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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Curiosity is a hard thing to squash, but the traditional model of education manages pretty well: Listen to lectures, take notes, feed back what you learned, and then forget it all. You’re not allowed to go beyond the curriculum. Khan Acade
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Certainly it can violate any kind of implied discreteness in the search. I would think that you'd need permission, but then it might not work as well. The best you could say is, "I think we both know X, can I ask her about you?&
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   Dan Kervick: Bitcoin’s Deflationary Weirdness(nakedcapitalism.com)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Entrepreneurs fill the void to capture rent from stupid regulations. Why not start a conference yourself?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   The issue isn't a matter of meritocracy. It's a question of is this bribery or not. It's also most certainly not limited to China. Do top US schools favor the kids of politicians and execs who might be able to impact their
6. 5436.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Having taken care of some elderly, and watched others pass, my impression that living forever appeals more to the young than the old. Some of it may be their bodies breaking down, some of it may be losing old friends and loves, but most of
7. 5437.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great story, and widely applicable. I worked on a very large process and technology improvement program for a Fortune 50 company. One critical piece of the project was a scheduling system for field technicians. After 100+ effort years (do
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   If you mean communication by io, then yes, this holds. Similar to parallel computing design, there are organization design principles to minimize handoffs. For instance designing work and organization so that larger tasks can still be han
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Good post. I like the ideas of managing energy, in addition to time. In a similar vein, one has to manage their focus too. This means delegating things so that one can focus on other things. (Or more correctly, delegate and monitor if t
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Almost half is effectively the same as 100%. You're buying a credential. It's like paying $350 for a weekend project management certification that has no test, and then complaining that you didn't learn anything. Yes, techn
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    IBM may have been, but women of that era made it to CTO and CEO. (IBM has had other issues so I am not defending)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks for following up. For what it's worth, you have a flawed view of Mortgage backed securities. By virtue of the mortgage behind it, it's a real product like a bond. It is the Credit Default Swap betting on mortgage (or cor
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Accepting almost half of undergrad papers seems like a very weak accomplishment.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    eBay is relatively easy. Create a fraud detection algorithm (can work on either side of the business) or a better reliabity metric than pure % approval. Intel is harder as I don't know it as well. Is there enough public info on the c
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes, that too. But what's wrong with giving all those families opportunities in schools that allow it, rather than forcing them into cesspools that people are afraid to close for political reasons?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes - but the reality in most large cities (where the problems are) is 1 union and 1 employer. Once you get to the suburbs, there is a lot more mobility amongst the teachers. If they don't like a school system, another is 5 miles awa
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Good point. Any benchmark can be co-opted, that's why it's useful to have multiple benchmarks. There's a Dilbert that tells the story on it well. [1] This is true for a lot of fields. If you over-optimize on individual p
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I suspect that you'll find it to be some kind of power law distribution, which implies that measures like Standard Deviation won't be so useful. A quick look at the top 1000 that you provided suggests this might be the case. But
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Charter schools don't address the existing problems with public education in regards to many communities being able to have a voice in achieving quality education. Yes they do. You always have a choice of charter school or non-chart
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes. And more accountable. The waiting lists are huge for charter schools. Why not give the parents more options for their kids? As a parent, I would prefer results like these, to the results of failing schools. http://projec
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Here's the strange thing though... Some charter schools do educate the same poor populations, and do it well. The Success Academy [1] is very controversial, but their kids in Harlem and the Bronx do get good test scores. [2] One ca
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was going to tear your response apart, but I think your logic is actually very correct. This is especially true if the employer is a monopoly. But let's say there are multiple employers competing for the superheroes, each with their
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm not a fan of "Look at how I made a quarter million dollars" articles, but paying the price is how to get things done.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is kind of like baseball cards with errors being more valuable than the corrected ones that came out later.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    As a married person, this does conceptually make sense. It's much better to date a friend of a friend than a stranger in a bar. I suspect that there are secrets in the network that could suggest likely candidates. (Just like people
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Lots of good advice. There are people who might say, "This is why you have think things through better in advance" but your situation is what it is. I'd also seriously consider whether his bad points could still be good for
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    You have to take this from the point of view of the source - the Economist is the most Classically liberal (libertarian) source out there. As such they are pro-personal freedom and market freedom. So Uruguay gets it largely on the back of
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks for sharing. (& Thanks to the OP)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My (limited) experience with funding is the opposite. Rather than request an experienced head of marketing, they wanted an experienced CFO to be the adult in the room. I think the question of funding comes down to, "Would you put this
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    You post two company names, and I'll post two ideas.