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by noobhacker 10y ago
I find books are much better treatment of complex topics like public speaking. Blog posts of people who give several talks a year don't have the breadth and depth - they are essentially a list of small tips that work for that individua
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Burnout [audio](npr.org)
81 points by noobhacker 10y ago|45 comments
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by noobhacker 12y ago
If I'm not mistaken, MAs and certainly PhDs are put in a different pool when considered work visas. And if she goes for academic jobs, it's virtually a guarantee for visa and a quick route to green card. There's always some r
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by noobhacker 12y ago
The most amazing thing to me is that people with very high skills are put in the same lottery pool with people doing administrative jobs. What's even more tragic (for both America and the graduates) is that the more skilled they are, t
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by noobhacker 12y ago
The article does not actually explain the technology behind this "upgrade." I was hoping to learn about that most.
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by noobhacker 12y ago
I feel quite ambiguous about these discriminating techniques. For example, it is okay for us to give females / older people lower insurance rate because that's what the statistics says. Likewise, it's likely that people who s
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by noobhacker 12y ago
It is true that we should answer spousal bids for attention -- but on the other hand, we shouldn't base our emotional sanity solely on the response of our spouses either. To expect that our spouses can respond to everything inevitably
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by noobhacker 12y ago
Ah ha! You just identified the great debate in Political Science. It's very hard to empirically test game theoretical models since a lot of the model components are about the utility of the actors which is very hard to get at empirical
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by noobhacker 12y ago
Thanks for the info. On the one hand I feel (emphasis on feel) like the conclusion is correct. But on the other hand, as a Political Scientist I have to treat this as a scientific endeavour and criticize its method regardless of its conclus
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by noobhacker 12y ago
This passage talks about what policies are included, not how the respondents are recruited / how their answers are recorded.
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by noobhacker 12y ago
Alright, this paper got 3000 upvotes on reddit and I thus failed to make a dent to the hivemind. I will try here once more. I have two criticisms of this paper: 1) I did not find any details regarding how they construct the population'