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by firstplacelast 3mo ago
I don't think other cultures are driving much of the trend for educational check marks. I remember my dad and uncle talking about the awkwardness of being asked where they did their MBA's by colleagues/clients in the late 90s
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by firstplacelast 3mo ago
I was talking to my aunt, who has never been much for technology, during covid. Never really had a tv in her home, etc. She's late 70's maybe early 80's now. Anyway, I was asking her how she was doing with all the chaos and s
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by firstplacelast 3mo ago
Until we are able to reliably simulate cells, organs, and entire human bodies in silico, we will not be able to move the needle too much on drug design from an AI stand-point (IMO). Like others pointed out, the massive bottle neck in time a
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by firstplacelast 7mo ago
While acts of war separate couples and would confound the analysis a bit, I think there is typically a big spike in births following wars. Baby boomers most notably being born after WWII. Optimism is dynamic and not a set threshold, wrappin
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by firstplacelast 8mo ago
Stock prices are very forward looking, so if half the hype being sold about AI is true I would expect most software-centric companies to be devalued by wall-street (as the test, deploy, support should be automated in the coming years...acco
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by firstplacelast 8mo ago
From a US perspective at least, you are right but also wrong. Like yes, it's cheaper to buy raw potatoes and dried beans and cook healthy food vs. ultra-processed "junk food." However, when most people attempt to eat healthy
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by firstplacelast 8mo ago
I agree here. I more often see bakeries selling sandwiches that they make in house (although no clue as to the volume/financials of it), but rarely (never?) see sandwich shops doing in-house baking. The independent ones out-source to a
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by firstplacelast 8mo ago
It never made sense to blame AI in the first place for tech layoffs. You have a new tool that you think can supercharge your employees, make them ~10x productive, be leveraged to disrupt all sorts of industries, and have the workforce best
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by firstplacelast 9mo ago
Earlier this year was playing around with the idea of creating an app to track job applications and the subsequent interview process for candidates. Then using the data to give users insights into companies and roles and how responsive they
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by firstplacelast 11mo ago
Might be wrong about this, but being so far removed and seemingly immunologically resistant is exactly what makes it a dangerous combination. Viruses mutate and recombine at an astonishing rate, so 99.9999% (?) of viral entities won't
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
That's like saying smoke detectors should cost thousands of dollars bc they can save a 500K+ building. That's a poor way to look at value in these situations. It's cheap and easy to make, so it should be cheap to the consumer
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
It also prevents wages from rising, can't find anymore local talent at 80K/year so you hire H1B at that wage. If that didn't happen, wages would rise until they found someone local. I think something like equal pay and then a
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
Well that's sort of the fun things about psychiatric "disorders", in many of them you can genuinely ask is this difference with the brain actually harmful unto itself or is it harmful because of the way society is set up? I h
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
I date men and don't think going against TOS or laws is okay even in the name of 'safety'. This app doesn't bother me and frankly I think more apps like this should be allowed, but it is hypocritical to think this should
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
Hiring managers and HR area increasingly only open to unicorn candidates that have the exact amount of experience in the exact tech stack. While a few of those people exist, it's definitely more likely they end up interviewing people t
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
While I agree with you, in high-school a buddy of mine was going on a weekend trip a couple states away and made a whole power point presentation to another friend's parents to convince them to allow their daughter to go. He also gave
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
Maybe the reality is most jobs aren't that hard once you have some baseline skills? While I don't love this interview process, I'm certain there are plenty of great people filtered out of the standard interview process in big
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
I was at a get-together last weekend with mostly non-tech friends and the subject was brought up briefly. Seemed to be a fair amount of excitement and use by everyone in the conversation, minus one guy who thought it was the "devil&quo
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by firstplacelast 1y ago
Tie minimum wage to the cost of housing on a per city or per zip code basis. When the middle class and wealthy are negatively impacted by their restaurants, grocery stores, etc becoming expensive (or shutting down) due to labor costs then t
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I unfortunately agree with this take, but her (probably) being a crappy person and looking to monetize her experience is exactly why she worked there and there is likely a lot of truth there under her bias. Years ago, an acquaintence was an
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
What? I went to an American public high school, there were/are plenty of kids who are very smart. 8% of my graduating class were in the uber-advanced honors math track. This is in a flyover state outside a small city. I also used to wo
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
That's exactly what I mean though, agree on something that actually means something. Not certs that are just a checkbox and you still get grilled bc many people don't believe they much value or others believe are a negative signal
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I've been working on learning PySpark this week, going through exercises to learn syntax and what-not. Avoiding ChatGPT bc I didn't want to be spoon fed anything. I couldn't figure out how to sort something in descending orde
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Big companies and small need to agree on some standards and create qualifying exams that they will actually accept as proof of competence. Degrees somehow don't prove anything, experience doesn't, blah blah blah. It's exhaust
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
They're probably just confident in their ability to mentor. A lot of jobs just aren't that hard. Many people struggle to accept this about their own line of work because they think it undermines their intelligence. Find smart peop
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Anecdotally, if there is any extra step after submitting a resume I notice my response rate is much much higher. Whether an email to verify information in their ATS or a small test, just any secondary step. I attribute it to so many people
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I worked in biotech / pharma for a little over a decade, a big chunk of PhD’s are doing work that doesn’t require a PhD…as in open to someone with a MS or PhD. And then mamy jobs “require” a PhD, but I’ve seen what they do and it’s sem
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Why is the problem always rich people? They're going to do what they're going to do. The poors need to hold themselves accountable and stop working for unsustainable wages that can't get them even a small, run-down home. They
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
Do companies really want to solve it? Why hire so many MBA's when the nerds will wreck and devalue each others contributions/potential?
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by firstplacelast 2y ago
I agree with this to at extent, but will give a brief anecdote. My dad was/is a hobbyist woodworker and that's part of what he did on weekends. Typically late spring-early fall. However, 90%+ of his projects revolved around home i

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