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My impression has been that in the sciences, there are a significant number of people who get into a graduate program, just do what they are told by their adviser for a few years, get handed a PhD, land a job on the recommendation of their
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Serving as editor of a major journal in any discipline can make one cynical. I read many years ago a quote from a mathematics editor that a large fraction of published proofs were faulty, and from a computer science editor that a large frac
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Celebrity impersonators/impressionists have been doing this since forever. Remember Rich Little? Of course what's different now is the automation, but I expect there is existing legal theory that will be brought into play to cover
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> It is actually a surprising that Russia is not the manufacturing capital of the world. Why the USSR did not become a major industrial exporter has been the subject of some good historical studies. It's been a while, so I don'
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Ultimate decision making is largely by people with a background in business, not science. It seems to be poorly understood even among faculty that administrative policy is ultimately set by the board of trustees/directors. These boards
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"Ever eat a pine tree?"
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Just yesterday, a colleague at another campus confided to me she was concerned about her future performance evaluations. Other people at work have started using ChatGPT to generate papers at a faster rate, and she is concerned the administr
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> ...the scientists themselves...have largely contributed to the development of this particular academic system... This is a strong claim, which I think needs some references to support it. Watching my dad's generation in academia f
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> No fan of Westerns... As I understood it, McMurtry wasn't either. He wanted to write a story about people living miserable lives, so he chose the Old West setting because he thought it suited his aim. The surprise came when Lones
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TFA seems to follow the tradition of idealizing and misinterpreting Japanese society to fit some ideology. The hodgepodge arrangement of land usage in Japan is very old and I'm pretty sure is not the result of conscious planning at any
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The military has acceptance standards along the dimensions of height, strength, intelligence, mental health, and I don't know what else. Project 100000 experimented with relaxing the requirement on intelligence, and found negative resu
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> Being able to wait at the gate for people Before your day, I remember when non-passengers could wait in the boarding lounge with the passengers. Not all changes are due to costs and security. People travelling by air generally used to
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I think the point people are trying to make is that general masking behavior has not been guided by rational consideration of where it is likely to be beneficial. So, it's a warning to slow down and think about it.
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If you are interested in the Indian military-strategic outlook, you should follow the Bharat Rakshak forums. ( https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewforum.php?f=20&sid=75d... )
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Having everything behind a counter is fine if there is a clerk standing by to help you.
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I often want to contact people about old research, but they have changed institutions or retired. I can usually find their most recent address, but no working phone number, and they usually have no social media presence. It is ironic that t
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Ask HN: How to find current phone numbers?
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Peanuts was like Calvin and Hobbes for a different generation. It wasn't mainly about the funniness.
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How I lusted after a Hasselblad as a youth. I nearly bought a Kiev 60 in the 1980s as a cheap substitute, but decided it would require too much suspension of disbelief to appreciate it.
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There was no cataclysmic destruction of the Library of Alexandria. It declined slowly over several centuries. Wikipedia gives a decent overview. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria ) Jean-Yves Empereur
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I've seen quotes like that in other contexts, but in relation to the Library of Alexandria, it's surely apocryphal. The Library declined over several centuries, so gradually in fact, that it's impossible to say exactly when i
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That's according to volume of calls, not content, so I would assume it's covered by different legal theory.
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I had a video conference scheduled a few days ago with Jitsi. Ran into this problem so we quickly searched for an alternative. We couldn't get www.experte.com working. Tried we.team and it worked great. In fact, it didn't have the
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Serious legal question...What is the difference between an online venue and telephones? Is it simply that implementation of censoring is practicable? Could the telephone companies start "moderating" all phone communications to pre
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I sometimes watch/read South Korean SF and this description of Northern SF sounds familiar. Yes, there are often nefarious Americans behind the protagonist's problem. Yes, the plot often makes a hash of logical coherence. I think
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Balloon (2018) is really well done. Even though I had already seen the old Disney movie, Night Crossing (1982), the new movie was still suspenseful.
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Would the burden be on the applicants to prove they definitely would have been hired if not for the discrimination?
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I've seen discussion about this. It seems the general opinion among doctors is that full-body scans for everyone would be a bad idea, because most people have some structural anomalies inside that shouldn't be a concern but would
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Anglo-Saxon naming patterns remind me of modern practice in Korea, where there are sets of common first-half and second-half name elements that parents choose from. It is typical to have siblings all share a first-half.
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This book has a nice description of Anglo-Saxon name formation patterns and tables of common name elements. I don't recall seeing an equivalent compilation of name elements for males. Elisabeth Okasha (2011) Women's Names in Old E

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