throwawayarnty

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by throwawayarnty 3y ago
Do people have to sign waivers so phone checkers aren’t liable if and when robbers come and take the whole basket of phones ?
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Having lived in many European countries, Netherlands was by far the most openly racist of them all. Especially during coronavirus. Just browse a Facebook apartment rental group in Netherlands. Most would say “No internationals!”. Imagine a
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
As another anecdote. It is common for apartment ads in Netherlands to explicitly say “no foreigners!” in their ads. Which was a shock to me when first seeing them on Facebook by 18-22 year old Dutch university students offering rooms. Extre
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I found Wikipedia most inconsistent when dealing with academics. Whether living academics are included or not has no relationship with whether they are prominent or influential. That is, May prominent academics do not have wiki pages, and m
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
My only objection is the food/fruit/vegetable argument. The best fruits and veggies come from gardens, most from Japan. Random fruits and veggies from the wild mostly taste overly sour, bitter, or under or over ripe.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I can’t feel sorry for people who take a line of credit and use it to put it in cryptocurrency. Maybe its schadenfreude, but I feel they all got what they deserved. Trying to make 7 percent returns risk free is asking for hidden risks.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
You’re right that France is also bad (also spain) but it’s better to sample around phd salaries in different countries. Roughly in euros per month: Netherlands: 3000 Sweden: 3000 Switzerland: 4000 France: 1500 Italy: 1000-1500 Spain: 1000-
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
As a non Brit but had a permanent position in Oxbridge, my advice was to look beyond the UK. Even within Europe, there are many institutes that are strictly better than oxbridge. If you’re a scientist, there is no point in being too narrow
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
PhD in the UK is a different level of poverty compared with PhDs in any other “Western” country. Can you imagine graduating at the top of your class and you living in London or near London on less than 20k pounds a year? You can double or
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
The thing that is so foreign to me in the UK is their academic culture. There are people who literally think there are only two universities worth being at: Cambridge and Oxford. They are shocked when they find candidates from abroad turnin
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Do everything yourself to show them how things should be done.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
The desire to live in NYC is mostly for the hype and story you can tell yourself. The reality is that the daily commute, expenses, and crowds is worse than other places. Your daily life matters much more than the few weeks of the year that
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Even if FSD doesn’t work out Andrej still has an impressive achievement for 5 years. I’m not sure if many people 5 years out of their PhD can say they did anything close to what Andrej did.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
University rankings are mostly bunk because they weigh mostly on perception and lagging indicators. A university can deteriorate for decades while remaining high on ranking. The only criterion that matters for a student that wants to select
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
The interesting thing is that knowing these facts has no correlation with whether you are a good biologist. Real biology involves designing clever wet lab experiments, analysing data to predict new phenomenon, then following up with more ex
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Biology is particularly difficult to learn in school or from any book because one cannot “do” much biology on pen and paper. Math, physics, and certain parts of chemistry can actually be done on pen and paper (or by computer simulations) be
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I hear a lot how people find it difficult to slog through anna karenina because of its length and numerous characters. They cannot see how such a book could be one of the greatest of all time. I think the analogy to music may be like: Beeth
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Highly recommend the 2016 tv series of war and peace starting Paul Dano. Sometimes the movie can be better than the book, especially if the book is a dense classic.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Amazing how much China has changed over the past 60 years. From backwards and famined to a global super power.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
Single cell sequencing technology is analogous to taking many radios, and listing all the parts the radios contains. Then clustering radios by similarity in their part abundances. Useful, but a parts list is still far from figuring out how
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
When cooking zucchini it is worth chopping a slice in the middle and tasting it. If it’s bitter just throw it out. The worst is you cut 5 zucchini’s , and one bitter zucchini ruins your entire dish.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
How would this advice apply to people who have won Nobel prizes? These people worked on things that were scientifically unpopular and deemed unimportant (eg autophagy, GFP). What matters is only often clear in hindsight. Don’t focus too muc
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
What works for us when you’re in a city is to pick a restaurant you want to go to, then walk in the general direction there. Allow spontaneous detours in corners you find interesting. This allows one to flaneur but still have a destination.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I wonder how member of Congress justify that they need a special health care that is different from the public. It seems to make sense and align incentives to have members use the same public systems (eg transport, education, health, housi
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
The lack of enthusiasm to learn new stuff is also due to opportunity costs and “exploration vs exploitation“ dynamics. You spend time and effort when you are younger (eg 15) to develop skills that allow you to be productive and valuable. Le
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I would argue the people’s choices are appropriate. In real life you never get perfect information, so doing nothing as opposed to pulling represents the humans uncertainty of the parameters in the scenario. “First do no harm”.
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I never understood how the trolley problem applies to real life. When is there ever a situation where you have perfect and complete information about a scenario? Only in thought experiments. The situation where the boxes are probabilistic w
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
In some cities it’s common to eat out at restaurants every day (eg Shanghai). So I guess different cultures handle their after work social life differently. My opinion has been that since you need to eat dinner anyway (although I’ve seen Du
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
It saddens you that people now consume less alcohol? My take on Netherlands and Uk culture is that the they (still) drink too much alcohol. They rather drink beer all night than have a proper dinner at a restaurant, which still blows my min
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by throwawayarnty 4y ago
I always thought that textbooks never gave detailed solutions because of space limitations. Digital pdf is a great way to break free of these limits and this document is impressive indeed with the detailed solutions.

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