IndPhysiker

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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
This makes me remember working in a grocery store as a kid where people would buy steak with their WIC and food stamps that might fill one or two meals. Could it go much farther by buying different things? Of course, but that wasn't
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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
I'm going a different way here since the important metric is that out of 5800 tenured faculy, only 1500 professors signed their petition (article did not specify tenured status of those who signed). As an academic, I have to say this
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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
It isn't an overstep, but is probably just a weird method for compliance. The Export Administration Regulation is a US federal law that includes penalties for supporting boycotts of US trade partners and allies. Normally this is dire
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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
It varies depending on the subject area and publisher. Some are free to publish, some have a few hundred dollars a page or more for color (as though they actually print them still), where others might charge thousands to balance the operat
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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
Many for-profit journals are now giving authors a few freebies of final versions to share with friends as the PDFs have DRM included. Old school researchers back before social media would use new articles they can't access as a reason
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by IndPhysiker 5y ago
Physics PhD here, I would extend your comment that 90% of CS papers are garbage to include engineering and physics as well. The vast majority of those are what people refer to as "status updates" where long term projects provide
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
I believe the GP is referring to the rapid depression in the area when auto companies started moving south to open-shop states (e.g. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee), not the original unionization.
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
Information security is a boondoggle for high levels anywhere as there are no repercussions for failure. Neither CEOs nor high level government officials give it the respect it is due because it is expected and they can all point the blame
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
It is pretty reasonable to say that managers need to have at least a cursory understanding of the business they are managing. That doesn't mean anyone expects a president to take a direct hand in selection of components for a security
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
Considering the OPM hack under the predecessor provided information on every person with a security clearance, I don't think it is quite fair to blame one as this sadly seems to be par for the course. I'm sure the incoming octoge
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
Agreed, but only to a point. Chinese foreign policy generally avoids taking sides in war in order to keep markets available, which has enabled them to remain out of major conflicts while the rest of the world throws money, resources, and l
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by IndPhysiker 6y ago
Nonin created the first of these back in the '90s, so I pulled one of their spec sheets from 2016 ( https://www.nonin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NoninConnec... ) which explicitly mentions the pigm