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Comparing privacy advocates to anti-vaxxers is a bad-faith tactic that steers the conversation away from the technology.
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Companies cannot perfectly measure your programming skill and most software companies don't conduct in depth algorithm interviews. Most of the hiring decision is based on your likability, social skills, previous job history (including
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The iron law of wages was based, among other things, on Malthus' demographic theory. Modern economists are highly critical of it. Supply and demand are sufficient to explain the wages of cooks and dishwashers: anyone can be trained in
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>The same thing happens with teachers, nurses, firemen, police Maybe there's something different going on there since government salaries don't respond normally to market supply and demand. Perhaps a better way to track the tru
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Sounds like your company is dying if people who don't understand labor market economics are overruling managers on hiring decisions.
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Right now restaurant work is too complicated for robots to do it as accurately and quickly as humans. There are hundreds of micro-skills that a prep and line cook needs to perform very well in a restaurant and most of those are specific to
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This only demonstrates that people with high status in academia can admit ignorance and get a good result. I can speculate that the author would get very different results if he professed ignorance at his first job--I think coworkers who fo
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Vietnam Combat Artists Program
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