It was a disaster at Wisconsin. Union favored the 8th year humanities students at the expense of the 1 and 2 year STEM students, and traded cash for benefits that really only affected people with families. Stipends were the lowest in the country among major research universities, and the union refused to let wages rise for in-demand TAs, so a bunch of them went off and got private sector jobs instead, limiting the size of the undergrad population. Scott Walker killed it, and those problems haven't come back.
Took me a while to realize that the elite college math books are terrible to learn from, and that having two or three textbooks is useful.
Also, as taught in university, most of the harder problems are done in groups, which is how you really learn math; you spend hours doing all the problem sets and explaining then to your friends. Hard to bring that that model to online
There's plenty of titanium in the us. They opened a mine in the Adirondacks just for this purpose in WW2, and there's tons of untapped ore. Chances are that it was cheaper to get from the USSR than to make it ourselves
Family sized houses often require two incomes (or at least one and a half) to afford. The idea that a single person working 190 or so days per year can get one is a bit deceptive. Teachers can work summers or after school to assignment their incomes
Strikes me as an uphill lift. Amazon didn't agree to this contract, so going to be hard to enforce it. Most likely Amazon drops BTS if the union goes on strike
NYC LLs suffer huge penalties if a tenant airbnbs an apartment (there are extra special fines for that). They basically can't get a tenant out without tons of video evidence that the T is violating their lease. Now this. Basically it is a set up to enable different groups of people to sue and bankrupt LLs.
Misleading article: proptech has made managing sfr at scale feasible. But the major drivers are low interest financing for bulk purchases of houses (much cheaper than mortgages), preferential tax treatment (no transfer taxes, no death taxes), and the fact that homeowners are increasingly incapable or not allowed to provide their own maintenance, making scale worth it.
I don't think they have as much power as they used to:
There are a lot more writers, and a lot of people, who, if aided by chatgpt, can write competently for TV/movies/whatever. Less of it is in person; market is less closed than it used to be.
Kind of depends how hard the studios want to fight on this, but I get the sense that they can just take foreign series and dub them for a while.
They have to record a liability for future charging until they extinguish it. If it is recorded at 20k per car, and they replace it with sitting like 6k per car, they make a huge profit
The rules penalized larger cars, but but equivalent sized SUVs. They also mandated a lot of new safety stuff that is heavy: airbags, side impact protection, pedestrian crash stuff, crumple zones, cameras, etc.
So this basically killed off wagons, which were what people actually wanted to drive. My last three cars have gone from 2500 (1998) to 2750 (2016) to 3300 (2022) despite being basically the same size and same function.
I recall talking with a 70 year old physicist who was the last professor forced out by mandatory retirement. He was a great teacher and incredibly bitter about this. I work with a number of 75+ programmers- it is hard to get this right, and, outside of judges who are protected constitutionally, you run into huge labor law problems
There's no shortage of people willing to be professors. It isn't clear that the incumbents are dramatically better than those who narrowly miss the cut. It might be that even better people are drawn to the profession (even in STEM) if there was an easier exchange between academia and industry. The challenge is actually that 'moonshot' or fairly theoretical stuff with long-term payoffs may be hard to evaluate.
Nope. I wanted maximum interest rate duration and I'm betting that inflation will be higher than my mortgage interest rate, so it will eat more of the outstanding balance. Adjusted for inflation, my balance will be less than half what it is now. I don't anticipate staying more than about 15 years, and the capped rate is low enough that in the worst case this is still reasonable, and I'll have greater optionality to refi if I have a bigger balance
Find someone's resume with good formatting and copy it. Then find a good latex installation and play with it. Save copies because a compilation error in your resume will cause it to disappear
Curious how popular and effective these docs are. Massive abundance and higher standards of living mean people who write these things don't have to settle for financial reasons, so the docs get pickier and less attuned to the realities of life
They exist. I have a 10/1 io, at which point it becomes a 20 year amortization with a floating rate. The bet was that inflation would eat the principal down and I probably wouldn't be in the house more than 10-12 years anyway
MS has a 500+ person mailing list for peer help on kdb/q/whatever. They also have a site license, and herds of consultants from first derivatives.
It is much easier to become good at k/q if you have experts sitting next to you. Learning this at home (or reading about it on hn) can be very frustrating!
So .. buy all the cheap seats and then resell them. Or have your vacation stolen by a hacker. This seems like a solution to a problem that most people don't have
I averaged 57.4 hours per week in office my last year, plus another 6 hours commuting. There wasn't a while lot of value to being there. Now the subways have gotten worse, lunch costs are even more exorbitant, and the banks have gotten even less productive while tax rates have gone and are going higher. Might as well leave the city and save the city and possibly state tax and have a better lifestyle