wfhbata

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by wfhbata 5y ago
Yes, I worked in academia up until recently, and keep up with the literature. My comment was on the historical status of academia in the US as a whole (think last 120 years), not just the current state globally. You’re lamenting the quality
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by wfhbata 5y ago
> when most of the "non-profit" hospitals are essentially for profit institutions anyway This sounds worse than a for-profit institution declaring itself as a for-profit institution. What is it about the chain that is “super,
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by wfhbata 5y ago
Yes, it’s a bit like saying, “My favorite colors are blue, green, and a potato”. But a potato is not a color! “Which is why I included blue and green.”
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by wfhbata 5y ago
Is this really an American thing? At least in academia, American universities (and Western universities in general) have had a good track record overall with academic integrity, and it has set them apart. This seems to have degraded recentl
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by wfhbata 5y ago
Yes, that is exactly my point. On the other hand, if you spend your early career as a researcher making five digits a year in the Midwest, then move to SV in middle age to increase your earnings, you probably won’t ever catch up and be able
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by wfhbata 5y ago
Have you been able to maintain a similar level of compensation? I started my career in scientific computing, and was paid a pittance compared to what a PE is paid at a big tech company. I’m wondering if moving to scientific computing is a l
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by wfhbata 5y ago
You can’t really compare it to Irvine, which is almost completely suburban and has 1/15th the population.
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by wfhbata 5y ago
They won’t try because an arrest is pointless if the DA refuses to prosecute. Elect a real DA who respects the law and law-abiding citizens, and the police will be able to do their jobs. Until then it’s a lost cause.
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by wfhbata 5y ago
The soft-on-crime approach taken over the last decade under Gascon and now Boudin coincided with San Francisco having highest property crime rate of any major US city. Maybe that’s coincidence, but the onus is on those who brought us to thi
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by wfhbata 5y ago
Is there any evidence that being soft on crime has been effective at reducing crime or improving quality of life in San Francisco? Our DAs promised “restorative justice” but in practice criminals get caught in released without consequences
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by wfhbata 5y ago
It’s a terrible precedent to let people prolong a pandemic and endanger innocent people’s lives in the name of their personal liberties. If you don’t want to take measures to protect others, you can sit home for a while. It won’t kill you,
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by wfhbata 5y ago
“3 days in, 2 days out” is what they’ve been saying for a while. The news here is that they’ll allow some employees to work in remote offices, and some to go fully remote.
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by wfhbata 5y ago
> Your concern should be with any method of travel, not air travel per se. The U.S. was extremely slow to restrict travel from India. Are many people traveling to the U.S. from India via car, bus, train, or boat? Flights are the concer
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by wfhbata 5y ago
I moved too from DoD to FANG, and I’m not sure how you can say this with a straight face. Nothing FANG does on its worst day is comparable to what DoD does on its best day. That’s not to say the DoD is inherently evil from the bottom up. It
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by wfhbata 5y ago
> I felt a surprising surge of freedom. Same, it was like a big weight lifted off of me. Felt great, and feels great except for the company’s return-to-office date looming over me.
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by wfhbata 5y ago
If we’re making that comparison, absolutely. Both are in the ads business, but I get actual utility from one company’s products and the other company’s products make me feel worse at the end of the day. I realize that many people love socia
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by wfhbata 5y ago
I’ve told myself I won’t go back to the Bay Area. SF is a joke and the peninsula is ridiculously overpriced even on a tech salary. I’ve loved the last year living outside of the Bay Area. On the other hand, the thought of whiteboard intervi