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by zhdc1 8y ago
It depends on the field. I have a fairly large network of contacts who are phds or postdocs in German and Switzerland. The experiences range from fairly uneventful to US levels of stress.
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I think we're talking about two different things. The parent comment was referring to micro apartments, which are generally rented to tenants. Considering that many college students have two to four dormatory roommates, I don't s
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Why not? I don't see any reason why young individuals looking to experience inner city life wouldn't be happy to exchange loving space for easy commuting and urban culture (which is what they already do).
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Everything old becomes new again. I expect that we'll eventually see a resurgence in the attractiveness of suburban and rural housing. There's something about having free space and a general level of independence that you can&#x2
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That's how it works at my current employer. We're required to take all but X number of days per year. Supervisors are allowed to generously authorize paid work from home as well.
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It also helps that T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. Not discounting that their positioning in the states has improved in the last couple of years, but they
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The methodology section of the article says that one person spent almost an entire year sitting in a dog park for up to seven hours a day (for a total of 1,000 hours). During this time, that person allegedly inspected up to 10,000 dog geni
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Are they? A significant number of the major papers published over the last several years in the field I'm currently in have European co-authors. Having witnessed how EC funding works first hand, I'm willing to go to bat that it&#
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Boatloads of native English speaking expats in Germany would love it if this were true.
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English is very prevalent in German higher academia and industry.
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This is nothing surprising. The study of bibliometrics has been going on since the 1960s, and the field of bibliography (in its modern academic sense) is a lot older than that.
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I think this is one of those things that varies a lot between states. Plumbing apprenticeships in PA, at least, are four-five year programs that require an entrance examination, high-school diploma or equivalent, and a mix of on-job and in
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by zhdc1 8y ago
The Swiss/German/Central European model is extremely confusing for expats, like myself, who grew up outside of the country. Here's a (simplified) diagram of how it works, for anyone who's interested: https://w
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by zhdc1 8y ago
You're not cynical. This is another distraction on top of a plethora of distractions that BMW, Daimler, and other upscale manufacturers have added to their vehicles in the last couple of years. If this was only a way to simplify navig
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Except that suburbanization in tbe United States began well before WW2 and accelerated in the 60s and 70s, long after any post-war prosperity effect. People moved away from urban centers because they believed (correctly) that living in dens
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by zhdc1 8y ago
People forget that the suburbanization of American cities was a very unique situation brought about by a mix of government policy, rural mythos, and racism. The current urban migration is basically a reversal to the mean and should be benef
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. The highest level of government is the worst place I can think of to have a cadre of amateurs running the show.
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Which is funny, because the lack of government <-> academic information transfer is so small that any PoliSci PhD has an immediate competitive advantage in almost any bureaucratic setting (this is true at the federal and local levels)
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This article uses structural equation modeling and a sample drawn by an independent provider (meaning that they likely used an internet-based survey). As someone who has experience with both, my bullshit senses are tingling.
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There's a lot to be said about legacy systems that just work.
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The PHP and Ruby developers I worked with ten years ago in DC were making that much, and the good ones were making significantly more. I haven't been involved in state-side web development since then, but I imagine that regional salar
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by zhdc1 8y ago
This is the first I've heard of Glutanimate. Quite frankly, it looks absolutely awesome.
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by zhdc1 8y ago
Obligatory shout out to Learn with Texts - http://lwt.sourceforge.net/ - which interfaces with Anki.
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This reminds me of all of the discussions people had about keyboard shortcuts when Windows 8 first came out. It was hard to consider it a valid selling point then, so I'm not really sure why people would consider it to be a valid selli
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I'm running Manjaro (Arch) on a nine year old X220 with almost the same specs as the authors'. I'm getting 4-6 hours on a 4 cell battery (70% remaining lifetime capacity), which is almost two hours more than what I was getti
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> that was accessible by a large majority of its population Austria had major attendance and implementation issues (e.g., only a 50-60% attendance rate) which apparently weren't fixed until the Reich Public School Law of 1869. That
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Education. The Japanese Empire was one of the first, if not first, nation in the world to have mandatory schooling that was accessible by a large majority of it's population. They beat the Brits by about a decade.
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It's also interesting once you realize that parts of the early modern era were shaped by the efforts of various European kingdoms to reestablish trading routes that were lost after the breakup of the Mongol Empire and, later on, the ca
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I've been running with React + Meteor for a project I'm solo-dev'ing, and it's been working out well.
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People seem to forget that the final collapse of the Han Dynasty, the collapse of the Parthian (Iranian) Empire, and the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire all happened within a fifteen year period (220-235CE). Although the Han

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