Beldin

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by Beldin 3y ago
> German trains stop at the first Swiss station, when they finally arrive, and people gave to switch trains. It's not just German trains. The Swiss are rather strict about train punctuality (more than 2 min is not accepted if mem
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by Beldin 3y ago
The Netherlands does cargo on rail just fine and has the busiest network in EU.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Just to be clear: you'd expect PhD students to be trained in reviewing by their supervisors. So PhD students writing the initial review is not weird - it is an expected part of their training. As is the supervisor going over the review
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by Beldin 3y ago
> So if you voted, your address and name is public record As someone not from the USA: what the actual F?! edit labster's sibling comment points out that there are actually laws on how public voter data is. So it is not nearly a
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by Beldin 3y ago
Starting salary for Dutch PhD students is roughly median national income. So: yes, easily. Basically, it's a job at MSc. level and you're paid (somewhat) close to market rate for that.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Add Luxembourg and Switzerland to that list - at least EPFL and ETH. It's so unbelievably better to be at an institute where travelling within Europe is simply not a budgetary problem at all.
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by Beldin 3y ago
> it seems just about everybody who's been in or around a PhD program agrees it's a miserable institution I disagree, quite strongly in fact. But my experience is not with US PhD programs, which is what discussions here often
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by Beldin 3y ago
Taxes are (should be) completely predictable. There's no reason not to include them in the price. So those definitely constitute bs fees.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Note that mankind cannot make Von Neumann probes. We're still having troubles landing serious equipment on the moon (see recent crash), let alone create a probe that would be able to harvest raw materials for making a duplicate probe,
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by Beldin 3y ago
House prices in the USA have less impact on the total world population than you might think. Similarly, the number of people living in a situation where having children is a smart financial decision for the future is a lot larger than you m
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by Beldin 3y ago
What would be involved is extensive training - precisely the sort that is currently lacking. Basically, they were already trying to helicopter in folks. The difficulty is that it's rather challenging. They need folk who are intimately
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by Beldin 3y ago
I fully acknowledge that, to the best of my knowledge, no one has tried to sleep better by congregating with thousands of similarly-sleep-seeking others into a jam-packed stadium. I will also point out that, again to the best of my knowledg
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by Beldin 3y ago
Because the value of playing recorded music of an artist some folks enjoy enjoy is microscopic compared to the value of helping people to sleep better. Probably also true for individual listeners, but definitely for society as a whole. Prob
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by Beldin 3y ago
I hadn't considered it like that, but that was pretty much how I experienced MUDding. I got into it and wanted to level up, do quests, and explore. Before hitting level 20 (out of 100, basically barely out of newbie status), I stopped
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by Beldin 3y ago
Just to point out: this amounts to a little over $1200 (US) per sold monitor. And Dell was ordered to provide affected customers full or partial reimbursement on top of this. So definitely a costly affair.
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by Beldin 3y ago
> If you're doing it to get a job, forget it. This is very country-dependent. In some countries, there is a glass ceiling in commercial, government, and even politician jobs for those without PhDs. I was surprised to find folks
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by Beldin 3y ago
The light tells you that already: take it to the shop. The annoying part for folks used to having control (eg power users) is that someone else decided that that was enough info for drivers. If you want the power-user car UI, you'll ne
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by Beldin 3y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Not just snarky - this does fix a large percentage of errors regular users encounter)
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by Beldin 3y ago
That mindset is why modern-day ultrabooks give the same practical performance as 15 years ago. All of the hardware advances have been gobbled up in the name of "developer productivity". Check (eg.) the Elevated 4k Demo winner to g
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by Beldin 3y ago
> This might be true in an absolute sense, but I'm really skeptical that it's true in a meaningful relative sense, It's thousands of (square) kilometres of land virtually untouched by humans. Even in the skies. I'd
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by Beldin 3y ago
Why would you need to receive an automated voice call for a reminder?
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by Beldin 3y ago
As someone who has never lived in a country where automated calls happen: what quality of life do you imagine I've been missing out on? Just to note: we do get appointment reminders here.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Sure, I absolutely believe that if you create a "ransom" situation, some percentage of those extorted will pay the ransom where otherwise they would not gift you the ransom. That does not imply it's good for your business. Be
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by Beldin 3y ago
We're about halfway there already, just by cooling: 250km in under 4 min (1). (1) https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/13-07-20...
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by Beldin 3y ago
Now I'm curious: how would you want a DVCS to handle large binaries?
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by Beldin 3y ago
You may not realise this, but you need to be reasonably affluent *and* fly quite a bit for this to make sense. An extra $190 to shave off 15 or so minutes(1) for 1 or 2 trips a year is, frankly, not an affordable luxury for most. For famil
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by Beldin 3y ago
> Being easier to fire makes American employees easier to hire, No, there's nothing easier about hiring US employees. It only makes it easier to fire them. This reduces the risk of bad hires for the employers, by allowing them
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by Beldin 3y ago
Privacy laws are not about the best interest of the business. As pointed out above, you are allowed to keep all data necessary to provide your customer what they purchased. Losing that data is not the customer's problem, but yours. I
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by Beldin 3y ago
According to the wikidocs article, there was some in the leaves, but none found in the fruits.
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by Beldin 3y ago
(Off topic) I thought Teller was the quiet one? ;-)

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