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You can find a number of university budgets online. Grants will generally be counted as income. Research universities are still universities with a sizable teaching requirement. If you go off of the paper I cited above, at least half of the
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Free in the sense that the costs were borne by the government and not by the student. I'm totally ok with that. However, now that countries are shifting higher education costs off of their books and people are finding out that universi
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Universities are and always have been expensive. This cost was hidden in the US and a lot of Western European countries by extremely generous government support. Now that this is going away, more so in some places than others, it sounds lik
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Reddit is great when the original poster or one or two of the immediate replies are insightful and informative. It's awful when either the original post isn't that great to begin with, or if a knowledgeable comment comes too late
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The issue with Reddit is that there's little to no user engagement with older content. Comments on posts older than a day in pretty much every reasonably active subreddit are ignored. This is also an issue on HN. This kills informed di
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Twitter is great for pushing current events or initiating discussion on less well thought out topics. It's not a good place for conversation. And that's ok, as long as users understand these limitations and there's an alterna
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Blogs and forums stopped being a thing when Google flushed them out sometime between 2009-2012 (with the Panda update? I'm not an SEO guy so I wasn't really following it at the time). Anyway, it felt like a bunch of places went fr
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I've used Cognito for personal/pet web app projects before. It was good for my use case - quick and cheap user authentication.
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HDF5.jl suffers from a memory leak when HDF5 files are opened in succession. Bug report: https://github.com/JuliaIO/HDF5.jl/issues/349
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Same, and they're not. If anything, programming for academia is more of a mess than web development. Case in point - I spent the better part of a day rewriting what's essentially a parallelized for loop because the library I'
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Harvard : )
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It generally depends on where the funding comes from, at least from what I've seen. Chairs or individual projects that are funded by industry generally hand walk graduate students through partner-sponsored topics.
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This alone is reason to upgrade -> "R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in calls to data.frame() and read.table()."
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There are good and bad things about remote work. It's best when you have the right personality, a distraction free spot at home, and management that respects personal boundaries.
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Distasteful, and not something I agree with at all, but I appreciate that someone is making an alternative argument (even if that's what they're paid to do).
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Is there a more authoritative source that isn't a Youtube video hosted on a Falun Gong media website? Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television#NT...
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That's going on to an extent over here as well, except that it has more or less been incorporated into government strategy as a way to differentiate local farmers from lower cost competitors. As a result, meat is expensive, but the qua
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by zhdc1 7y ago
If this is a comparison between Uber and Lyft, I'm not sure I really get it. Platform business models are essentially winner takes all. Lyft's value proposition is that they're number two in a market where anyone who isn&#x27
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by zhdc1 7y ago
Not really. In both cases what matters is whether the products were manufactured, shipped, and delivered. The latter case is actually more beneficial, since it implies that factories are running, people are working, and at least some produ
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I don't think so. Shipping, for instance, came to comparative stand still in 2009. Exports dropped more then than what was reported today for January, but it didn't have the same impact to the tertiary sector that Covid-19 undoubt
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The textbook case is the 2004 tsunami and tourism in Thailand. Most of the destroyed infrastructure was replaced in about a year and tourist numbers (measured by number of passengers to Phuket Airport) recovered shortly thereafter. The shor
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No and no. Remote work irt Covid-19 was absolutely hated by most people in China once it lasted for more than a couple of days. Surprisingly enough, a lot of people actually like going to an office, where they can get away from their family
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by zhdc1 7y ago
This is a good point. One thing that has helped me is removing other sources of instant gratification, such as social media and television, that condition me to expect an instantaneous high whenever I do something.
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I think that boredom also plays a role.
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The last point needs to really be emphasized. I've had a couple of pretty major career breakthroughs over the last year simply because stuff I worked on in the past suddenly became relevant to my research. I've also noticed that I
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Light analysis is surprisingly noisy.If you want to do it right, you have to screen out or control for cloud cover, reflections, moon light, oil well fires, and also account for satellite position and the local time at night the image was o
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They are starting to go back to work, and we can actually track it to a certain extent (not to the point where we can quantify it, but enough that we can say it's a definite trend).
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I never said that everyone went back to work, but yes, a large part of the workforce outside of Hubei Province has actually started work again. This is easy to track - factory emissions outside of the worst hit regions (NO2, for instance,
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Salary is set at a 100% baseline, but your contract is fixed at a certain percentage (usually 80% or 60%) and your salary and working hours are adjusted accordingly. Employees are generally not expected to work beyond that amount, and when
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Germany and Switzerland, at least. I can't speak for other countries, but at least where I'm at, most folks are on an 80% contract (four days a week) and enjoying it.

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