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by poster123 8y ago
Even if you think admissions should not be made based on a composite of grades and test scores, you should still be looking at them alongside more subjective measures. You are not doing someone a favor by admitting them if they have a high
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by poster123 8y ago
The report discusses what fraction of employees are female, black, or Hispanic, but it does not mention the demographics of the hiring pool. If, for example, the majority of Google hires have undergraduate degrees in computer science, you n
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by poster123 8y ago
If they are going to recruit budding programmers, they should not discriminate on the basis of sex.
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by poster123 8y ago
I don't like this change. Research has found that a combination of high school GPA and SAT or ACT scores is the best predictor of college grades and graduation rates. The SAT and ACT offer fee waivers for low-income students, so requir
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University of Chicago Drops SAT, ACT Requirement for Admissions(wsj.com)
3 points by poster123 8y ago|3 comments
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Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving from the Warehouse to Headquarters(bloomberg.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts(nytimes.com)
4 points by poster123 8y ago|5 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Why is it so "shocking"? Discussing racial differences was more common in his time, and being a great scientist does not necessarily coincide with general wisdom. I hope this story will help people realize that we should not ban t
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Affordable Housing Is Your Spare Bedroom(nytimes.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
How many tech workers would like their terms of employment, including compensation, to be decided by negotiations between a union and a company?
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by poster123 8y ago
That just encourages companies to subcontract out low-wage work rather than doing it in-house. The low-wage workers themselves are not better off. I believe that regulations on 401(k) plan participation have already encouraged companies to
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by poster123 8y ago
No thanks. Inevitably there would be political pressure on the Federal Reserve to extend "loans" to the poor that become handouts.
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The Senate’s Nuclear Insurance: space sensors would be a game-changer(wsj.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Interesting post, but referring to people with college degrees as a "privileged, candied elite" shows some bias. Besides the will to get things done, other important differentiators are knowledge, talent, and intellligence.
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by poster123 8y ago
It compiles and runs fine with g++, but when I try Microsoft's cl.exe version 19.00 I get messages such as xneural.cpp(22): error C2398: Element '1': conversion from 'double' to 'float' requires a narrowin
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by poster123 8y ago
Arguably a tech worker should be underinvested in tech stocks, because if there is a tech bust, as in the early 2000s, both his income and his portfolio could plummet. Economists would say that you should try to diversify your labor incom
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by poster123 8y ago
I'm also a CFA and a closed-end fund investor and agree with this advice. People interested in CEFs should check out the Morningstar CEF forum https://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/forums/100000... .
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Britain Has Gone Nine Days Without Wind Power(bloomberg.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
The woman profiled has six children. The government cannot afford to meet all the financial needs of people who have large families and then decide they want a college degree.
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by poster123 8y ago
O'Reilly Data Newsletter (data science and machine learning).
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Would You Like Some Strife with Your Meal? (Portland)(wsj.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
"Asian-Americans outlive whites by an average of nearly 8 years" according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567918/ . Differences in life expectancy across countries are probably due
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Software Is Eating the World-Tesla Edition(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Fossil-Fuel Divestment Is Futile(wsj.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Chess.com Acquires Komodo; Launches New 'Monte Carlo' Version(chess.com)
6 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Blocking 500M Users Is Easier Than Complying with Europe’s New Rules(bloomberg.com)
3 points by poster123 8y ago|2 comments
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Road Map for Choosing Between Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning(fharrell.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Political threads do appear on Hacker News. I regularly see threads about universal basic income. I wonder why this thread, which I started, was flagged. Political bias?
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Do Pro-Women Groups on Campus Discriminate Against Men?(wsj.com)
33 points by poster123 8y ago|17 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
If I create the same web site without the option of paying to have a mugshot taken down, is that legal? In general I think extortion should be defined as threatening to do something illegal unless paid.

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