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throwaway4585

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    Comment #22856325

    >maybe they have a reason for not providing everything Not my problem. You make your http resources accessible, I'll download them however I want.

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    Comment #22856221

    A strong quality label is that twint's twitter account got suspended - evidently Twitter doesn't like that a third party tool scrapes tweets better than they allow to.

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    Comment #22849645

    Oh, then if you're counting industry PhDs I'm not sure how your argument about Americans getting a premium is that well-founded. The US (like many Western countries, but to an even…

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    Comment #22849365

    Like I said, this is my (limited) experience and that of people I know. It was also a number of years ago. But good on you for taking the time to correct me. >there's a reason US b…

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    Comment #22849091

    Many PhDs in America expect you to be self-supporting, so you have to take up a loan. I believe the practice is explicitly forbidden in most European countries, so you have to earn…

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    Comment #22847900

    PhDs can be markedly different depending on your boss (advisor). They are also very different from America to, say, Europe.

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    Comment #22843783

    Yeah most people think evolution is just natural selection and accidental mutations, which is a high schooler understanding's of it. I'm not being derogatory, it's literally what I…

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    Comment #22842747

    The main issue of Stack Overflow is the YX problem. The YX problem is, of course, the reverse (perverse?) of the XY problem, whereby, confronted by a question that stumps them, an …

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    Comment #22842642

    SO is still good, what they mean is that it has peaked or in the process of peaking. Just like previously-cool bars or festivals are still good but just 'not the same' and on the v…

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    Comment #22842439

    Again, there's a lot more nuance to this. Look into the rabbit hole of cadherin/catenin or how epithelia are formed to see how a tissue is much more than a bundle of cells. This hi…

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    Comment #22842411

    Linux is a fine desktop OS. Been using it for near 10 years now, can't see myself going back to Windows.

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    Comment #22842182

    >Hierarchies [...] are often found in [natural] systems Nah they aren't. The 'tree' of life is more of a full-fledged graph and the whole kingdom-order-genus-species thing is muddy…