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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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I think it will be a cyclical thing. The PE firms actually do run those businesses much more efficiently, but they also become homogenized and that's offputting, which opens the door for new entr…
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Those companies are only at risk of insolvency if their debt is variable rate or has a balloon payment due soon. I imagine most PE firms are smart enough to avoid those risks. Banks are also incentivi…
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Do you have data on that? The most recent data I've seen shows physician pay going up.
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> the average physician pay has not kept pace with inflation for about a decade now This might be true for primary care and family practice. I don't think it's true for specialities. And …
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How would top management get rick quick with no exit? Equity presumably went to 0, so their compensation is the cash flow they got from their salary while Convoy was in business.
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You actually can just offer a (not very large) amount of money and get access. The fees aren't even that large and they are public see [1] for example. The startup costs for an HFT would be compa…
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> I mean, the first person on their "Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism" is Jeff Bezos No, it's an anonymous Twitter account, you read the name wrong, "Beff Jezos" (sic), not…
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Given the wide variation in quality among US healthcare organizations, and the fact that Kaiser has been consistently one of the better ones across most quality metrics, I think you are wrong and are …
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That seems like a reasonable amount for the CEO of a massive health care system. Not an easy business to manage and someone who can manage a business that large could do lots of other things. Kaiser i…
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I associate prediction markets with libertarian economists, EAs just happen to like them too.
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The way to drive out middlemen is to allow competition to make the market more efficient, which will cause people to get outraged at the people who profit from making it more efficient (same thing tha…
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People are answering this wrong and focused too much on the site needing to have the same functionality as HN. The spirit of the question is where do other professionals (musicians, doctors, real esta…
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Texas produces the most renewable energy of any state, so the world doesn't map as cleanly onto right and wrong as you assume.
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They were successful when they were trading at lower frequencies and they hired people who implemented successful strategies that are pretty well known at this point to come work for them. People like…
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Wait until you learn about the biotech industry, they often go public with no revenue. I don't think there is anything wrong with this though, markets are pricing future growth, which may or may …
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I recently read two books about industries that previously seemed dreadfully boring: property/casualty insurance, and community banking. I'm not sure what possessed me to read these books bu…
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Yeah. And the people you network with in a HUMINT job aren't hanging around doing drugs for the most part. They are working in industry or government. Probably a fair amount of drinking but mostl…
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I know multiple people with clearances who have used marijuana and significantly harder drugs as well and were honest about this on their clearance paperwork. I obviously don't know the specifics…
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You could already get a clearance with past marijuana use (and other drugs) but I guess this would just make it so someone couldn't be denied a clearance solely for that reason.
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Not really about history of technology as a whole but the book Computing in the Middle Ages was really fascinating. Made me realize that lots of the challenges software engineers face are much older t…
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Humans spent thousands of years in a pre-truth world believing all sorts of crazy things, and many of those societies produced great things and had people living normal lives. It's only been the …
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I think you would change the prior in that situation under the assumption that it indicates some sort of underlying shift. I'm not sure that there is any theory guiding how you do that though.
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I like the analogy and think what he's describing is a big reason relationships fail, but I don't think he's right that you need to make sure scar tissue never occurs in long-term relat…
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He didn't show that full scans are better than indexes, just that they aren't obviously worse when the data is small.
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In finance most people aren't going to end up as an MD (Managing Director, not doctor) but that's probably a goal for most people entering investment banking. I don't think it's un…
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I know someone who owns several and is quite wealthy. He started out owning a small, shitty car wash and he gradually built/acquired more and upgraded them. You succeed in business the same way y…