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"and the reputation"

"I wanted to work in finance and so Wharton was a good place to go."

That's what the old-boys-network IS. It's not literally people smoking cigars, it's the preferential treatment you receive for having the brand name on your degree.

Depends where you draw the line. Compared to a public state school, the Ivy League course cover far more material faster in more depth, because the students are better prepared harder workers and can handle it.

Harvard has 4 levels of Multivariable Calculus, for example, whereas most schools have just 1. The 2nd-highest level is basically Real Analysis, except (a) it is more deep/accelerated than the actual Real Analysis class, and (b) it is only taught to first-years.

The highest-level class was designed for students who were expected to learn an undergraduate math degree curriculum "on their own time" and pursue more advanced topics in clads.

I'd rather go bankrupt than actually have to pay all my net worth.

There is no personal debt on the planet that costs less than bank interest rates. This is because personal debt comes from banks.

Explain? Is this some offshoot from the original Creative Commons licenses that Aaron co-invented?

And then you get called in for lengthy interviews, and you get scared and make unrelated false statements, and get convicted of a felony. C.f., Martha Stewart.

That's not "modern" prejudice. That's traditional kin selection / tribalism / in-group prejudice.

It's kin selection, which is regular Darwinism.

"Natural" != "morally right"

It is absolutely prejudicial. Citing a case where I benefit from it doesn't make it right. Why not randomly give a beer to every 1000th patron, or every 10th shirt with lettering, as a conversation-starter?

The Sunlight Foundation may be happy for you to know this is their PR. Not really their fault that the Rebecca Rosen is too lazy to write a proper article.

It ironically drives home the very point of their app, which perhaps was intentional by Rosen!

Of course, the simple solution to that is that "Exclusive" is never in the reader's interest.

If the PR was circulated privately to a high value, unique target (like Congress), would you expect an eternal analysis to find it?

This is a solved problem for journalists, and it is called "citing your sources". Either your source is anonymous and you give a good reason, or your source is cited.

When sources are not cited, we have PR or lies masquerading as journalism.

Nice how every solution (except the bike-pump) business, involved abusing someone's trust or creating negative externalities (artificially extending lines, hijacking class time).

It's a good education, but a depressing one.

Can you pick a decaf herbal tea for afternoon drinks?

Yes, you'd need a linter to stop you from using explicit null in your code. but than be layered on top of javac with something FindBugs and its friend @Nullable. It's not "Standard" Java, but it is compiler-time enforcement.

That non-scientific summary article is incredibly vague, but it appears to be saying that "problem solvers" are more leaderly than "problem fleers", based on the given definitions. "Guilt" and "shame" are the labels they tacked on without justification

That's not Steve "not understanding", it's Steve saying "I know your reason doesn't matter".

People listen to vinyl for its quality, not it's quantity on some technical metric.

Still scary -- plenty of kids live in neighborhoods where they get dragged into gang turf issues.

It's because a the database isn't completely agnosticly load-balanced, and a single story is stored/processed with more co-locality than a random sample of, say, 10000 randomly chosen comments.

It's easier to cache and serve a fixed piece of content than to constantly insert and re-compress it (which kills cached versions too)

Harvard should keep them, and endure the reputation decrease as a result. This incident should stand as a long-term reminder that the Ivy League is does not have an infallible monopoly on genius.

Is it good for your career to get high impact factor for a paper that admits that your most famous work was a fraud that destroyed the economy of several nations?

Lent, indeed. And now they default on those loans.

That's not what happens. The problem is:

When times are good, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, we can raise the same revenue

When times turn bad, governments frequently LOWER taxes, because hey, people can't afford it.

borrow in bad times, pay back in good times, is well established. Governments are good at borrowing in bad times, but bad at paying back in good times. Look at late-90s US, when we briefly had a balanced budget, and instead of preparing for the bust, we rushed headlong into it.

The difference is in who suffers. How is it distributed among creditors, debtors, cash holders, wage earners, etc...

Was Canadian austerity like European austerity? Or was it a cut from (making up numbers here) 2x European social services to 1.5, vs Europe's 1x cut to 0.5x?

Is there a way to quantify QE in personal finance terms? Like, can I saw "QE is an X% inflation" for some X, so I can apply that to my personal understanding of the purchasing power of my savings once people try spending their inflated dollars and send ripple through the economy?

The title could be factual instead of sensational.

Like anything else, it's an auction, and generally on a per-issue basis.