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I’m getting into Gary Shteyngart. Just read Lake Success and now reading Super Sad True Love Story. Both sort of dark and really funny.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that functions as a multi-purpose home server (Pi Hole, laptop backups, data scraping jobs, etc).

I have another 3 running MotionEyeOS that I keep pointed out the front of my house to catch package thieves.

Dude, you're making ScraperAPI requests (with your API key in plain text as a parameter) directly from the client app...this thing is a nice idea but it'd probably be a good idea to clean it up and repost.

School officials worry that rising tuition and soaring loan balances are pushing new doctors into high-paying fields and contributing to a shortage of researchers and primary care physicians.

I think this is only partially true, because it misunderstands the motivations of many would-be doctors. Sure, the cost of medical education factors into specialty decisions, but as long as derm and ortho are regarded as more _prestigious_ than family med and general peds, you're going to see similar residency application numbers. There's still a social hierarchy within the medical profession, which the price of tuition doesn't immediately change.

Still, this is great for people set on primary care as a career. Interestingly enough, my general observation has been that students who need the money the _least_ (i.e. people whose families are paying for their educations) are the ones who are gunning for the highest paid (and typically most prestigious) specialties.

Comparing MBAs' & undergrads' experiences is specious, at best. And if you're comparing other graduate students against MBAs, the recruiting process for MBB is exactly the same. (source: I did my time at McKinsey, the 'M' in MBB.)

I'm talking about other graduate students, and (at least in this example) the recruiting process is NOT the same. It didn't matter if you were getting a master's in basket weaving or a PhD in physics, you were required to take the test, again at least at this particular university. MBAs were spared the test and went straight to the normal interview process. Also, had you not done an elite MBA, what do you think your path to McKinsey would have consisted of?

Regarding Prof. Rivera's study, I'm curious whether it attempts to separate causation & correlation. At HBS, the number of ex-MBB consultants in the program is roughly equal to the number who leave into MBB - many swap out and in, but the figures are in the same range. Does she account for that?

Prof. Rivera's research consists of multiple related studies whose findings confirm that, regardless of skills and relevant experience, the most important factor in hiring for elite firms in business and law are educational pedigree, creating a discrepancy in opportunity for those that get an elite education and those that don't. She accomplishes this through ethnographic research on the recruitment practices of the firms.

Also, any analysis which groups JDs & MBAs together is 100% flawed. Those two may have similar prestige, but wildly different career progressions.

I disagree in this context. The point of her research is that careers which tend to lead to powerful positions in society are practically closed off to those that don't have elite educations. If you want get into high finance or MBB consulting or BigLaw, it behooves you to attend an elite university, and while you're there, do as the Romans do. Prof. Rivera's research is _really_ interesting, you should check it out.

Let's take a specific example. For grad school, I went to a university with a generally well regarded MBA program, which drew on-campus recruiting from MBB. The recruiting process for MBA students was short recruiter interview -> case interviews. Non-MBA students interested in positions at MBB had it a bit different: in between the recruiter interview and the case interviews was an extremely difficult written exam designed to test the candidate's "reasoning" ability. A couple of my (pretty smart) classmates tried to prepare for these exams and eventually took them, failing miserably. They both reported that it was the hardest test they ever took. Both ended up at second-tier consulting firms.

Let's get more general and rigorous. Kellogg Business School professor Lauren Rivera studies the effects of educational credentials on employment opportunity. Her research confirms that educational pedigree is the single most important factor for gaining employment in elite positions in finance, consulting, and law, with the implication that your education is an indication of your social class, and your comfort in the upper echelons of society. [Link to her work] (http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera...)

I would say it's bit ignorant to say that a Harvard MBA has no effect on employability or opportunity.

This Onion article really nails this point: http://www.theonion.com/article/unambitious-loser-with-happy...

Hmmm, this makes me wonder whether the scores reported on Credit Karma are real or "educational"...

Section 10 coming soon?

"What if Barack Obama was a carrot?" http://imgur.com/WN86vIV

Ordering fast food on a touch screen takes seconds vs. talking to a human being.

Does it though? Verbalizing my order to a person who is highly proficient in using the ordering interface has always been quicker than having to manually find the items I want and enter them.

I can see how this could reduce error, but I think this has more to do with cutting costs than adding efficiency to the ordering process.

I'm willing to believe the explanation for this particular case, but I find the Cancellara video to be much more damning, and a pretty strong hint that mechanical doping has found its way into the highest levels of the sport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nd13ARuvVE

The way he just smokes everyone around him without changing his cadence, standing out of the saddle, or even changing the expression on his face seems at least a little suspicious.

It comes down to this: if you're wondering whether going to/staying in college is a good idea, you need to first examine the quality of your alternatives. Are you an 18 year old programmer with solid skills and a job offer in hand? College might not be worth the time or money, fair enough. Are you an 18 year old with no transferrable skills and a weak network? Do yourself a favor and go to college.

Bill Gates had a good alternative, so he dropped out and pursued it. Mark Zuckerberg had a good alternative, so he dropped out and pursued it. My friend from high school who dropped out his sophomore year and now works part-time at Best Buy did not have a good alternative, and now he's kicking himself.

People who say "college is good" or "college is bad" as blanket statements are oversimplifying the issue. Yes, college is still a decent way to get a good job and it can be intellectually enriching, but it takes years out of your life to finish and is (at least in the US) insanely expensive. Yes, college is insanely expensive and it takes years to finish, but it may end up being a good investment, and you may be personally better off for it in the long run. Individuals need to decide, based on their current position, which would be the wiser choice.

My guess is that a high minimum wage would incentivize employers to hire citizens instead of new immigrants. There are plenty of anti-immigrant Republicans, as Donald Trump and his current base have illustrated.

If you're using more common visualizations (e.g. bar chart, line chart, scatter plot, etc) there's an excellent js library called C3 (http://c3js.org/) that wraps charts implemented in D3 with a super-simple api. I'm a huge fan.

D. He had parents who indulged his interest in programming early on and hired a software engineer to privately tutor him E. Happened to have a group of friends (including Adam D'Angelo, later Facebook employee) at his VERY expensive private high school that were also great programmers by that point, likely helping each other become better.

I'm not saying the first versions of Facebook were ingenious feats of engineering, but Mark easily may have never learned to build things. Considering everything else mentioned in this thread, we can reasonably conclude that a lot of went very right for him at many points along the way.