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I'd say prob not. Everyone has dealbreakers, and I would guess relatively few have "with a view" and not anything else.

Just took the GMAT as an accountant and did substantially better on Verbal than Quant.

The idea that accountants are good at math is nonsense. Accountants aren't taught any more math than marketing majors.

I know they fund similar companies all the time, so I wouldn't think that's an issue.

Don't reuse contact solution? Uh-oh, I do this. It stays in the case for 2-3 days typically. Apparently I should stop...

Second the HP though I don't code. I ended up picking up a new HP Spectre x360 for all my laptop needs but keep the 14 around for use in a pinch. Incredibly useful little chromebook and I only paid 300 for it. Was worth twice that easily.

As others have mentioned, the problem is that people don't know what presidents do.

Academic decisions are made by provost, the second in command.

A president's job is basically only fundraising from mega donors and being at events mega donors are. If they are excellent at that, any president is worth more than $1 million a year. All the rest is peripheral.

No one should wear clothes that look professional?

The hardline against even business casual dress by some people boggles the mind.

Ironing appropriate clothes will make you look substantially more put-together. Try it please.

I understand your point, but I think people put too much into the actual act of getting married. For my wife and I, I realized essentially nothing changed between us. The only real change was that I was no longer "living in sin" according to my family, and people pester us more often about having kids.

Also people make the mistake of thinking getting married will change things for the better. It never fixes issues.

Where are the job postings if they exist? I'm interested.

I've been in 3 minor car accidents, ALL 3 have come where someone read-ended me in this way. I am constantly conscious of this and am always keeping an eye on the car behind me when I'm in this situation.

Odd to see Gibbs on this list. Guy's an animal. I do listen to his music all the time during work.

Comparing the market capitalization of Bitcoin to GS or MS is pretty useless. Only interesting info here is the basic fact that today's price hike is bringing BTC close to a $100 million market cap.

Pretty crazy to think about for a thing I passed on buying for $20 a pop.

I always get this feeling as an excel power user

There are so many reasons for this.

Self-selection of confident, motivated men is a part of it.

Membership/leadership in a fraternity is all about social contracts. You come to college with 0 or maybe a few strong social contracts, and students fail/drop out due to lack of support all the time. Fraternities provide 30-60 strong social contracts freshman can rely on.

Fraternities also (by way of current major makeup) select for certain majors. I was a highly involved business major, and recruited many other business majors into our chapter. We had 1 art major member.

The mission is to make you a better person. Most buy into that and do it. This leads to higher income.

Thank you for this explanation. I have a basic understanding of the good and bad of gerrymandering, and this really cleared it all up.

How long? I tried once in college and it broke me after less than a week.

Seems pretty nice.

I may consider the Pixel 2 XL over the IPhone X in a few months, but will definitely need to see some reviews of both first.

The removal of the headphone jack is devastating. I listen to music nearly every waking moment, so I am unsure about moving to Bluetooth whenever I use headphones.

Just wanted to +1 for the note about the TS/SCI clearance. I am a contractor, and my firm will pay an employee $10k for referring a new employee that already has one. It took me 2 months of non-work before I received my interim, and it's only because it was pushed up from the head of my client.

If you have a clearance, companies in the space will be falling over themselves to recruit you.

I've always been really impressed by YC and have followed the company for a long time now.

I just hope that long-term their strategy works. It has already scaled pretty well, but it feels like there will be a next big step for them soon. I'm just not sure what that will be.

I've come to a point where I really think no company will ever have even competent InfoSec practices. I've worked at a fortune-100 (terrible due to scale probably), a small InfoSec consulting firm (terrible due to lack of scale and non-caring leadership as ironic as it is) and now a global firm (terrible due to scale and poor training).

I have no idea how to solve this problem, it seems impossible.

Sorry I didn't see your comment until now.

Right, it is intended to be a for-profit business, not really interested in tackling better education for everyone.

Long term I think a great case will be made for taking some % of students that couldn't afford it, just based on their accomplishments/skills to date.

Rich parents send their under-14 yr olds to a summer camp (just for fun & MAYBE some sports lessons) and pay 10k+. For a program proven to boost their kids' chance of success, I think they'd be willing to pay even more than that.

Disagree. Coding is one of hundreds of skills that can lead to a good career, and coding is absolutely not for everyone.

Football/dance are extra-curriculars, I am all for coding being an option early on (high school?) but not anytime before then. If a kid shows an interest in coding, they'll find a way. And parents nowadays are more aware of it as a viable option

Even if this seems worth it anyway, a teacher "trained" in coding is not a programmer I would trust to teach my kids coding, and hiring CS majors would be monumentally too expensive. At the end of the day it's not practical.

I know it doesn't fall neatly into any of those categories, but I'd love some feedback on my idea:

I want to create an organization that is essentially a 6 week retreat for students before they begin college. Selecting the best applicants possible, they will go through rigorous training to become their most successful selves, covering Academics, Social life, Health, and Lifestyle topics. Elements of secrecy will help it's applicant pool, I was heavily inspired by the Bohemian Club.

Long term, the alumni network itself will more than make up for the cost, in turn making the applicant pool stronger and stronger.

It's an aggressive plan, and requires years of building up from the ground. But it's my dream to make it happen.

1k people getting 1k a month for 5 years = $60 million. At the end of the day, an expensive group. Really impressed by the ambition here, and hope for great success for the project.

Basic Income research will be vital in the future when it actually becomes a genuine piece of public policy. Although I have little faith it will be used effectively by politicians/decision makers.

I have a "purpose" I am aiming to achieve I suppose.

I believe there are some universal truths and that they are able to be understood by man. I try to identify these very very basic truths, confirm them, then apply them to my life.

I am still young (24) and recently have focused on learning about what other people think those truths are, to give myself a basis of understanding. Part of this is freeing myself from my own beliefs, so I purposefully don't totally follow any religion/political allegiance/ideology. So for example, I have studied some of the major religions (Hinduism & Buddhism so far) and have delved into philosophy. I think understanding what other people think is truth will help me understand.

We'll see how this all goes in the long term, but it has inspired and motivated me to keep learning.

On the career side, I am setting myself to start a PhD in Accounting so I can hopefully become a tenured professor. Helping people is a big part of what I want out of my career, and this falls in line with that.

Totally agree with brudgers, all of that seems to be the case for my wife, who is currently going through a masters program.

In regards to the tech companies, I cannot think of one that would fit this case, and if she is looking for a future career as a clinical social worker, a somewhat related position NOT using a license at a tech company wouldn't be all that relevant.

I actually think I might pick one up. In fact I may look for a 2 for 1 deal on the 6s.

I'm headed back to Apple after having an Android ever since my IPhone 4, I'm just done with Android. I love my 6s work phone.

I think I'll just be choosing between the 6s and a 7.

Yep I've checked it, but it only supports a few of the applications i want to include. Also, the UI and such leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm decided to just start on it. I'll use it to give myself an intro to HTML and Python. So far just a simple page with a clock. But it's something!

This is so damn cool. Can I get on a list to hear more when you're interested in opening it up to the public?

I've got 3 main things:

Feedly as my RSS feed, works well and I am able to browse through it at work.

A "Daily" folder on my computer at home which opens the websites I like to check and read daily.

I'm subbed to... 8 or so subreddits I read daily.