@James

For as long as there have been tests in schools, students have found ways to cheat, whether its peeking over a classmate’s shoulder or scribbling notes on a palm or crib sheet.

Having played both parts in the kabuki play that is employee-employer matchmaking, I feel the way we play it is a zero-sum game. I wish it were not so. When this post started life in 2024, as a wall of text chat message, it was brutal out there, on both sides of the software industry interview table. The ZIRP had ended. As of 2026, post-ZIRP reality has properly set in and remains bad ("AI" is a Fig Leaf (Enterprise Edition) for structural damage they self-inflicted, and if you look at Hyperscaler GPU depreciation schedules, they are making it order-of-magnitude worse). Set to that backdrop, here is a hopefully hopeful hiring anecdote where I think we avoided the so-called "Secretary Problem", framed within Optimal Stopping Theory. It can be done. Non-zero-sum hiring ought to be default-mode for any industry, AI or no AI.

Jeremy Grantham, the co-founder and long-term investment strategist at GMO Asset Management, returned to CNBC Squawk Box with one of the bleakest market calls of his career. Grantham, who says GMO manages roughly $85 billion, called this “the most expensive market in American history” and warned that a reversion to trend would be closer to ... Jeremy Grantham Warns U.S. Stocks Could Plunge 70% in the Most Expensive Market in History

crypto newb here. i’m not trying to be sarcastic. bitcoin has been around for years, but i still can not wrap my head around its value as a currency. there is the trading aspect, some have made millions and some have lost millions. but outside the trading sphere, what value does it have? how long is it actually going to be around? and what about all the shitcoins? are they NFTs all over again? the best i can understand it, is that it is like kohl’s cash, only traded in one venue. what am i missing? submitted by /u/No_Type1123 [link] [Kommentare]

When bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not ‘every man for himself.’ Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and colleagues from collaborating...