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> 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.

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…

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 …

So does English. Well, sorta.

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 movi…

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 pr…

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 ef…

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 profe…

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"/"…

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…

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

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 repurpos…

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 g…

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 par…

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 …

>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]. …

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…

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 four…

Bayesian Methods For Hackers is a very popular one. [0] https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

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 sal…

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 …

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…

This article outlines 2021 timing, which is typical, from my understanding: https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-lottery-predictions/

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 …