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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
It’s great but what if the small company gets outcompeted by a competitor? Or management changes and environment deteriorates? You lose your steady salary, and if you don’t push hard to achieve then when you try to look for new jobs you fin
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
The days are long but the years are short. It’s all about time scales.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I think the description “live like your last” needs to be tweaked. Perhaps what is more productive is: live your days so that when you think back on them (let’s say at a time horizon of months), you feel satisf
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
People think that hackernews is productive won’t admit it.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Hackernews is also a huge source of distraction, but some people here won’t admit it.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
This seems to be true when one thinks beyond just science. Greatest music composers tend to do their best work later in life. Mathematicians tend to do their best work early in life.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Falcon Heavy is certain an impressive engineering feat, but it doesn’t compare to the Voyager 1 (40 years ago!) in terms of new science and new frontiers. Industry is better than academia when it comes to getting to scale and reducing costs
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I think one fallacy I see when people critique academia vs industry is that they take an example like Amazon from industry and show how it is better than the average output of academia. To do a proper comparison one should compare Amazon’s
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
An interesting corollary is that passion does not precede action. Action (and seeing positive results) leads to passion.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
As much as I love content that critiques academia, this one was really cringe and inaccurate for most of academia. > Academia is characterized by well-trodden problems, hashed over for decades, and negligible novel data for resolving the
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Does this mean that those who bought their cars before can resell in the used market for a better price ? Sounds great if you already own a Tesla.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I think the main issues with postdoc even if it’s enjoyable is that there is an expiry date to how long one can postdoc. Even if you enjoy postdoc, some places won’t let you stay for more than 4 or 5 years. If permanent postdoc positions ex
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
These are fine predictions, but how much money at what odds are you willing to bet that they will come true? Just talking without any real substance is no different than pundits on TV spewing their daily nonsense. they are incentivised to m
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
This strategy essentially ensures that you will never have much capital ready for when stocks and other assets suddenly get cheap. Your strategy means that the best time to buy assets correlates with when your net worth dips then lowest.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Academia beyond postdoc is so competitive that even being in top 5 school is not enough information to decide whether it is a good idea. Even within Harvard, the percentage of postdocs getting faculty positions is low. One needs to calculat
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
To think one would ever have three months savings in cash sounds insane to me. In the USA unexpected expenses (beyond monthly savings) can completely wipe a three month savings in a heartbeat. Add to that getting laid off during a recessio
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
How is this not logical or financially wise ? It is common advice to have an emergency fund equal to several months of expenses in cash. What is the alternative ? Having no emergency fund?
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Sorry to sound elitist, but no reasonable phd graduate that wants to pursue academia would ever want to do their PhD at Clemson university. Only possible exception would be that PI has done Nobel prize level work or the candidate has person
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Which Dutch universities? Just curious. My perception was that phd students in Netherlands live quite comfortably.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Postdocs in Europe are pretty comfortable and labs often have more stable/core funding. Work can be pretty good postdocing in some labs in Europe. But the end of the road is still that after the postdoc you’re expected to either be a r
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
There is still a gender-skew in the bar scenario, but less extreme as in the app. If bar scenario had same gender skew as app, one man would go home with all the women in the bar that night. There are physical limits that prevent this from
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
No. I am comparing matches on app with matches at a bar. Both cases would be gender-skewed. But to have the bar scenario be as skewed as the app, one man would go home with all the women in the bar. This is not the case in reality. There ar
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
It’s not natural because if you go to a bar or other in person event, the dynamics are much less gender-skewed.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
This is a naive view of the world. Most self-made billionaires in western countries exist because they have made something valuable that the public can’t stop buying or investing in. The public are just as selfish humans trying to do what i
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
As an anecdote, in some modern Asian cities, you can live your life entirely indoors. You live in a small apartment above a large shopping mall and connected to the metro. School is indoors, book learning is prioritised over outdoor physica
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Attention has been commoditised even since the radio and television days. Before that, through mass print media and newspapers.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
In some countries, eg France, it’s common for kids to go home for lunch and then come back.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
This made me think of science and academia. One of the things that seems to distinguish productive people in science is the balance between “doer” mentality and “thinker” mentality. Too much “thinker” mentality and the project never goes an
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
It has been pretty easy on our end. We live walking distance to work and daycare. so it’s no problem to even have both of us pick the kids up, walk home to eat lunch, walk kids back to daycare, and go back to work.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Question: how does one stay competitive if a field mostly focuses on high impact factor journals (eg nature) and one makes trainees publish in lower impact factor journals as a matter of principle. Won’t one be hurting the careers of studen

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