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by swatow 12y ago
I agree that AVL trees make a bad question. But if you're in an interview, you should just answer the question as best you can. If I was asking a question and someone tried to avoid it by changing the topic, I wouldn't feel thre
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by swatow 12y ago
I think algorithmic interviews are good, because they are a kind of intelligence test. In spite of liberal dogma, some people are more talented and intellegent than others, and tests can shed light on this. However, the article does expos
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by swatow 12y ago
I wonder if you would enjoy other kinds of community tech events more, ones that are closer to the technical side rather than the business side. Things like robot cup come to mind. If you are interested in social/environmental projec
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by swatow 12y ago
I don't understand your point. Can you give a specific example of where you think the "classic agency problem" results in useless jobs?
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by swatow 12y ago
Are there really people seriously believing that work is more than a means to an end? Probably, but this argument is mainly a strawman to avoid debating actual classical economics. The classical viewpoint is that no job would exist if it
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by swatow 12y ago
Can you give examples of this kind of job, other than those created directly by the government?
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by swatow 12y ago
The facts and figures generally don’t support the rose-tinted political view of work. Studies consistently show how jobs keep many of us poor while also making us ill, stressed, exhausted and demoralised This whole article is a ridiculous
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A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (2013)(economist.com)
57 points by swatow 12y ago|46 comments
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by swatow 12y ago
Judging from the comments, this article was written around May 8 2014. Can we get a (2014) in the title?
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by swatow 12y ago
How is that an "affiliation". Isn't it natural that people tend to publish on the same topic?
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by swatow 12y ago
Look, people. If you have skills, you should be getting paid 150k+ a year. Please, stop taking menial salaries. You're hurting all of us Not everyone is the same. In my experience, employers are quite discerning when it comes to ind
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by swatow 12y ago
Jobs are not an externality. If you want to help the poor, give money to charity.
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by swatow 12y ago
They should, because there are many things that we don't have sufficient evidence to prove or disprove, and sometimes it's useful to hold an opinion on them anyway. If a person can make the unsupported claim that gender difference
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by swatow 12y ago
This was a very strange report. Skipping to the middle I thought it was about wealth in general, which seemed like a nice counterpoint to the study of poverty. I'd be very interested in reading about trends in people earning above $6
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by swatow 12y ago
ah I didn't even realize you were referring to the video.
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by swatow 12y ago
> Without being able to grasp and think critically about sophisticated propaganda, and how to challenge ideas College education currently involves exposing students to sophisticated (progressive) propaganda, which they lack the skills t
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by swatow 12y ago
I don't see the similarity with patientslikeme.com Apple has created a UI toolkit to enable researchers to directly get data from participants via an app. All control is in the hands of the researcher creating the app. And the app wil
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by swatow 12y ago
If you were in charge at Apple, would you have made Apple Pay unable to buy a Coke?
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by swatow 12y ago
I understand, but it still greatly ameliorates the problem, to the point where cost is no longer the main issue when going to a top school (again, assuming you have the money now). The long term payoff is certainly worth it.
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by swatow 12y ago
But almost all top schools have needs-blind admissions which means that if you get in, they will provide the financial aid that you need if you can't afford it. So it's actually very unlikely someone gets into a top school but th
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by swatow 12y ago
I'm familiar with the theory, however I've never seen a good treatment of how this works with multiple countries. The income and capital gains taxes only apply to shareholders residing in the US. Maybe some of the corporate tax
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by swatow 12y ago
Most of programming is done in something reminiscent of type theory. Actual languages are more complicated because they either are impure (C, C++ etc) or involve non-total functions (Haskell). Idris, Coq and Agda can be reduced to some so
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by swatow 12y ago
I don't see how the opinion of Wikipedia editors is a good source for how rape is defined colloquially. Here is an article that discusses the controversy over force based vs consent based definitions of rape. http://www.newr
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by swatow 12y ago
Yes. This is just the sound of the free market telling you to get a different job.
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by swatow 12y ago
I'm not an expert in taxation, but corporate taxes are just one piece of the pie. There is no way for employees to avoid income tax, and as far as I know, no way for US based shareholders to avoid paying capital gains/dividends t
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by swatow 12y ago
As someone using a colloquial term for anything sexual without consent, obviously. Sex without consent is generally called rape; most people don't have any clue about the exact legal definitions But most people don't subscribe
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by swatow 12y ago
You say that rape is a colloquial term for a range of specific crimes and chide me for not being more specific. And yet the person I replied to was making a positive claim that certain actions were rape. So how am I supposed to interpre
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by swatow 12y ago
How diverse is your workplace? I think that a lot of the differences are not in the workplace culture, but how it is reported. I work in the US and I also have never seen anything like this (not that I would have necessarily seen it if it
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by swatow 12y ago
Can you clarify what sort of coercion was involved? My understanding is that rape does involve physical violence, or at least physical coercion. In particular, "give me a blowjob or you are fired" is not rape, but "give me a
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by swatow 12y ago
Do you honestly think that the UK and America are that different in this regard? Is it possible you're looking for a reason not to contradict the article (not that the event occurred but that it is common or derives from tech culture)

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