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by mjn 13y ago
In certain fields, that's not implausible. Many results are along the lines of "compound X is effective against disease Y", where the negation, "compound X is not effective against disease Y", is a reasonable baseli
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm no bond expert, but aren't munis discounted in part due to default worries? There's a fear that a second wave of municipalities that survived the first wave of post-crisis bankruptcies may still succumb, since many avoide
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by mjn 13y ago
The fact that trisodium phosphate (TSP) exists and is useful in laundry, but no longer commercially allowed, is interesting. But the political angle of the piece spends a lot of time on rhetoric that seems somewhat irrelevant. The substant
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by mjn 13y ago
Your guess that gases are also an issue is correct. For example, ground-level ozone and sulfur dioxide typically also have negative effects on the respiratory system. In the U.S., the Air Quality Index (AQI) is computed from five components
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by mjn 13y ago
Since there is freedom of movement within Europe, you can think of the national governments as 32 local governments [1] that have their own systems and compete. Populations are a bit more sticky than with U.S. states, due to significant cul
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm sort of confused by how authorship works in the US News & World Report generally, and clicking around a bit on the site doesn't clarify it. Do they have professional staff reporters? Is it just reblogging stuff from elsewh
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by mjn 13y ago
This is sort-of the case in Denmark as well, though the conditions for what counts as "unemployed" for an entrepreneur are a subject of some discussion. Currently, you qualify on the same basis as someone who loses their job only
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by mjn 13y ago
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which tracks household expenditures), the average "consumer unit" in 2012 spent $6,599/year on food for 2.5 people, of which $3,921 on groceries, and $2,678 on eating out. That wor
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by mjn 13y ago
One interesting thing I've noticed is that subway systems, long home of one of the more iconic failsafes, the big red lever behind glass connected directly to hydraulic brakes, are moving away from that. An old-style subway (like NYC)
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by mjn 13y ago
In some demographics it's seen as at least sort of quaint/eccentric disconnection, like not having a mobile phone.
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Software review: The first idea processor [1983](nytimes.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
This is a big US/EU cultural difference in CS. In American CS, in many sub-areas, conferences are considered the top place to publish: CHI, SIGGRAPH, NIPS, etc. are basically the most prestigious place to publish, and are frequently ci
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by mjn 13y ago
What's interesting is that you point these out as good examples, but in Europe these would typically be seen as evidence of supervisor malfeasance, or at least raise some eyebrows. If a student you're supervising has published thi
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by mjn 13y ago
R&D is a bit different than science. Usually it has a time horizon of 3-10 years to commercialization, sometimes 10-20 at the high end. While much of science is in the 10-100 range. The 20-year patent window is crucially important for i
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by mjn 13y ago
That's true, this is investigating within a setting that already assumes certain minimum norms on employment conditions. Due to both culture and law, nobody is being pressured into working 50+ hour weeks, so the degree of excessive wor
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by mjn 13y ago
This is of more than theoretical interest in Denmark (where the study was done), because both public and large private employers have a mandatory health-and-safety oversight process, which needs to be guided by some solid facts about what a
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by mjn 13y ago
Even places of similar scale and population density in the U.S. fare poorly. New Jersey is half the size of The Netherlands, with a similar population density, but is very car-oriented anyway.
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, there have been some discussions of that, but nobody has put together a MediaWiki plugin to do it afaik. Better annotation of regions in general is a longstanding wishlist, so discussions or even citations (or requests for citations)
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by mjn 13y ago
> One needs only to look at how expensive small liberal arts colleges are. If their teachers spent more time in the classroom and less doing arcane research, the costs would come down. But small liberal arts colleges are the places that
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by mjn 13y ago
If you do remember a journal article, it's perfectly fine to put in an incomplete citation with a note, and someone will fix it up. <ref>Einstein's paper on foo (FIXME: fill out this citation)</ref> or something i
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by mjn 13y ago
New contributions to established articles should often be discussed on the talk page because of (a) though, and the fact that people sometimes just come in and start making major changes without looking at the work that's already bee
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by mjn 13y ago
> I don't understand why easterners aren't participating more actively. Quite a few are, though it's highly variable between countries, and many contribute in languages other than English. The Japanese-language Wikipedia h
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by mjn 13y ago
It's big enough that you can have pretty different experiences in different kinds of articles. I mostly write history stuff, and my experiences there are pretty good. People seem to appreciate new articles on stuff like a Greek archaeo
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by mjn 13y ago
Hear about where? Is information about the attitudes that people in previous eras held towards marriage between different classes something you commonly run across just in daily life?
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by mjn 13y ago
That's the usual hypothesis for why, but I was wondering when this became the norm, since traditionally there was quite a bit of social opposition to that direction as well. A man from "respectable society" wasn't supp
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by mjn 13y ago
Any ideas when this became the norm? It used to be seen as scandalous in both directions: upper-class men and women were not supposed to marry into the working or lower classes.
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by mjn 13y ago
NYC might get more snow than Copenhagen, but there is definitely snow here as well, and it doesn't heavily impact bike commuting. The solution is just to clear the bike lanes of snow, and salt to keep them from icing. They have these l
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by mjn 13y ago
Whether roads are designed with bikes in mind impacts it as well. NYC is dense enough for bikes, but much more dangerous to ride one in than most northern European cities.
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Depends on whether they actually do research in the private sector, though. Historically most fundamental science advances have come either from academia, or from big academia-like research organizations in industry (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC,
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by mjn 13y ago
It's somewhat interesting that this is specifically an American essay genre. People join or leave academia in Europe as well, but people seem less angry about it either way. You can work at a university or you can work at a company o

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