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by martopix 4y ago
Many universities, at least in Europe, allow you to sign up to individual modules/exams. This is usually used by people who want to get ahead and study stuff before they actually sign up to a degree, but anyone can do it. At that point
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Actually I found Inside out a bit hard even though I'm a computational neuroscientist like Buzsaki. Or maybe not really hard, but a bit repetitive and not so engaging.
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As a person who studied both latin and ancient greek in high school, Octopi makes my eyes bleed.
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In what way does this relate to embassies or consulates? You can vote from wherever you have access to the universal postal service, it seems.
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If you wanna see this applied in a didactic and CS context, we teach this as part of the Software Carpentry instructor training: https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/04-experti... (see "Dismissive lan
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I'm looking into "university teacher"-like positions. There are a few, but not so many. It's more common in the UK, where I did my PhD, but I'm not keen on going back there. I have time to keep looking. Otherwise te
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The british library is walking distance from Euston and Kings Cross, if you ever have time, pop in there. I did once and I had my breath taken away. You can just go in for free and in 5 minutes see incredible stuff. I remember handwritten l
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Many bad things can be said about contemporary society but one of the things I love the most about the 21st century is how we're starting to appreciate cultural things in a global sense. I also want to read more about postcolonial lite
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I'm learning Swahili. Any Swahili speakers on HN? On the longer term, this year I finally accepted that I do not care about research and even though I tried loving it for the past 8 years I'm only ruining my life. I love teaching.
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I have dealt with bureaucracy in Italy and in Switzerland and if you think Switzerland has bad bureaucracy, you have no idea what you're talking about .
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I think closed time-like curves are not a desirable feature in a scripting language. I wouldn't want to end up being my own grandfather by mistake.
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"Integers are reals" does not mean "The set of integers is the set of reals".
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Integers and rational numbers are also reals. What aren't reals are imaginary numbers.
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This is a typical misunderstanding of British politics. In theory the King is supposed to have power on a range of things, but there are very clearly set constitutional conventions that mean he does not. These are now so powerful that n
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Uhm, what? I think UK politics is pretty sane actually. It has a lot of problems, but definitely not this almost civil-war-like type of language that you have in the USA. And although the UK is getting worse and worse, there are European co
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He does not. Kings have not done this kind of thing out of their own initiative for at least a century or so.
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If you really want to have a less CO2-heavy stuffy indoor air, what you can use is an air-to-air heat exchanger. The idea is to get fresh air from outside, but transfer heat from the outgoing Co2-rich air to the incoming fresh air so you do
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It's a mix of 'moral' feeling that you cannot tell people not to have kids, and of actual concern that our economic system is unfortunately founded on constant growth. It's much harder to grow the economy with fewer peop
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> perhaps the US is a violent society and it is doing a good job at keeping the violent behind bars? The real question should be *why is the US "a violent society"? I think your post is a good example of what I think the proble
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Calling fascist everyone that disagrees with you will certainly not help and should not have a place on HN.
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It doesn't ask for location at all, so it should really be called "find a cheap book in the USA".
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The level is still vastly better than any public service in Italy, but I have also been frustrated by the post.ch website before. It's often very unintuitive to know where to go. And it does change language kind of randomly from an are
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All Swiss public companies (Post and railways are the best examples) are amazing and offer services that feel 1 century ahead of everyone else I experienced. Even if they weren't making money, I would gladly pour my taxes on them bec
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It's also called snail (chiocciola) in Italian.
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You should get away without a car in London. :)
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But "surviving" is the keyword here. Nobody claims it's the "first example" anyway. I think it's very cool if something is "the oldest surviving ____", it's interesting information.
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Governments fund research. It is healthy if civil society discusses this kinds of things. Especially if it's not some populist politician that wants to defund physics, but an experienced physicist that makes clear points.
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This internet drama made it to the front page of the Guardian the other day. And it relates to billions of research funding.
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Thank you, do you have a link with more info on the plan?
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I came here to say something of this sort too. I have experience trying to buy international train tickets around Europe, and it's very often a big mess. Prices are different on different websites, they won't sell you regional tra

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