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by MiroF 6y ago
On the other hand, there are people for whom it is in their head, but cost considerable (and scarce) medical resources having it investigated and treated. It's a balancing act.
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by MiroF 6y ago
The title implies that we're reading someone writing on their struggle with death, not the last published words of a dying man, insisting that he will fight a disease and try to beat the odds, punctuated by the editors note that he die
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by MiroF 6y ago
Respectfully, it might be worth considering how people have a plurality or reactions to content. This content is obviously distressing and could have used some sort of warning. Not everyone thinks or responds the same and it is good to be c
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by MiroF 6y ago
No X-ray radiation from MRI - I’d bet it’s the cost thing.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I almost wish stuff like this had something like a content warning. Reading this made me quite sad.
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by MiroF 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp... If you mean smaller accelerators, it's unclear what the value in that would be.
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by MiroF 6y ago
like cheap RHEED?
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by MiroF 6y ago
China has a lot of STEM expertise, I'm confident they could probably figure it out.
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by MiroF 6y ago
The financial incentives are seriously so misaligned. Likewise as a physics undergrad who considered going into academia and is now doing tech.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> we still have no idea how unconventional superconductors work. Of course, they're completely described by plain old quantum mechanics without even using field theory News to me - I thought that study of non-conventional supercondu
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by MiroF 6y ago
The great thing about claims like these is you can fact-check them. https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-histor... Here it appears that volatility went up, up, up for 2008 - then died back down to pre-
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by MiroF 6y ago
I agree that this is a flaw with advice from elders and one that one should keep in mind. I disagree that this is a unique flaw of advice from professors and more just a flaw with advice? Those who have more experience are going to be more
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by MiroF 6y ago
> don’t project your values or idea of worth on what other people choose to do with their life. Unless you're a moral relativist, why shouldn't I do this? I find this entire attitude baffling. If you went around assassinating p
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by MiroF 6y ago
We also need to start desegregating schools again.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Ah yes, the professor gets to live off of the luxurious salary provided to academics.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Management consulting and finance are still huge on the east coast.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I don't think it demonstrates much of anything, except his opinion and way of communicating on this particular issue.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I didn't say they had the best advice for career growth, just that they were also making sacrifices to pursue engineering. Professors also likely know many other people with developed career paths that are different from their own, whi
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by MiroF 6y ago
On the contrary, I think social stigma and pressure can definitely influence what careers people go into and the suggestion that most people make decisions as purely rational money-making machines seems somewhat facile.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> volatility went up, but it could've easily gone down. I don't see how volatility could have gone down. Maybe explain?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> online payments is somehow not finance When I think of the finance careers that many of my peers are going in to, I do not think of the online payment ecosystem or fintech writ large.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I think they would likely have more burnout from the academia job than the corporate job. And at least at my school, pretty much any professor that left could immediately get a higher paying job in industry. You're right it's not
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by MiroF 6y ago
Most of finance that I can see seems to consist of investment firms hiring lots of people with good credentials so that they can convince clients that the efficient market hypothesis actually doesn't apply to their firm, then making
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by MiroF 6y ago
I don't think that social scientists have a particular strong track record with forward predictions and it is impossible to distinguish those who do from those who don't.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> In general when people give advice but don't bear the risk, the value of their advice is dubious. If they are a mechanical engineering professor at a good university, they pretty much have borne the risk of their own advice. Most
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Nowadays it seems more and more common that this phrase is "Too many smart people go into working on ad optimization". Maybe. At least of the East Coast elite universities, what Elon is saying here rings true to me.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> rather saturated meaning salaries are relatively low for post-graduate professions. Not a contradiction. This is exactly why the proportion of very smart people going into law is decreasing.
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by MiroF 6y ago
https://openreview.net/
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by MiroF 6y ago
Agreed - and I would say this is part of a larger phenomenon of SWE hubris that expertism in software automatically translates to process expertise in every other domain under the sun.
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by MiroF 6y ago
If you read the articles, I would say that the companies listed above (like the NYT) are not the ones outsourcing, the outsourcing is quite limited in scope, and mostly is design jobs, not writing jobs. I thought it was a great analogy.

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