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by dasudasu 6y ago
Adulthood is already super delayed compared to 50-100 years ago. I'd rather see the trend reverse than further help it.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
It was never meant to be even close to competitive to a senior-level professional salary. Besides, to be competitive in academia, which is the actual end goal in mind for any student going through a decently ranked PhD program, the target d
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by dasudasu 6y ago
In the "good old days", postdocs weren't even really a thing and you only did one if your PhD was too marginal to get a position straight away. It's pretty telling though that some fields are so bad that even getting a p
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Many people into Bitcoin seems to be only concerned about the USD exchange rate. Even if people agrees that manipulation takes place, when it comes to Tether printing, it ends up inflating BTC, so clearly in their interest to go along. The
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by dasudasu 6y ago
The tether thing is less of a joke than you think. There is nothing preventing them to do exactly that. If you corner a BTC fanatic, they will often admit so themselves, but will claim it is no different than a central bank printing money o
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by dasudasu 6y ago
When I think of non-communist "grand secular societal program", the only thing that comes to mind are some aspects of the NSDAP’s program.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Also their participation in the Korean War obviously and a bunch of minor skirmishes.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
From the point of view of manufacturers not having their stuff bought, it doesn't matter if these people spend their money on other things.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Amazon disposes of it, but how much is the manufacturer involved? Who foots the bill in the end?
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Sure, people don't know the actual number, but they know that some enforcement is done, and some enforcement must be done for real for the effect to ripple through society. If you see your neighbour get away with it, it does entice you
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Tax fraud takes hold when people think an audit isn't that likely. It's not that simple. There is a hidden deterrence benefit.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Most people in STEM outside of CS (including regular engineering) get a degree, never get a good first job (or any job at all in their field), and switch field entirely. An oldie by now, but still relevant: https://spectrum.ieee.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Try "diversity" and "social trust" in google scholar.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Postdocs are not even on H1B the vast majority of the time, because it's considered academic training. It's possible to get on a H1B if everything has been exhausted, but never the preferred option.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
In industry, you have "paper that did deserve to be written, but didn't because that's giving away knowledge to competitors, and also time wasted." Patents are respected, but that's not really something too relevant
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Free markets tend to become positive feedback loops for those with skills or access to capital. Calling this feedback loop "unfair and corrupt" really does not necessarily follow from this fact alone. At the very least, it is not
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by dasudasu 6y ago
If the chip yield is 100%.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Could be something like people with behaviors consistent with a higher risk of catching/spreading it being already immune by now.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
A big part of private equity getting to insane valuations like WeWork is that nobody can short it.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Don’t know actually, but wouldn’t put it past them to do so under the justification of hedging.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Myself as well. You just hit low blood sugar. Technically not fasting, but I have an appetite so weak I can skip meals easily and will do so if I don’t pay attention. Eventually I just feel very lethargic and enter what I can only conceive
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Lots of companies finance themselves by debt or stock offerings, this being especially relevant in distressed situations. There has to be a buyer on the other side. Short selling, even if not accompanied by short reports, is visible to mark
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by dasudasu 6y ago
It's extremely easy for the parent company to abuse the minority shareholders in the child company even if there are laws against it, because it can be hard to prove malicious intent. It's outside of tech, but a recent case I hav
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by dasudasu 6y ago
It's usually not seen very positively by the market unless the holder is viewed as extraordinarily visionary. Outside of tech, it's much harder to spin the visionary angle, so they often trade at a significant discount to their pe
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by dasudasu 6y ago
They do. The number of shares outstanding is publicly reported. You can already divide earnings any way you want yourself. To me shares buyback is just the counterpart to selling shares on the open market to raise capital. It’s anti-dilutiv
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by dasudasu 6y ago
I think it's pretty apparent to anyone not on the left that this is the exact line of thinking that led to the homelessness crises in liberal enclaves. Just tolerate a problem and claim it's society's fault, while also not do
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Vanadium redox batteries are looking pretty good as an alternative to lithium for large-scale energy storage.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
To me that's the basic point of game theory.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
What number of companies still operate in the same form for several decades? A company dying isn't necessarily a negative. The assets don't get set on fire; the people working there don't disappear into a black hole. Investor
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by dasudasu 6y ago
SARS literally punched holes in the lungs of strongly affected patients according to the WHO. That's permanent, not 5-10 years.

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