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Americans are far more distrustful. The idea of registering with your local municipality is downright alien in the United States. At best, you're required to eventually update your drivers license when you switch states, which (dependi
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I don't know if it's accurate, but several sites have it at 1,908K krona, which is about 230K USD. Add in the sector - I would imagine that tech CEOs earn more, even in Sweden - and cost of living, and 300K USD doesn't really
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Same. The yearly local value added from eship alone at the university I work at is in the 200-300M+ USD/CHF range. The global value added is significantly higher. I imagine that technical universities, like ETHZ/EPFL, have a much
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Eh, a lot of folks forget that the shift to the liberal arts after the 50s had a lot to do with a surplus of engineers (and relatively lower salaries for their capabilities) and the desire to get into corporate management positions, which w
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In person instruction and a large social community of intelligent and - hopefully - motivated people.
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I was expecting to see semi-outrageous, border line unjustifiable executive salaries after reading this comment and clicking on the direct link below. I guess there's a chance that executive compensation went up significantly after 201
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It hasn't. In person learning is still the way to go.
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> The Vietnamese won because they managed to inflict sufficiently large number of American casualties that the US lost the will to war. Some folks say wars are won by logistics and not tactics. But it seems that Vietcong guerrilla tactic
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Please stop posting georestricted links. I don't even live in the EU and all I see is an "Unavailable... GDPR" banner.
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Keep in mind that highly cited papers are usually first to their field on a particular subject, and it makes sense that they will be usually be less "accurate" simply because they don't have the luxury of building off of a di
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Data and code archives, along with better methods training. Data manipulation generally doesn't happen by changing values in a data frame. It's done by running and rerunning similar models with slightly different specifications to
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I don't know what happened in this particular case, but it's fairly common for articles in higher ranked business journals to spend several years in the working draft -> revision -> acceptance pipeline.
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This is nothing new. These sentiments have always been common. Clips from a well-known 1960s documentary with context from one of the filmers (Sixteen at Webster Groves): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQxUkZ4Anc
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> I have a (perhaps unpopular) pet theory that college as we know it going to cease to exist sometime in the next several decades. This has been an on going prediction since, and likely before, television became a thing. Universities are
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> Do everything you can to get accepted into the very best university possible. It's in your power if you work hard and love what you do (for me, it was coding for fun). "Failure" here would mean attending a Top 20 univers
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Link to the actual paper (paywall): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.13649
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Several years ago, I lived in a country where I had high-deductible private insurance in lieu of the (then relatively new) national healthcare plan. I was able to walk into a fairly large hospital, get a full battery of tests along with a t
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Splitting my response into two comments. > any civilization which could peacefully colonize a galaxy is not the kind of civilization that would colonize the galaxy at all. The very act of wanting to colonize self-selects for violence&#x2
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I don't even know if we can argue that there is an economic point to enslaving other humans (look at rates of industrialism in ex-slave owning regions).
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> If extraterrestrials are silently monitoring humans, isn’t it more likely to be for intelligence gathering purposes than for altruistic reasons? Why? The Gulf War showed that a gap of ~eleven years of advancement was enough to lead to
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> ...any time a more technologically advanced civilization has come across a less technologically advanced civilization, it has never ended well for the less technologically advanced civilization. This assumes resource competition, which
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My argument is that the same organization is the one specifying whether a particular piece of paper or commodity can or cannot be used, and under what conditions. As we've seen in the United States, currency is only legal tender becaus
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> There was a huge online propaganda war between r/Bitcoin and r/BTC with large amounts of disinformation being produced on both sides, as well as banning and censorship on these forums. Ultimately the "big blockers"
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I doubt this would happen, but I could very well see the CCP cracking down on coin mining for host of different reasons.
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I don't understand this argument. US dollars are legal currency, so all you have to do to redeem the underlying value is purchase something with it (or, if you want to be pedantic, use them to cover a public or private debt). Of course
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Federal Reserve Notes are legal currency. They're called that because, when they were first issued, they replaced a similar system of notes issued by a system of Federally chartered, but essentially private and fully independent banks
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I've had interns in both professional and an academic settings. I don't think I've every really run into a situation where a - good - intern wasn't at least as productive as their salary.
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How does it stack up against something like Reveal.js? I have a couple of presentations that I did with Reveal. If Slidev can make formatting and deployment slightly easier, I would definitely consider switching over.
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I'm assuming you're being absolutely fascitious. If you're not (and you're female), Wellesley is a better choice. You have more options (Harvard, MIT, Olin, &c.), and the parties are better :').
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Also keep in mind that most East/South East Asian countries had been preparing for a COVID-like event since SARS in 2003. Sixteen years of preparation, and everything that goes into it, paid off.

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