throwaway1o24

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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   Ah, the delightful Nikita Bier is featured as a success story using this tool. I was in a business incubator with this guy, he was the biggest scammer I have ever met. He took hundreds of thousands of money from the Knight Foundation for a
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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   SAR interferometry has been used to measure increased strain in the Earth's crust and identify where earthquakes are more likely. There a lot of published work which is credible. I didn't read the paper here but if results can be
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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   If you search for his name on Google a lot of links are removed (in Europe). He was kicked out of intercom for sexual harrassment: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegatio... and somehow made his wa
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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   At one level, I guess there are market efficiencies somewhere but it's depressing that this sub-industry even exists.
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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   You've a lot less negotiation power as your visa is tied to your job, so you get paid less. You have to leave the country after 30 days if you loose your job and don't get another one. So if you're keen to move up the US, H1B
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   by throwaway1o24 2y ago

   They appear to be appropriately named
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   by throwaway1o24 3y ago

   Neri (and one of her grad students) photographed and published some of my colleagues work and passed it off as their own when I was at MIT My colleague (another grad student) innocently showed them their work and was very open with them.