Chinjut

55 ms·

631.
by Chinjut 10y ago
If there's a lack of people doing scientific research, it's not because there's a lack of people educated enough to do so. Look at the supply of science PhDs vs. openings for science jobs. Every year, more science PhDs gradua
632.
by Chinjut 10y ago
(And, yes: education can of course grant skills which are genuinely required for certain jobs. This being Hacker News, I suppose we'll hear that everyone should learn to code. I'm all for everyone getting to do whatever they wish
633.
by Chinjut 10y ago
Well, yeah. Education increases individual income primarily through competitive advantage in the job market, right? But, also, the function of education in the job market is largely just as a certification arms race, right? Just a ritual we
634.
by Chinjut 10y ago
In their defense, they did note "publish or perish" as a "system of perverse incentives", which presumably affects a far broader swath of science than the few politicized topics they mentioned.
635.
by Chinjut 10y ago
Holy moly! Did you end up going back to doctors after actually finding the worms? Did they believe you then?
636.
by Chinjut 10y ago
We would not be increasing everyone's income by the same factor. People with less money would see their income rise by a larger factor than people with more money. Thus, for example, if you have $0 pre-BI and $X post-BI, with X > 0,
637.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Voting rights still don't include everyone: there are citizenship requirements, age restrictions, felon disenfranchisement, and so on. (I originally intended to keep this post completely neutral, not mentioning my feelings on such thin
638.
by Chinjut 11y ago
5 downvotes? Alright, I guess I'm wrong. "The 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, educ
639.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Oh, ok. So, logically, it must just be that women-associated occupations tend to be lower payed than men, women tend to be slotted into lower positions than men, women aren't encouraged into or supported in higher education the same wa
640.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Does pre-publication "peer review" not already function to some extent similarly as an indicator of level of agreement rather than a disinterested, objective quality and significance threshold? Everything I know of human processes
641.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Why does academia put up with this stupid system? Academics are already the ones doing all the peer review on their own, free of payment, right? So why not say "Hey, we'll set up our own servers, host papers free for all to access
642.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Er, what? There are some combined MD–PhD programs, but I'm under the impression the vast majority of MDs do not have PhDs.
643.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Who was also a co-founder of The Huffington Post and, most interestingly to me, is the brother of comedian Chelsea Peretti.
644.
by Chinjut 11y ago
You're not alone. This short non-white guy has also found Tinder abysmal and self-esteem thrashing, with only a couple matches after hundreds upon hundreds of swipes. (Unlike your comment, I won't dismiss those matches as unattrac
645.
by Chinjut 11y ago
I believe Lilyhammer was originally produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, not Netflix; Netflix just obtained American distribution rights.
646.
by Chinjut 11y ago
As I understand it, there's more to the world than what is often presented in Econ 101.
647.
by Chinjut 11y ago
40k/year sounds quite high for life-saving information. Life-saving information should be free (or, rather, whatever necessary costs it has should be socialized).
648.
by Chinjut 11y ago
The solution I'd like to see: Enact basic income AND change the fact that our culture views work ethic (narrowly defined in terms of market income) ~= value.
649.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Completes it only by reinforcing how much easier things are for those from already well-off families/the extra burden placed on those who aren't...
650.
by Chinjut 11y ago
> You come from a family well-off/integrated enough in society to afford putting you through college. This is really a metric we want to keep significant? "We'd just feel more comfortable giving our good jobs to people fro
651.
Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco(theguardian.com)
5 points by Chinjut 11y ago|0 comments
652.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Why specifically "scientific" research? Don't schools have large departments besides the sciences?
653.
Academic Publishing Is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce(medium.com)
3 points by Chinjut 11y ago|2 comments
654.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Sure, let's say cos'(x) is the cosine of the angle corresponding to x complete revolutions (thus, cos' is of period 1), and similarly for sin'. Then every function of period 1 is a unique linear combination of cos'(
655.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Fourier transform of arbitrary functions from R to C works fine with whatever units. Fourier series of functions from R/Z to C (i.e., functions of period 1; i.e., functions f from R to C such that f(x + 1) = f(x) for all x) uses specif
656.
by Chinjut 11y ago
What do you mean? In terms of Fourier series, the significance is that a function of period 1 breaks down into a sum of components whose derivatives are integer multiples of 2πi times themselves (or, if you wish to avoid descriptions which
657.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Yes. ("Betteridge's law of headlines" fails)
658.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Just to clarify, when I said "the sort of information about it you're presumably interested in", I wasn't at all doubting your genuine interest and curiosity, but rather, whether I was correct in my assumptions as to the
659.
by Chinjut 11y ago
Work on whatever you want to work on. If you're interested in nanotechnology, by all means, go work on it. But why should we design the world to force others to labor in ways they'd rather not under threat of destitution (starvati
660.
by Chinjut 11y ago
You could make the same argument against, oh, I dunno, medicine. Or libraries. Supermarkets (freeing us from all farming our own food). Anything that reduces adversity for anyone. I propose a counter-statement: removing adversity is good, t

More ›