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by charlesu 7y ago
Would you rather optimize for people succeeding or optimize for people not failing? They are not the same thing.
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by charlesu 7y ago
> If you're smart about it, it isn't. Citation needed. Whether you have something to fall back on in the event of failure has a lot to do with where and whom you're born to. It's pretty difficult to have a fall back o
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by charlesu 7y ago
Candidates from well represented backgrounds are also given two attempts. It depends. In general, most candidates aren't given two attempts irrespective of background.
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by charlesu 7y ago
If all you want is to get ahead delegating, communicating, and politicking are what matter -- and they can be done well in 40 hours or fewer.
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by charlesu 7y ago
Keep trying. I hate to say it, but luck is a factor. The process is by no means objective. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting the right interviewer.
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by charlesu 7y ago
I knew a lot of people at FAANG that were L4/L5 that couldn't solve Leetcode easies. Leetcode isn't part of the job, just the interviews. Getting an offer is not just a matter of solving a programming problem. It's about
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by charlesu 7y ago
Worked at FAANG. There are diversity programs because most engineers are white and Asian men with professional networks composed almost entirely of white and Asian men. Referrals are a big source of talent, so you can imagine what that does
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by charlesu 7y ago
Labor is a market too. I see no reason why we should support government action for one part of the market and accept ruthless market mechanics for the other. Both are important to the health of our society. The concept of "the market&q
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by charlesu 7y ago
Do you feel the same way about the federal stimulus bill? That we should simply let "the market" decide whether a given company survives?
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by charlesu 7y ago
UBI redistributes money. The total amount in circulation doesn't change. So the deflation argument really comes down to: if everyone has money, no one has money. I don't think that's the case. Even in the unrealistic case whe
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by charlesu 7y ago
There isn't really such a thing as acting in isolation in a police department. They work together a lot, even in departments that don't do two man patrols. The police are a fraternity. They have a code. At worst, they actively pro
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by charlesu 7y ago
Should we pay people to dig ditches and then fill them just so that they're working? The relative gap between high skilled and unskilled labor will only increase. At some point, a large portion of society's labor will become worth
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by charlesu 7y ago
Do they tend to work in those jobs? There are people with trust funds working at McKinsey, Google, Harper Collins, Cravath, and Goldman Sachs right now. They all pay well but they aren't places where one has "essentially full cont
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by charlesu 7y ago
You don't need to work to stay rich when you have a $25M trust fund. There are plenty of people who were born rich who nonetheless go to work everyday. They are engineers, doctors, lawyers, consultants, bankers, inventors, teachers, pr
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by charlesu 7y ago
I've noticed that a lot of people who are born rich still choose to work.
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by charlesu 7y ago
$10k a month is a 'sustainable full-time job' for a senior developer once you factor in health insurance and the additional 7.65% self-employment tax. I prefer this model for opensource software. We get an awesome product and he g
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by charlesu 7y ago
It's like asking a developer to build out a feature that will be put into production. For free.
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by charlesu 7y ago
Lunch is free for all students. But when it wasn't, 75% of NYC students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. Stuyvesant students are better off than the average NYC public school. The proposed changes would consider class rank in ad
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by charlesu 7y ago
NYC wants to change to admissions process from being based on a single standardized test to being based on middle school class rank plus a standardized test. Under the current system, some middle schools send a lot of students, some send a
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by charlesu 7y ago
Can you cite a study that shows that Asians have the highest poverty rate in NYC. I'd be interested to see that. As for discrimination against Asians, what are you referring to exactly?
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by charlesu 7y ago
That's an oversimplification of Title IX. Nowhere does it state that a university must offer the same sports programs or even the same number of sports programs for each gender. It only states that women who desire to play sports be ac
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by charlesu 7y ago
Pay is more of a function of where you work than skill. There are mediocre engineers being paid $300K at FAANG and great engineers being paid $100K at Random Small Company. FAANG pays more because it's better able to monetize what its
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by charlesu 7y ago
What is discriminatory about taking active measures to ensure that the tech monoculture does not perpetuate itself? If there are programs for women in STEM majors who need extra support, it is because women in STEM majors may have to surmou
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by charlesu 7y ago
Can you point to a developed country where the government doesn't micromanage land and housing is affordable and plentiful as a result? I can't think of any modern or historical examples. How does less zoning lead to affordable
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by charlesu 7y ago
And private investors wouldn't immediately buy up as much land as possible as they did with single family homes during the housing crisis? Everyone needs a place to live and land is a finite resource. Plus, foreign investors love to us
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by charlesu 7y ago
It's not more reasonable when you consider the property taxes. A $350,000 house looks great until you factor in $10,000 annual property taxes.
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by charlesu 7y ago
An introductory psychology book that didn't give alternatives to g wouldn't be a very good textbook. g is easy to replicate but it doesn't really explain anything. It literally just proves that there's a correlation betw
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by charlesu 7y ago
I don't think that's the case. $530 is nearly 10% the median household income. And that's just healthcare. Keep in mind countries with higher tax rates aren't just getting socialized medicine but vacation days, parental
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by charlesu 7y ago
Maybe but in this case, a lower barrier to entry wouldn't have helped but regulation would have.
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by charlesu 7y ago
I have never heard of a company struggling to hire due to reputation. Low wages or lack of qualified workers, sure. Reputation? Never.

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