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AST Research (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
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In the US, getting a PhD is not a job. Everything below the faculty level is considered trainee.
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EU unveils digital strategy, aims to break US web firms' market grip(in.reuters.com)
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Yes, this is a chocking fact I realized when I moved from Sweden to New York. In the former I payed ~30% in tax, whereas here in NY I pay the same. Because you have several levels of taxes in the U.S.: federal tax, income tax, state tax, an
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1. The research funding system in Canada is very different. In the U.S., a number of research-focused faculty can be expected to be bringing money into the university, especially those outside the humanities. Isn't this the case in C
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Here in NYC where I live, multilingualism is extremely common.
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Sweden is also free. Plus you get 1100 SEK/month in assistance from the government.
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This is not a fair comparison.
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by _of 12y ago
I love it. No more loading tables into R just for transposing it.. just doing cat table.txt | datamash transpose
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References needed. What is the source of the information?
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My personal Wal-Mart nightmare: You won’t believe what life...(salon.com)
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Look at any academic institution in the US in the life sciences. If you would take away the Europeans and Asians, what would be left?
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Scoville scale(en.wikipedia.org)
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What are the ideological beliefs of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center?
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Python OS Project Alpha(python-os.info)
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Asylum fraud in Chinatown: Industry of Lies(nytimes.com)
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1369500 :)
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by _of 13y ago
You don't need to read it if you are not interested. I'm a tech guy and I found it very interesting to read.
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America Unleashed: Why We'll Be Number One Once More(pbs.org)
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Which Is More Important: Military Drones Or A Cure For Cancer?(forbes.com)
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (2010)(cbsnews.com)
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The same in Stockholm, a lot of beggars from Eastern European countries (mostly Romania and Bulgaria I think).
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He seems to be such a humble person.
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According to Wikipedia [1] an ecosystem is "a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a sy
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The actual paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
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Until they do more rigorous analysis of this it is not convincing.
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I think the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is that civilizations destroy themselves before advancing to the stage where interstellar travel is possible. Look here at earth, all civilizations collapse sooner or later and this
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by _of 13y ago
Where is the data indicating that it's decreasing?
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by _of 13y ago
Nice! But why does the font size have to be so big?
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by _of 14y ago
Watch out for arxiv.org, these papers may or may not have passed peer review. A lot of junk is deposited there.

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