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by verylongaccount 7y ago
While I agree with you that stupid should hurt, I think one of the reasons the situation is so bad is that a lot of the stupid decisions haven't been hurting the people who make the make them and the people who cause them to be made.
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by verylongaccount 8y ago
Medical costs are insane, even with insurance. My wife had a serious illness and our out of pocket expenses were around $300K over the course of 3-4 years. That doesn't count the lost wages from leaving her job. We could absorb it o
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by verylongaccount 8y ago
I don't think that Mike Meru has anything to complain about. Professional schools have been this way for a long time --- you borrow a lot of money to go and then make a good salary which let's you pay it back. It looks to me li
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by verylongaccount 9y ago
This is what I thought, too. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Maybe the nanny is including some damaging information in the lawsuit, but not the most damaging information. She puts in plenty of details to send the message that sh
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by verylongaccount 9y ago
What particularly strikes me about this story is the highly selective concern. What about all the lobbying done by Israel and Saudi Arabia?
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by verylongaccount 10y ago
Technically, the Ivy League refers to an athletic conference. All of its 8 member institutions on the East Coast. Stanford is in the PAC-12 conference if I recall correctly.
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by verylongaccount 10y ago
Sadly, your advisor's attitude is common. The mathematics literature seems to be particularly effected. There is incredible opposition to inserting a statement which isn't perfectly rigorous, even in the introduction where reade
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by verylongaccount 10y ago
Aren't self driving cars good for Uber? My understanding is that Uber's plan in the event that self driving cars become practical is to have a fleet of them which can be summoned by users on demand.
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by verylongaccount 10y ago
I am a big fan of Hoffman and Kunze. I also think many would benefit from reading a book on ordinary differential equations after they read a linear algebra textbook. Much of the elementary theory of linear ODEs consists of combining rela
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by verylongaccount 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. I think a large part of the problem is the application of trends which make sense in large houses (and houses tend to be pretty big in much of the US) to smaller spaces. I grew up in a big house in flyover coun
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by verylongaccount 11y ago
Hear, hear. I would add one thing: make sure that you don't advance claims without evidence (this goes for all scientific enterprises, not just writing reviews). Just because your review is anonymous, do not think it excuses not upho
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by verylongaccount 11y ago
I understand perfectly. This is precisely what was (and is still to an extent) said of Jews.
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by verylongaccount 11y ago
It seems that many posters here believe that it is okay to discriminate against white men because they enjoy "white privilege," whatever that is. There are those who believe that it is okay to discriminate on the basis of skin col
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by verylongaccount 11y ago
It seems that a large number of posters believe that discriminating against white men is okay because they enjoy "white privilege", whatever that is. Either you believe it is okay to discriminate against someone on the basis of t