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by anghyflawn 15y ago
It really does depend on your standard of comparison. Cosmology? Yeah, I guess you're right. Philosophy (or for that matter any humanities department)? Guess who gets more "serves them right" jeers if a a university decides to close down th
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Is the master's degree the new bachelor's?(nytimes.com)
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
>Of course science costs time and money. One problem is that peer review is essentially free for the journals, and people have to take time for it out of the other things they have to do (like teaching, or scrambling to get Yet Another
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I agree. I've had two articles reviewed by now (not in a science field, but still), and only one reviewer was relatively unhelpful (they thought the paper was too dense and insufficiently well presented to do a detailed review); all the oth
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
What do you think is the population density of Sweden, Norway, or Finland? There is still very decent broadband to be had up here at 70 degrees northern latitude.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Europe is going to a model where the infrastructure is owned by some arm of the government (quangos like Railtrack in the UK or national rail administrations), because the initial outlay on infrastructure is too big to make private investme
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
It's all here: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf20transit . Tl;dr: there is a whitelist for transit visa waivers, so citizens of some countries need to apply for a transit visa in advance. However, you can apply from a waive
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
The UK has a visa waiver for transit passengers (they're not that idiotic, they want Heathrow to keep being the big hub that it is; you do get to talk to an officer, but you generally don't need to apply in advance). Generally UK immigratio
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what modern generative linguistics is all about (to be fair, it is extremely widespread). The aim of this branch of science is expressly not to "learn to produce and interpret varied utterances" (
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I feel there is excessive emphasis on "what Chomsky said" and "what Chomsky did". Norvig chooses to point out that the principles and parameters framework is, let's say, imperfect, but, well, Chomsky would agree. Moreover, if you zoom out a
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
I don't think you can do it. Technically, the lists are available (for a short time if I am not mistaken) for perusal at a tax office; in practice, they are released to the media (e.g. major news outlets), who give you access to search by n
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Yes. Actually, the public information is not the income or value of property, but the amount of tax paid on these, which means that the numbers splashed all over the internet are estimates (for instance, people with zero-income dependants a
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Wealth and literacy are quite relevant, because most translations are not done by the original publisher, but by local actors who have to live with the local market. If there are are sufficiently many Danes who are ready to spend money on (
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
In my experience as a foreigner in Scandinavia, Swedes are way way faster to switch to English, many do it almost as soon as I make a small mistake, whereas Norwegians are much more tolerant and will keep up unless I switch myself.
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
>the languages of the top 5 countries have a ridiculously small speaking population Dutch has over twenty million native speakers, Swedish has ten million. That is not ridiculously small. Even Norwegian's four and a half million is, on
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
>There was a failure of communication. This sentence is not in the passive voice.
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
I agree. I grew up in Moscow, have lived in Norway for some time now and (I think) picked up the friendlier attitude - but I've never experienced that others are somehow uncomfortable with me smiling or whatever when I'm back. (I think this
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Certainly. Everything that applies to second-rank universities in this respect applies to even less advantaged institutions and scholars, magnified.
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Not quite, and there has been some interesting experimental work lately... but no, not really. Here is a relevant link from Language Log, and there are many more where this comes from: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2592 (edit fo
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
OK, I'll bite. Assuming an average figure of $4,000 per journal per year, how much does will a university like Cornell spend per year on all journals? I work at a smallish European university, and even in my smallish field of the humanities
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
It is actually extremely murky, because there is no single document which states what the constitutional status is, there is a patchwork of legislation which refers to England and Wales, then there are the Wales-specific acts such as the We
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Um, actually the constitutional status of Wales is a murky topic, and even if that were to be cleared up unambiguously, how do you compare statuses across constitutions?
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
I think you misunderstand me :). I don't think .cym is a bad idea at all, but I can understand those who might think it is not. Wales is not a country in the way that Russia, Tuvalu, Kenya or even Jersey are (and even in the latter sense th
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
"People say this" is the definition of "this makes linguistic sense"
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
I'm all for .cat, but I can see the arguments against. People are already campaigning for .cym for Wales, so where do we stop? Do all the regional communities on Spain get one (Basque country, Asturias, Galicia, the list goes on). Do the Sa
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
Yes, which is why regulations regarding non-discriminatory network access are beneficiary to consumers.
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
So true. Giving OK presentations is a technical skill that can be acquired with a bit of training (and a sympathetic audience to bounce off for your unsuccessful shows). Most people who are brilliant public speakers are extroverts, but ma
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
The first point is not too much of a downer, actually: it's not much harder to learn the IO monad as pure syntactic sugar than to learn printf and its ilk.
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
I use LaTeX in an academic setting (theoretical linguistics) which only occasionally requires a lot of math, but I'm still saving tons of man-hours by using the LaTeX + Emacs + AUCTeX combo. Here are some frequent use cases where LaTeX blow
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by anghyflawn 16y ago
This is all true, but, in any case, whatever happened to MVC? After all, you can (and arguably should) have your business logic happen in functional and reduce the GUI or whatever (which might or might not be OO) to more or less a thin laye

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