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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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If there are all these companies using all this unnecessary software that "sucks" then wouldn't there be a huge competitive advantage to being the CEO who said, "hey, we can get ri…
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I thought the nuclear powered aircraft concepts were very cool. None every flew though (as far as we know). Russia claims to have a nuclear powered missile.
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Here is a review by someone who liked the book: https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/08/14/the-habsburg-way-seven... …
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The problem with this theory is that by most metrics the middle class in America is doing very well. Homeownership rates are high (significantly higher than Europe), incomes are higher (again, median …
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Happens for pretty much every hobby with expensive equipment: telescopes, bikes, guns, etc.
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They become legal issues when those cases go to court (which is what frequently occurs)
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A road is usable if you build it piecemeal, that's not true of a railway.
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Yes, it's called eminent domain. But if the government attempts to do so you can file a lawsuit and argue that they don't have a right to purchase your property from you. These lawsuits are …
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It's not just a political problem. It's also a legal one due to the property rights involved.
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Something can be significant and overhyped at the same time. I don't have a strong opinion about any of the companies you listed but if you look at the markets they are targeting they aren't…
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Why would you sell for less than the market price? If I can sell something at $10/sq ft and my costs to produce it are $5 and my competitors are $9 then there is no reason to cut prices. We will …
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You can do this by being a franchise owner too, or by being a real estate agent, or lots of other flexible careers, but he's not choosing those paths and exploring why will help him figure out wh…
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Why do you think building a business will fix the problem you feel? I don't mean that in a rude way, but I think answering that will help you figure out what you're looking for. If the goal …
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Someone is taking the other side of the trade. Presumably they have a reason for making that trade, so I don't see how higher volume makes people worse off. Probably some of those trades are weal…
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Bid/ask spreads are far narrower than they were previously. If you look at the profits of the HFT industry as a whole they aren't that large (low billions) and their dollar volume is in the …
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I wrote a script that looks at C++ files, figures out the dependencies (by looking at what headers they include) and automatically compiles and links out of date files. It makes programming in C++ sor…
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Seems like LLMs will cause the average student to learn less, while the motivated students can learn much more, and more quickly. Personally I have found LLMs very useful for teaching myself new thing…
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There's another type: the Stanford Startup that can't find product-market fit so it markets itself as an MIT Startup.
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I have tried some chemistry problems on the latest models and they still get simple math wrong (mess up conversion between micro and milligrams for example) unless you tell them to think carefully.
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I would argue that most SMB business owners are more entrepreneurial than the average "founder". To me "entrepreneur" connotes risk, and most VC backed entrepreneurs are only riski…
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I asked a friend of mine who is chemistry professor at a large research university something along these lines a while ago. He said that so far these models don't work well in regions where eithe…
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I don't think you need that much context if you start with an organ system. For example, I got interested in biology by learning about how the kidneys work. You can give a pretty handwavy explana…
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That's what happens with the opening and closing auctions currently.
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They already do this for the opening and closing auctions. You can have a market-on-close order or limit-on-close order for example. The market on close orders are guaranteed to fill. The limit orders…