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   by setgree 6y ago

   A few thoughts: * If I were interviewing you, I'd be concerned about whether you could take orders from a supervisor, and, more generally, work well with people that you didn't hand select. (Side note: are you good at those thin
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   by setgree 6y ago

   Thanks for linking to the paper, I confess I hadn't gotten that far in the article. I would say they "aimed for" rather than achieved identification (conditional ignorability) here...a bunch of backdoor baths come to mind (li
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   by setgree 6y ago

   Thanks, I was reading too fast and just took the first number I saw.
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   by setgree 6y ago

   > the average grade point average for the bottom quartile of applicants whom UCLA admitted for academic year 2019–20 was 4.15, but the average grade point average for its admitted student athletes was 3.74 So the student athletes average
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   by setgree 6y ago

   If you had asked me yesterday what percent of students I thought got into UC schools due to personal connection or wealth, I would have estimated between 10-20%. But this report seems to suggest otherwise: > In Violation of University Po
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   by setgree 6y ago

   Consider “Developer Advocate” or “Developer Evangelist” roles. You need to know how to code and be able to correspond with technical people, but your code won’t typically go into production. You might find helping others use a platform to b
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   by setgree 6y ago

   I count 18 sentences of fluff/framing before they say who is acquiring them. Talk about burying the lede! 18 seems like an outlier, but for press releases I’ve read in the “we’ve been acquired” category, I’d guess that the median is &g
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   by setgree 6y ago

   I also figured that out by searching, but what does it mean in context ? I.e. what is the significance of talking to people at that level vs one above or below, and why, given limited ad space, would you include this detail? You could try
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   by setgree 6y ago

   Beyond the creepiness of the tasks required, what sticks out to me is the persistent use of Amazon-specific jargon: > Analysts must be capable of engaging and informing L7+ ER Principals (attorney stakeholders) Does anyone who doesn’t wo
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    by setgree 6y ago

    One great thing about zoning reform is that it's a topic where progressives and Silicon Valley types, i.e. "the grey tribe" [0], have a lot of common ground. I (and presumably many HN readers) support zoning reform for all th
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    by setgree 6y ago

    FWIW, Ubuntu is a 'core value' of City Year, an Americorps organization: https://www.cityyear.org/about/history-values/values/ And CY is the type of organization to trumpet its values early and ofte
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Sorry if this wasn't clear -- I'm saying that I wish that catastrophic plans were available to people over 30 as well. My numbers are based on my own experiences shopping for healthcare in an ACA exchange in NY.
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    by setgree 6y ago

    I'm excited to see where this goes -- both this product and the general idea of using ML to reduce noise in interpersonal communications. A human can read the shorter summary and add personal touches as they wish, but the first pass of
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    by setgree 6y ago

    This is why I think it was a mistake for the ACA to limit catastrophic care to people under 30 (unless you get a hardship waiver [0]). That policy makes the cheapest non-job insurance that a lot of people can get cost >$500/month, w
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Here's an example where nbconverts a notebook and a template into a formatted tex file, and then a journal-ready PDF: https://codeocean.com/capsule/9155944/tree/v1 The nbconvert syntax is jupyter nb
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Perhaps of interest: GiveWell touched on the ‘Worm Wars’ here: https://blog.givewell.org/2016/12/06/why-i-mostly-believe-in...
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    by setgree 6y ago

    I'm sure they did! Kremer is a really important figure in the history of economics, and the magnitude of the effects of his work on deworming are debatable. These things are perfectly compatible. I think the articles I posted might hel
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    by setgree 6y ago

    At an earlier stage, this work attracted a fair bit of methodological controversy, e.g. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/9031909/worm-wars-explained https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/20
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    by setgree 6y ago

    I personally find much of the prose in the New Yorker clear, even inspiring. Especially w.r.t. its travel writing, I don't think any publication better captures the magic and the essence of the experience. [0] [1] I also think Emily Nu
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Some, perhaps. Others would likely choose different careers, or would adapt. FWIW, and I didn't clarify this enough in my post -- I meant this as an example solution of something that would change the incentives rather than the culture
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Tyler Cowen writes [0] that the most important question in economics, to him, is > how do differences of culture — however defined — interact with traditional economic mechanisms involving prices, incomes, and simple comparative statics?
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    by setgree 6y ago

    The part of the video discussing real-time vs turn-based begins around 22:50
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Are all these games abandonware? Even if not, I can’t imagine anyone pursuing a legal case, but it would be the kind of thing I worried about.
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    by setgree 6y ago

    I believe I developed that impression from reading about peace corps projects involving solar panels, that, once the volunteers left, no one has the expertise to maintain, so they just went unused. I am glad to learn otherwise! I’m looking
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    by setgree 6y ago

    I'm stoked to hear that, thank you! I am actually looking at buying some property in the Catskills and I was thinking of adding in some solar panels because I thought it would be fun, and this is welcome news.
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    by setgree 6y ago

    ...Do we think that opium farmers in Afghanistan have the same equipment as your parents' exurb? I would be surprised
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    by setgree 6y ago

    From the article: > "It's just how opium poppy is farmed now," Mr Brittan tells me. "They drill down 100m (325ft) or so to the ground water, put in an electric pump and wire it up to a few panels and bingo, the water
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    by setgree 6y ago

    > For an upfront payment of $5,000 they can buy an array of solar panels and an electric pump. Once it is installed, there are virtually no running costs. I don't know much about solar panels, but I thought they broke down fairly fr
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    by setgree 6y ago

    You are right, the article didn't suggest anything illegal. It suggested instead a strong culture of NDAs. But again, I think something as illegal as the OP post in this thread suggested would have gotten some folks to whistleblow none
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    by setgree 6y ago

    Somebody did write a whistleblower article about D.E. Shaw, it was just about other aspects of their business/affairs [0] > As soon as most applicants arrived at their first interview, they signed nondisclosure agreements. If hire