change for each player over a single turn is zero.

If instead we have m players with money and b broke players, each player still has an equal expected number of dollars received, and the m players with money each expect to give 1 dollar. Summing this, we have a total expected change of (m + b)E(received) - m, which must equal zero, meaning E(Received) = m/(m + b), so players with money expect a change of -b/(m+b) and players without money expect a change of m/(m+b).

This tells us that the expectation for a turn is basically always zero and never gets above zero in a way that allows accumulation of wealth for a single player. So over long periods of time we should expect this to look like a drunk walk with a weird distribution.
This is just the tip of the leaf of the IP tree that is destroying culture.

Since the advent of permanent copyright there is no more commons. The commons stopped in 1923. Disney will continue to buy the US government into guaranteeing there is no common heritage of America for as long as they are able.

It will be interesting to see how, in a thousand years, (hopefully) scholars of the time will reflect on how systemic the damage was to American society to artificially constrain creativity so fundamentally and for so long. It is human nature to take your experiences and reinterpret them in new ways. That is how creativity is defined. But copyright and IP, especially in perpetuity, prevent that, all for what is claimed to be the protection of profits by the original creators, even for decades after the creators are dead.
PNG is an image format which is usually significantly larger than the corresponding PDF document and rendered at fixed quality. PDF is (mostly) a vector format which can be resized at will.
On a side note, where do you find these kind of jobs specific to trading or finance?
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"Inevitably, there will be claims, with spectator liability being the most common, said Nuccio. “Most of them are liability claims: slip and fall, molestation, alleged rape, false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, battery.” "

These cases often involve drugs or alcohol.