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Re:Deaths Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace
on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:16AM (#10329938)
As someone who knows many who went into this field, some who burned out and some who didn't, it's one thing to describe the challenge of 100 hour weeks, and another to live it.
Biglaw is similar, but the gulf from 80 hours to 100 hours is very large.
Re:Harvard is a 'hedge fund with a university attached to it'
on Sunday September 20, 2015 @12:01AM (#10246515)
I am positive there's some sort of problem with these numbers and a major false comparison going on, but this doesn't seem fair either way.
Re:California Is Sitting on the Solution to Its Drought Problem
on Thursday June 18, 2015 @04:56PM (#9741561)
> giving landowners farther upstream and closer to the waterworks greater ability to extract water
This is not exactly correct. Water rights in the west are governed by prior appropriation. It's in a sense first-come, first-served, but has to do with who first made "beneficial use" of the water, not who is farther upstream.
"Disputes arose when newcomers made diversions upstream from existing operations, because water was so scarce that dividing the flow among multiple miners could make it useless to all. Early farmers faced identical conflicts. The solution, through much of the West, was a new conception of water rights whose central tenet was “first in time, first in right.” Proximity to the source counted for nothing, because miners and farmers sometimes had to move water long distances. The critical factor was the date of first use."[1]
[1]http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-disappearin...