anghyflawn

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1. 91.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   Quite possibly. At conferences in my (non-"techie") field, the single biggest source of delays is people getting their Macs to talk to the projector.
2. 92.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   Russian, English, Norwegian, Swedish
3. 93.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   Aw come on, Norway has oil and it is small, but was social-democratic long before any oil, and both Denmark and Sweden have built successful welfare safety nets without relying so much on a natural-resources windfall.
4. 94.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   > the people you know would have been fired already. I guess you're right, though who knows what those pesky unions might have said.
5. 95.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   Wow. In Norway, there is a similar problem with the "four-year" rule, which means it becomes very hard to fire someone who has worked for an employer for over four years. Now the PhD of course also takes four years, and PhD students are emp
6. 96.▲
   by anghyflawn 16y ago

   I am also doing a PhD in Norway, but in the humanities (ABD now). I agree with a lot of what is said here: PhD students in Europe, and especially in places like the Netherlands and Scandinavia, have it unbelievably good (not that you'd beli