There is a tendency in technology nowadays to require x years of experience in some technology in order to get a job when you start out. I am fortunately past that stage myself, and have observed why the current conventional wisdom is foolish, and we need to move to a different hiring paradigm. Let’s say …
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Common Python pitfalls
Here are mistakes I have observed which lead to broken code. Python is not Java, C, or C++ and needs to be treated as its own language. Treating it with the same syntax is a sure fire way to make broken code. Java and Python are both object-oriented languages. French and Italian are both Romance …
What does International Relations teach us about Ukraine?
The world stands on a precipice right now. The question is whether Democracy will stand or whether it will fall. Russia is massing troops on the border with Ukraine, threatening a war (it’s the only reason a state ever does this military maneuver, let’s be honest) and now its NATO’s turn to act. There are …
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Potential Supreme Court nominees
Biden has announced he will appoint an African American woman to SCOTUS. This will be the first time there are no liberal men on SCOTUS for at least 90 years and the first time there is gender parity among Associate Justices. Here are the nominees. She has to be under 55 to be a serious …
Ukraine Russia game theory
I was watching this video and they showed us this graph from game theory The answer the video said is that the US should do appeasement because of some multiplication, which isn’t how game theory works, so we will ignore that part of the video. You go down the tree. The highest score for the …
Will America defend NATO?
Following the end of the Second World War, relations between Josef Stalin and the rest of the world declined rapidly. Russia is by far the largest country in Europe today, and the Soviet Union was bigger still. Western Europe feared an invasion from Russia, and President Harry Truman understood that if we didn’t defend Western …
Student loans are different
When you go through bankruptcy, most of your loans can be discharged. This comes at a big cost to you of course, in the form of a significantly reduced credit score, making it near impossible to borrow at a reasonable interest rate for the next 7 years, but they can be discharged and give you …
Wither Europa
It is becoming more and more popular in international relations and international political economy circles to say “wither Europe”, “Europe is dying” and the like. Let’s look at this in detail. Human rights Using the Press Freedom Index as our metric of freedom, and looking at the countries which have a good or satisfactory ranking: …
Policy Scoreboard
As I woke up this morning, I got an idea, what if there was an easy way to rank a policy on whether it should be passed and can be passed. As I was thinking about student loans, BBB, and BIF, I made this graph:Think of it this way: Impact on people’s lives, positive would …
How social media works
Facebook: Only 5000 potential friends. You need to create your own page and build from the bottom to do anything. Your content gets quickly buried and forgotten. Twitter: Make a post saying something like “politicians need to follow through on promises.” after years of working in and studying politics. They tell you to take a …