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by caddemon 5y ago
The landlords are the ones writing the listing, the agent is the one collecting the money for supposedly "connecting" someone, when AT MOST all they did was post it onto a couple websites like AirBnB. I have no problem with the fe
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by caddemon 5y ago
The agent isn't the one doing the connecting, that's my point. Most landlords I know "write" their own listings using a standard template and reusing old photos. Circulating this is trivial, especially in a hot housing m
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree it's a bad example re: the Bezos quote, but I also don't think it's an example of anecdotes leading people astray. IMO it's from the brand of bad pop sci that misinterprets perfectly good data while ranting about
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by caddemon 5y ago
"Customer" is an interesting word choice for someone who receives literally 0 value from the agent. Especially now with the internet, but even before with school/work connections, the majority of students/transplants wil
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure to what extent that is true. I definitely don't think it is 1 to 1. Apartments are advertised at $X rent per month. The broker fee is just an extra month of rent due at signing, it is not reflected in the mai
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by caddemon 5y ago
The broker fee IME is usually an extra month of rent due at the time of signing the lease. Because in certain cities the vast majority of apartments will follow this convention, and it's not really something that will be mentioned unti
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree a lot of young people don't really use Facebook profiles anymore, but most people I know still use Facebook messenger. It's easy to find people because most people are on there with real name/picture, and the group ch
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by caddemon 5y ago
Interesting, I thought there was an income limit on rollover as well but apparently that was axed in 2010. In any event Thiel couldn't have used this.
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by caddemon 5y ago
He didn't use any loophole. He didn't make more than the allowable yearly contribution, which is small. If someone can turn that into billions good for them. The vast majority of wealthy people could not, hence why this is a weird
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by caddemon 5y ago
You can only put earned income into a Roth, you can only put up to 6K per year, and you are only eligible to put anything at all for a given year if your total earned income was below a fairly modest threshold. Roth IRA already has plenty o
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah sorry, I know you were saying it has gone overboard, I didn't mean to present your comment as praising cancel culture in its entirety. But I did read it as praising some aspects of what these mobs can do, which the person I was re
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by caddemon 5y ago
I never said that criminal prosecution is the only way there can be repercussions, it was just the obvious factor in the examples OP gave. Aside from civil prosecution, it is perfectly reasonable for companies, schools, etc. to enforce thei
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by caddemon 5y ago
Is the media driven by aligning with peers? Or is it driven by putting out the story that will maximize clicks/engagement?
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by caddemon 5y ago
Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were literally charged with crimes, and Matt Lauer probably could be. There is no reason in theory that the criminal justice system couldn't handle the cases you brought up. Whether we need Twitter in
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by caddemon 5y ago
I think there are also some topics where people are conditioned to respond emotionally. Once responding emotionally of course a fair reading is out the window. I do think there is a lot of silence due to social expectations, also probably m
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by caddemon 5y ago
Maybe to the extent that anyone who participates in social justice mobs is being performative, but it definitely did not help her career or result in any material gain. She also had no incentive to take down Stallman specifically, of course
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes, IIRC the Medium post that made the situation go viral beyond MIT was written by a student that just compiled other peoples' stories about Stallman, not based on any of her own experiences. Personally I can't imagine initiatin
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree that what Stallman said was misrepresented, and perhaps the later stages of the "cancelling" were more manufactured, but the initial anger that popped up on various MIT mailing lists felt very organic to me. A bit mob-like
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes continuing on into postdoc is another 3+ years of opportunity cost, certainly it does add up quickly. But OP was implying that PhD students actually had to pay for their degrees which is not true. Most people will finish PhD before they
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree competition for grants drives a lot of these problems, but getting a STEM PhD costs nothing at any remotely respectable institution. You will be spending 5+ years making less than you could, so you still may not come out ahead finan
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah but all the EMR data I've seen have just been doctor notes, some prescription info, standard clinical scales, etc. Not that this can't be interesting, but there's not really a major database for richer data types like im
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by caddemon 5y ago
Maybe this helps students in the direct sense of modern academic career advancement, but I think it makes grad school a much more negative experience than it needs to be, and more broadly is a detriment to academic culture. I've encoun
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by caddemon 5y ago
Almost anybody in a position to develop something worthwhile from their research wasn't paying tuition and was probably getting a stipend. But still the students (and any pre-professor researchers) are vastly underpaid for what their s
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by caddemon 5y ago
It's surprisingly common for PhD programs to restrict outside activities, although that's probably field dependent. Not the same as the OPs story but I know multiple neuroscience programs where if you are receiving any funding fro
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah if you watch the video though it's not a smooth version of that, he stutters and then freezes up for awhile first, like he was completely unprepared for the question.
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by caddemon 5y ago
Also, a whole range of substances are technically illegal, so even if you were using something less egregious than the recently engineered stuff you could still be retaliated against for reporting.
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by caddemon 5y ago
It's incredible how much he stumbled over that question when it was so obviously coming. He eventually gave a politician non-answer but he looks like a deer in the headlights at first lol.
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by caddemon 5y ago
I am aware there isn't, what I'm saying is there should be - particularly for dense datatypes like EEG that we probably aren't fully leveraging at the moment.
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by caddemon 5y ago
I don't blame the practicing radiologist, but I also don't buy this is purely a technical issue. The hospital is quite literally incentivized to have you repeat tests. I highly doubt they care to make data accessibility/porta
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by caddemon 5y ago
I don't think the blame falls on practicing radiologists, but the OP is absolutely correct that medical data is way too inaccessible. It is often impossible to get your own raw data, and even worse it is sometimes impossible to share t

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