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by raincom 4y ago
Low corporate taxes on profits made NOT in Ireland--a special name for it: The double Irish Dutch sandwich
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> Brexit has also institutionalised lying in British politics, Lying is institutionalized long before Brexit. That's why the British is called "Perfidious Albion". Look at how Jean-Jacques Rousseau said in 1762: "The
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There is a name for it: revolving door. This how legally permitted corruption reproduces itself in the USA. There is a prosecutorial discretion. Except for prosecuting mafias (RICO is useful), it is very hard to prove collective culpability
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Or devalue the dollar to the extent that $1 becomes $2. In which case, the person who holds $99 doesn't hold $99 as "raw cash"(nominal asset), but holds $99 worth of real assets. With this inflation or devaluation, his $99 wi
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BIG 4 = EY, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC? Top tier consulting firms are: McKinsey, BCG, Bain
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No, most of the scammers are run through call centers of sorts--be in Africa or India.
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> The fact that they can just print money of out thin air (which caused the inflation) should scare people way more than it did. Yes, crypto bros are scared, that's why they invest in crypto. However, every exporter out there want t
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> Humans are great at salience assessments, and can ignore tons of the examples and features they witness when using their experience This is called the frame problem in AI.
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Stanford, Harvard business schools admit students not based on merit but on pedigree. Just by looking at some one's resume, we can say whether he/she gets admitted to HBS, Stanford GBS. These top b-schools want kids of multi billi
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Collusion among judges, lawyers, and prosecutors helps explain this phenomenon. This collusion occurs due to "revolving door". None of these parties (judges, lawyers and prosecutors) receive any bribes--so it is legal. However, th
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Prosecutorial discretion is how one does political favors.
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It is rampant in private schools. UC is a public school.
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Just take a look at kids of all Harvard faculty, top administrators. These kids get admitted to Harvard. I know of some MIT faculty, who jumped to Harvard, only to have his kids get admitted there. Sure, any testing, any measurement would h
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Just asking your reports to send you a note on what they have done the last year, would help to figure out what’s going on. Some positions are necessary to keep even if they really work two months year, due to institutional knowledge and ma
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There are many problems with this kind of hypotheses: (a) any hypothesis should predict/explain facts that are different from the original data/facts that the hypothesis accounts for; otherwise, it is ad hoc. (b) multiple competin
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This has been the case for the last 7 years or so. In the bay area, apartment managers, who run REI-owned properties, blame the software for yearly rental raises, and that they have no say in how much they should charge rent. Mom'n&#x2
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I’m not so sure about this. I had apple replace battery on my iPhone 8 Plus. Battery life is not good compared to my iPhone 12.
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A person with your skills are good in any devops/sysadmin role, because there are many devops who hardly know how to code. Wish someone hiring manager can take you on some contract role, then convert you to full time.
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Loans create deposits, this whole fractional reserve banking is nonsense taught in many schools.
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Savings don't cause inflation at all. Imagine adding $100K to every one's bank account in the US, and make sure that these accounts are frozen for 30 years; this doesn't increase aggregate demand at all.
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Not for juniors,of course.
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Netflix and Facebook are tough places to coast or to rest and vest. Other places, if one just meets expectations, he/she is fine.
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Despite inflation, prices of many goods are cheaper today: look at laptops, monitors, TVs.
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In this particular case, Infy wanted to hire non-Indians for executive positions so that they can sign more deals.
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He worked there for three WEEKS, not even a month. A weird vibe to this whole saga.
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This is called "problem-situation" in philosophy of sciences. One can understand physics, by studying problems in a historical context--and this field is called "history and philosophy of physics". Wrt biology, it is &qu
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Useless meetings keep many people employed. So, many such folks will consider meetings extremely useful.
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That's due to how faculty is recruited. Ph.D's from tier-1 schools end up professors at tier-2 and tier-3; tier-2 Ph.D's end up being at tier-3 and tier-4. Professors at Tier-1 have better networks in terms of editorship at
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Janet Yellen didn’t want to raise interest rates during the Obama time, and when she tried to raise interest rates during the Trump administration, Trump didn’t like it and didn’t renominate her. Here Janet Yellen was helping Obama by not r
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The plausible explanation for "center-embedded clauses"(CAC) is this: whenever there is an issue of ambiguity about a concept in the main clause, CAC will clarify that ambiguity. If one makes CAC as an independent clause, this ind

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