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by kaitai 7y ago
I don't understand what the f(*& kind of message board this is where a person says, "Hey, I'm having concerning health symptoms & me & my baby might die" and her manager says, "You're not meeting ex
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by kaitai 7y ago
Well, I know some Wisconsin residents who do monitor the activities of the legislature, and their opinions interpolate between yours and the parent's.
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by kaitai 7y ago
Isn't it a bit off-putting that this duly elected representative of the people can't do his job, presumably basically 'cause he can't easily take a piss?
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by kaitai 7y ago
To find interestingness in others is a skill you can develop. There are things of interest in every topic. Have you ever really tasted wine, with others? tried to figure out the different components? I had a friend tell me a few days ago th
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by kaitai 7y ago
You can see all kinds of countries where birth rates go down as women gain the freedom to exercise family planning. Even women who love babies may need time to recover after a birth and prefer to space things out a bit more than might occur
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by kaitai 7y ago
I think this brings up some important points. I'm not "against GMO" because I think it makes frankentomatoes that will eat us, or because I think that gene modification is intrinsically unhealthful. I'm (sort of) against
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by kaitai 7y ago
This is part of the Princeton notes on the general exams, just an effort by grad students to support each other by sharing knowledge. It's not just helpful for them -- when I did my exams, I looked up every question they posed in algeb
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by kaitai 7y ago
What makes you think he aced it? Reading through, he muddled through it -- couldn't say much specific, messed up some Galois theory, failed to define H^1 (Hardy space) correctly and instead confusing it with L^1. Nothing catastrophic,
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by kaitai 7y ago
There are smart kids in grad school all over. Half of them flame out 'cause they never figure out how to concentrate, half of the remainder figure out how to work but then get jobs in industry rather than academia, and then of the rema
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by kaitai 7y ago
To boost this, I do recommend checking out Living Proof, the book linked above, if you're interested in the mathematical life. Today's mathematicians discuss their challenges, successes, life, art, attitudes, etc. Especially if yo
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by kaitai 7y ago
There was an article here recently about fatty acids in soil that reduce anxiety. Very interesting. I am going all in on eating strawberries straight from the garden this year. Hasn't hurt in the past, & I know we're not using
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by kaitai 7y ago
Our kid did not go to daycare until 16 months, so I don't know much about that, but also did not have a single stay-at-home parent. Both parents dropped days/week worked to 3 or 4 and we staggered our schedules, and then had a car
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by kaitai 7y ago
Kids are different. My kids also generally doesn't have tantrums, and I don't stay home. She's just a mellow kid (and also was never ignored or left to get over-heated -- what are you implying here?). Compare to a friend of m
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by kaitai 7y ago
My spouse & I try to be explicit with each other about who is good cop and who is bad cop, and switch off. Good cop/bad cop can really be destructive as you say when it's done carelessly or if it pits the parents against each
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by kaitai 7y ago
There are a number of approaches; since it's still relatively new, there's a lot of "playing around" with techniques. 1) The first idea is to just see which topological features persist as the filtration/threshold p
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by kaitai 7y ago
In terms of influence, I agree. But in terms of imagining alternatives, I think it's useful to look at history. In finance people often do stress testing for portfolios by looking at periods of historical downturn. I'm proposing d
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by kaitai 7y ago
No, it was not about character, it was about not having an income because women were not a large part of the formally paid labor force. It was quite legal and in fact the norm to pay women less than men, and it was in general required that
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by kaitai 7y ago
Pickup Ultimate Frisbee is one of my suggestions, as you're right on about this. There is pickup Ultimate everywhere and people are mellow and friendly. You can use pickupultimate.com to look up local games (it's not complete, but
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by kaitai 7y ago
These are big factors. I'm also struck, though, by the short historical view most of these comments have. Back in the day, many people "stayed at home", where that means tending the gardens and fields, tending the cows and pi
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by kaitai 7y ago
What about the right to vote? That was a pretty big feminist movement. Or the right to own property/have a bank account without a male cosigner?
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by kaitai 7y ago
This is a really good point, and may also tie back to the role of American capitalism (to differentiate how it's done here from pure capitalism as an economic system). The "decline of the family" in the US has a lot to do wit
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by kaitai 7y ago
The statement you reference is "77% of women do not know that when a woman is 35+, her age is a better indicator of her fertility than her overall health." As a women in her 30s, I'll say that every damn woman in America ha
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by kaitai 7y ago
You pick up on some of them. How often do you feel bad about your thigh gap, or lack thereof? It's someone else's comment that you amplify or don't based on your circumstances. How often do you worry about the quality of the
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by kaitai 7y ago
I'm with you on the syntax and I'll point out (as people may forget) that the "compulsory reliance" part is the real stickler. It's only in 1974 that the US passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act; before that, a ma
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by kaitai 7y ago
Everyone has to deal with the particular voices in their head. Women, men, genderqueer, whatever color; the voices in our head tailor themselves to attack our own particular worries, because they're part of us. You have a part of you t
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by kaitai 7y ago
I find myself an anomaly and doubt my life choices sometimes for deciding to stay near family rather than chasing the career dream. But perhaps it's because I saw the cost, in my parents' generation, of immigration and long distan
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by kaitai 7y ago
The "science" you're referring to shows that parenting makes people less "happy" in any given moment while doing it and more "content" overall, more "satisfied" in older age. Moreover, there are
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by kaitai 7y ago
The tick load on deer in the Upper Midwest of the US has gone up, and the number of deer is up too compared to 40 years ago. Winter ticks are actually killing moose in both the Upper Midwest and New England, and different species of ticks a
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by kaitai 7y ago
There is a phenomenon in academia I call the "pissing on a lamppost" phenomenon. A well-known researcher mentions his thoughts on (topic) in the penultimate paragraph of a paper on something else. When you talk to them, they say &
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by kaitai 7y ago
I just wish I could upvote your comment three more times. To compound the problem, the fact that you're competing against many of your peers for the few jobs there are, and jumping positions every 1-3 years after grad school, means tha

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