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Well, UC doesn't consider your skin color in said evaluation (the evaluation criteria is constructed in a weigh that does boost racial diversity, but that's different from considering at the individual criteria), and it has simila
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It's top 7% now and it has a holistic system to handle students outside that cohort. The reason this exists is that it's effectively an affirmative action program for both urban segregated schools and rural schools, which combined
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The covid rule changes to UI were more flexible. You could leave/not take a new job due to covid concerns: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Califo...
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Wasn't true at all in my days at Dropbox. Seniors not only were interviewing; they were building the interview process.
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From experience cost shopping, Stanford tends to be by far the worst. A simple EKG would cost over $3k, compared to around $1k or so at other providers. Though just a few years back, it was like pulling teeth to get the insurance negotiated
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Note that that is "burn" in the sense of giving people enough immunity to prevent future hospitalization spikes. We likely can't achieve herd immunity for a disease this naturally infectious, factoring ability to mutate. (R0
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It's not 7% requiring hospitalization - it's that only 7% who would have been hospitalized had they developed an infection are hospitalized if they catch covid (relative, not absolute odds) For the record, ~2% of flu symptomatic i
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Have to disagree. It's overly optimized for getting every tax deduction over speed and the result is most users wasting tons of time. Example: I know every year there is no way my itemized deductions will exceed the standard deduction.
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Not really. All of the investment tax pain I deal with yearly exists to prevent some sort of loophole someone exploited in the past.
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In these discussions, there's often conflation between absolute improvements across society and ability of society to alter the rank ordering of students (or cut variance between students). Various environmental improvements have impr
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There's leftists out there who argue just that. https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Smart-Education-Perpetuates-Inju...
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The main difference is not taxes, but how loose employment and business regulations in the US are vs. EU. In general, it is much easier to fire people in the US ( https://smallbusiness.chron.com/compare-us-labor-laws-europe..
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Fascinating post. I'm personally optimistic on interviewing.io - it's both more useful for candidates (interview practice) and stronger signal for recruiting companies, but this is such a difficult market to break into for reasons
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> For undergraduate Berkeley has a 16% acceptance rate and Harvard has a 4% acceptance rate. Berkeley EECS is sub-7%.
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> For a big enough company, you can collect a few data points via Glassdoor[0], levels.fyi, etc to make sure that they pay in the range you're looking for before you even begin the interview process. Agreed though in practice that j
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A particular problem with doing that is discussed in the post; you risk everyone's time being wasted if the company will never be able to meet your target.
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Given the small country issue, a better comparison would be Israel. It has a thriving startup scene while only having 10 million people.
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> n a fair society, with equality of opportunity, it should be equally likely for a child born in a trailer park to become high income earner as it is for Bill Gate's child. That is the normal social mobility we should expect in a d
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Source is at https://www.paradigmiq.com/2021/05/19/nearly-7-in-10-america... . First off, note the wording (which is actually "we should be able to discuss racial justice issues at work"). This ques
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> who happens to be born poor Yes, that's troublesome, but it is inherently impossible to solve this. Less poor parents generally educate their children better (or at least keep their children in better environments), so this is di
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Why not? I don't see tech say getting worse than it was a decade ago in terms of school bias. If anything it is better thanks to hacker rank, triplebyte, etc.
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> it makes them classist and racist. What do you mean by these terms? I'd argue that they only are if the results, conditional on future college performance, are biased by class or race. Are they? The article you linked doesn't
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> With a 0.95 R^2. That's not the R^2 of your SAT based on income; that's the R^2 of average scores within an income bucket. Predictability based on income is far, far lower with other factors more significant ( https:/&#
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> People try to claim that it really doesn't matter where you go to college. That's not true. There's probably edge cases, like for some startup founders or supreme court justices, but for the more "advantaged" t
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While long continuous rule likely indicates being less than fully democratic, it doesn't per se mean it is. Japan's LDP was in power for 38 years straight and only was kicked out of office by an economic downturn and corruption sc
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> 1. Singapore is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship, although a well run one. That's a pretty strong claim. The Economist at least classifies it on the lower end of "flawed democracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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Well, Austin is humid and really hot. Reno arguably is better weather wise, given proximity to Tahoe. But a lot of this is network effects. University of Nevada doesn't have the CS strength of University of Texas, so you don't ha
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3% CFR, not IFR. Even Spain hit only a 1.2% IFR early in the pandemic ( https://covid19-projections.com/about/#assumptions ) The worst-case realistic number of deaths for the US is around 1.2 million. With hospital col
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Ethnic diversity is relatively new (it was rarely discussed much 10 years ago compared to gender, at least as far as goal settings was concerned) -- and how is it not arbitrary? The "major groups" used are entirely arbitrary (yes,
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Traditionally, tech diversity referred to gender diversity, in which case, yes tech companies (especially engineering) are very skewed for a white collar position. Note that this post is about gender diversity. If you attempt to extend it

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