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by hilop 10y ago
Even in NYC, paying $3000/mo for a 1BR is expensive but doable for a large range of the population with no dependents. And there are places in NYC that are cheaper. Choosing the couple most extreme cases isn't very interesting.
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by hilop 10y ago
I don't have time for working I need to raise my kids before I die.
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by hilop 10y ago
Literally there were fewer cities with McDonald's 20 years ago. Globalization is real.
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by hilop 10y ago
Yes that's one of the foundational ideas of evo bio. Young people are more risk-seeking.
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by hilop 10y ago
Google Code shut down, and everything of interest moved. There was no problem.
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by hilop 10y ago
If GitHub censors your code, or even if they don't, you can publish it elsewhere
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by hilop 10y ago
The OP topic is complaining that acedemia is too reluctant too fund things that are unlikely to succeed.
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by hilop 10y ago
If you are being sarcastic, it isn't working. Did Verlaine have a lifetime paid appointment to not create any poetry? While other artists were soldiers because they needed income?
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by hilop 10y ago
Reddit (and to some extent HN) are proof that there are plenty of white collar jobs with oodles of free time.
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by hilop 10y ago
The senior scientists evaluation committees are quite happy with the status quo and dont want to lose their power in their fiefdom. Search Bing for [PNAS Fiske]
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by hilop 10y ago
Are you retired and doing a PhD for fun? Or planning to return to (unrelated?) industry after your PhD?
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by hilop 10y ago
Baseball players waste 9 of every 10 swings on misses. It's a terrible waste.
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by hilop 10y ago
Common wisdom is that for most STEM and professional graduate degrees, the best undergraduate preparation is a math degree and a minor in the related field. If you do a major in any science or social science, have the time is wasted on tip
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by hilop 10y ago
I studied math in college in the 1990s. An NSF official came to our school and told us to get into computational biology.
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by hilop 10y ago
I've read all of 3/10 books on the first list "everyone reads", and 3/5 on the "no one reads" list. Most of the books on the first list were published after veterans already learned the relevant materials
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by hilop 10y ago
Years ago we had some banned C++ features Because they didn't compiler properly on HP-UX compiler. But maybe that was still part of the g+ umbrella
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by hilop 10y ago
A 3 week trial period is a far longer than an Amazon interview sequence.
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by hilop 10y ago
I don't want to ever work at a job where to can't get better.
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by hilop 10y ago
You are allowed to overpay. The drivers don't like it because they are Seattle nice and would prefer you just not pay at all.
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by hilop 10y ago
It's not about being a good cowboy developer, it's about beijg a professional engineer who builds systems that work. I don't expect the folks who built my house to detach and reattach the door pefectly every day, I expect the
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by hilop 10y ago
OTOH, at the most sophisticated organizations, being afraid to push on Friday demonstrates an embarrassing lack of QA infrastructure.
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by hilop 10y ago
Self-deprecation is classy. Other-deprecation is pathetic
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by hilop 10y ago
"Madonna" is the Italian name of Christ's mother. The singer chose her name for that reason
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by hilop 10y ago
And the problem it solves is Murphy's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
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by hilop 10y ago
What do you mean "reversed"? DK says that both low and high skilled people estimate themselves as close to average, due to the obvious bias in one's available data
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by hilop 10y ago
Of the NYT wanted to swing the election, they might have publishedthis article before Trump imploded at the debates.
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by hilop 10y ago
NYT is not liberal. It is just left of extreme right wing. NYT was a leading cheerleaders for Bush's Iraq War
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by hilop 10y ago
His name is Nate Silver. Don't be obnoxious. 538 didn't fail to read data properly re Trump's nomination. Trump was a new phenomenon with no history to build a model from. 538's mistake was guessing instead of admitting
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by hilop 10y ago
"permanent blacklist"? That sounds like the High Tech Employees Lawsuit case, but a much easier win for a more sympathetic class of victim.
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by hilop 10y ago
You would do well to go meet some real human soldiers, not just read fantasy books.

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