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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
This is extremely selfish. A founder has a team (investors are part of that team) that trusts each other to have incentives towards having the startup make it big. Ditching the team and investors like that is extremely distasteful and shows
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Variable rates are great until rates dramatically increase. A huge number of Canadians will not be able to afford their mortgage payments over the next 5 years because they did not calculate rate rises when buying home. Furthermore, they wo
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Is this handbook still relevant in modern cars? I feel the new cars have so many hidden panels and electronics that you’re not expected to fiddle with the insides.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
One model of how science progresses is a few pioneers breaking new ground and then everyone else rushing in to pick up low hanging fruit in the new field. Looks like Weissman lab has consistently been breaking new ground over and over again
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
One needs to think of a PhD like doing a startup. Your output needs to align with the “market”. In academia, the market is the scientific landscape and the customers are other academics who read papers (market place of ideas). You have lots
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
What’s the evidence that being gay lowers job prospects? I doubt you can pick out the gay people from looking at resumes and a 30 minute interview.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
I wonder whether these private schools are a net benefit to the country. In recent generations, I have not really noticed that UK as a whole has been particularly innovative relative to its European peers. It sometimes feel the whole fancy
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
It's difficult to systematically predict Karikos. Probably impossible with very low success rates. A possible way forward is to simply give out grants randomly to all those that pass some minimum score. After enough filtering, all gran
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And as more and more information is distilled into sound bites, tweets, and simplified visualisations, I am afraid more and more people will spend their brain power acquiring little bits of knowledge,
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
The replication crisis is not largely due to the math/stats used in studies. It comes from trying to make inference from noisy and often confounded experiments from limited data.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Libre office and gimp to me both crash too often to be reliable for professional work. At some point in your life a crash is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, so you might as well pay Microsoft and Adobe for the peace of mind.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Exactly. I care about how a PhD astrophysicist thinks about data just as much I care how a biologist, psychologist, or sociologist researcher thinks about data. That is, not so much. At the PhD and research level the data types and question
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
It’s about 150 eur/month in some places in Europe (all inclusive) https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/qtk3d8/how_we_... So the difference is conservatively 2000 extra per month per child.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Day care for infants and toddlers. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/cqegh2/daycar...
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
I think the main factor is how many kids you have. No kids: USA > Europe 1 kid: they are similar 2 kids or more: Europe > USA In the USA each kid is an extra 3000 usd a month expense at least, more if one goes private and include univ
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
One example: people who simply state “women make 82 cents for every dollar a man makes” to imply the advantage of being a man vs a woman. The reality of how this number is calculated (eg averages across professions, even though men and wome
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
There is something wonderfully persuasive when someone can connect a modern topic to one that has already been addressed by the ancients. It feels as if the topic, once thought unwieldy and complicated, becomes tractable and clear. Perhaps
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
No, my criteria is whether you can understand the original source without relying on another person with real ability to process the source for you. For example, if you want to write the work of a mathematician but cant read or understand t
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Lecturing on “historical mathematics” without being able to follow a mathematicians papers seems dubious to me. Lecturing on music without being able to play music is also suspicious. I would feel very fake if I were one of those people. Yo
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Another related academic field that has this quirk is musicology. You can have a successful career writing books and papers on musicology without needing to know how to play or write music. To me it feels analogous to an academic who write
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
The worst part of these accusations is that your reputation is tarnished whether you are guilty or not. This instilled a sense of fear in every person even if they are innocent because you can still be targeted and your career ruined. If th
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Yes. And academia is made up of fellow researchers. We are putting the blame on a private company putting a price on a product that researchers will still continue to pay. The hate should be against other fellow researchers and hiring/
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
This second price is obvious for anyone who has downloaded a Gb worth of classic eBooks and realised their life is not long enough to read through them all.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Owning a library is not so that you’ve read every book In collection, but it’s a research area where you can spend time to read new books. Some of the books in your library may never get read, and that’s ok because they’re always close at h
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
I heard the actor Brendan Fraser got completely screwed by the alimony system. He was ordered to pay 50k a month (900k a year) for 10 years. Not even many wealthy would be able to handle that type of alimony.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
It can still be anti Semitic because you need to compare with the base rate of a peer institution that does not have anti Semitic recruitment practices. Comparing with the overall population is a fallacy.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
I remember him talking about eating a small piece of bread and feeling like I was part of the grand universe. He’s got amazing perspective.
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Seems like a huge risk to marry someone when there is a big discrepancy in income and assets…
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Agreed. There are situations where frequentist guarantees is what you want rather than optimal estimates of parameters. Frequentists consider the model parameters fixed and allow the data to vary. Bayesian consider the data fixed and allow
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by throwawayarnty 5y ago
I would say it depends on how “good” (defined by academia) you are. If you think you’re a super star, then academia all the way. If you think you’re about average (especially at the phd stage), then industry may be more attractive. Being a

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