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by csa 5y ago
Welcome to HN. You’re relatively new here. Patio11 is one of the grands hommes of this site. I strongly suggest you have less certainty and more curiosity when you come across something like this.
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by csa 5y ago
People keep saying this. It’s trivially easy to get a mailing address for a relatively small amount of money (less than an hour of panhandling). If someone is committed to getting a job, “mailing address” is not getting in the way.
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by csa 5y ago
Are you (or they) suggesting that the 4th interview meaningfully reduces the number of bad hires? I’m guessing not. It’s poorly designed and/or poorly implemented hiring strategies that lead to bad hires, mostly through a lot of noise
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by csa 5y ago
> Cost savings are reflected once in my bottom line Recurring costs and savings of the same are very real things, and there is a ton of money to be saved by streamlining this for many businesses that have grown without pruning and/o
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by csa 5y ago
I have seen many employers who look for unicorns rather than using optimal stopping ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping ) for positions that are more flywheel multiplier positions rather than existential p
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by csa 5y ago
Equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome has been a debate for a long time. Check out commentary on Jeffersonian versus Hamiltonian thinking for discussion that is more intellectual and less emotional. Example: https://
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by csa 5y ago
> Improving pitch accent, on the other hand, does change how you are perceived by natives 100% agree. Nailing accent helps smooth some wrinkles as a foreigner.
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by csa 5y ago
> Well you admit yourself in your 5th and 6th points that I'm right. We might be talking past each other. I’m speaking specifically of non-native learners of Japanese. I think you overrepresented for non-native learners of Japanese
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by csa 5y ago
Things improved slightly, then the program got reduced and then cut due to less demand. Somewhere in there, they got creative and had folks who passed Farsi take a 3-month Dari course to bridge the gap between Farsi and Dari, and those folk
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by csa 5y ago
I’m pretty sure this person was learning Pashto or Dari. The materials were mostly (all?) developed in-house. If they were learning Dari, they would have been better off just using externally-produced Farsi textbooks since they have a more
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by csa 5y ago
> First, you don't need 10k kanji to read. About 3000-5000 depending on what you read is enough. You’re still grossly over-representing what is needed to read Japanese. 1. 10k characters is utter nonsense. I assume that people c
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by csa 5y ago
American here: 1. I have had some incredible Kabuli pilau. I hope everyone gets the chance to have some. There are quite a few restaurants in the Bay Area that serve it, but homemade is best in my experience. 2. Spotted dick is a cake (stea
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by csa 5y ago
> It's not the order, it's the frequency when analyzing a corpus such as all newspapers. It’s definitely not that either unless you have a very specialized corpus. From https://www.manythings.org/kanji/top2
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by csa 5y ago
There are some interesting ideas in here, but I feel like the author left out a lot of the story and many other possibilities. 1. The author basically says that, due to fonts, Japan focused more on “applications” computing rather than syste
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by csa 5y ago
Stripe has been doing this for at least a few months now… maybe since last year. It’s a nice feature. Frankly, PayPal has been doing a version of this for years where they would put a hold on your funds and then (usually) offer you a loan t
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by csa 5y ago
> feature-limited Saas offerings that are so damn proud that they focus on One Thing And One Thing Only when customers want just one affordable app to handle all their work As a general rule, these two would be very different target mark
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by csa 5y ago
> Can you imagine if it was written today, what would they use to make it approachable for young soldiers, emojis and memes? Take a look for yourself: https://fieldsupport.dliflc.edu/ Spoiler alert… no emojis or memes.
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by csa 5y ago
1. These students are almost always sponsored by the their companies. 2. In addition to technical knowledge, the students are also exposed to other future executives in other industries. This network can be very powerful.
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by csa 5y ago
> Also the fees page suggests that it costs at minimum, 550k, and if I'm reading it correctly, 1.5m. Fwiw, those are HK$, so about $193k USD.
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by csa 5y ago
Not bad for a 1943 field guide. 1. It’s a quick read. 2. It has a clear list of dos and donts. 3. It explains what the soldier’s mission there is in a broad sense (defeat Hitler). 4. It has quite a bit of quick-and-dirty info like language
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by csa 5y ago
> For example only union workers being allowed to plug power cords into the outlets at trade-shows - at great cost - and similar shenanigans that basically seem to only increase cost and reduce productivity. The fee for the electrician u
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by csa 5y ago
> It was a time of stronger worker movements, unions, emancipation and policy aimed at the larger demographics of the public. A lot of the things you mentioned only developed during the time when there was (or seemed to be) a compelling
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by csa 5y ago
Knowing some of these people and having candid conversations with them, the answers I hear (which I pretty much 100% disagree with) are: Mask requirements in a pandemic? = attack on personal freedom/liberty Taxes? = not a problem… trum
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by csa 5y ago
I just asked my nephew (17) and niece (21) about this. Both went to good Catholic schools in the Midwest. Neither had to learn cursive. They say that they haven’t hand written assignments for many years. My niece, a university student, does
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by csa 5y ago
Yes. Schools stopped teaching it (even many “good” schools). People largely don’t use it except for signatures. I personally switched to block letters a long time ago because I can’t read my own cursive when I am writing quickly. My penmans
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by csa 5y ago
There are many high school students who would love to be earning a decent income as a trash collector rather than sitting in a modified prison doing stuff that won’t impact their life in any positive way.
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by csa 5y ago
For businesses that have not been aggressively monetized, the $5k range is not an uncommon number. This is often due to the creator not being interested in monetization. A $5k price tag is roughly $100 a month in profit/SDI (seller dis
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by csa 5y ago
> If I’m your boss, sitting next to you and in full view of your screen, and I’m there for 8 hours working, will the average person work a real 8 hours? You probably get a few weeks of “real 8 hours” before your best employees find somew
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by csa 5y ago
Outside of the US, elite athletes are often members of non-university clubs. These clubs are supported well and often have very good funding.
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by csa 5y ago
It’s a business decision and it’s law. 1. If a certain sports outcome (e.g., beating a rival, league championship, etc.) will lead to an increase in alumni donations, then it might be considered prudent to invest some money into that progra

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