throwaway1982x

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by throwaway1982x 7y ago
I agree. It sounds very much like an employment relationship - the fact that you can't/don't feel able to choose your own projects is a big red flag here. If this were a standard situation within Europe/the EU, I'm
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by throwaway1982x 7y ago
Find your support network. You know that you work well with other people, so find ways for other people to help you be accountable.
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by throwaway1982x 7y ago
In fact - it isn't racism, according to the link you have provided. "Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another." Superiority is a key word here. The link actually ends up on the page for supremacism: &q
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
Also in bioinformatics: I worked up some statistics that turned out to cleanly and robustly contradict my supervisor's previous research. I was told to reverse my conclusions - refused - and, hey, I no longer work in bioinformatics.
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
How much of this discount is for tracking, and how much is pure price discrimination? The barrier of carrying a card allows the supermarket to give a discount to customers who are motivated by that, without needing to give the same discount
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
By my understanding, global income inequality is improving but global wealth inequality is worsening: The conclusion that I draw is that while people broadly in this position might accurately perceive that they are now in a more comfortable
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
I meant far more frequently than on Earth, and far more extreme. "Life finds a way" - but if the temperature suddenly jumps 100 degrees because your goldilocks zone librated into the sun, then you ain't got much capacity to e
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
I find that it completely unlikely that 'eyeball' planets would have a life-supporting zone. Over geological time period, the zone is likely to suffer unpredictable and novel variability which is not conducive to developing life.
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
If it's an example and not a political manifesto, then perhaps it could be written without misogynist and heteronormative (i.e. political) undertones. It's not an illustrative example because we have to assume an unrealistic misog
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
I found this example exceptionally difficult to read and comprehend. I recognise that this is known as the "Stable Marriage Problem", yet I still feel an aversion to marriage being defined as between a man and a woman (and further
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by throwaway1982x 8y ago
I've never understood this semantic point of statistics. When used in English, the word "accept" literally means "fail to reject", and has no more implication than that. Do people making this point use a different d