yeah, my default search engine is bing. But sometimes you have the feeling it probably has less stuff in its database than what baidu has crawled and collected. Out of habit I rarely use 360 or sogou so I don't know how they fair compared to baidu or bing.
Yeah, I've found Bing to the best option when I'm in the mainland, only because all the local search are even more terrible at english.
When I need to search in Chinese, baidu is the least terrible (but still really bad). Sogou isn't too far behind, but it's index is not as fresh, in my experience.
- Hedge funds can be quant (i.e. computerised models) or non-quant (humans analysing and making judgement calls).
- Prop-trading shops or family offices do the same things as hedge funds, but are not open to the public, benefiting from less oversight or compliance requirement. Jane Street is an example, better (actually successful) examples are Renaissance Technologies and Soros Fund Management.
- Quant funds can be prop shops, hedge funds or mutual funds (or something in between like managed futures/CTA funds).
What about crypto currency makes it hard to regulate? The US Gov regulates all financial transactions, including face-to-face exchanges of cash, which is just as untraceable as crypto currency unless you have the budget to follow everyone around in spy vans (which the IRS does not).
2. Unless you coordinate internationally, the nations with less regulation will launch successful businesses on it and dominate the market - imagine US having some crazy internet regulations in 1996, and other nations not having them. We'd be having this discussion now not on Hacker News, but on Новости хакера, or on 해커 뉴스. And US economy would be a few (dosen?) trillion dollars poorer.
I think the founders of e-gold and LibertyReserve can tell you all about how hard it is for the US to regulate financial services conducted over the Internet using databases and tokens but over the planet by actual people and corporations.
Apples and oranges. You can't sieze the server or domain name and turn off cryptocurrency. That guarantees that the back end keeps running. Then your only way is to regulate the usage of it, but when that can be obfuscated with things like tor, VPN, public WiFi, etc it's going to be incredibly difficult to do any sort of meaningful enforcement. Add decentralized 'smart contracts' such as what ethereum has and it can be run beginning to end in a fully decentralized way.
And summer associate positions are a slightly more professional version of summer camp. But I guess the firms make it back when you come back as a regular associate...
Have you ever been to Shanghai? Or any major chinese city? This is such an uninformed comment - you can find fresh salads in the 100s of Wagas around town, in supermarkets, etcetc.
And I don't know what you call chinese food culture, maybe the traditional one 100s of years ago, but nowadays raw beef in hotpot restaurants as appetizers is very popular and sushi/sashimi even moreso, even if you go down to t2 cities. This is chinese food culture right? What chinese people like to eat nowadays in 2017, not like 1850 food culture
Don't agree at all, I find the same attitude in many major cities in the world ex. Sao Paulo, Shanghai, NYC, Tokyo and others - it also strongly depends on who you talk to.
Yeah I've lived in a lot of places and I could see NYC (and I could see Hong Kong too; most definitely not Tokyo, nor Shanghai nor Sao Paulo unless you're just talking about wealthy neighborhood ex-pat communities). I think it's an env that's hard to find, at its scale anyways.
That's an odd thing to say about Tokyo, considering it's something like a mixture of LA and NYC. Anyone who wants to make it in the arts or entertainment (both large industries in Japan), moves to Tokyo.
Yes, they don't (and maybe never will) have the same kind of tech entrepreneurship as the valley, but there's no shortage of ambitious people there.
