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by Fomite 4y ago
Answering this bit first: `Good point on indirect rates - I was being too quick there. Salary costs can be lower because you have to layer on fringe as well (which can be a separate pool or just a direct calc). So salary * 1.X (fringe) * 1.
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by Fomite 4y ago
`All good points. My own sense is that if your carry isn't too big (you are not feeling a ton of pressure to maintain a pretty big funding line) life is better all around?` Absolutely. The standard in my field is somewhere between a 50
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by Fomite 4y ago
`The funding game in academic science is kind of miserable. Researchers eager to maintain positions for their post docs and grad students etc pay high levels of attention to which way the funding story is going -> ie, telling funders wha
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by Fomite 5y ago
YouTube repeatedly tries to steer my recommendations from the content I'm watching (stuff on terrain making and miniature wargames) to decidedly alt-right content, to the point that at the moment, I mostly watch it logged out and direc
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by Fomite 5y ago
It isn't. But in a show called "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power", you're going to have a lot of lesbian relationships if the cast ends up mostly paired. But there's a mix of relationships.
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by Fomite 5y ago
If one wishes to maintain continuous employment? Yes.
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's extremely important in a lot of policy positions to be able to use things like "a decision was made".
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by Fomite 5y ago
Our local 4H program has a robotics team, for example. Right alongside the kids raising extremely fancy chickens (sometimes they're the same kids). And yeah, colleagues of mine live on anything ranging from an old orchard to a working
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by Fomite 5y ago
You might have luck in any one of a number of university towns.
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by Fomite 5y ago
There's a couple reasons why not to do this, primarily flexibility. The program is expressly designed to allow people to move between positions, as long as they remain in a state, federal, local, tribal or 501c3 job. Those jobs also ar
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's a program to get people, primarily with advanced degrees (i.e. Law, Medicine, Dentistry, PhDs, etc.) who would otherwise go to industry. You have to work for a state, local, federal or tribal government, or a 501c3 (non-profit) fo
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by Fomite 5y ago
The dangerous bit is that an exponential curve will also be a fairly good fit for a logistic function that's not yet fully observed.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Given it was actively blocked during the previous administration? The PSLF Program actually working as intended is news .
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by Fomite 5y ago
I know someone who is enrolled in this program - unfucking it has been an ongoing task since very early in the administration. But like many things, it takes a bit to figure out how to untangle a program that was actively sabotaged for fo
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by Fomite 5y ago
This was surprising to us too - like, we knew there would be bugs, but there were so many . We had a particularly successful Amaranth that was basically a free standing ecosystem.
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by Fomite 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/mOplV2j.jpg Taken in August, so the flowers and such are hiding a bit in fairly dry grass, but also shows a bonus visitor.
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by Fomite 5y ago
In fairness, for the last major scientific/academic ML-based project I was working on, we had to make a lot of compromises due to speed and performance.
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by Fomite 5y ago
See Musk's net worth. It's entirely possible that whatever the loss is, it's an entertainment expense in his mind for a vanity project, a bit of spite, and perpetuating his reputation.
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by Fomite 5y ago
When we moved into our new place, we put our fence in a few feet from the actual back of our house, and planted a strip of native, pollinator-friendly plants in a little micromeadow. Cannot recommend it enough.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Washington State University | Pullman, WA | Full-time | Remote or Onsite, VISA | The Paul G. Allen School for Global Health (Allen School) at Washington State University (WSU) is seeking to fill two positions to support multiple research pr
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by Fomite 5y ago
"They should do this thing in order to continue to succeed." "Why?" "Because if they don't they'll fail." "Now you're arguing for a monopoly." You can't possibly be arguing in good
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by Fomite 5y ago
Apparently less than a third. Beyond that, even if that was theoretically possible, the empirical outcome seems to suggest it's not working, and another pathway isn't a bad idea.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Note most of those pilots will be on Horizon, not Alaska.
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by Fomite 5y ago
89% of airline pilots are white. Supporting programs to help train and support BIPOC pilots is tapping a potential source of new recruits. https://www.zippia.com/airplane-pilot-jobs/demographics/
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by Fomite 5y ago
That's not a bad idea. Might try that when I get home.
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by Fomite 5y ago
I've been a huge fan of my Eero Pro 6s - we've got two in our home. My single annoyance with them has been that the router will, without warning or the ability to wave it off, occasionally install updates at ~ 2-3 AM PST. Which
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by Fomite 5y ago
"Yes, professors work hard, but let’s not kid ourselves that they’re involved with the nitty-gritty research work. You just sound like someone who’s bitter at young people." This week I've: - Worked on a research grant that d
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by Fomite 5y ago
The grant that covers the largest portion of my salary doesn't even have grad students on it.
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by Fomite 5y ago
This. My indulgence for "I spent three months going down this rabbit hole because it might have proved interesting" is way hired for graduate students than it would be for research staff, because that's part of them being s
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by Fomite 5y ago
This would require revisiting a lot of things - it basically assumes that all projects can be broken down into one-year, coherent and publishable chunks. I love Masters students, but they are often not the most productive, as they rarel

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