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Growing up in the midwest prior to working FAANG in the Bay Area, this is my exact experience. With a graduate degree and making ridiculous money, I and my peers had no realistic p…

It is even more striking that it's written in the first person, so the error sounds like it's coming from the monk and not the writer. For the HN reader not aware, the Cistercians …

Marketing spend, especially online, is one of the most studied inputs to business strategy. Long term lift studies of both brand and direct response advertising show that it absolu…

So interesting to back into the numbers through partial information. This was also a good look at what good into the manufacturing process. https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10…

I used to work at a startup called Trusker doing the same thing, I can't give your comment enough up votes on 1. not very tech savvy, 2. margins were low, 3. too much hand holding …

I think the founder would disagree. He's working on this specifically because he finds self-cathing difficult and cumbersome.

>We are always wary of guiding for mean reversion. But, if we are wrong and high margins manage to endure for the next few years (particularly when global demand growth is below tr…

Absolutely. In the book "Ahead of the Curve" the author describes his MBA classmates at HBS emptying their bank accounts by buying BMWs so that they qualify for more student aid. I…

I've often wondered about the reasons someone might be unbanked. I've only ever considered the lack of immigration status or proof of address, as most unbanked people I've come in …

Not to nitpick, but in my experience growing up in the Midwest of the US most "poor, but educated, families" like mine pushed children into state schools where they pay in-state tu…

>why not skip OpenRefine and teach them numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib for analysis and visualization OpenRefine is fantastic for cleaning and imputing missing data, especially for …

>Modern-day heart disease deaths were higher in states that experienced a rapid rise out of poverty between 1950 and 1980 — even when controlling for the effects of obesity, smokin…

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I used to work at a large organization with annual security training requirements for all employees. It consisted of hours of ridiculous scenarios where the correct answer was alwa…