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> you have this idea that PI's hate their work / are gaming the system. That’s actually not what I said. > If the PI chooses use some funds from a grant to carry out speculative re…

No it’s really not that nuanced. Society should ban things that are obvious traps and cause massive costs to society. Banning gambling doesn’t mean hunting down gamblers, it means …

Yes it existed before. But Do you dispute that far more people in the US are participating now? Ease of access and advertising matter.

> Perhaps ban advertising Yes. Ban the phone apps and had the ads. Advertising works people, that’s why they pay for it!

That makes sense. I guess seeing the full lifecycle is always how I think about software I work on. I can do a better job of communicating that’s what I’m doing and why the approac…

> spotting what comes next and knowing how to solve it faster This is such a strange mindset to me. Part of staff engineer is learning you don't need to solve tomorrow's problems. …

> convincing others to fund it is harder. Yes, we are in agreement. That's why promoters are so valuable. > in the same way a PI doesn't spend their days doing lab work. This large…

> Please. PLEASE. I am begging you. Learn about a subject before forming an opinion about it. I actually lived it, so thanks for your understanding and consideration. > Getting mon…

It’s scary that: 1. Our top researchers are wasting their time and energy promoting projects for grants. 2. Any attempt by the public to oversee or guide these grants is thwarted b…

I agree, we should use policy to prevent bad outcomes.

Professors have told me it doesn’t matter which administration is in - they just need to rebrand their project to meet funding requirements. Isn’t that a scary thought? We have no …

I agree with you that it means large amounts of agreed upon science would not fit that definition of science. Don’t you agree that’s an interesting and consistent observation thoug…

Of course the intent is not malicious. As a student you want someone who speaks your language and someone who understands you. And similarly for professors. The absurdity is Americ…

Even the undergrad is like this. I was shocked to learn it wasn’t a historical study of economic theory and instead a technical course in stats and modeling.

This. It’s not useful to capture the smartest people if we deploy them to spend 50% of their time promoting projects for grants.

> the majority of all economists are Republican Of mainstream politicians they are most aligned with Obama or Clinton. The Trump movement since 2016 has taken republicans away from…

I think you may be imagining a disruptive person who can’t work with others, and then associating it with a political position.

Framing DEI skepticism as an inability to work with minority or protected groups makes me think you don’t understand the position well.

> Executives are almost solely focused on financial rewards. This is not true at all. Far more important in upper management is ego - they will lose money to improve their legacy o…

CEOs are also employees. This is a weird thing where you have invented enemies in your head you’ve never talked to. Yeah capitalism is sad in a lot of ways - particular the modes o…

No. opposition is not the right model It’s just business. You have something they want, they have something you want. Try to take advantage of places where your incentives aligned …

Yes. It’s not the way you detect cats in a photo. But detecting patterns in images is a very common problem.

This is absolutely true. And the mistake I see from PhDs who want to switch into industry, is looking for work around the exact subject they did their research on. Rather they need…

How do you think sum types are implemented in functional languages?