Beliavsky
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11 years ago
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on: Kaplan to Buy Software-Development School Dev Bootcamp
It's different because the school itself is providing the "scholarship", which is the same as a white/Asian/male surcharge. It is legal for a non-profit to provide race-specific scholarships, which is what the United Negro College Fund does. But I don't think businesses are allowed to set prices based on race or sex.
Beliavsky
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11 years ago
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on: Kaplan to Buy Software-Development School Dev Bootcamp
I don't need to answer that question. The general principle is that businesses are not allowed to customers different prices for the same product based on race or sex.
Beliavsky
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11 years ago
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on: Kaplan to Buy Software-Development School Dev Bootcamp
From the DevBootCamp web site:
"We offer a $500 scholarship if you're female, a veteran of the U.S. Military, or from an ethnic minority group underrepresented in the software engineering field (African American, Chicano/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander)."
Isn't charging someone more because of their race or sex is illegal? That's what a "scholarship" for only certain groups
amounts to.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: U.S. children read, but not well or often: report
Doesn't the following quote from the article contradict the
title's assertion that kids are not reading as well?
"Despite the large percentage of children with below-basic reading skills, reading scores among young children have improved since the 1970s, according to one test that measures reading ability.
The reading scores among 17-year-olds, however, remained relatively unchanged since the 1970s."
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Excess Catered Food in San Francisco? Donate it to FoodRunners
Feeding the hungry without inquiring why they are hungry can enable self-destructive and anti-social behavior such as drug addiction. Do the food banks and homeless shelters in San Francisco help the homeless turn around their lives?
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Equal-weight ETF allocation with automatic rebalancing
The rationale for equal-weighting is that cap-weighting will have you over-invested in stock sectors that are priced too high. If tech stocks have a huge run and double their weight in the S&P, do you want them to represent twice as much of your portfolio? If you think the market is efficient you do, otherwise maybe not.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Equal-weight ETF allocation with automatic rebalancing
The strategy equally weights the stock sectors in the S&P 500
using ETFs. In a rising stock market this would incur capital gains taxes in a taxable account. If you are saving regularly, you could direct your new investments towards the sectors that have underperformed to get closer to equal weighting without selling the outperforming sectors.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: The New Deal
I have wondered if affluent parents can replicate at least the money part of Y Combinator.
$120K is about the list price of two years of Harvard/MIT/Stanford . With a son who loves to program, I have wondered if sending him to a cheaper school and giving him the difference in installments after he graduates is better than paying for a "name" school. It depends on the quality of the cheaper school, of course. And I think school prestige matters more for investment banking than tech, so I'd be less inclined to suggest a cheaper school to a budding banker.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: “Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
Nowadays there is a lot of talk about "inclusion". What about "including" people who dislike profanity? "Don't mess up the culture" would have conveyed the same message without the bad language.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?
The participation of white men in the political process is especially suspect. No bias there.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Suppose conservative activists push out a CEO because he contributes to Planned Parenthood or otherwise supports legal abortion. Would the Eich critics be OK with that? Many conservatives believe that stopping abortion is as much about human rights as liberals think gay marriage is. Both sides can play the game of getting people fired for views unrelated to their jobs. It would be better if neither side did.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
From the article: "We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public."
Clearly people with socially conservative views are not welcome at Mozilla.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Thinking About Mozilla
Utterly unfounded speculation about the sexual preferences of other posters does not advance the conversation.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Thinking About Mozilla
Homosexuals want to stamp out disapproval of their lifestyle, which explains why people who don't want to bake cakes or photograph homosexual weddings are being sued for discrimination. Homosexuals could certainly find people who are willing to bake cakes or photograph their weddings. Hounding Eich is part of their campaign to silence dissent.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: The Brutal Ageism of Tech
Considerable research has found that fluid intelligence declines with age. There is a 2006 paper "Age differences in fluid intelligence: Contributions of general slowing and frontal decline".
We know that 50-year-olds are not as strong physically as 20-year-olds. The brain is an organ, and it would be surprising if every part of the body except the brain worked less well as one aged.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Poll: Is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero?
I clicked on traitor.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Poll: Is Edward Snowden a traitor or a hero?
An American hero does not end up fleeing to a country like Russia under a leader like Putin. If Snowden had spilled the beans and then turned himself in, I'd respect him much more.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: 30 Days of Inbox Zero: How I Did it
I wonder if Inbox Zero is a worthwhile goal.
My inbox is effectively one of my to-do lists. Since I don't cross off everything on my to-do list each day, my inbox usually has a few dozen messages. I have found that when I move an email to a "check later" folder, I never do so.
Beliavsky
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12 years ago
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on: Evicted in San Francisco
Unproductive people can be unproductive anywhere, and it does not make sense for them to take up precious space in places like San Francisco or New York City. They should move to cheaper areas.
