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by cossatot 8y ago
It depends on the books and your rate of reading. I spend about $100/month on books which is often only 2 or 3. I can't always justify spending more. I would agree with you in the case of fiction, as the books are cheaper and bet
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I've always felt that First Aid Kit, who have mastered American country-folk musical styling, lay it on a bit thicker than necessary with idioms. It's a bit like someone showing up to a cowboy bar wearing spurs.
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by cossatot 8y ago
I always thought it was about babies, and I'm a native English speaker.
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Douthat's probably the best opinion writer at the NYT. Although I disagree with him on many fronts, particularly religious ones, his writing is by far the most reasoned. However I think this piece reflects a bit of ignorance with regar
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by cossatot 8y ago
I've read an argument recently that the lion's share of the increase in longevity throughout the 20th century in America is almost entirely due to better hygiene at the personal and civil infrastructural levels, with a bit coming
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by cossatot 8y ago
Totally. Just like seatbelts.
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One assumes it's growth of the staff and associated expenses, not growth in revenue, profit or customer base.
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by cossatot 8y ago
I've been doing academic-type blogging since I was halfway through my PhD; it's been about 7 years now, and I continue as a non-academic scientist. My main advice is, as many others have said, to just write. Keep at it, and you&#x
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by cossatot 8y ago
Universities in developing nations get heavily discounted if not free subscription and individual access fees to most journals. Library subscriptions are negotiated on a school-by-school basis and you can be sure that a university in sub-Sa
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by cossatot 8y ago
This is absolutely wrong. Academic journals provide value through scientific aggregation, review, editorial curation, publication, archival curation, and promotion. Yes, you can bypass all of this and put your non-reviewed pdfs on your pers
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by cossatot 8y ago
Copernicus Publications publishes a host of journals, many on the behalf of non-profit scholarly and scientific societies [1]. For some or all of their journals, including those by the European Geosciences Union, peer review is open and the
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by cossatot 8y ago
Only math/physics/CS papers are put on arxiv. These are a small fraction of the total academic and industrial research output. In my own field, earth science, there is an arxiv-clone (eartharxiv.org) that is a few months old. I be
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by cossatot 8y ago
All the conferences in my field have literal security guards checking the badges that are only handed out after paying hundreds of dollars to register.
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by cossatot 8y ago
PDF of original paper here, with less-informative title: https://colala.bcs.rochester.edu/papers/piantadosi2018one.pd...
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A One Parameter Equation That Can Exactly Fit Any Scatter Plot(marginalrevolution.com)
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I really wish the approach to making university education more affordable was by subsidizing the universities more instead of subsidizing loans. I don't know if hand-outs to banks was the only way that the left could get enough support
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by cossatot 8y ago
No, many (if not most) academic fields have high-quality journals run by non-profit societies. In my field (geoscience) the best of these are trusted more than Nature and Science, which are higher impact even though it's common knowled
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by cossatot 8y ago
Have you been specifically told by NSF that you can't? I have included OA funds as line items in NSF (Earth Science division) budgets before, and never received any flak. However, none of the grants ever got funded, so maybe they did
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by cossatot 8y ago
Sort of off topic but maybe not: I'm in Chengdu right now, my first trip to China since 2010. I had previously just been to Beijing among Chinese cities (lots of time camping in Xizang backcountry otherwise). Chengdu is so tranquil, o
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An Algorithmic Investigation of the Highfalutin ‘Poet Voice’(atlasobscura.com)
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The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe(thonyc.wordpress.com)
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by cossatot 8y ago
Many of us do occupy the middle ground of thinking 'maybe' or 'I really don't care' or whatever. We also tend to avoid commenting because bitcoin discussions are among the most useless on HN.
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No disagreement from me on the sorry state of things.
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Is this your comic, perhaps?
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How Oman's rocks could help save the planet(nytimes.com)
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by cossatot 9y ago
I set up a Fedora/Cinnamon desktop at my last job and loved it.
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by cossatot 9y ago
Thanks. I clicked on the youtube link before reading the article and was surprised at first that the paper was about Warren G (as some geek off the street, I had never heard of Michael McDonald).
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by cossatot 9y ago
My grad school advice, as a PhD who is not good with rules: - Understand what the rules are, why they are in place, and to whom they matter. Some are there to keep you from hurting yourself, some to keep you from hurting those on your leve
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Is this a vision from a world without open source?
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by cossatot 9y ago
They care to the extent that the alumni are willing and able to make fat donations.

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