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by throwawaygh 5y ago
You don't have to be particularly smart to do professional mathematics or physics. However, you do need to either come from money or be content with a monkish life. Both of those are "multiple post-docs" fields -- you're
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> "I built a tool and it found this many bugs" doesn't feel like part of the social sciences, but these papers are regularly published in ICSE and FSE. Those papers have lots of issues, especially cherry-picking and nar
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
It's not a money thing. It's a mindset thing. I am fairly senior and make tons of money. The ratio of income to my annual grocery bill is stupid. Also, I eat mostly salads and meat is not my most common protein source. Groceries
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
I cover that scenario in the next paragraph of my original post.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> However, you then go on to specifically recommend the kind of program that has less to do with classic Computer Science and more to do with Software Engineering or development. No, I do not. Is that really how you would describe any
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Why 2060? I'd LOVE to see the ages of the respondents in each group. (I have a phd in CS and am, by most reasonable definitions, an "AI Expert". Whatever the hell that means. I've been a respondent in very similar survey
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Our courts and legislative bodies have not grown in size linearly with the population, but the modus operandi of these institutions has also not changed. The distortion of too many people per representative without a change in how represent
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
As I said, you enjoy your crypto and I'll enjoy my fire pit on a hill.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The post I replied to was, in turn, replying to my post. I do not live in a 3rd world country.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
CS was "equally bad" to other not great fields in the aughts. It has gotten exponentially worse as enrollments have exploded. CS is embarrassingly bad even relative to the already low standards . I'm not exaggerating when I
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
I don't need to complement them, and I don't sink hard earned money into hedges I don't need. You enjoy your tulips, I'll enjoy my hilltops an friends.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Land is about the easiest thing for a government to seize (and protect, for that matter). ...and just killing people even easier. What's your point? The purpose of "If you don't plan on leaving your country" is to
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
As an atheist, this is a fascinating analogy, because my take-away is that Elijah made up a story to justify mass execution of political rivals. (Perhaps he played a magic trick, perhaps someone just made the story up whole cloth, but in an
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> Not sure how you can use an asset whose price is fluctuating so wildly (and is correlated/anti-correlated to indicators and trends having little to do with your local government) as an effective hedge against incompetent/co
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
HN comments on CS degrees are always a hot mess because quality in the United States is extraordinarily variable. At the high end, you have places like MIT/Stanford/UIUC//Harvey Mudd. As far as I can tell, none of the ba
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Three summer internships is roughly a year of industry experience, especially if they are done at 2 (but not 3) different companies. Actually, those three 3 month engagements can constitute several years worth of experience if they are done
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
My biggest issue with new hires is that they can't write. I can teach you how to use git in an afternoon. I can't teach you how to write a thorough but concise email about a complicated topic. I can't teach you how to give a
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Scientists in the natural sciences/mathematics criticizing the social sciences (and also the humanities) is literally a trope. Natural scientists have been criticizing the issues in the social sciences for decades. In fact, a lot of th
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> software engineering research Empirical SE research is part of the social sciences. The subset of SE research that doesn't push hard for collaboration with social science departments is doing just fine.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
TL;DR: The hackjob happening in the social sciences will be used to launch ad hom attacks on much more rigorous scientific disciplines.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
You're describing property management & maintenance. There's a trivial way to check whether or not a landlord is a rent seeker: offer to pay the bill for a mutually agreeable all-inclusive property management service in lieu o
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
I'm fairly old already, and so far age is... not linearly correlated, but at least definitely a dampening function on porn consumption :)
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> State Capitol Missouri never had any rules about travel or super market isles (wait... did any state make laws or regulations about super market isles?!). I visited extended family throughout the spring of 2020 and I wasn't brea
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
He worked for D's in 2008 and the firm was founded in 2015 with primarily R political cleintelle. What's contradictory about a strategist who worked for Ds in 2008 and was working for Rs by 2016? Hell, there's a whole term de
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
The article mentions nurses in Missouri, a region where I have some first-hand knowledge. Rural Missouri was locked down for... maybe a month? I guess more like 3 weeks. And nothing like the NYC or SF lockdowns, mind you. Masking was always
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
> A consulting firm with the Republican party as one of their clients? Political consulting firms -- especially those that specialize in strategy, oppo, or ads -- are very often partisan-aligned. That's how the biz works.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
Yeah, sorry, I meant just CS. (Other fields get a lot more complicated pretty quickly, but most everything boils down to "stem phd students get paid an almost living wage".)
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
I don't care about congress. I care about the city council.
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
I'm still stuck at the part where we're paying for porn...
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by throwawaygh 5y ago
If the court system worked at all, you would be able to sue credit reporting agencies for libel when they lie to others about a credit line that you never took out. Especially when the only reason that credit line was taken out was because

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