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by zusammen 1y ago
“Indirect costs” were accepted on the theory that this would be used to create job security for professors who did useful work but were not able to secure direct funding. Spoiler alert: That job security doesn’t exist anymore. A professor w
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by zusammen 1y ago
To be truthful, though, that’s only like 0.01 percent of the “academia was stolen from us and being a professor (if you ever get there at all) is worse” problem.
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by zusammen 1y ago
Absolutely everything is tracked as a work item with estimates. Anything you think should be done needs to be justified and tracked the same way. My grandpa once said something that seemed ridiculous but makes a lot of sense: that every w
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by zusammen 2y ago
I was in San Francisco that week. Ecological issues aside, it was the last time San Francisco felt different in a good way rather than a bad one. The “negative energy” is now too much for me and, when I travel to the Bay Area, I pretty much
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by zusammen 2y ago
There’s a built-in design paradox. How does a judge assess an expert in a field where he is not one? There’s probably some improvement that comes from experience but it’s not perfect.
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by zusammen 2y ago
You conveniently left out the job for life part which is a huge part of why most professors want a TT job. Also, age makes you better at doing jobs but worse at getting them. You do not want to be on the open labor market after 50, especi
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by zusammen 2y ago
Generally, no. There’s a risk of unfair competition for work (they can delegate the stuff they don’t want because they have political power) and their code often becomes “untouchable” because few will call it out if the code is bad. A hobby
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by zusammen 2y ago
I’m an aging (60s) academic and I’ve found that the old assumption of our world offering a “life of ideas” that any talented person would want is no longer true. If you’re coming in now or came in in the past 30 years, it’s liters just a jo
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by zusammen 2y ago
People who have children to fill a “void” end up disappointed. They grow up, they move away, they either resent how little they had or how much they had given to them and what it has done or not done for their fledging careers. I have three
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by zusammen 2y ago
This is deeply interesting to me. For one thing, I’m in my sixties and I definitely feel like I’m the same person I was, fundamentally, as in my 20s. The world has changed and my body has changed and I make fewer mistakes but I never woke u
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by zusammen 2y ago
Family members of mine at the VP/EVP level in “enterprise” type companies regularly work 12+ hours on weekdays and ~8 per day on weekends. At that level, they’re in the club and guaranteed to advance as long as they don’t make enemie
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by zusammen 2y ago
You’re probably right. The historical norm is that there are owners and there are workers. We seem to be regressing to that. The difference is that medieval peasants knew their manorial lords had bigger houses and ate more meat, but the vis
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by zusammen 2y ago
This is the sad reality of oligarchy. Red/blue culture wars appeal to some people because they would prefer an authoritarianism that at least pretends to have their back 50 percent of the time over rich people (their employers) who hav
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by zusammen 2y ago
I often see in HN comments about how trading and Wall St in general is evil Trading is one of the least evil things that goes on on Wall Street. Starting wars for profit (e.g., Blackwater) and buying additional houses as investments (as p
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by zusammen 2y ago
The irony is that AI, as a replacement for an even average programmer, doesn’t work . You can use it helpfully if you are already a programmer, but if you’re not, you won’t know when it’s generating insecure or even non-working code. And y
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by zusammen 2y ago
Money doesn’t buy happiness but most people are subjected to artificial misery by this society and money does make that go away… at least, a fair share of it, probably 80 percent. That said, a lot of people who get rich, because status is t
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by zusammen 2y ago
I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitable exit is just one way to trigger that
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by zusammen 2y ago
I’m 65 and I have tenure. If I didn’t, I would leave the country. If I couldn’t, I don’t know what I would do. You do not want to be on the open market in the 2020s, that’s for sure. it is nearly impossible for people with CS degrees (espe
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by zusammen 2y ago
This is how the startup life is sold to youngsters—million-dollar conversations just happen—and it’s amusing to see the myth is still alive.
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by zusammen 2y ago
I got a blindsight vibe when interacting with early ChatGPT through rot13 but I can’t be sure if it was real uncanny valley (pseudo) consciousness or me anthropomorphizing. Probably the latter. It really shows how much work was put into mak
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by zusammen 2y ago
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by zusammen 2y ago
The cultural left is becoming increasingly like the right in some ways and I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, this might be helpful because the imbalance between a restrained left and an obnoxious right has been pushing the Overton Windo
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by zusammen 2y ago
The secret hero of that time was the US government. I’m not talking about the MIC, which is still quite robust and more bad than good. I am speaking more broadly. If you had a practical PhD and were willing to show up at a place at 9:00, yo
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by zusammen 2y ago
Thank you. One of the things I would really like to get to the bottom of is the question of why he could not accept the 6-month plea deal. Was it because he feared incarceration, or did his managers and investors do an inadequate job of rea
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by zusammen 2y ago
No. I do plenty of my own, but he was connected to this community so I will get a better sense of what is trustworthy and what is relevant here.
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Ask HN: Can anyone give me a good reference on the Aaron Swartz case?
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by zusammen 2y ago
My kids convinced me to try out a couple of those old final fantasy games from the 90s. As someone who studied Kabbalah I was intrigued by the fact that they named a character Sephiroth, although the character really had nothing to do with
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by zusammen 2y ago
The point these focus-deprived children could accurately make is that our adult world is also about reward hacking and bullshit metrics. I’m old but I will tell you that everything I dislike that I see in the young is society’s fault. We di
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by zusammen 2y ago
Secret money is hard at a certain scale. Money is property rights and people have to believe your rights exist for them to actually exist. Elon Musk is not physically strong but simply the beneficiary of forces that have convinced the world
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by zusammen 2y ago
I hated that voice. At first, I told myself it wasn’t right to hate someone’s voice so much because I assumed it had been something she couldn’t control, and in fact it made her slightly more impressive to me that she had gotten anywhere wi

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