cyrksoft

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by cyrksoft 4y ago
I never said all education should produce something of monetary value. There are many non-monetary value things that can nonetheless be measured. You keep talking about how things have been historically. Things can change, and historically
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
I've given you my arguments, but you don't like them. And all your arguments are 'things have been done this way for centuries, let's keep the status quo as it is' and 'you cannot measure what I do'. Gover
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
> Number of papers published or number of citations isn't a measure of the value of someone's research. This over-reliance on metrics is a big part of what's going wrong with academia. A hundred years ago people published
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
Which value and recognition are you talking about? Their papers are almost never cited [0]. Soldiers, and defense in general, are part of the main things a government should provide (we can discuss how much, but that is another discussion).
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
My questions are not rhetorical, so you could answer them. Money has to come from somewhere. If your answer is subsidies, then decide either to increase taxation or to cut funding to something else. I believe it is wrong to force people to
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
> The success of this basic research feeds back into society with substantially increased tax revenue and reputation to attract the best minds in the world. I would love to see a source on that, particularly the tax revenue increase and
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
You are using one Oxford college as an example, that is not representative at all. Most universities have very little (if not null) prestige associated to them. If you will only recruit top talent at Oxford and Cambridge, why have the rest
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
That might be the case. But universities are not startups. In one of the universities I worked at they had a four-year long History undergraduate degree. Between 5 and 10 students chose it each year (the entire university has around 5,000 s
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
I'm surprised how very few departments within most universities actually make money. If you had a company where most products lost money you would stop producing them. Universities have a lot of departments and degrees that bleed money
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
Thanks! I've read that site before, but it is not recommended for absolute beginners. I know a bit of programming, but I never had a formal education in Computer Science (I'm an Econ PhD). Is there a more beginner-friendly version
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Ask HN: How would you learn Computer Science if time was not an issue?
5 points by cyrksoft 4y ago|5 comments
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
> I put "rapidly" in quotes up there because if I have one piece of advice to PhD students, it's to get the hell out of grad school as soon as you can. Like the parent, I had fun exploring my interests, and it was a period
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
I have a PhD from a top Econ department in the US (I finished it a couple of decades ago, so things might have changed). Of course a PhD is not the best decision if you are only looking at optimising your path to industry. However, during m
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by cyrksoft 4y ago
Archive site: https://archive.ph/O3JOr
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Self-diagnosis ads on TikTok blur mental health fears with reality(ft.com)
2 points by cyrksoft 4y ago|2 comments
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Roundabouts reduced accidents and are environmentally friendly(carmel.in.gov)
61 points by cyrksoft 4y ago|38 comments
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
You are comparing nominal GDPs, not really useful. If you compare PPP, Russia is almost 50% higher than China... This estimates are for 2021, would like to see what they are now. They probably change the picture a bit.
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France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors(politico.eu)
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Don't Become a Scientist(katz.fastmail.us)
1 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|0 comments
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The Neighbourhoods That Are Illegal in Most of North America [video](youtube.com)
2 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|0 comments
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Berlin locals vote to expropriate real estate giants(dw.com)
8 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|8 comments
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Biden Urges CEOs to Improve Nation’s Cybersecurity After Attacks(bloomberg.com)
1 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|1 comments
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Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free(sciencemag.org)
761 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|92 comments
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Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard stance on remote work(appleinsider.com)
9 points by cyrksoft 5y ago|3 comments
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
Particularly countries like Poland and Hungary, they are very respectful of Article 1. Or Germany making so much business with China and Russia. Don't kid yourself thinking that the EU is a special place that is somewhat exempt of any
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
Why not?
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
Apple’s forced deprecation back at it again. They claim to care about the environment and for reasons other than technical decide not to support Intel devices (even though they still sell them TODAY!)
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
I think I misspoke. I thought OP was taking about iOS. In the sense of your app they don’t. But you play by their rules. If you don’t want Apple deciding things on your software, don’t develop for iOS, it’s simple.
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
"Our software"? It is Apple's software and ecosystem. Of course Apple has a monopoly over their software, it would be absurd to suggest otherwise. I don't understand why people think they have some special right to tell
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by cyrksoft 5y ago
These look very interesting, thanks! If you every make a class out of it, please post it here!

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