ke88y

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by ke88y 1y ago
You’re making a comparison then quoting only one side of that comparison, which is deeply confusing. I’m pretty damn sure you’re wrong about Europe on a relative basis. The percentages in most of Europe are MUCH higher. Eg Germany is closer
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by ke88y 1y ago
Yes, that’s all correct. There’s always a meta-game. Part of the meta-game of academia is that feedback timelines are long enough that you can play the “wrong” meta-game and still come out ahead. If you don’t want a professorship — or are w
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by ke88y 1y ago
Yes. My original post is about what people choose to cite, some small subset of which is ever cited as “foundational”. Why would you make this distinction then back track on it? Right: because it’s irrelevant point. Pedantic and profoundly
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by ke88y 1y ago
Or, you’re building a thing you can sell to others for a reasonable price, because it actually works. This won’t get you a Stanford professorship. That’s something you can cry about from your mountain chalet or beachfront vacation home.
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by ke88y 1y ago
First of all: we’re pretty far off topic now and I don’t think this particular point is at all relevant to the main thesis of this thread. That said, even if we accept the general premise of your post, which I don’t, you’re still drawing th
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by ke88y 1y ago
Also, to state the ultra-obvious given our venue: you can find patrons outside of mega companies that require NDAs.
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by ke88y 1y ago
Sorry, you’re totally correct! It’s important to point out that US professors are sometimes able to go without public patronage, but that this is very much an anomaly. The US private sector funds A LOT of R&D relative to other countries
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by ke88y 1y ago
Only when they are disseminating in an academic venue. Most non-university research dissemination happens outside of academic venues. And even then usually only because it’s expected, not because it was actually useful. (And no, it’s not be
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by ke88y 1y ago
Contributing to humanity’s knowledge is MUCH easier in the private sector than in academia. In the private sector you can choose your patrons and your dissemination mechanism. Many, many scientists publish papers, publish code, give talks,
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by ke88y 3y ago
My comment notes there are still deep scars. > Leave Pittsburgh once in awhile. 1. These sorts of presumptive comments are presumptive and serve no purpose in the conversation. Believe it or not, you aren't the only person on the
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by ke88y 3y ago
> What happened to learning the fundamentals and gaining the rest through work experience? Why subsidize job training with valuable shareholder capital when you can have universities teach the fundamentals AND teach real world skills?!
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by ke88y 3y ago
Okay... But given that they are also cutting Mining and Ag programs, I'm not sure what exactly they expect the future of the stat's economy to look like. Seems desolate in any case. This is the end-point of WV mentality.
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by ke88y 3y ago
In theory it makes perfect sense to cut the degree programs and keep (perhaps smaller or at least lower overhead) departments as pure service depts. The problem is that, in practice, tiny majors use of very few resources for non-service cou
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by ke88y 3y ago
Well the first and biggest problem is that phd students are INSANELY cheap teaching labor. Math PhD programs run at a loss in absolute terms, but almost never compared to the alternative of having to pay market rate for summer instructors a
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by ke88y 3y ago
This sort of victim mentality is endemic to the region. WV could have taken the path of western PA. Not perfect, still some deep scars, but a flourishing new economy that can help pay for long term recovery and provided youth with some sort
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by ke88y 3y ago
The decline of coal was hastened by public policy, but was inevitable. Also, other parts of Appalachia haven’t met West Virginia’s fate because the states successfully diversified their economies and don’t rely as heavily on extractive indu
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Graduate schools still are something of a novelty, and higher diplomas something of a rarity. The latter, therefore, carry a vague sense of preciousness and honor, and have a particularly "up-to-date" appearance, and it is n
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by ke88y 3y ago
...and the rest of campus is some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> You can be asked to leave which then could be turned into trespassing. The OP definitely asked for the deliveries to stop, and even had a confrontation with the delivery driver. Seems pretty clear that he's expressed his prefer
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by ke88y 3y ago
It's not about rooms. One of the required courses is sailing. Only so many little training sail boats can even fit on the Charles.
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by ke88y 3y ago
Build housing and transit! Aggressively! Angrily! Eminent domain aggressively to build better transit, force the placement of stations where it make sense geographically, and fucking roll over NIMBYs within 4 miles of stations.
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by ke88y 3y ago
Right. The difference is that you don't NEED a whole damn team to do financial forensics on the sale if the actual owner is recorded on the fucking plat map. For normal people docs with equivalent or more info are definitely provided t
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by ke88y 3y ago
Good point. Again, the whole thing feels a bit silly. Not a huge fan of DC but not sure why you'd think moving the capitol would actually change anything about how politics works... I think this "move the capitol" thing is pu
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by ke88y 3y ago
Also, AC uses way less carbon than heat.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Something to keep the lobbyists from getting too cozy would be nice. That doesn't make much sense to me. The firms that rent office space on K Street don't have power because of the location of their office... it's the
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by ke88y 3y ago
Nah, it really is super contextual. My parents own an epic amount of mostly useless junk. But they also have an enormous house with a storage room in their basement the size of my entire condo. Actually, bigger. The useless stuff is all in
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah, I think he does mean adaptive. The point is that -- although the behaviors are certainly mal-adaptive in resource-rich stable countries -- they might actually be highly adaptive in other situations.
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by ke88y 3y ago
More-over, the government agency is using a much better definition! Affordable should mean affordable, not taxpayer-funded.
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by ke88y 3y ago
No, >99.9% of people will never have their privacy violated because they aren't afforded the ability to hide their ownership. Check out your county's plat maps -- if you own property, you're probably in there. TBH? I don&#
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by ke88y 3y ago
I grew up in a community like this, in a family operating on your set of assumptions. The problem isn't losing half the value of your property. The problem is that after 20 years, moving on isn't as easy as it sounds. More importa

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