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by jltsiren 2y ago
The situation seems unambiguous. According to an executive order published today, all federal agencies must pause all activities related to all financial assistance programs (except those paid directly to individuals) to the extent permissi
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It could be ideological, or it could be a common mistake people with a business background make in the government. For the average for-profit company, the actual business the company does has no value beyond its ability to generate profits.
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It mostly depends on stable borders and a culture of centralization. Some US states such California and Texas have multiple major cities. Germany and the surrounding areas were historically fragmented, leading to many regions having multipl
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The pause itself is temporary. But if a study section is canceled, the next possible date is likely months in the future. Tens of busy professionals from other organizations are probably not willing to drop their other commitments. Especial
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Salaries are a bigger problem for European industry. Relatively speaking, the academia is more competitive in Europe than in the US, because the gap between industry salaries and academic salaries is lower. European academia is usually cons
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The actual presentations are usually the least important part of a conference. Most conferences would be better if you could cancel 80% of the program but still convince the same people to attend (and their employers to pay). Then there wou
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In life sciences, it's common to see postdocs as trainees. That kind of makes sense, as MDs are also trainees in the same career phase. You also sometimes hear people talking about "postdoctoral students", which is less reaso
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by jltsiren 2y ago
"Publish or perish" is fundamentally a wrong diagnosis. Publishing is generally the good part of the academia. If you are interested in your work, you obviously want to tell about it to other people in the field. Some specific pub
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There are different kinds of postdoc positions. Fellowships are generally the good ones. You get to explore research directions under the guidance of a more experienced researcher. Because you have independent funding, your mentor is not yo
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And private spending is something like 200%. GDP is a measure of added value, not total spending/revenue.
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Or from text and diagrams (which often contain large single-color areas) to photos and videos. The default HN color scheme looks much brighter than the bright daylight photo I currently have as a desktop background.
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In my experience, high contrast dark mode is readable in high-light environments, but it causes the issue the images in the article show. Beyond that, I have no preferences between light and dark modes on laptop screens and smaller. But I p
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Berlusconi (Italy) and Thaksin (Thailand) are the most prominent examples. A few other billionaires have served as heads of government, but at least some of them tried to avoid conflicts of interest.
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The US government is often eager to impose sanctions on foreign entities it doesn't like. TikTok ban is fundamentally no different from some of the more controversial sanctions, such as those imposed on Cuba and Iran. The only exceptio
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Academic terminology tends to be inconsistent, vary from person to person, and evolve from year to year. The usual expectation is that you should define the terms you use if their exact meaning is important. Otherwise people will misinterpr
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's 3-4 years these days, unless you qualify for EB-1. Every step in the process takes a few months longer than it used to. But those numbers are not comparable. In most European countries, you first spend a number of years on a tempo
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It was more about local residents becoming Arabs than Arabs migrating in large numbers. Palestinian Arabs are mostly descended from ancient Canaanites. More generally, the demographics around the Eastern Mediterranean have changed surprisin
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Japan, among many other countries, subscribes to the idea that the milder law prevails. If an action was illegal but it was made legal after the fact, then it was legal. Similarly, an unconstitutional action can be made constitutional after
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Either this is a bad faith comparison, or there is some serious financial illiteracy involved. 2008 was the year the US dollar crashed. If you take 2008 as the baseline and measure things in US dollars, your conclusions will be nonsense. Eu
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by jltsiren 2y ago
> If I had to think, I imagine the entire point of RTO mandates is to keep cities sustainable. More like to keep cities unsustainable. If a few major real estate companies went bankrupt, forcing the rest to lower the rents, a lot of weal
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That's not a real problem. There are established models for training people to work in fields, where you need plenty of experience to qualify for an entry-level position. Medicine is the most prominent example. And it's going to b
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Getting a postdoc position is usually easier than getting into a PhD program in the same university, especially in top universities. And the chances of getting a tenure-track faculty position or similar are probably something like 1/3.
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BRICS is not supposed to be a coordinated power. It's a tool for creating the multipolar world order Putin has been dreaming of for decades. A world where the US is just one power among many and the dollar just one currency among many.
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> So yeah, please get an ex-US NATO off the ground so we can focus on China. If the US does not care about its European allies, it no longer has the economic power to "focus on China". From an European perspective, China is far
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This is not about capitalists vs. working class. It's about upper middle class vs. capitalists, middle class, and working class. When you grow up in an export-driven country, one thing you learn early is that high wages are bad for the
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The protections for labor are far stronger. Companies are allowed to do business in a foreign country by default, while employment is banned by default. If you want to get employed, you have to apply for a special permit, which can be diffi
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O-1 is like H-1B, but worse. It's also tied to a single employer, the application process requires more work, and transitioning to a green card is a bit harder. Which means an O-1 worker is even more dependent of their employer than an
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There used to be homeless alcoholics living in shacks and WW1 bunkers in the forests around Helsinki. Many (most?) of them were WW2 veterans. Older kids still told stories about them in the 80s, but most of them had actually died or found s
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Finland was traditionally a very homogeneous society, and immigration before ~1990 was negligible. But then there was a burst of immigration from the former USSR and Somalia, followed by a gradual increase over the decades. And in 2023 (and
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It's common that corruption persists, because people prefer it that way. But that doesn't make it any less corrupt.

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