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by csa 5y ago
> How many programs weed out students anymore? A non-zero number at “competitive” schools in programs with reputations to uphold.
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by csa 5y ago
I frequently say that administrators have killed both the education (esp. tertiary) and medical fields in the US. I’m pretty sure both of these will implode under the bureaucratic weight at some point — the financial and social costs of the
813.
by csa 5y ago
> I think that the DoD hires folks with degrees from UoP Most federal government jobs that require a degree only require one from an accredited university. The quality of the degree is not relevant for any but the most sought after posit
814.
by csa 5y ago
> That’s (I believe) fundamentally different than most people who seek college degrees. For many/most degrees in the US, most folks are just going through the academic motions for the piece of paper and/or the college social ex
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by csa 5y ago
> but do all students need to take calculus in high school? Imho, 50% or more of students don’t even need to take algebra. For that matter, that same number pretty much don’t even need to go to high school (although some sort of voluntar
816.
by csa 5y ago
According to Matt Levine’s column today, the poison pill may have just been a tactical move to guarantee time for negotiations while preventing the possibility of a hostile takeover (a potential BATNA for Musk). This seems to be what happen
817.
by csa 5y ago
Disclosure: I own a Tesla and I love it. I wasn’t certain until I drove one, and then I knew immediately that it was the car for me (and it has been great). That said, some of the Tesla marketing, like in the example you provided, is very f
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by csa 5y ago
> I thought the official dogma was that when self-driving cars were in "auto-mode" the manufacturers would be the parties held responsible/liable and pay for any damages cause by their systems. See my response here: https
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by csa 5y ago
I’m surprised that it took so long. Tesla says that the car should be in sight during the whole summon procedure precisely so things like this don’t happen. https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID
820.
by csa 5y ago
Tesla says that the owner is supposed to be able to see the car during all parts of the summon procedure precisely to prevent situations like this. Tesla knows that this system is not perfect. Fwiw, the best use of summon is simply getting
821.
by csa 5y ago
> It's kind of ageism-adjacent, but I wonder if some of it is a bias that expects that past 40 you shouldn't really be needing to apply to jobs by resume drops any more. I think that is an assumption made by people who have had
822.
by csa 5y ago
> If you live in an area that primarily gets electricity from coal plants, the break even point for a Model 3 to gas cars is 80,000+ miles [1]. EVs aren't some magic carbon-negative solution, and the politics Musk plays to get raw m
823.
by csa 5y ago
> It appears you made no attempt to understand the problem. Did I? The article says it’s “stupidly difficult” to find a dumb TV. I think I showed that it’s not. Regarding all the other stuff you said: - It seems like you want the TV make
824.
by csa 5y ago
> my consistent experience is that having a feeding window of about 2-5 hours gets me the best results Another point of anecdata… My sweet spot is at a 4-5 hour feeding window — basically two meals with a short break in between. I don’t
825.
by csa 5y ago
> Optimizing any system for "geniuses" seems very silly to me. I think there is merit to this argument, but right now most US public education actively restrains geniuses via excessive busywork and limited to no access to accel
826.
by csa 5y ago
> Public education is a baseline. Literacy, civics, a bit of math and biology are things that can help no matter what vocation people end up with. All of which is usually covered by 8th grade in the US. HS is a waste for most people atte
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by csa 5y ago
> GS 7 and walk through the steps as normal for that role, jump to a higher GS via a job change/similar. If that’s the case, then they should approximately never get applicants who could also get private sector jobs. I wonder if the
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by csa 5y ago
For a tech periodical, this seems to be a stretch for content. Thirty seconds poking around the interwebs led me to this Samsung 65” 4K “digital signage” for $1125: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays&#x2F
829.
by csa 5y ago
If I read this right: - lots of arguments about things you considered small - issues focused on “disrespect”, which is a perception thing that she had 100% control over - needed to resolve issues immediately - “resolution”, if it happened,
830.
by csa 5y ago
> lack of empathy towards This should be: … inability to empathize with… Poor wording on my part.
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by csa 5y ago
> Decades ago, I read some article on how people with more than 30 IQ points of separation, effectively were incomprehensible to each other. It’s more like “fundamentally perceive the world in a different way”, and generally leads to a l
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by csa 5y ago
> I guess I would have expected a few top Ivies to have significantly lower acceptance rates on the grounds that one could imagine a lot of average-ish students putting one of those schools down just in case they hit the lottery. There a
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by csa 5y ago
> A huge amount of self-selection goes on before an application to an elite university is even filled out Probably a lot less self-selecting out than you think.
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by csa 5y ago
> 1:1200 is probably worse than most selective universities By two orders of magnitude. Ivies range from about 1:20 to 1:10 in non-covid times.
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by csa 5y ago
Just curious, and slightly belaboring a point… Are they in DC? 14s and 15s are relatively easy to access in a few fields in the DC area at a young age (tech and contracting are the two fields I know people who have fast-tracked in the GS
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by csa 5y ago
Apologies if I wasn’t clear… I meant that a motivated and skilled person who enters federal service at the age of 22 in a 7/9/11 position could probably be GS 15 in their late 20s in tech in the DC area. You’re absolutely right th
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by csa 5y ago
> GS-7, and max, maybe, but would be hard, GS-11. I’m guessing that this was actually a 7/9/11 position, with automatic annual promotions (apprentice, journeyman, master, iirc). Still… that’s really low for someone who can ge
838.
by csa 5y ago
As mentioned above, does 5 or 7 produce a significantly better result than 3 (or 2 or 1)? I’m guessing not. Two or maybe three interviews should be adequate for most positions. I think the reality is that most people are pretty bad at sel
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by csa 5y ago
> why would you spend 8+ hours per day doing CEO work when you could spend that time with family and friends? Your family and friends are usually busy working. The only exception is if you roll with other wealthy (early) retirees. If you
840.
by csa 5y ago
I don’t know what point you’re trying to make, but a small midwestern town of 10k in the middle of nowhere doesn’t differ significantly from the “small towns” in my example. There is pretty much nothing in either place. I’ve spent time in s

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