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   by dfdx 2y ago

   A friend of mine recently finished his engineering PhD at the University of Toronto. He received employment offers from an American firm and a Canadian firm. The Canadian firm offered a total compensation package worth 80,000 CAD (~55,000 U
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   by dfdx 5y ago

   Anecdotally, ITER was the largest of few options for a fusion researcher to run their experiment in a new tokamak. Everybody wanted to put their work into it, and as more features were added, the more funding it sucked up, leaving less mone
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   by dfdx 5y ago

   Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I've been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different. Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth cent
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   The Threat from the Illiberal Left(economist.com)

   39 points by dfdx 5y ago|23 comments
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   by dfdx 6y ago

   I think it's quite interesting that the NYT hasn't linked Scott's response [1] in their article about him. Surely if their article was written in good faith they would be happy to do so [1] https://astralcodexten.s