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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Americans are also wealthier in general though, their houses are larger, they can afford better vacations and so on... I think a lot of Americans don't realise just how much higher salaries are in the USA. I guess the grass is always g
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
> It was still a step up from the previous condition of serfdom and subsistence farming. It's actually debated as to whether it was better at first.[1] It seems for a for the first 60 years or so the standard of living may actually
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
In fairness, lots of tech jobs have died out like there are nowhere near as many system administrators, database admins as there were since the cloud has become bigger. Equally, tools like Wordpress has killed off/deskilled the old &#x
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
To be fair, most STEM PhDs have pretty grim prospects too. There was a famous post, "Don't Become a Scientist!"[1] about Physics in particular. It includes the memorable line: "I have known more people whose lives have b
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I remember seeing an analysis about a decade ago when I was deciding on grad school. And if I recall correctly, Economics was basically the only field where it made financial sense to get a PhD, taking into account opportunity cost etc.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I've read both books and done the Nand2Tetris course. I think Code by Petzold is decent in that it's a book you can read in bed etc. but it spends a long time discussing mechanical relays as an analogue and later discusses various
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I studied Physics. I now work in Data Science, I'd strongly recommend studying Computer Science instead of Physics just because there are many, many more jobs in it. It's not even about pay (as maybe you would be happy being paid
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
It's a bit discouraging that over a century later the same problem still remains.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Spain has a 17.3% high school dropout rate though.[1] So education is an issue. Although yeah, many graduates were also unemployed in the crisis. I think the crisis was kind of exceptional as everyone was going to be pretty screwed either w
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1] It's pretty sad - young people are living with their parents into their
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Also, the engineers are often well aware when something is wrong or dubious. But there's a difference between knowing that and having the power to do something about it.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Crypto (and NFTs in particular) remind me of the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes. I accept that maybe Ethereum could be valuable (I don't really understand smart contracts well enough to say..) and if they move to proof-of-stake
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I suspect they don't have children, as finding a suitable and affordable family home in the city is also incredibly hard. If you are single and can just up sticks from one apartment to another then yeah, it's pretty trivial.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Also with burner reactors you can use the "waste" as fuel. The problem is largely a political one.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Meetup.com are clubs though? It seems at least there you find people with shared interests rather than the random sample at work or church. I met my friends through language classes and meetups as I emigrated.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
But you could hire devs in Western Europe at 50% of SV salaries. With UK-based devs there wouldn't even be a language barrier. There is quite a lot of red-tape involved with hiring foreign workers though.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Housing is a huge issue in Europe as well, yeah we have shorter commutes, but that comes at the cost of higher population densities which often means living in high/medium-rise flats. These flats would be considered tiny by American st
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Why not both? Fusion research budgets are a tiny, almost negligible, fraction of GDP as it is. We aren't so starved for cash we have to choose between fusion or fission - but that might mean less money for wars, the ultra-rich etc.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
That's true, the investigator POV stuff was cool. But all the romance I found really unrealistic and ham-fisted. They cut that completely out of the show.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I was trying to escape the intro material but legitimately couldn't work out how to navigate the site. But yeah, robotics is really tough - I tried a course on Coursera once and found it too challenging despite my Physics major backgro
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Yeah, he's probably my favourite character in the series. The way his character develops and changes is incredible and the acting is really well done.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Yeah, I think having the novel authors involved has helped make the series as good as it is. We still have the final season though - let's hope it doesn't do a "Game of Thrones".
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I think some stuff is improved in the series though. For example, the story from Cibola Burn seemed a lot better on the show than the book in my opinion and some of the characters are better. In particular, Ashford's character is massi
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Is leasehold that common outside of London? My parents own their property as freehold, and it's only an hour from London by train. Tbh, I just ended up emigrating as the property market was so bad it felt hopeless.
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
When I was a student, we bought a big sack of Textured Vegetable Protein that was insanely cheap and tried living off of that. It was unbearable - we later discovered it's what they use to feed prisoners and some zoo animals. Honestly,
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
At least in Physics a big issue isn't so much the pay (you won't get rich, but you won't starve..) but rather the instability and uncertainty. Due to the way Academia is structured there simply aren't enough jobs, and th
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I like it because it just has stupid memes and jokes, and some cool recipes and stuff - it's easy to browse for 10 minutes on a break and it feels organic. Instagram and YouTube etc. have all become incredibly corporate with profession
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I think fusion is a lot closer than 50 years away. We should know without a doubt whether it is workable by 2050, perhaps before then. I strongly recommend the book "The Future of Fusion Energy"[1] as a good summary of the current
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
Wouldn't it be really difficult to put a 55 inch TV in portrait mode? Although I think as I live in a city with small apartments, wall-mounting is much less common. I guess with a decent wall mount perhaps it is trivial to rotate it?
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by alexgmcm 5y ago
I think that isn't defined as a writing system as you can only record numerical data. Same as how the Inca Quipu[1] isn't generally defined as writing, despite the fact it seems they may have encoded some non-numerical information

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