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by jltsiren 2y ago
Software developers are often the ones who move back. When you can have good enough standard of living anywhere, you may start paying attention on where you actually want to live. The best predictor for moving permanently to another country
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We are talking about immigrants, not US citizens. If you come to the US in the normal H-1B to green card pipeline, your employer decides where you are allowed to live. Which is usually in an area with very expensive housing. You have more o
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And I'm from Finland. Nurse salaries have been a major talking point for decades. While only a small fraction of nurses move to Norway, it's still enough people that it gets mentioned in the news once in a while. Especially around
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Your employer may need them, but you probably don't. Burner devices may work when you want to protect sensitive information the adversary does not already have. But if you are more worried about authorities making your life difficult,
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> Also, enticing Europeans to move to the US is exceedingly easy. You ask, “do you want to 4X your current salary with 20% less taxes?” The answer is usually yes. I don't really understand why people make claims like that. To me it&
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European academia is not as uniform as in the US. Where I'm from, master's was the traditional undergraduate degree. Bachelor's degrees were introduced later, but the society was reluctant to accept them. For a long time, the
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There is a third category: tax avoidance by abusing loopholes in the system. While legal, it's not about using the system as designed. I find it morally equivalent to illegal tax evasion. Behavior like that erodes trust in the system a
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Some countries have alternatives. For example, Finland has institutes that call themselves polytechnics, universities of applied sciences, or something similar. ~60% of higher education takes place in them, with the remaining 40% in researc
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The liberal arts model was intended for the elites, and the idea of education as means of producing useful workers is straight from a totalitarian planned economy. But there is also the Humboldtian model of higher education, which focuses o
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The threats of the 20th century were not that specific. Unless you lived in a particularly sheltered part of the world, your neighbors (the people you knew) were the threat. They supported a different world order, and if the right (or wrong
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Because it's the pilot who makes the choice. Intentionally going to a foreign country without the appropriate documents is a bad idea with unpredictable consequences. Unless the destination country gives legally binding guarantees that
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I don't find it weird. There are more European academics in the US than American academics in Europe. Mostly because it has been easier to get an academic position and research funding in the US. As long as European countries are not m
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The big difference is if you are comparing the situation of a German citizen in Germany to a US citizen in the US or to a German citizen in the US. If you are an immigrant in a country where you don't have a subjective right to live, y
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100°C is somewhat uncomfortable, and it usually indicates that someone is trying to show off. 80 to 90 is much better. (In a sauna.)
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That's a property of democracy with very small districts. With larger districts (and proportional elections or something similar), it's enough that a few percent of the voters support you. Carving yourself a niche and sticking to
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There is also a certain kind of long-term thinking prevalent in older universities. Many American elite universities are older than the US, and it's plausible that some of them will outlast the US. If the current government of the coun
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Talent is a wrong dimension. Plenty of roles require specific skills, knowledge, and experience, which are not readily available in the market. You could in principle take someone with sufficient talent and train them, but it could take yea
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And there is plenty of vetting. Writing a grant application typically takes weeks of full time work, split between the prospective PI, their collaborators and trainees, and administrators. When the funding agency receives the application, t
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It's fundamentally no different from what VCs are doing, except the timescales are longer. You expect that most startups are going to fail but some are going to be really successful. Because you can't predict the outcomes in advan
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Wait a few decades and you'll know. If a research topic is obviously valuable, the industry is probably already working on it. Academic research mostly deals with topics where the benefits are too unpredictable or too far in the future
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Bad policy seems to be the typical case. People can't even agree on what is good policy. Expecting them to implement good policy consistently is just unrealistic. Meanwhile, as we wait for the elusive capitalist utopia, there are real-
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Weight doesn't really matter with modern laptops. They are almost universally lightweight. I'm from a generation that walked to the school with a backpack full of books. I also enjoy hiking, which often involves carrying a backpac
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I think the ease of becoming a landlord was a big part of the problem. Or at least how it started. If middle class households buying rental properties can outbid lower middle class households trying to buy a home, the lower middle class hou
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I don't understand what you are trying to say. People often change their minds. Sometimes when the situation changes, sometimes as a response to incentives, and sometimes because they have thought about the matter and learned something
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Interests are not immutable. For a long time, the US announced that it wanted a world order based on democracy, capitalism, and the rule of law. Countries that chose to support the same values often benefited greatly. And when other countri
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It doesn't work like that. With basic research, you often have to wait for decades before you can tell if the work was important or useful. But because funding needs to be available before the work is done, you can't base funding
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A 10% chance of collapse every decade is a reasonable baseline for a stable country. At least if a civil war or a major invasion counts as a collapse. That gives you a century of stability in the expected case, which is quite exceptional.
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Robots are not a silver bullet for recycling. If anything, they impose stricter requirements on what you are required to do before recycling and what you can recycle. For example, you have to rinse food residues even more thoroughly to prev
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24% of US GDP divided by US GDP is a larger number than 24% of US GDP divided by non-US GDP. Any changes to US foreign trade affect the US more than the rest of the world.
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That's because your wife works in medicine, not because she does science. The pharmaceutical industry spends enormous amounts of money to influence medical practicioners and researchers. Actual academic conferences are very different.

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