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It depends on what you want to do with your life and career. You haven't said what your interests are or what your Master's is going to be in. If you want to be a software engineer…

Downside is not "essentially uncapped". That would be the case if I did not have insurance. I do have insurance - one with high deductible with a fixed maximum loss that I am willi…

Your point is perfectly valid. There is no single right answer. It just depends on what risk level one is comfortable with and that varies from person to person.

By catastrophic loss I mean an event that has the potential of causing bankruptcy (such as house burned to the ground). Home insurance rates vary a lot depending on where you live …

At this point, I buy all insurance (home, auto, health etc.) with highest deductible and lowest premium knowing that there is a high probability that insurance will not pay (or pay…

Note the irony in the title.

A little off-topic - the movie Stowaway (on Netflix) is a good movie about journey to Mars.

Stark reminder of how precious and meaningful a life can be - of any creature, no matter how small. We should be nice to all creatures not just humans.

Ideally yes, one would ask these questions. Practically, there is not enough time. You'd be lucky to get even 5 minutes to ask all these questions. Even if you have the time, you h…

One doesn't need unlimited PTO to be dead.

Author's description of twin paradox is incorrect. In fact, the paradox is not described at all. The paradox is that since motion is relative then from both twin's perspective the …

Nothing lasts forever. Even 100 years is a very long time given the technology / cultural / legal changes. It's futile to try to come up with an eternal solution. Just host it on s…

The main (and possibly only) benefit of networking is that hiring manager will look at your resume. Without networking, your resume may never even been seen by the hiring manager. …

This process is quite normal. The reason is two fold - first they want multiple people to interview the candidate before making a decision, one bad interview doesn't necessarily ru…

And I want to become a quantum theorist. I think being able to manipulate symbols on paper and explain the universe is food for the soul. Grass always seems greener on the other si…

That's not the correct analogy. In classical case, the color of the ball is fixed even before you open the box (you just don't know it). But in quantum entanglement case, the spin …

While the article may have some truth to it, the emotionally charged language makes it difficult to see the article as having been written objectively.

It's the element in quick sort that you swap around to make sure all elements before pivot are less than it and all elements after are greater than it.

You don't need to get a degree from a top college or even a good one. Just get any easy degree through online / distance learning program to get past filters and dumb HR criteria. …

Can you elaborate? Are you taking this decision willingly or are being forced to because you can't clear interviews?

While I don't know Latin, I do know Sanskrit. In Sanskrit you can say entire sentences with one word. For example "जिगमिषामि।" is a full sentence and it means "I want to go." This …

I have been working on quantum physics since March of this year and am hoping to complete the whole text book (Townsend) by end of the year. Then on to special relativity -> classi…

I decided to start self learning theoretical physics late last year. I have been now studying physics every day for almost a year (before and after work). I did have to brush up on…

Not a physicist either but currently self learning quantum physics. Note that Planck length and time are just units - they do not mean that space and time are quantized. Quantum th…

If you want to get good at something, you will get far more return on your time and effort investment if you just practice that thing rather than something tangentially related to …