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I think one of the biggest differences between comp benchmarking providers and RealPage is that two companies given access to the same benchmarks often make very different compensa…

English sentences need a subject and a verb. Often a sentence fragment missing a verb (like this).

Price discrimination in the form of scholarships and the "show us exactly how much money is in your wallet" scam they call "need-based-aid" allowing universities have essentially p…

If a hurricane kills a thousand people is it evil? It's not really clear whether we're better off trying to treat corporations as moral actors and constantly being surprised when t…

The state of Mississippi ran Parchman Farm on this principle for decades, but as you might imagine it looked a lot like slavery. A lot of people suddenly got arrested for loitering…

This is actually pretty interesting. Generic drug manufacturing has relatively high barriers to entry, but relatively low margins because there's no way for brands to command a pre…

The theory behind invite only is that it increases the density of the network. You invite people with similar interests as this the network can nucleate around some niche, rather t…

American options can be exercised at any time at the investor's discretion. This means the instrument has a maximum duration, but the actual duration is up to choice of the option …

The safety problem with Li-ion batteries is the electrolyte is a flammable organic solvent. It is unrelated to the amount of energy stored in the battery under normal operation.

The data is only useful in aggregate, but different people/use cases require different types of aggregations. Using pre-aggregated data is difficult, because it almost certainly ha…

It looks like there is a theory that dermal bone in early tetrapods was used this way, but it's still fairly speculative. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47176272

If you don't want to do something, why is it on your to-do list? It feels like people have multiple competing systems trying to set priorities, and this is arguing that one of thos…

They never found the plane. Most likely the lead pilot crashed it intentionally, but we don't really know. The person writing this blog post is more certain about that than the Mal…

The linked paper doesn't obviously support the claim you're making here. Maybe I've missed something? "The median age at menarche was 14.5 years (95% CI=14–15; Nindividuals=128; No…

I use jupytext for this. For the cost of some header boilerplate I have python code that is seamlessly mirrored as a notebook.

A lot of the stuff described here sort of doesn't make sense. It requires idiot savant AIs that can figure out how to manipulate humans, but that we can only train with simple inte…

It shows that you bounced off one of the artificial rails openAI added to minimize PR risk. The underlying model is certainly flexible enough to answer that question, it's just bee…

There's a lot of convergent evolution towards the crab body plan, a phenomenon known as Carcinisation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation )

Data science as a title has bifurcated several times. A lot of the engineering heavy DS roles are now data engineer or machine learning engineer. Probably those are the roles you s…

Technically most Li ion batteries are created in the discharged state, with the lithium in the battery provided by the cathode at the time of construction, and then moved over to t…

The description in your link has the thickness: Freestanding unpolished diamond single crystal synthesized by heteroepitaxy on Ir/YSZ/Si(001). The thickness of the disc is 1.6 ± 0.…

Was anyone under the impression that Eric Schmidt wasn't investing in AI companies? Tech billionaire invests in tech companies seems pretty expected to me, even if he was doing con…

A negative feedback loop is one that tends to keep things in a steady state. The thing being described here is actually a positive feedback loop with negative consequences.

This article is 5 months old, and talks more about NFT trade volumes than NFT prices. Having volumes decline from peak speculation is more a sign of market maturity than a market c…

Blind copying is highly adaptive behavior and is the engine of human culture. Inventing things and reasoning correctly is really difficult, and copying widely adopted behaviors is …