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My experience with consulting firms is there are two paths for high performers. Either you move into a sales/relationship focused role (which there are fairly limited slots for) or…

This is somewhat to credit AI model design. I think this is how you'd want such models to behave with esoteric subject matter. At above a relatively small threshold it should produ…

This program sounds great and I think we should incentivize it. Unfortunately, I think it requires a constitutional amendment to work. We can’t rely on well meaning administrators …

One hypothesis I don't see mentioned is that time limited roles pay more. For example, a person brought into to oversee an acquisition or transition is going to be paid phenomenall…

I believe healthcare as a business (in the US) relies on the fact that the utility function of healthcare services become infinite. All other utility relies on an individual's good…

I think it’s just a phrasing issue. Should be: One of them incorrectly used the width of the new line character in its calculations, and so the box that it made was too small [for …

Isn’t there also a component that PE is incentivized to work for existing investors more than new investors. If they mark down an asset in a bear market and a new investor puts mon…

Agreed, and I see your point, I just see it as the EO doesn't have the authority to (and thus doesn't actually) require such things from private companies and not that it requires …

I don't think this is correct usage of the term "unfunded mandate". "Unfunded mandate" means when the federal government requires a separate entity (e.g. state, municipality, compa…

It's an interesting data discrepancy - fewer smokers in covid-19 infected individuals - but it doesn't tell us much. The survival bias is a problem. They took the smoking status of…

How about I use a simple suffix tree instead?