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by njepa 8y ago
I think this is true in many places. The real payday is when they don't want you to leave.
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by njepa 8y ago
The ironic thing is that this seems to be a case when someone doing the science gets to represent the project and get credit rather than just institutions and senior researchers.
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by njepa 8y ago
> However, I think to call her "the woman behind the first black hole image" is a hyperbole. It makes it sound as if she was _the one person_ responsible that all this came about. It doesn't say that though. It says she wa
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by njepa 8y ago
EE is from what I have seen one of the most, if not the most, male dominated field in STEM though. I am not sure why, but it could be that it is not old enough to be traditional, but not new enough to be accessible. Wouldn't surprise m
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by njepa 8y ago
Scandinavia has hundreds of years of mostly unbroken history in STEM. It is literally the home of the Nobel prize. It isn't really comparable to nations that have rapidly shifted their workforce and industries more recently.
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by njepa 8y ago
There is actually nothing really in the BBC story about being a women other than in the context of her getting attention on twitter, but barely that. I think whoever changed the title might have been confused as well. It doesn't refer
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by njepa 8y ago
I would hope that isn't it. While her trajectory might be uncommon it isn't abnormal. This is the kind of thing you are supposed to do with a PhD from MIT.
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by njepa 8y ago
Seems like what you are seeing on the image of the drives is part of this: https://www.haystack.mit.edu/tech/vlbi/mark6/index.html Found it through this pdf: https://fskbhe1.puk.ac.za/people&#
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by njepa 8y ago
Valleywag was essentially that, but did get sued out of existence.
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by njepa 8y ago
I agree. Try buying another house in the same area without that capital and see how theoretical it is.
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by njepa 8y ago
There is no point other than opportunism. The same reason kids were working in textile mills last century and why housing costs are multiplying now in the western world.
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by njepa 8y ago
> It only makes sense really Surprisingly few places seem to culturally benefit from the presence of companies. But I guess selling heavy equipment for public use helps.
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by njepa 8y ago
Like many things it seems like an echo from the 90s nowadays though. I am being nostalgic about being nostalgic about massive attack songs at this point.
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by njepa 8y ago
Many places allow you to set your own hours when things are good. The real questions is things like if you get in early to beat traffic and something happens in the afternoon can you still leave without being considered "not a team pla
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by njepa 8y ago
You might very well improve reliability by turning down the power since you will notice problems better instead of relying on "being the loudest".
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by njepa 8y ago
That is mostly the food part though. I don't think anyone is questioning whether having a quality cafeteria at work is a good idea. It is the incentive to stay at work, especially dinner which can make working late become not working l
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by njepa 8y ago
Wine, and especially local wine, would be a relatively expensive way to make alcohol. It would be more in the category of fresh fruit juice. Something like vodka on the other hand is mostly just industrial.
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by njepa 8y ago
I think people tend to underestimate just how artificial alcohol pricing is. Without taxes it would cost like soda (at least in theory).
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by njepa 8y ago
Isn't this essentially the case already, just that most don't get the $200k? (only partly joking).
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by njepa 8y ago
Sweden is, or used to be, sort of like that. Sweden has high wealth inequality and more billionaires per capita than many other countries. But the whole thing is probably imploding now anyway. I think people misunderstand a bit. It isn&#x27
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by njepa 8y ago
Seem like one of those in group type biases. Where the more similar something is the more we obsesses over the differences. Presumably because we can relate to a lot more of the information. Somewhat ironically being irrational can actually
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by njepa 8y ago
> I'd suggest people learn how to do plumbing and electrical work. It's not work that can be easily automated, and plumbers are often charging more than lawyers. It mostly just that people don't understand what automation
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by njepa 8y ago
At least from my perspective the environment changed a lot over the last 10 years. Companies (and societies) that invested in people used to be a lot more common. You had at least a chance to get a semi-private office, experienced colleague
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by njepa 8y ago
Elysium still implies some sort of organized progress. San Francisco seems a lot more like Children of Men.
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by njepa 8y ago
That is generally the failure mode of complex systems. Say if you made flawed software a couple of decades ago, chances were it crashed. Today flawed software will produce many different errors. Not that the former is necessarily better, ju
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by njepa 8y ago
> I think a conversation we need to have is how to teach people that they deserve to be treated well by their software. I don't think we need to teach people so much as we need to teach programmer. Emacs, Perl and Python were made t
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by njepa 8y ago
Why would the rich want sufficient housing? As long as you can remove rent control the rich benefits from scarcity of housing. They get more rent income, higher property values and less competition. It makes being wealthy much more useful t
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by njepa 8y ago
In markets that rely on rent control as a mechanism for affordable housing, you can usually exchange rent controlled units.
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by njepa 8y ago
Maybe I am a bit cynical. But from my perspective this, and similar calls for change, doesn't come from suddenly longing for America at its best. But because they increasingly realize that China is coming for their lunch.
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What you would probably do is create some sort of fund, and spread the risk that way. In general it is one of the more realistic ideas, where you could build on existing systems. The problem is that many countries have gone so far the other

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