Beliavsky

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by Beliavsky 12y ago
It's different because the school itself is providing the "scholarship", which is the same as a white/Asian/male surcharge. It is legal for a non-profit to provide race-specific scholarships, which is what the Unite
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
I don't need to answer that question. The general principle is that businesses are not allowed to customers different prices for the same product based on race or sex.
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
From the DevBootCamp web site: "We offer a $500 scholarship if you're female, a veteran of the U.S. Military, or from an ethnic minority group underrepresented in the software engineering field (African American, Chicano/Lati
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Doesn't the following quote from the article contradict the title's assertion that kids are not reading as well? "Despite the large percentage of children with below-basic reading skills, reading scores among young children
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Feeding the hungry without inquiring why they are hungry can enable self-destructive and anti-social behavior such as drug addiction. Do the food banks and homeless shelters in San Francisco help the homeless turn around their lives?
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
The rationale for equal-weighting is that cap-weighting will have you over-invested in stock sectors that are priced too high. If tech stocks have a huge run and double their weight in the S&P, do you want them to represent twice as muc
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
The strategy equally weights the stock sectors in the S&P 500 using ETFs. In a rising stock market this would incur capital gains taxes in a taxable account. If you are saving regularly, you could direct your new investments towards the
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A Weekend With Julia: An R User's Reflections(econometricsbysimulation.com)
5 points by Beliavsky 12y ago|0 comments
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
I have wondered if affluent parents can replicate at least the money part of Y Combinator. $120K is about the list price of two years of Harvard/MIT/Stanford . With a son who loves to program, I have wondered if sending him to a c
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Nowadays there is a lot of talk about "inclusion". What about "including" people who dislike profanity? "Don't mess up the culture" would have conveyed the same message without the bad language.
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
The participation of white men in the political process is especially suspect. No bias there.
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
I prefer this conclusion: "Study Suggests Lower Mortality Risk for People Deemed to Be Overweight" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/health/study-suggests-lowe... .
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Suppose conservative activists push out a CEO because he contributes to Planned Parenthood or otherwise supports legal abortion. Would the Eich critics be OK with that? Many conservatives believe that stopping abortion is as much about huma
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
From the article: "We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public." Clearly people with socially conservative view
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Utterly unfounded speculation about the sexual preferences of other posters does not advance the conversation.
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Homosexuals want to stamp out disapproval of their lifestyle, which explains why people who don't want to bake cakes or photograph homosexual weddings are being sued for discrimination. Homosexuals could certainly find people who are w
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Someday, All Planes Will Be Drones(online.wsj.com)
1 points by Beliavsky 12y ago|0 comments
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Hack, a template for improving code reliability(shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)
1 points by Beliavsky 12y ago|0 comments
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by Beliavsky 12y ago
Considerable research has found that fluid intelligence declines with age. There is a 2006 paper "Age differences in fluid intelligence: Contributions of general slowing and frontal decline". We know that 50-year-olds are not as s
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
I clicked on traitor.
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
An American hero does not end up fleeing to a country like Russia under a leader like Putin. If Snowden had spilled the beans and then turned himself in, I'd respect him much more.
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Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age, and Growth(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by Beliavsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
I wonder if Inbox Zero is a worthwhile goal. My inbox is effectively one of my to-do lists. Since I don't cross off everything on my to-do list each day, my inbox usually has a few dozen messages. I have found that when I move an email
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
Unproductive people can be unproductive anywhere, and it does not make sense for them to take up precious space in places like San Francisco or New York City. They should move to cheaper areas.
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The SAT, Test Prep, Income and Race(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by Beliavsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
"I feel like if we want to start addressing inequality in education, we have to start with private grade schools. In particular, I think that private high schools and grade schools should be stopped, and everyone should be forced to us
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
I think that mass shooters want to kill a lot of people before they die, so the prospect of being stopped before they can do so could be a deterrent.
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
Most professors will not carry guns, but knowing that some may be armed could deter massacres like the ones at Virgina Tech or Sandy Hook.
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Cheating at Caltech(blog.sethroberts.net)
1 points by Beliavsky 13y ago|1 comments
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by Beliavsky 13y ago
Can't you just browse and search "incognito" with Google Chrome?

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