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		ShardPhoenix on Nov 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) The new paper didn't say that the problem wasn't correct, just that their original solution (test) didn't work out. It's true that it seems to be hard to come up with a reliable test for this sort of thing, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible.

yummyfajitas on Nov 7, 2011 [–]

The magic market fairy can't help supply and demand equilibrate until the simple test exists, right?

My only point is that the problem isn't creation of a public good, the problem is that reliably identifying good people/good matches is really hard.

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