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by speby 9y ago
> Politically it's a difficult problem, because the old solution of making more money available is getting out of hand, but what politician wants to stand up and tell people they can't go to the college of their dreams just bec
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> Stated preferences are very different from revealed preferences. Maybe better worded as "Stated preferences are very often different from actual behavior." On the other hand, it is worth noting that I am sure _at least some p
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by speby 9y ago
There are definitely quite a few people out there doing this. This guy is neither the first nor the last to be doing this type of product channel arbitrage. There is an acquaintance of mine who lives no more than 8 minutes from me who does
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>The "track careers of people you rejected" idea is an interesting one, but depends very much on how public people make their careers. I really like this idea. This reminds me a bit of the "anti-portfolio" that some V
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by speby 9y ago
Maybe but that also assumes economies can actually be prepared for recessions. For starters, that means knowing what pieces of the economy are in a state that could trigger massive sell-offs and value destruction. Remember that the housing
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I agree. With the exception of all but the fewest scenarios, a hiring decision is not to going to come down solely to one-dimension like this. It's also painting with a very broad stroke that all hiring managers think and/or behav
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> The problem with giving people more money to stimulate demand for those things is that it only solves half of the problem. Healthcare is limited by the supply of doctors so no matter how much government subsidizes it, the amount of peo
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I believe this is true no matter what. In a large enough organizations, decisions are going to be made that not everyone will find they like or agree with. Sometimes, this may be because even though the right answer was shared or discussed,
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> my family moved to the states from moscow ... Right there, there was enough wealth that you ultimately transferred for what was far better prospects in the US than in Russia. This was probably a very smart move that others with much le
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by speby 9y ago
You're implicitly making a common mistake confusing value creation and value capture. Yes, it is true that developers writing the software for Google's search engine and Gmail and other products, particularly the early developers
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by speby 9y ago
>Since when did marketing nudity become a praiseworthy thing? That's the beauty of nudity (and of art). You don't have to like it. No one is forcing you. What you choose to praise regarding nudity and/or art is up to you.
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by speby 9y ago
There are tons of literature, books, articles, and more already out there, written over decades, that talk through starting a new business. Even material specific to starting a software-based business if that is what you are after. The chan
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by speby 9y ago
Couple things regarding law firms and lawyers... based on my experience working at PageVault, a startup in Chicago that creates and runs an online evidence/webpage scraping and gathering service for case discovery for law firms: 1. Law
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A law firm is typically an LLP structure. LLPs are common even outside law firms and there is nothing I'm aware of that says only accredited/bar member lawyers can be the owners of these LLPs. Where are you getting that info from?
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And likewise, are there more initiatives to get men into jobs that are more heavily skewed towards women?
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by speby 9y ago
It is much easier to demand novelty rather than repeated validation since most academic-based research completely stops at trying to apply said research and found conclusions to a real thing. Because if they were to go and apply their fin
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by speby 9y ago
> so common that we overlook them all the time. And this reminds me of the definition of "progress" that goes something like this: All the things you can do (or accomplish) without thinking. This would apply to so many things t
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by speby 9y ago
Audio recognition may be apples and oranges to self-driving vehicles. But as it relates to autonomous driving, audio recognition (and I don't mean speech but general sounds) is something nobody has been talking about (at least publicly
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Yes, in the same press release that indicates how much money it also saved people who shopped and bought there that either previously didn't shop there or bought less because the prices were higher.
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Ever hear of deer? We eat them, too, and even domestic ag as well. They also aren't "needed" and even tend to cause environmental issues of their own in the wild in certain areas. As expected, they also are recreationally hun
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I have absolutely changed my behavior with regards to how public I decide to voice a view or opinion. Most of the time, it isn't that I hold some view that I know to be unpopular but rather it isn't always even clear to me which &
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by speby 9y ago
Thing is, we are naturally not diverse at all (in part because our nearest ancestors with whom which we, at one time, did have reproduction compatibility with, are no longer here): https://www.ashg.org/education/pdf&#x2
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They still don't make a lot of sense. Bootcamp grads getting titles of things like "Lead Developer" and some salaries as much as $180K? I'm not buying that.
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Yep, indicted just means being charged, which generally means a trial to result in a guilt/not-guilty verdict or out-of-court settlement.
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Both are not great but unintentional is "better" than intentional. The kind that involves intent is generally the kind that is done in a conscious manner (i.e. doing something one knows is sexism but you do it anyways, almost like
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by speby 9y ago
Yep, this is the same sort of bullshit that Sexpertsexchange (experts-exchange.com) used to to do. They performed "cloaking" that let the searching index the entire page of content and then when regular users visited the site, the
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Maybe but that means the search engine had access to the article's contents "for free" and therefore has a copy of that content in its index. If I am not also able to access that content the same way the search engine does (a
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"Everyone" does not find their own homes online. There still many, many buyers and sellers who are not online or, if they are, may not utilize or minimally utilize real estate sites like Zillow. Furthermore, while many buyers may
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by speby 9y ago
Although it would be a fairly decent extra amount of work ... make the quiz available in the top 20 languages and have the person choose which language to view the quiz in.
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No, it's a regular loan and there is no collateral upon default. Additionally, they typically are not able to be thrown out in bankruptcy either. As a last resort, many student loans are federally guaranteed (so imagine if the borrower

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