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The ridiculous part is being offered to work for fewer money as a "quant" for some ridiculous bank. It's not just MV = SALARY / WORK and they are looking for someone who does the least 2 * WORK (developer and mathematician). They are also multiplying that by the supply of suckers willing to...

While it's tempting to ignore everything else and just think of yourself "I can do it, I can be THE BEST and beat all these hundreds of horribly well prepared guys willing and capable to do Anything (like me) to win a fight". I tended from early age to add probability to computing an average...

Ever since I was a kid I realized I have a knack for maths. My kid has it too btw. He walks through second-grade math with the effort of picking feathers while pretending they're weightlifting (realized early any effort to win a battle is rewarded with more, harder battles). But it's a...

If you wonder some dark secret there's not much to it. He didn't just help the Partisans, he was a Partisan himself.

Legal assisted termination of life when end is within high probability anyway. My father just made it to 81 today. Hard to believe he's born in the same year as the guy who composed this (Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering euro disco and electronic dance music.)...

Preventing poverty and poor people and what to do with them after the fact nevertheless.

I feel generous today so I'm raising that to €100. It's a net loss for me, you're aware of it, right? It's not like I'm hiring Bjarne Stroustrup. At this point, all the investment into a guy I can afford is net negative on my side. I have to teach them a bazillion things they don't know...

Makes sense. I'm not a supporter of gun ownership in general but I'm 100% convinced that if Russia had a similar second amendment and gun ownership with US at the time, the horrors of the Gulag and communism would have never happened.

US data points to about 3.5% / 100,000 of gun owners using them to commit homicide. No other developed world comes even close to that number. Romania's number is close but looking at similar countries, the numbers vary wildly and the quant in me says it's a just statistical noise due to division...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/26/world/us-gun-culture-world-comparison-intl-cmd/index.html

There was a Hacker News thread recently that I found interesting, it was comparing gun ownership and violent crime using guns in the US vs The World. Unfortunately I can't find it right now, will post the link if I can find it. Anyways, while correlated with the number of guns per capita, the...

I once was a staff member in one of the many teams trying to capitalize on the success of the early breakdance wave. Cloning these guys that is: "The Flying Steps is a B-boy crew formed in 1993 by Kadir Memis ("Amigo") and Vartan Bassil in Berlin." BERLIN. European. Haven't heard much of that...

5 LC was 2001. $200 for a whole month, 12 - 16 hour workday. Now he's free to get €240,000 per year if he's capable. In the meantime I'll teach him how to do that and give him $100 for what he understands. If he gets all I learned in 15 years in just one hour, I'll double it to $200. But I have...

Get it now. Not much related except I alone am the "median household income in the US" here so my wife can afford to "I don't need to take this":

100 bucks for 8 hours a week (one day per week), 4 weeks a month. $100 / (8*4) = $3.125 effective. But month registers as 160 hours full time so if you make $100 full time in a month, that's 0.625 / hour. Dunno where you pulled your 1.25 from.

I'm a programmer making 100 LC / hour using 50% - 99% of my brain capacity depending on when I get a break of luck or not. By definition you can't use more than 100% and by experience using more than 50% on a regular basis is gonna kill you worse than cancer does. My brother is a high school...

Pretty stable in the last 30 years, LC / USD was =~ 4.

He sure doesn't since he's smart enough to understand the difference between natural (paid $) and rational numbers (paid $$ but in compensation for xxxxxxxxx the effort). My brother uses some 1% of my mental capacity to make 30% of what I make teaching high school math. If I were to do it again...

I've got a replica of 1850 Colt Revolver, manufactured by Denix. In close quarters combat I'll stab you with it then break your skull with the handle. But in real life now I'm scared shitless to fire a Glock at the free gunrange nearby where I'm legally allowed to do so.

I want to / need to / have little option but to hire my nephew to work on the software I'll be using as a registered investment advisory LLC operating within EU at the moment but wink wink, US is on the map. He's second year in the same University I studied. I started on 5 LC (local currency)...