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You really should try reading the economist for several weeks. They are pretty dry (not sensational) and filled with analysis. They also do a much better job than most American mainstream publications about giving space/content to the rest of the world. It's a pretty dense magazine and I don't think the "masses" read it.

>I found that the more I delivered and the happier I made senior people, the more I could ignore the rules and process and friction and get stuff done.

Yeah, I agree with this. My strategy has been to figure out what my boss wants to do, figure out what I want to do, and figure out what my job duties actually are. Then focus on the intersection of the first two and doing the minimal work necessary for the third. This means trying to get around process for your boss's pet project or to work on what you want while making your internal customers go through as many hoops as your organizational structure allows when they want you to do your job duties.

This probably comes off a bit cynical and I do have some pride in doing a good job, but this is kind of my basic corporate strategy.

It's so funny to me that people treat businesses and government so differently.

Want results from your start up? Find someone to invest in it.

Want results from a government program? Well, we need to cut out all the wasteful spending.

Your story is really strange and your takeaway is the exact opposite of what it should be.

Alice just jumped to the conclusion that Bob was a criminal? How is that okay? The answer to your story isn't for Bob to reveal potentially embarrassing personal information in a job interview but for Alice not to assume that everyone with a gap in their resume is a criminal.

Right, but the rate at which the world is warming is a lot higher than it has been before. You are looking at point in time measurements and not comparing how we move between those measurements. If things heat up too quickly, evolution won't have a chance to keep up with the changes.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

I was looking at this tonight and I think Google lets you set up "alias emails" in the admin. So if you have multiple users for just yourself, you could collapse those into a 1 user with multiple aliases. That should help with your cost under Google.

Just to add to this, it sounds like OP didn't contact Affirm until after they already started the charge back. I definitely don't think it is appropriate to do a charge back before contacting the vendor that got the payment, which is Affirm.

This is kind of OP's fault, right? I don't think it was appropriate to initiate a charge back on a payment to affirm since they provided their service to OP, that is they already paid for whatever OP was buying. I have a feeling that timing between OP opening the chargeback and the shipping of the item was actually coincidental.

I'd think if you paid affirm and the merchant hadn't shipped the item, then your recourse would be to go to Affirm, not your credit card you used to pay affirm.

The price from O'Reilly is 50/month or 500/year.

I think there is a lot of content there, but I'm also finding it hard to stomach their pricing. $100/year was a no brainer (or whatever the membership fee for ACM was). I would probably do $200 or maybe even $300/ year.

But $500!! Maybe I'll try talking my employer into paying for it.

How is it deceptive when it clearly states that is what it is doing?

Would earthquake monitoring systems pick up a nuclear blast?

I've always wondered what it would be like to work for Slack. Do they use email internally? Or do the handle all their comms through slack?

I think the sense of entitlement is on the hiring manager's side if they want multiple applicants to burn through 6-8 hours of free time to take an assessment of their skills. Then those same hiring managers are the ones complaining about how they can't find employees.

I googled it. Clinton replied "it's clever" in response to reading a satirical op ed in the ny times on the topic.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

>Accepting an infinite number of immigrants would turn the entire country into a slum

I mean, this sounds pretty immigrant-phobic to me. When you picture "war refugees" do you only think of people who cannot get a job? There are doctors and software engineers fleeing war right now too.

UK unemployment rate is only 4%. That's considered "full employment" in the US. It seems like you could use the extra workers.

I imagine that regulatory approval for commercial usage would be even more stringent, but I'm just guessing here

What do you think the regulatory timeline would be for this? If my startup had a working L5 car today, how long would it take regulators to approve so the general public could buy it? I'm guessing optimistically 3 years but probably 5+. But my opinion has no experience behind it.

My experience has been that a lot (approaching half?) Of all CO job postings for data science have laughably large ranges. Like 100-200k

I don't worry about subscriptions too much. My basic personal finance strategy is to spend more time worrying about the big stuff (where I live, what car I drive, my job/income) and not worry about the little things. I just checked YNAB and I spend about $100-200/month on "monthly internet services" that's basically what my parents spent on their monthly cable bill when I was a child and they only ever used 10 channels.

I think you should prune services you don't use a handful of times a year, but other than that don't stress about something that costs less than Chipotle, even if it is recurring.

>no reliable way to get a fixed income

You could buy an annuity from an insurance company. A quick Google search shows that $2mil should buy a 40 year old about $70k/year for the rest of their life.

Here is an alternative perspective:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaxxers-misuse-the-defe...

One good tidbit from that site is that cancers take years to develop so it is hard to believe that there was a multi 100% uptick in cancer diagnoses last year.

My experience has been the opposite. 3rd party recruiters cold messaging me have led to my last two job changes and significant bumps in salary. One of them put my salary in at a higher level than I had asked for.

In house recruiters on the other hand have not been more knowledgeable about the team they are trying to fill for. Also, I have a theory that companies that are willing to pay a huge commission check to 3rd party recruiters are more likely to pay more for talent.

By queuing, do you mean first come first serve?

No, that causes the problem. That encourages people to use bots to be the first one to purchase the moment the inventory is released.

I don't understand how a random raffle would ever not be fair (with the assumption that one person gets only one entry)

It would be relatively easy to solve this problem if the original supplier wanted the problem to be solved. Instead of releasing a batch of inventory at a certain time, run a raffle over a week or two and then randomly select folks to allow to purchase the item.

I hate explaining what I do. I'm a data scientist and 9 out of 10 times the person I'm talking to has no idea what it is and I honestly think the title itself is kind of cringey.

I usually just tell people I work on a "tech team for a finance company". If they show interest in what kind of tech team, then I'll go into more detail. Usually, the conversation just moves on.

How's this different than googling for a Lenovo laptop and seeing ads for Lenovo's website versus Amazon?

Your resume will get thrown out at the first HR screen if you don't have a college degree. It sucks, but it is true. All the folks preaching about how you can do tech without a degree are glossing over the, yes you can do it but it is playing the game on the hardest difficulty.

I think you should explore different majors (I'd recommend math) or just using the next three years to embrace your hobbies. You don't have to get all A's in college. Just do what you need to get B's and focus on a startup idea or something else.

Getting a masters in economics let me get a job in Data Science.

My data science team will be hiring soon and there will be a strong preference for candidates who also have masters degrees.

In my experience, people with masters degrees have a better understanding of statistical fundamentals and do a better job of translating business problems into a something that can be modeled using data sci tools.

You should ask yourself, when you are 80 years old, what do you think you will regret more? Not attempting a PhD or missing out on five years of an entry level job?

I tried to get a PhD, but after a year I figured out the academic life was not for me. So I took a masters degree and left. The masters degree opened doors to me that otherwise would not have been open if I only had a bachelor's.

Thank you for your insight. I wondered if posting a low salary range was a negotiating tactic by HR. My confusion is that this will probably discourage good applicants from applying, right? Or are there folks confident enough to walk in the room and ask for $30k over the posted range?