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This is false. Not-for-profits which aren't universities apply for grants all the time. Different grants come with different restrictions, but the proposed scheme would certainly be above the bar for e.g. typical NSF science grants. Un
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There's a very different risk profile for me (an individual investor) if I'm buying shares from someone who doesn't have them, and merely promises to deliver them, than if they're backed by real shares. I'd like my
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MIT, Stanford, etc. still give Cambridge/Mountain View housing-owning, BMW-driving salaries. With tenure, baseline CS salary is around $200k, with a 20% carve-out for consulting (which, with the brand stamp, leads many to be obscenely
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<--- Perfect summary.
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The really sad part of this journey is that most of those people, beyond youthful idealism, had no idea whether that dream was for them. Because there is very little mobility into academia, MANY people land on the wrong side of the pond. Yo
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Timing. I looked into getting into this game to see if I could make some cash day trading (at the level of one unit of stock -- NOT my life savings). My investment firm required time to set things up, and it won't be ready in time for
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Well, let's skip the twenties part. That's a relic of the hyper-competitive academic system. Normality is you start college at 17/18, finish college around age 21/22, and finish a Ph.D around 26. At that point, you take
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Well, the underlying problem is high tuition and high faculty salaries. Faculty used to be like a monastery, where scholars could live a simple life to nerd in their topic of nerdhood. Now, my alma mater pays high-tooting faculty nearly a m
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A 4k laptop is wonderful and joyous for your eyes. Modern software handles high-res displays well. Things are sharper and crisper, not smaller.
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We've seen a lot of angry people. Prior to COVID19, I was quite frankly unaware of just how good Americans had become at denying reality. When COVID19 hit China in January, it was clear it was coming to the US. At the time, I thought t
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Perhaps not for quite a while. The vaccine grants 95% protection with those measures in place. We have no idea how effective it is without those measures. If we're all going to dance parties, the vaccine might not be adequate. I think
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Quality. ThinkPad, Apple, or some of Dell's premium lines won't break with life. This translates into: - Mechanical build quality - Choice of auxiliary components (wifi camera+chipset, etc.). If you're at a conference, you wa
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... or rapid iteration of vaccines. The Moderna vaccine was ready in approximately a day, at least as a first draft. All of the work was in regulatory, validation, etc. My hope is that we can validate and approve minor tweaks to the vaccine
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Kids in middle schools learn very little. There are studies on this too -- you can skip middle school and lose not very much at all. They're notorious for behavioral problems. It's often a toxic experience. It's the time when
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Dual license.
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No. The correct thing is to adopt a license I understand. AGPL is okay. I'm not hiring a lawyer when I'm selecting a few tools to benchmark. I'm not using EC until I've had the license reviewed by a lawyer. Ergo, redis o
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I've seen good child labor, "good" child labor, and I've seen bad child labor. They're different. Good child labor: When I was in high school, I had a (slightly illegal) job programming. It was awesome! (My employer
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Because, as you move up the management chain, understanding how people work and how groups of people work becomes more important than technical brilliance. The job of a manager is to create a healthy working environment where people work ef
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I think it kind of depends on the type of programmer one wants to hire. There are different roles, solving different types of problems. There are places for people with technical brilliance, there are places for people with social brillianc
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The key difference is I'll contribute to open projects (including AGPL). I won't bother adding to someone else's IP moat. If you want an ecosystem, you need an ecosystem license. "Open" source has never worked for a
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Yeah. For a basic keyboard/mouse, I wouldn't hesitate to pay $30 more for the "official" product. I wouldn't pay $100 more, but for it seems like there's a huge opportunity: * Most mice on Aliexpress sell for $
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I'm firmly convinced that if a Chinese maker made a 100% open source keyboard or mouse, they could sell that for $30 instead of $3, and establish a global brand to boot. Same thing for a lot of hardware, actually. Printers. Scanners. E
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Theory seems to predict practice well, in this case. Yes, there are meaningful differences. The differences behave just as game theory would predict, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. If you want 2nd amendment, vote Republic
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* You have a list of people who voted. That's public. * You have a list of votes. That's public (and not correlated with the above) by anonymous tokens. * You have an anonymous token, which lets you verify your own vote. If the li
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Proper security may be hard, but election security is at the level of someone running a 5-year-old Android phone which no longer receives security updates. Seriously. It's tone deaf to one side, but I'm pretty scared since the oth
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I don't think I ever said "oh both parties are the same and don't really stand for anything." I think what I said was that both parties try to be just at the 50 percentile mark of voters, since that wins elections, while
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Well, I'd argue in all the places voter fraud is likely, we can't have evidence since we don't have transparency or records. That's not the same places as the Trump crowd is talking about right now, but touch screen voti
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... That we have touchscreen voting machines, without auditable source code, auditable hardware, or corporate transparency? That we have no real way to know they're at all running honest algorithms? I mean, seriously. Look under the ho
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The systems I know don't require voters to keep a private key pair.
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That's exactly what the other side says about BLM. With that attitude -- that there are tens of millions of people who can't be trusted or reasoned with and need to be locked up and silenced -- civil war is inevitable. "Those

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