perpetualpatzer

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by perpetualpatzer 3mo ago
> high grade + long ago remains a signal Does it? I didn't think people looked at GPAs once you're 5 or so years into a career.
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by perpetualpatzer 11mo ago
Nothing, it's just hard. The problem you trip over is retention of strong employees. Many strong employees are ambitious and need the prospect of progression to be happy with their job. When growth slows below the employee ambition ra
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by perpetualpatzer 1y ago
It would be interesting to see this argument stratified by some measure of college preparedness like test scores, or admission to a 4yr school. If -- as the article seems to imply -- most of the effect is explained by what schools and progr
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by perpetualpatzer 1y ago
So does English. Well, sorta.
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by perpetualpatzer 1y ago
Neither of those answers seem at all dishonest. They just skip past the diagnosed cause to focus on the impact. Maybe the boss being a raging ass is the root cause of the team moving in the wrong direction. But that may be debatable, and
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by perpetualpatzer 1y ago
Why are you leaving your current job questions are typically inartful checks whether there's "something wrong with you." Refusing to meaningfully answer can come across as, "I'd prefer not to discuss whether there&#
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by perpetualpatzer 2y ago
Not OP, but also used the API for music discovery, crawling the related artists network from playlists I'd created to find highly connected nodes. I found that strategy was very efficient at filling blind spots in major genres I listen
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by perpetualpatzer 2y ago
The major costs you're missing are marketing and "plate" (up front cost to produce the content). Those make up most of the total costs. For textbooks, the decision makers are professors (so door-to-door sales to get their att
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by perpetualpatzer 2y ago
The chart you linked stops before it gets to the cohort discussed in the article. The youngest cohort shown is the 25-34 cohort in 2016 would have been born in 1982-1991 ("gen y"/"millenials"). The economist article
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by perpetualpatzer 2y ago
When a company goes into bankruptcy, they still have assets (inventory, a brand, real estate, customer contracts) -- those things just belong to their creditors now. The new owners need _someone_ to manage selling all those things to recoup
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by perpetualpatzer 3y ago
This chart looks like it's mostly geopolitics. The Brent-Ural spread opened pretty significantly in Jan. [0] https://www.neste.com/investors/market-data/crude-oil-prices
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by perpetualpatzer 4y ago
It does, but it can be expensive enough as to be prohibitive [0]. For example, offices tend to have fewer water hookups, fewer breakers (meaning high construction costs to repurpose) and wide floors (meaning lots of windowless units). [0] h
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by perpetualpatzer 4y ago
They can be, and that's a statement about the distribution and consistency of skill in those activities. I see little reason to believe those distributions apply to SAT taking or general capacity to learn (which is what you're rea
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by perpetualpatzer 4y ago
Stay bonuses [1] are probably the most common case. It's actually pretty common in a merger, especially one with a long period between announcement and integration, to hand out parachutes of various metals to key employees. If you&#x27
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by perpetualpatzer 4y ago
Not much. Most peers and hiring managers stopped paying attention to these ratings when they got into college, so the market's perception of your degree is some blended average of the programs' ratings over the past ~40 years. B
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by perpetualpatzer 4y ago
>I'm sure that the answer is "both of course" IANAL, but my understanding is that the default rule in the US is "each party pays for their own lawyers, regardless of who wins"[0]. Of course, the specifics would
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
The discovery and cost structure problems are points a lot of people miss. Textbook publishers are selling professor time in the forms of content discovery, basic homework creation, and basic lesson planning. One expansion on the principle
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
True, but average citizens don't _choose_ to use heavy trucks. I'm not sure of the relative costs of road repair v. fuel, but if you funded roads entirely through a tax on the fourth power of vehicle weight (if that's the rig
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
Bayesian Methods For Hackers is a very popular one. [0] https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
Arguably, it's good for both. Buyers have more quality inventory to choose from and can purchase a home with lower risk of getting trapped in it permanently. Sellers get faster sales with a higher floor on prices.
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
I think it's less taking a loan to buy golf clubs and more "feeling less financially stretched makes people more willing to spend money." Example: Joe just had a kid and was going to buy a house in a good school district no m
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
The linked pdf contains notes explaining HFT circa ~2011. The About section explains it's sourced from the author's blog, and was also used as lecture notes for an undergrad course. I've not read the whole thing, but at a mi
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
This article outlines 2021 timing, which is typical, from my understanding: https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-lottery-predictions/
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
Your transient point is very appealing to me. The line of thinking that people move more-> lower incentive to build custom-> cheaper finishes/less creativity feels logical and can be tidily appended to the Enrico Moretti argument
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
I imagine the answer here varies a lot by elo of the training corpus because skill effects the probability input. In the 500s, 3. Qh5 to scholar's mate is both potent and very probable. In the 1300s it's just a mistake. It would
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
No, payments to authors are percentage-based, so they deflate down with the price. It's just a form of price discrimination. If you're paying and not urgent, wait a couple weeks and the price is $10. If you've gotta have it n
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
They would be 90% smaller (though hopefully on higher volume). From the S-1: >We incur content costs in the form of payments to our instructors, generally determined as a percentage of total revenue generated from their content. This is
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by "define delivery"?
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
> You can tell a son that all their male ancestors had a son This seems off... by counterexample, my grandfather had no sons, but three daughters (one being my mother).
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by perpetualpatzer 5y ago
Out of fairness, their gross margin is 51%, so they're covering their COGS comfortably. They're spending a lot on operating stores and advertising, where the input-output math is less clear/predictable. You could also believ

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