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The work Tyler cites demonstrates that inequality in the US is almost entirely a function of real estate. Let that sink in. This implies that the vast majority of inequality comes …

Your analogy implies that inequality creates poverty or that there is some casual relationship. This is what many people intuitively believe. It is not true. As a rule, when people…

Except for Linux actively running on 99% of all servers on the planet. Vulnerabilities in Linux can literally kill people, open holes for hackers, spies, etc. Submitting a fake pap…

Just because someone meets the "X years doing Y at Z" criteria doesn't mean that they are great hires. I've met PhDs in computer science that could barely write python. Resumes or …

Skeptical. Remote work increases the supply of available technologists across the board. That means more competition at every level - 10x or otherwise. If your whole team is remote…

I'd like some more specificity on how exactly this is supposed to work. Ok, you are going to build a webserver, now what? I draw a bunch of flowcharts describing the code that does…

While plausible, there are a lot of 'if's that underpin this scenario. In particular, you need people to not notice that the conviction rate is 50% for both odd and even numbered h…

> think of the innocent immigrant A model that does not incorporate all the relevant information will have more false positives. The practical consequence of doing what you suggest…

Stuff like this is everywhere. I used to work for a company that had millions of credit profiles. We had the chief of IT spending enormous amounts of time to make things "secure," …

A society where everyone is poor is worse than a society where some are rich but most are poor. It is worse that everyone be in crushing poverty forever, than to have unequal distr…

Because thats fundamentally not the problem. At every company I've worked at, the senior engineers could tell you exactly how they were skimping on security, why its bad, and how t…

To quote the user wbl: Aside from the transistor, negative feedback, Unix, troff, radio astronomy, the charge coupled device, cryptography, information theory, what did Bell Labs e…

If intelligence, conscientiousness, grit, drive, determination, etc were as visible as height, it would be immediately obvious why some people succeed and others fail. These traits…

I recently joined a company on a team that had a significant software project outsourced to a team of contractors. The reason for the outsourcing is that we did't have the people a…

Straight male here. My favorite ASMR video is of a dude wearing a fish person mask, eating fudge, and talking to a pineapple [1]. Can you explain to me how exactly this is "soft co…

"This is an opinion show, and not part of our news program" is an excuse used to justify FoxNews conservative propaganda for years. I expect the NYT to be better than that. Nobody …

Today in the NYT Daily podcast, the NYT argued that: """ [Facebook] thinks about free speech the way the US govt. thinks about free speech. There is no rule that that has to be the…

The steelman of the Success Sequence (i.e. ignoring the shoe-horning that Bruenig pointed out) is that there are cultural/normative/behavioral tendencies that come prior to systemi…

So the conclusion here is that failing to graduate high school and becoming a teen parent has little impact on life outcomes? I'm sure Bruenig is right when when he says that the a…

Female dominated professions, on average, have more time off, more flexible hours, significant social components, less physically dangerous, etc. Maybe these things matter, on aver…

> They could have tried any number of solutions tried by other universities. > it’s lazy and disingenuous for a university with a 4+ billion dollar endowment to make up reasons not…

Alright, given this argument, I am now convinced that it was in fact reasonable for the bootcamp to hire an interpreter, and the fact that they didn't do that justifiably opens the…

Assume that the median bootcamp price is something like $15K. Can you get an ASL interpreter for 3 months and 5hr days at that rate? If it turns out that this can be done, I'll con…

1) This is the best argument I've heard so far and has come the closest to getting me to change my mind. Conditional on ASL interpreters being reasonably priced and getting them to…

Is UC Berkeley lazy and disingenuous? Maybe. Annual budgets are finite endowments notwithstanding. What programs would you cut to pay the translators? Did Berkeley make the wrong d…