Bartweiss

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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Active duty personnel isn't in the labor force in either status. The full name for the widely quoted BLS stat is "noninstitutionalized civilian labor force". If I have my numbers right, there are ~120M men ages 20+ and ~125.5
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
As far as impact, soldiers (and handymen, etc) aren't counted as "not participating", they're pulled out of the denominator also. But yes, the different pools mean that if men and women have equal LFPR percentages, the i
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
It excludes "unincorporated self-employed" people, which I think covers much of the gig economy. Even more relevantly, it means many construction workers, most painters, etc. are excluded.
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Lifespans are the reason for that, and births are majority-male, so the adult stats are actually even more heavily female. But the 25–54 cohort is gender balanced, and women are the majority starting from 55–64, so the effect kicks in well
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I went looking, and found that "unincorporated self-employed" is exactly as you say, and is 2/3 male. Farm employees are roughly 3/4 male. Soldiers (~90% male) are also excluded. "Nonfarm payrolls" was never me
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
It's a longstanding measurement, yeah. And it's not actually just excluding agriculture, the definition removes a whole cluster of jobs that are especially hard to track accurately, including all of nonprofit employment and uninco
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Math for the summary above: From the BLS stats in question ( https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm ), the total "civilian noninstitutional population" (i.e. labor force) is 260 million. Of the 244 m
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Great question, I just went digging. I found three big factors. First, the "labor force" has no age cap, so there are lots more women alive than men. Second, lots of adult men are in the military or prison, so equal numbers of job
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Interesting recommendation, thanks. I'm curious about the evidence for this "wired to eat" model w/r/t time restriction. It obviously seems plausible, especially in light of this study. But "without counting ca
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out the distinction here. Regardless of how we define each term, there's a notable difference between normal eating within constrained hours and unsustainable/varied patterns between days. The "metabolic s
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Thanks for this. Do you happen to know which, if any, of the announced 7nm chips/processes are actually small enough to involve the problems of 7nm gates? Obviously the names don't carry much weight, and speed can be checked direc
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I've heard both teachers and education researchers argue that once you understand an idea and represent it competently, repeated exposure is the only thing that matters for learning. If people who are using a specific technique get b
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
It seems like most things taught as note-taking methods are actually study methods. Obviously, the hope is to combine the two and automatically create a study tool, but I think that's usually a mistake. In practice, the combination see
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
In fairness, this is part of why the US has moved away from employer-managed pension funds. Pensions are still common in government, universities, and certain lifetime-employment industries (e.g. power plants). But even in good, white-colla
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I've had this problem with every form of structured note-taking I've ever tried. My focus is redirected to writing everything down and ensuring I'm using the appropriate format like a stenographer, so badly that when the prof
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
"Many bootcamp grads are unqualified" is sort of a weird complaint in a field where it's common (and I think accurate) to complain that many degree-holders with a decade of experience are unqualified. It's not obvious to
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
His phrasing is pretty strong, but I guess there's a difference between "ISAs are scams" and "shady bootcamps can use ISAs as scams". In particular, harsh ISAs are almost completely dominated by student loans, charg
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
That stood out to me also. There are sysadmins, even very experienced ones, who have never written code or code-equivalent scripts. But there are lots who have , and "tell me more" seems like the obvious reaction. For that matter
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Does this not happen in Europe also? It's rare for US employees to lose everything , but fairly common for pensions to be reduced to <50% of their promised level. And I thought I'd heard about similar cases by European compani
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
The narrative from firms like Bain is that they use their expertise to streamline failing companies and restore profitability. In reality, it seems that the impact is mostly legal/financial, even when the PE firm isn't a de fa
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Yeah, all very true. Out of all those stories, I'm most surprised SoftBank walked away on Seismic. Maybe they're scared that all the recent unicorns are going to lose value, but it's a pretty safe/standard company that w
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
We can and do draw detailed psychographic categories with a few data points, but it's far from clear whether the results (and especially the details) are actually correct . I think "since the 50s" should be taken as evidence
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
A six month lockup with no guarantee on the other side sounds crazy, but with a cash transfer to compensate and provide runway it looks a lot more reasonable. (Of course, it depends a lot on the missing detail of what SoftBank took for th
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
It's interesting that you cite driving, because I often see people assume this is exercise-linked. Also interesting: the study doesn't address motion, but it did try to control for the circumstances of learning and recall: if the
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Generally, people working night shifts in "normal" settings have worse health and cognitive outcomes than people on equivalent day shifts. (Swing shifts are evil, and do far more damage than either.) There seem to be two main fact
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
As far as "memory recall is dependent on some chemical in the brain", I think you're right. On that front, the study is interesting as "we found a chemical mechanism that's wearing out late in the day". There a
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Bloomberg didn't say possible , though. They said it had happened , and been discovered. Specifically, they said " A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its net
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
It's been interesting to watch "center your social life on work" come home to roost for Google. (And to a lesser degree other large tech companies.) Unionization is the most direct concern for a company, but it's not the
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
And if you're an organizer relying on obscurity instead of NLRB protections, would you really feel safe starting that process by telling prospective members "hey, PM me your personal email" over a corporate channel? If your c
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
The implications of this for all-remote companies are fairly chilling. Yes, in principle, staff could put together outside channels, but it's a significant chilling effect. And without legal shielding, even "using corporate email

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