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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 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 …

> 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 …

> 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 ch…

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 t…

Thanks for your research. That makes a lot more sense.

So don't merge their forks?

-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?! S…

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 …

> 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…

> 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…

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 …

Thanks. In any case, I'm not sure why we're discussing cherry picked datapoints when someone already posted national averages...

> 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…

> 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 (…

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 numb…

> assuming 7% return Tuition has been increasing at 8% per year.

> 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 …

> 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...

Texas Tech is a fantastic school. If he chooses to go there and majors in a STEM field, he'll have a bright future.

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…

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 betwe…

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 al…

> 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…

> 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-size…