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We're a five year old startup that ships an enterprise version of Apache Cassandra.
My team is hiring SETs to work on the core of our product, testing Apache Cassandra and its relation to all of our tools. Our stack is primarily Python/Java. Interview process is a phone discussion, tech screen, and then interviews with the team. We're looking for entry-level to intermediate developers.
It's interesting, fun work, and if you'd like to know more, please email me at philip.thompson@datastax.com
In many municipalities, they contract trash and recycling collection out to private companies. Many times those companies charge separately for recycling collection.
They do that here (UK) too. It's still the local govt that's paying the bill though. I guess that's why we have seemingly high municipal taxes, they're 'all inclusive.'
It's funny, the waste management people in our town are still unionised out the wazoo, and they're in deep with the labor party so they keep going on strike to put pressure on the incumbent greens. It's really not a good advertisement for the labor movement.
Where I live -- Markham, Ontario, Canada -- trash and recycling are contracted out. Outside of what we normally pay for property taxes, those costs are not visible to residents of my city.
We have no limits on what we put out for blue (recyclables) bin or green (organic) bin waste (collected weekly), and since we've switched to clear garbage bags, the only limit on non-recyclable garbage (collected bi-weekly) is that you have a limit of four non-transparent shopping bags within your bagged garbage.
We reached an 81% diversion (from landfill) rate in 2013.
Interesting. Where I live they do contract with a company, but the money just comes from the taxes we pay, just like it would have been when the town ran its own trucks.
The author addresses this in the comments. He states that there are likely more divorces for one gender than the other in his data set. Which implies to me that individuals, rather than couples, are surveyed about their marriages/divorces.
So if he surveyed 10 women and 10 men, those 10 women weren't married to those 10 men.
If that isn't the case, then I'm also not sure how that could be the case given that he states all marriages examined were heterosexual in nature.
"We excluded respondents who had a non-US IP address, reported having a same-sex marriage,
reported an age at marriage of less than 13 years old, or were above age 60."
The paper used mTurk to get ~3000 responses to their survey. So it's basically saying "the men who answered these questions ended up having this score, the women who answered these questions ended up having a slightly different score"
Apart from the small sample size, if they collected data by mechnical turk then I wonder what sort of biases that introduces? In the paper you linked, Frances and Mialon state:
"Samples of mTurk workers have been found to be more representative of
the US population than in-person convenience samples, standard internet samples, and typical
college samples"
I am somewhat sceptical of this, and there seems to be some evidence to back-up my scepticism [1][2][3]. In particular, [2] states:
"In sum, the MTurk sample is younger, more male, poorer, and more highly educated than Americans generally. This matches the image of who you might think would be online doing computer tasks for a small amount of money."
Which are some of the factors that the marriage study itself seeks to examine. This looks like lazy data collection methodology to me.
It merely says that it's more representative than the other groups, not that it's particularly representative. For instance college samples are massively unrepresentative (younger, smarter, probably wealthier than average).
Essentially it's just a more representative sample than these other horribly unrepresentative samples he's listing.
Thank you, that makes sense. I assumed that he was surveying relationships rather than individuals (ie divorces rather than divorcees), which was a poor assumption on my part.
Nevertheless, it would have useful if the nature of the data was better described in the article itself. I run a comment blocker in Chrome so I didn't see the comments until you mentioned them.
The main selling points for Cassandra over Mongo are that it scales to more machines easier for handling larger workloads, and the write performance is better.
Unlike grouper it does not appear that any of the parties knew each other in advance. So if my understanding is correct, the two same-sex individuals you are matched with are also potential partners.
The other response is better. If it worked this way, you were gay, and the other two people of your gender were straight, you'd wouldn't have any potential matches there.
We're a five year old startup that ships an enterprise version of Apache Cassandra.
My team is hiring SETs to work on the core of our product, testing Apache Cassandra and its relation to all of our tools. Our stack is primarily Python/Java. Interview process is a phone discussion, tech screen, and then interviews with the team. We're looking for entry-level to intermediate developers.
It's interesting, fun work, and if you'd like to know more, please email me at philip.thompson@datastax.com
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