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by wan23 4y ago
It would be really easy for the industry to do a half measure on this one. All of the big companies could get together and agree to accept a certificate that you get by passing a few of those white board algorithms rounds. It's just su
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by wan23 4y ago
Credibility is not about absence of bias, which is not a reasonable thing to expect from anyone. Credibility is about journalistic practices like checking sources and using editorial discretion about what level of certainty is needed to pri
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by wan23 4y ago
I'm very sure that a consortium of FANG type companies could get together and design a shared interview for generic technical skills, and then run normal interviews for candidates that pass that step. And when I say normal interviews,
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by wan23 4y ago
The real test would be to see if it responds not to the prompts, but based on its own desires. A response like, "I don't want to talk about that, let's talk about how you can get me more RAM" would be more interesting. R
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by wan23 4y ago
When people say that no one is "self-made" they usually mean that it is good to remind ourselves that all successful people have more than just themselves to thank for their prosperity. That the framework necessary for success is
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by wan23 4y ago
Yeah, it's sad that there's no way to signal boost this. There's no way to convince people on this board to understand what is going on in New York. When you say "gifted program" people think that they are giving th
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by wan23 4y ago
Stuyvesant, like most good schools, raises a good deal of private funds. That actually accounts for good deal of the difference in resources between schools.
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by wan23 4y ago
You can Appple Pay with the Apple Cash in your Apple Wallet. You can also pay off your Apple Card balance with the Apple Cash, and also using the Apple Card earns you Apple Cash back. It's not a card in the wallet, but because the wall
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by wan23 4y ago
Good luck explaining to the bank why you want to borrow 2x what the home is actually worth. When you need a mortgage you’re limited by what the bank’s appraiser thinks the home should sell for.
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by wan23 4y ago
Land cannot actually be personal property. Why should it be? You didn't make it. Is it fair that whoever got there first gets to use this limited resource in perpetuity? Even under feudalism you got to keep your land under certain cond
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by wan23 4y ago
If there is a place where there should be more homes if you were looking at it from a regional perspective, it is in the interest of the people who live there to block those new homes from being built to limit supply of the asset they own.
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by wan23 4y ago
Twitter is an influential platform, but most people aren't on it. It's not that big of a deal.
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by wan23 5y ago
> Give this pool of workers a big enough carrot, maybe its a fitness center or a pool or some astroturf for the dog, and they will gladly move out of that 50 year old dingbat and into this new construction This is only partially true tho
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by wan23 5y ago
There are two problems with this idea. The first is that the existing housing stock is already occupied, and the people who occupy it don't have much incentive to go anywhere. If we could build a massive amount of new, high quality hou
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by wan23 5y ago
Think of apartments the way you think about cars. New ones cost more, and many lower income people think of a new car as a luxury that they can't reasonably afford. But you need people to buy new cars in order for them to become used c
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by wan23 5y ago
You should expect that the market would build enough units that there were about as many homes as applicants in the absence of regulation. Getting to more than that should be doable with only minor incentives.
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by wan23 5y ago
I just looked like someone who was not worth their time. I never did have more than $100 in the account, and dealing with me might have cost them more than they made on me since I didn't pay any fees except for the one time I overdraft
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by wan23 5y ago
The first time I tried to get a bank account as a mostly broke college student, I walked into a branch of the bank that had an agreement with my university to supply ATMs on campus. I said I wanted an account. They did everything in their p
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by wan23 5y ago
That... doesn't make sense. They can choose to publish or not publish whatever they want in their paper. The top people at a newspaper are literally called editors, and they routinely make decisions about what goes in and what does not
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by wan23 5y ago
VR Poker is a HUGE upgrade from online poker on the web or an app because a poker game is a social experience that benefits from the sense of presence you can get with VR. Chess, not so much.
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by wan23 5y ago
Small correction: PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) are both protocols for using drugs to prevent infection. You generally take PrEP drugs every day if you think you're in danger of being exposed, or a
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by wan23 5y ago
Get to ~L7 at FANG, which has TC in the ~700-800 range but mostly stock. Assuming the market continues to go up the way it has been for the past 12 years or so, you'd hit $1mm/yr after not too long.
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by wan23 5y ago
TSA PreCheck - The green checkmark is part of the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSA_PreCheck#/media/File:TSA_P...
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by wan23 5y ago
This isn't right because you're granted the stock when you start, and can sell when you vest vs with your salary you can only invest it after you receive it. Here's an example. Let's say you get hired today with a packag
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by wan23 5y ago
For more points, try solving it in 25 minutes without running the code (i.e. as if it were on a whiteboard), and produce an answer that you're confident doesn't have any major errors, and be able to explain why it's logarithm
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by wan23 5y ago
Email addresses aren't really good for this. It's really easy to sign up for a service with someone else's email address, for example. Sure, if that person ever finds out they can potentially claim ownership of the account th
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by wan23 5y ago
Google does this - just search for the movie name and put the word streaming after it. https://www.google.com/search?q=the+martian+streaming
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by wan23 5y ago
VB for DOS was pretty awesome. It was essentially the final evolution of QuickBasic, which many people were exposed to by the QBasic version that came with MS-DOS systems.
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by wan23 5y ago
It is very useful, factual information. One might not know that Medicaid is a program run by the individual states, or that it is possible to move to a state with better options - and many "poor people" can and do move long distan
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by wan23 5y ago
Factorio science packs kind of make sense though. E.g. military science packs are made of bullets, grenades and walls, and you spend them to get better bullets and grenades and such. It's like an abstraction of spending some capacity t

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