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by ke88y 3y ago
I don't think there is any problem with loving science and research. Deciding to sacrifice your nights, weekends, and financial life to work on science and research is okay. But it's also enormously selfish. Other people who spend
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by ke88y 3y ago
If your university has a PhD program, we simply have different definitions of financial abuse. I couldn't accept the job and look myself in the mirror while knowing that not only do my direct reports struggle to get by and can't s
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by ke88y 3y ago
Where do I make such a conflation? We aren't talking about nurses or school teachers. We are talking about professors at large research universities. Your sibling comment speaks of working "nights and weekends" with frequent
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by ke88y 3y ago
> However, I would venture that being successful in any career --- be it research, business, politics, arts --- requires a certain amount of focus and neglect of your family and friends. A warning for the younger readers in our midst:
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by ke88y 3y ago
As a PhD, I now believe that pursuing a career in science is an enormously selfish and entitled life choice for anyone who doesn't have a trust fund. It's not just neglect during the PhD. Even a non-neglectful academic is asking
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by ke88y 3y ago
This is almost certainly an instance of Unauthorized Use under the CFAA and therefore criminal in the USA and any jurisdictions with similarly broad anti-hacking laws.
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by ke88y 4y ago
None of these are even remotely close to terraforming.
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by ke88y 4y ago
No. Section 9 literally uses the word “tax”, and states that a "tax or duty" may be imposed, drawing an explicit distinction between "tax" and "duty" and thereby directly addressing potential misunderstandings
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by ke88y 4y ago
Property taxes are not unconstitutional. Particularly state property taxes, which under even the most revisionist possible reading are very clearly not prohibited by the US constitution. In fact, at least one type of property tax is specifi
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by ke88y 4y ago
> It will always be many orders of magnitude easier to terraform Earth, even after we screwed it up, than trying to terraform Mars. It's many orders of magnitude easier to afford a $100,000,000 home if you make $10,000 per year th
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by ke88y 4y ago
> That’s how you go from proof of concept to economic viability I don't think this is particularly coherent in this case. It's commercial, but there is no private sector customer. All of the customers are government scientifi
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by ke88y 4y ago
Consider hangboarding [1]. It looks nothing like climbing, but all elite climbers spend an enormous amount of time on this activity. You will find the same in any other sport. I want you to consider something important: this is an EDUCATION
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by ke88y 4y ago
> Really unfortunate situation as these fit a lot of use cases that would previously require something as big as a gas guzzling Ford F150 otherwise. What about the Ford Maverick? The only issue is that the bed is fairly small, but it l
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by ke88y 4y ago
> What's the point of a debate in which the speeches are completely unintelligible? 1. The speeches are intelligible. Maybe not to you. That's okay. 2. The oral presentation component still has value because it puts a hard co
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by ke88y 4y ago
In parliamentary styles, practicing opening speeches is definitely at the top of the list in terms of effective drills. So much hinges on getting off on the correct foot. In other formats the first 2-4 speeches are verbatim pre-written, eit
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by ke88y 4y ago
I have coached multiple formats for years. And no, that’s not how competitive debate works. At least not competitive debate worth participating in. (TBF there are a lot of terrible debate programs/leagues, so this may have been your ex
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by ke88y 4y ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia is about competence. Major Media Outlet coverage of Big Tech isn't (just) incompetent, but also openly adversarial. For both financial and cultural reasons. That said -- I interviewed with FB last month and got the di
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by ke88y 4y ago
Yeah, I wonder how much of this is just an Eternal September effect.
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by ke88y 4y ago
> If you do that, social media companies will figure out how to keep kids from accessing their site. Nah. The marginal cost of a cigarette is tiny compared to the lifetime revenue of an addict. The marginal cost of a some GBs is even l
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by ke88y 4y ago
It is legal jargon that gives them the right to do that, but it also gives them a lot of other rights. If they only wanted to display the PDF back to you, they could affect that meaning very easily.
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by ke88y 4y ago
> Does Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or Susan Wojcicki attribute their success to a group of like-minded hustlers? A group they paid thousands of dollars to join? A group that was run by a self-labeled business coach? Can you recall them
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by ke88y 4y ago
> If theory of computation has taught us anything, is that complexity very quickly outgrows everything that is even in the grasp of mathematics (e.g. busy beaver). True. But if the science/practice of computation has taught us any
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by ke88y 4y ago
> It performs no reasoning, and instead predicts the next token in language. Let A_i be a set of functions that transform sequents in a truth-preserving manner ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent ). Do you have