MiroF

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by MiroF 6y ago
There are certainly some rich slacker/less talented people at prestigious schools, though I agree with the main thrust of your argument.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> If you had asked me yesterday what percent of students I thought got into UC schools due to personal connection or wealth, I would have estimated between 10-20% I don't think it's in the double digits for any school. You need
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by MiroF 6y ago
> diversity goal Well, if Cal has one - it's not one that it can target through changing admission practices.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> meaning their parents or siblings are at Stanford and presumably the family will be active donors Not going out to bat for legacy admissions, but it's not always tit-for-tat related to donations and there are other reasons schools
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by MiroF 6y ago
Cal doesn't have a "diversity quota."
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by MiroF 6y ago
The problem is that you can only sell prestige if there is strategic ambiguity between the two categories.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I don't think public institutions like Cal engage in legacy admissions, but I'm not sure? Many schools give a general boost for legacy, but it is not always so tit-for-tat as the transactions that occurred here with Cal. They&#x27
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by MiroF 6y ago
I mean, I live here. That's not true - months of fires in the street? Plenty of valid reasons to not want to move here. The idea that riots and people setting things on fire is like a serious problem for your day-to-day life? Absurd.
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by MiroF 6y ago
So over the span of several months, in a region of approximately 8 million, there have been "dozens of arrests."
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by MiroF 6y ago
> They may not have worked anywhere, so they may not have much of a work record. Large tech companies often just don't take chances on people like this anymore.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> they're generally referring to structural obstacles, I agree, and I'm not saying that 10% increase to social security fundamentally changes the underlying division. I think more drastic action is needed. But I wouldn't
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Restaurants are pretty packed in the places that reopened Not true of where I live in San Francisco > they were pretty packed in NYC until literally the day the lockdowns started That's before people got scared because NYC was
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by MiroF 6y ago
> The low income might get better/more healthcare It was a pedantic point - but taxing the rich intrinsically reduces the inequality of the post-tax income distribution because the difference between the top and the bottom is less.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> So they likely agree the rich should pay more, they just think they are one of them. 1. Pew adjusts for COL in its income distribution, so no. 2. HCOL are HCOL because they are desirable . It's not just a higher cost of living fo
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Poor job prospects and nightly riots I hope you don't actually believe that's what's happening in American cities.
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by MiroF 6y ago
My take is that designing good code has a lot to do with the art of learning what abstraction to construct. Seeing lots people design different abstractions for different use cases is useful.
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by MiroF 6y ago
There's just a really "in" trend right now of prematurely optimizing for scaling up to billions
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by MiroF 6y ago
> even among non-economists Definitely not the definition that people with household income over 150% of the median seem to be using.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Many tech companies in SF/SV you won't get an interview without a referral as a new grad at least.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> that raising taxes won't by itself bring an effective program to fight income inequality into existence. Raising taxes on rich people changes the post-tax distribution to have less inequality, so it does literally bring into place
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by MiroF 6y ago
I would like my government to discourage urban sprawl and encourage density, even in a world where WFH becomes a larger norm.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Most younger people I know (obviously a biased sample) are strongly anti-suburb
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by MiroF 6y ago
> I've literally never gotten a job based on someone I knew The industry is changing for new entrants, and it is considerably different today.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I grew up in a city, I have no desire to live in the burbs in the next decade of my life. I suspect that most 20 somethings view it the same way.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Actions should be judged by their consequences. Size of the resource collected impacts the impact of the consequence.
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by MiroF 6y ago
But what about the overlap? And tax the rentier bracket's what ? The reality is that that professional/managerial bracket has a large proportion of both the wealth and income in America, just because there are so many compared to
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by MiroF 6y ago
Large amounts of government money go towards discretionary transfers like medicare, medicaid, social security, SNAP, etc. Is your claim that you think vast amounts of that money don't get to where they're supposed to go? I think m
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by MiroF 6y ago
> a city of 2 million aka .004% of the population. Oh so it's the population now? I forgot that the whole city of Nashville was infected. Not going to respond further.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/most-americans-sa... Namely what stood out, > Among Americans with the highest incomes – a subset of upper income adults who are in the top 7% of the sample’
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by MiroF 6y ago
There's definitely a dynamic with x% of the population distancing always, x% of the population not social distancing always, and then a certain percent that are oscillating between getting afraid and then feeling safe again - and that&

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