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A comment on Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process. Parent comment

Re:Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process by gatehouse on Monday April 07, 2014 @07:08PM (#7550288)
Side question: in what sense are you saying Ivy league is like a potlatch? Song-and-dance-and-reciprocity? Or conspicuous gift-giving (like "purity potlatch")? Or slave exchange?
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Re:Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process by rwallace on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:23PM (#7550629)
Signaling relative status by the destruction of valuable resources.
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