cocoablazing

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Comment · 8 years ago
Assuming this lot is located in a high-rent, heavily regulated area like SF or NY, why would you assume that a lot zoned for SFR would be assessed at the same rate as MFR, and especially high-rise development?
Comment · 8 years ago
You can profit from undermining the market. Futures volumes may currently be too low to find enough liquidity to use them for financing a major attack but this could change when BB’s start selling them in earnest to clients.
Comment · 8 years ago
This had more to do with safety system failres and procedures regarding operation of critical valves than poison kinetics.

LM designs were abandoned prior to this accident due to availability and maintainability issues.

Comment · 8 years ago
To what end?

The USN has, to a material degree, perfected the compact PWR.

Their experience in fuel design, materials, cooling, support systems, control systems, and processes pose an enormous barrier to new systems other than those that could truly radically simplify the reactor system and yield a huge gain in reduced manpower and increased reliability.

I think the best marginal gains are coming and will come from developments in tactical and ISR systems.

Comment · 8 years ago
The correct term would be “facilities”, but this jargon is only used for corporate/UHNW clients with complex credit needs IME.
Comment · 8 years ago
This business requires many to be confronted with complexity at scale. I think these problems are universal but few encounter them due to the distribution of employees in organizational hierarchies.
Comment · 8 years ago
So they need profit, which is negatively impacted by costs.
Comment · 8 years ago
It’s possible that this code has bugs that have yet to be detected. It’s a fact that quality is important if it can generate losses. Style may not be particularly important, but reliability is.
Comment · 8 years ago
10MM is exactly the market value of the cabin, for as long as the bid stands.

Once the owner accepts that bid, the liquidity in the market has been completely taken, and the likely future market value reverts to ~100,000.

Comment · 8 years ago
Perhaps for anti-money laundering compliance.
Comment · 8 years ago
Apply. I would like nothing more than a flow of applications from smart software engineers with BSs over scientists exiting of postdocing and MCFs.

The skill I look for over all others is an understanding of the standard principles of software design, and principles of testing is a bonus. I want to see that the candidate is honestly interested in our language to the extent that they are familiar with the obvious pitfalls of the standard language features. Candidates who prepared by writing option pricers and passing leetcode challenges won't necessarily understand any of these, because they are simply writing functions.

I assume that anyone who got through a rigorous engineering undergrad has the mathematical preparation to perform as a quantitative developer. This won't be true for all roles, but it's true for all of the QD roles that I have contact with at BB.

If you are interested in a dev role in finance, and see requirements for basic financial knowledge, risk, etc. -- as long as the requirement isn't quite specific, such as experience pricing specific option types, pricing complex products, or with a specific product, I would just ignore it and apply. Many of these concepts are quite simple compared to what SEs are trained to model and implement, and the people on the team who need help know that.

I've seen GPU and C++ skills requested for a Pandas shop. Just apply.

I think hiring managers and HR think they will attract better candidates by adding these things, but it is counterproductive.

From what I can tell from salary surveys, we pay an entry-level dev better than many others. >150 guaranteed all-in first year, and better than that afterwards if you just do your job. Promotion path is good because modern skills are in dire need.

Comment · 8 years ago
1) You did a bad thing. 2) You didn't do a bad thing.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are rooms in some of these facilities that have been known as infinity rooms because no readily available radiation meter would not saturate in them.

The radiation field of a freshly removed power reactor fuel element is so strong that you couldn’t run past it fast enough to survive the dose.

Comment · 8 years ago
The whole private sector is feeding off taxpayer dollars —that came from the private sector. Your comments regarding this are nonsensical.
Comment · 8 years ago
You can, but why trash information that is present when you can leverage it with a different approach?

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