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by majos 7y ago
But saving money on clothes and hygiene is crazily short-sighted. Bad clean clothes are maybe a couple hundred dollars a year, generously. I sincerely doubt that outweighs having your co-workers dread interacting with you.
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by majos 7y ago
I have heard this. Does anyone have numbers to back it up?
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by majos 7y ago
Sounds like a bad advisor. One question though, did you get a sense of this from current students before accepting the offer? I’m not suggesting the situation is your fault for not knowing. But part of my advice to potential grad students i
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by majos 7y ago
I wonder if there's a good way to think about the relevant counterfactual: how happy would PhD students if they did not pursue a PhD? The post assumes that depression and anxiety rates would be very different absent the PhD, but I&#x27
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by majos 7y ago
Funny, I find softback more durable. Hardback books seem “brittle”. Their rigidity makes me more likely to separate the binding from the cardboard shell and “break” the book, which never happens with my softcover copies.
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by majos 7y ago
> A professor like my Condensed Matter Physics professor would go on and on about 3 fundamental causes and then quiz students about the 5 fundamental causes, giving a zero to anyone who couldn't think of all the base 3, then grading
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by majos 7y ago
Makes sense. But why wouldn’t currently-free husbands do the same?
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by majos 7y ago
Anecdote in the opposite direction: Varlam Shalamov was a Russian writer who spent over a decade in various Gulags and then wrote many semi-autobiographical stories about them. In one he observed that he saw many wives join their husbands i
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by majos 7y ago
Does anybody have numbers for how much revenue companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter even earn from political ads? At this point it is hard for me to imagine that revenue is worth the public backlash, regardless of my opinion on whet
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by majos 7y ago
Per the flag at the top of the Wikipedia page, somebody agrees with you: > The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (July 2018) As a relative outsider to the editing process who nonetheless re
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by majos 7y ago
For anyone who didn't read the linked article (it's short), it suggests that a key element is careful design of intro courses. Students with computer science experience get a more advanced course that is explicitly designed not to
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by majos 7y ago
> Soon after the industry seriously stops doing this, the fancy name schools will quickly get female-dominated Why would this happen? Is your thinking that men will respond to the lower incentive of a fancy school degree by pursuing othe
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by majos 7y ago
Your original comment claimed that research suggests that improving access to healthcare is "highly unlikely" to change the state of American mental health. I'm not following how this second comment makes that case. It looks
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by majos 7y ago
> Given the research I've read it's highly unlikely. Can you expand on this? I see a pretty direct line through an unpayable medical expense, inability to afford housing, and declining mental health from all of the associated s
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by majos 7y ago
> And in this case, requiring judges be lawyers clearly doesn't seem reasonable to the majority, or things would be different. This assumes that the current state of the law is tacitly approved by the majority of people, which isn&#
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by majos 7y ago
This is not an example of judges making political rulings that some people dislike. It's an example of judges failing to follow clear-cut basic rules. > Shortly after the ACLU filed its lawsuit, South Carolina’s chief justice sent a
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by majos 7y ago
Is the ability to hold your breath for 90 seconds common? I can’t imagine doing this. At least not without days or weeks of preparation.
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by majos 7y ago
Confused. You think organ donation is bad because it saves lives that should end for the sake of...maybe a slightly stronger species? Do you disagree with the practice of medicine in general or something?
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by majos 7y ago
I'd never thought about this before. How do property rights apply to enclaves? If I own all the land encircling another piece of land, what prevents me from barring access to the encircled piece of land? Are there laws forbidding this?
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by majos 7y ago
More than tangential! For those on the fence, the article is fun. It has some technical details about the actual mechanics of getting inside safes but gets a little into the psychology of it as well. For example, families cracking the safe
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by majos 7y ago
Correct. This is why, for example, we all agree that it is unethical to get laser eye surgery, because that would be deceiving potential mates about the genetic viability of poor vision.
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by majos 7y ago
Not knowing anything about this topic, I’m curious about why this comment is downvoted.
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by majos 7y ago
Even if you don’t care about cooking, this article hits two themes that repeatedly pop up on HN: 1. how people first acquire and cultivate skills, and the less-clear-than-you-might-think role of “seriousness” in doing so, and 2. the stories
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by majos 7y ago
This doesn’t seem true. In 2016, American universities hired about 20,000 tenure-track faculty [1]. Adding up the major pro sports leagues, there are very very generously 10,000 American pro athletes, (i.e. people who don’t have day jobs).
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by majos 7y ago
> Actually comedians are of great help for ethical social concerns; for instance take a look at George Carlin. George Carlin is a pretty impressive example of a comedian affecting meaningful change, or at least forcing a legal confrontat
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by majos 7y ago
Here is a source [1]. That analysis roughly breaks down as 1/4 loss each from infant mortality; famine and Stalin’s terror; and WWII. [1] https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/entry/was_the_sovie...
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by majos 7y ago
Do you have a citation for this? That’s a remarkable statistic, but I want a source before I go telling people.
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by majos 7y ago
Right, the point of the test is that you can't do it unless you can (relatively quickly) memorize what looks like a random picture of noise. With true photographic memory, that should be possible.
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by majos 7y ago
I think the test case (which nobody has passed) for true photographic memory is: you are given an image of a bunch of random dots with no apparent structure, then you are given a second such image, and you have to mentally combine them an
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by majos 7y ago
Sure, they can’t definitely answer “being a woman is harder”. But they can probably give some insight into the obstacles they’ve encountered. In my experience, those obstacles are very different than the ones a guy like me has.

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