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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Ten weeks more, if you average over workers. You get a smaller difference if you average over working-age people. Germans are more likely to choose a part-time job voluntarily, while Americans are more likely to be completely outside the wo
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
This is the norm for the industry. When there is a lot of money to be made, people will chase it by any means they can think of. AI is a special case, as academia isn't usually that lucrative. In the rest of CS, many major conferences
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
But a lack of effort is a good signal for a lack of value. Eleven times out of ten, your initial idea is garbage. If you write it up, or let AI do that for you, the result is garbage. But if you go through the effort of structuring the idea
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
The default VSCode configuration can cause problems in HPC clusters. VSCode likes to crawl the files it can see repeatedly. If you have a few users, it doesn't matter. But with many concurrent users and many files, it can destroy file
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
There is a difference between what anyone can do and what everyone can do at the same time. Some people could always choose alternative life paths, but that option was not available for the majority.
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
> Why would anyone choose subsistence grain agriculture when literally anything else was available. There was nothing else available. If you were born in an agricultural settlement, that was probably the only lifestyle you knew. Even if
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
If you are basing your claims on Against the Grain, Scott focuses on early centralized states, which emerged thousands of years after agriculture and towns. Such states were by definition exceptional. Most of them were in regions, where rai
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
That's what I meant by "largely stopped existing". With the decline of agriculture, there was a major decline in food production and therefore a major decline in population.
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
When archaeological evidence shows that people largely stopped farming, it usually means that those people largely stopped existing. Or at least living in that area. Apart from a few rare exceptions, agriculture is the only viable way to su
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
There is not much difference between the US and Europe in that. In the Nordic countries, children move out earlier, while multi-generational households are more common in Southern Europe.
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
You could also say that English is an awful language, because the spelling and the pronunciation have diverged too far. But it's the international lingua franca in most contexts, because it's the international lingua franca in mos
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Ireland is not in Schengen, so you were doing an international-to-international transfer. You normally don't have to go through immigration and customs for those, unless there are specific legal requirements or the airport is poorly or
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
In my experience, the airports could handle the passenger volume, but they lack the people. I've entered the US 25–30 times, and almost every time, there have been long lines and empty immigration counters.
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
One of the key skills of a professor is asking the right questions. Figuring out something worth working on, and then framing it in an appropriate way and asking questions that allow someone with specific tools and skills to make progress i
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Its more about where you want to live. I'm not familiar with the situation in San Francisco. But in Santa Cruz, the cost to own with a 20% down payment is ~50% higher than the rent for the same unit. If you can't afford a substant
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
International comparisons are tricky, and you should always check the data definitions carefully. The first metric on that page is household income divided by the square root of household size. That has some unreasonable consequences. For e
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
> Because AI doesn't have the factional conflicts or interpersonal issues that humans do. All the factional conflicts are in there, and there are also plenty of reports of people getting weird / toxic / passive aggressive
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
In Finland, the government and the universities negotiate on how funding will be allocated between the fields. STEM fields are generally easy to get in, while places in arts, humanities, and social sciences are more limited. When I was a st
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
At least a decade ago the system was anything but fair. The income threshold for repayment was low, while the interest rate was very high. At that point, the expectation was that those who got an average job after graduation would pay an ex
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Things are already much better than they used to be. The 2003 heatwave killed ~70k. This year's heatwave was worse, but the number of deaths probably didn't go much beyond 20k.
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
I've spent more time in the Andes than in Lima. The Quechua are clearly an indigenous group, but they have been forced to adopt most of the European cultural package. If you travel in Russia, you can find many ethnic groups in similar
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Ignore the political aspects for now and focus on culture. And feel free to use "Roman" if "European" sounds wrong. But "Western" is wrong, because the same cultural sphere extends to Australia, New Zealand, an
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
All real negotiations are private. When politicians debate or negotiate in public, they inevitably start talking past each other to the general public. Voting rituals would be a waste of time. The confirmation vote is not just about the Pre
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
That's how multi-party parliamentarism usually works. A minority is not allowed to choose the leader just because they are a slightly larger minority than the others. Because no party has an outright majority, there are weeks of negoti
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
> Culturally, America is much closer now to Latin America or Asia. That's an interesting statement. From my perspective, Latin America is clearly European, in the sense I understand the concept. It feels much like Russia. Major citi
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
> At least 25% of us Americans have never had blood or ethnic ties with Europe. > African Americans make up around 15% of the US, Asian Americans around 7%, Arab Americans around 1.5%, and Native Americans around 2%. Those are cultura
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
Payloads are expensive, because high-value businesses can outbid low-value ones. By the time there is enough launch capacity for low-value businesses, manufacturing improvements should have made launch vehicles even cheaper. Or you could lo
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by jltsiren 3mo ago
In that scenario, most of the value would be in Starlink. Launch vehicles have always been the cheap part in going to space. Payloads tend to be more expensive, and the actual value is in the services enabled by the payloads.
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
You have a few misconceptions. The actual expectation is that after finishing PhD, you take a journeyman position, where you can practice the skills needed in an academic career and gradually gain independence while being mentored by a seni
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
The US spends less on academic research than the OECD average. See, for example, https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb202326/academic-r-d-internatio... From a European perspective, the most noticeable sign of this is the

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