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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Not really. You could maybe squeeze another $20K-$30K in gross salary out of what NSF/NIH allocate for PhD students. But even that is still WAY below starting rates for the quality of folks you need to run a research lab.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
The basic issue is the labor. We don't pay for good science. Suppose I told you to develop good software that's novel enough to publish about, but only gave you enough budget to pay your SWEs a maximum of $30K/yr. That's
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
The back half of the essay was unrecognizable for me, but that's probably because I'm working in different contexts and on different product types. It would be helpful to know what systems the author has worked on and why these fi
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
I just enumerated the playgrounds our exurb and ALL except 1 have at least one of the things you mentioned. Most have both monkey bars and swings. The exception is a splash pad playground, so not really indicative of any sort of trend (exce
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> This does not make sense. You're clearly not an actuary or -- more importantly -- an insurance exec. Just because there isn't a perfect causal link doesn't mean that the correlation isn't useful for minimizing ris
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> e.g. my health insurance premiums rise because I bought too much bacon. This would indeed be very bad, but it is currently a mere hypothetical. Regulations prevent this from happening with health federally and life in certain states.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
>> Better to get all of them and a few more than let a single one go free…? > I'm genuinely asking... Your questions are not serious. You are not genuinely asking. If you want interlocutors to engage with your questions wi
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Yes, there's no middle ground between locking everyone up and letting people keep billions in ill-gotten gains /s.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Not really. The property taxes on a piece of land I own are about $200 per year, which can be paid in perpetuity with a low five figure endowment stored in zero risk FDIC-insured CDs. In most counties, property taxes are fairly marginal and
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Interestingly, patent law agrees with you — mathematical theorems, for example, cannot be patented. In principle, a patent should cover specific machinery/process/material designed for a task rather than the underlying more epheme
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> You can be a zeroth responder. You can be. But you can also cause more harm than good as the zeroth responder (removing an impaled object, moving someone with a back injury). Fortunately, there are affordable high-quality first respo
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
On the contrary, OP correctly identified that lacking even basic safety systems is a pervasive issue and not a one-off oversight in the case of this small town: >> In that respect it's also a story about the poor state of Americ
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Harkening back to the GP post: Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was based on a city neighborhood, not a small town.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> or the authorities, are better equipped to help. It's not just "equipped to help". It's also that random untrained people can do more harm than good. Hell, even random trained people can do more harm that good w
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Execs are salespeople. Tip: that 2012 Buick with rusted out baseboards isn’t actually a good deal, and oil co ceos are also sometimes full of it. Refineries don’t fall out of repair overnight. Underinvestment is strategic, market-driven, an
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
I had prosecution in mind.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
"Shoot people who tell you to do stuff you don't want to do" is the superior Christian alternative to might makes right... strongly suspect trolling.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
my prediction is that the wording on the website and the overall context is too cute by a half for a jury of peers.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
All of the also describes the US, except there are a few more cities (also more people). Even the numbers. The average salary in the USA is 56k.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
I know only because I volunteer in AP CS classrooms. Linked Lists are covered fairly early in the course. Doubly linked list insertion is one of the standard reversed classroom (?) labs in one of those teacher's courses (but not others
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
I have a hard time imagining a jury coming to the conclusion that this phrasing (still on their site) isn't intentionally misleading.
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
If you don't mind explaining: how? I constantly find myself on those (very heavy) pages and haven't found a good way to avoid them except to restrict my search to certain domains (SO, Reddit, etc.)
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
How so? There's no reasonable sense in which reduced US refining capacity is a problem created by "radical politicians". Is your position that oil companies under-invested in oil refineries, which are now being decommissioned
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Probing for information and not being too afraid of "looking dumb" to ask foundational questions about the assignment are, in fact, part of what's assessed in a leetcode-style question. If we're honest, that's proba
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
I can't tell if this is unhinged xenophobia or satire. In case of the former: the crusades, any of the millions of athiest or non-christian pacifists, and... I can't believe this needs stating, but shooting someone in the face wit
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
Leetcode interviewing is a hot mess, but "insert an element into a double-linked list" is literally high school computer science. More importantly, having the general problem solving skillset to reason through this problem in 20
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> We only have radical politicians to thank for that underinvestment by private companies. I'm not sure who you are talking about. Domestic producers start talking about "switching modes to returning value to shareholders&quo
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
We're very nearly at the 2018 peak anyways [1]. The stock is so big relative to the flow that I can't imagine how anyone has confidence in claims like this. Even if we will completely run out of extractable oil in N years, consump
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
> why the youngest ended up getting up the earliest puzzles me. I've always heard teenagers need more sleep than younger kids. I've never actually verified this claim. In my area it's the opposite, and the reason is simp
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by InefficientRed 4y ago
That has nothing on Al Gore, who invented the internet! And in much the same way as any other president doing something popular and uncontroversial: it would've happened almost no matter who was at the top. (Point is, most legislation

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