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No, it seems about on about the same level as being able to paraphrase the abstract of a paper about the system. I would not take it as showing that someone has read past the first page. A high-level overview just isn't enough for that. You have to ask your own probing questions too. Limiting the conversation to the particular problems they bring up is essentially taking them at their word when they claim to be skilled. I've seen lots of occasions where trying to drill down for a bit more detail on some part of what they talked about consistently came up empty (without going anywhere near sitting down at a computer to write a fizzbuzz equivalent).

Imagine you're interviewing a candidate and they're talking through how to design an analytics service. They begin talking about e.g. database architecture, and how this type of data is most appropriate for a star schema. They start talking about the tradeoffs of row versus column orientation. They mention they'll need to do indexing for performance and talk about the index space versus query speed tradeoff. They say they'll do joins on the x and y tables.

Is this demonstrating deep understanding though?

And even when Phoenix was on my way somewhere, I don't think I ever stopped there.

That still doesn't seem all that helpful. If my high school had started at 10 instead of 8, I'd be out of class at 5:30 instead of 3:30, done with fencing practice at 8 instead of 6, etc. I'd finish the night's homework two hours later, and finishing that was already well past sundown even on the original schedule. A later start time wouldn't have been an opportunity to stay up later -- it would have been an obligation to stay up later.

The value you create doesn't talk about you except to people who know you're the one who created it.

The remaining concern is distorted markets like foreign language teachers (brought up elsewhere in the thread), where it may be politically infeasible to raise compensation to match the value workers create.

You can also freely substitute among your team of 6, though subbing replaces your attack for that turn. If you anticipate the opponent using an attack of a particular type, you can sub in something resistant to that attack.

In single-player/story mode, you never encounter an opponent at the maximum level, and the NPCs tend not to build type-diversified teams, so the player gets a huge advantage in most battles by just grinding a couple pokemon of the right type.

This sounds like the English term "liberal education."

Yes. What makes me unlikely to return to Michigan long-term, as much as I liked where I lived, is the limited career options I would have there. I am apparently willing to put up with a rather high cost of living to work on what I find interesting.

ReCAPTCHA always asks me to point out cars, street signs, and bridges. If someone can't do that, the dealer maybe shouldn't sell that person a car.

Still seems a bit odd to have the forms that the dealer needs the buyer to sign sufficiently exposed that they need captcha protection though.

Also, still trying to dig up the last article I read about this, but didn't that figure lump pretty much all faculty positions together? I could definitely believe there are lots of contingent faculty positions going unfilled, but the numbers probably look quite different for someone who's not interested in part-time positions, teaching-only positions, soft-money positions, etc.