lapsedacademic

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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Is that true anymore? Everyone I know is always on the job market, even folks who haven't jumped employers in 10+ years are regularly in idle conversation with the job market. But, the honest answer to your boss's question: what
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
The observation isn't that opposition to big tech is always irrational or partisan. The observation is that Big Tech plays the role of Powerful Boogeyman for both the left and the right in polarizing narrative construction. Ofc non-
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> If you want to subpoena information, you need to be specific and targeted On one hand, a congressional subpoena for "non-public moderation discussions and policies" is broad. On the other hand, there is certainly some vers
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> What leads you to call that probable? Because people with guns who said they wanted to kill her entered the capitol with their guns and started looking for her. E.g., from one charging document: "Thinking about heading over to P
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
I'm in an awkward situation because I'm in R&D, so every job I've had uses DS/A style stuff intensely every day. The engineers I hire are mostly there to help me with my work, so they need the DS/A style stuff.
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Thanks for your research. That makes a lot more sense.
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
So don't merge their forks?
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
-1M for a religion degree from Talmudical Seminary of Bobov... where tuition after aid is $7,549. ...how do you even spend $1M on a religion degree that costs less than $10k/yr?! Surely this is just actual straight-up white-and-black f
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Honestly, sounds amazing. If I have code where that isn't literally free labor for my business/project, I'll keep it closed source. If I have code where that's free labor but also competes with or commodifies my business
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> Yes, but you chose a specific article to post to refute a specific claim. Yes it does! I think you're misreading OP's post. What was OP's claim? >> The most accurate predictor of a person's lifetime income
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> What you want is a study that shows that people from lower income quintiles that go to college have a higher lifetime earning than people from the same quintile that didn't go to college. Maybe that exists? if it did, I'd im
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
I see. Makes sense. I was thinking more about "general social status", rather than job-specific stuff, because that's how I interpreted OP. > We also continue to interview in ways that are more accommodating for college g
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Thanks. In any case, I'm not sure why we're discussing cherry picked datapoints when someone already posted national averages...
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> best predictor But why? What are the CAUSAL relationships between parental earnings, educational attainment, and child earnings? The children of doctors are more likely to become doctors, but saying that educational attainment is t
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> Stop this.... I question the statistical literacy... Ugh. Why? You asked for a statistically grounded conversation, so let's do that. Let's start, for example, with pdf page 25 (and surrounding context) of https:/&#x2
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Two issues: 1. Latency. We really needed messages to go out to everyone all at once. 2. My personal phone became unusable for the rest of the event because people thought that number was a general event organizer contact mechanism. This was
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> assuming 7% return Tuition has been increasing at 8% per year.
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> Not sure where it can get cheaper than Ohio. Apparently lots of places, since the national average is substantially lower than the Ohio numbers. But, more importantly, both UCLA and Ohio University are flagship R1s. Likely literally
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> but generally there is significantly lower comp in Canada Right, I figured. This is entirely orthogonal to the discussion about the problems with higher ed in the us...
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Texas Tech is a fantastic school. If he chooses to go there and majors in a STEM field, he'll have a bright future.
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
they're asking why academic courses and more hands-on practical/technical courses can't be mixed? I think they did answer this: it's because hands-on practical/technical skills are hard to learn and people who can
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
1. That number seems way off. What are your assumptions? 2. I haven't looked at the data, but I'm going to go out on a VERY short branch here and assert that the entire delta between US and CA tax rates is not consumed by high
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Three things: 1. There actually aren't many low-paid adjuncts in hot fields. The CS and Eng departments subsidize the Math department, and STEM+finance+premed+nursing subsidizes all of the humanities. A philosophy adjunct is probably
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> why was it impossible for me to add an aircraft maintenance certification through my school? Because schools can't bullshit maintenance certification curricula and aren't willing to pay qualified faculty. See also: the alar
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> the social stigma of not having a college degree People have been saying this for decades, but is it still really a thing? Perhaps on the coasts? If you're in a small or mid-sized city in the midwest or the south, it's almo
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
There are two sources of "magic": 1. Efficiency. Canadian universities deliver similar/better products at much lower cost. Not just cost at point of use, but actual "amount of money spend annually to deliver education&qu
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
> If they don't use SAT scores then what should they use instead? The answer depends on institution type. Highly Selective Institutions: the admissions process is so hands-on and personal that I could believe they are able to get
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Stuff you learn when you start interacting with the petite investment property class... Contact your city councilperson and state rep/senator. Public policy doesn't need to punish this sort of behavior, but we should at least stop
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Rate limiting. About a decade back, we used to use the email approach at a non-profit I volunteered at. Annually we would need to send a bunch of texts of a short time period. Think "once a year event". Eventually we had to stop u
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by lapsedacademic 5y ago
Yeah, places like MIT are where I got the model. Seeing how my peers were treating at places that are not like MIT is how I got the motivation to care. Tippy-top programs in any particular field already operate in a way that treats grad stu

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