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Assuming the only purpose of universities is to serve the job market. I'd argue that the primary function of the university system is to transfer the collective human knowledge for…

Anecdotally, I was (as probably many here were) ahead of the curve in digital devices usage when I started hanging out in IRC and various web forums as a teenager in early 2000s. A…

Really? Here in Finland I see a lot of products in the supermarket that claim to be made out of "100% recycled plastic". I can't really compare volumes of plastic waste vs recycled…

> As a layman non-scientist, I wonder why we see so many relatively low-value observational studies in diet/nutrition, often with results that get contradicted or fail to replicate…

> "People who consumed more than 20% of daily calories from processed foods had a 28% faster decline in global cognition and a 25% faster decline in executive functioning compared …

Indeed. I hate the term "ultraprocessed" so much, because I have no idea what to look for if I try to avoid it. If I chop my potatoes before boiling them, is that processing? If no…

This is a bit crude way to put it, but maybe you're right. At least for me, becoming a father changed my perspective on everything so much that it's almost like I'm not even the sa…

> Maybe, but again, I don't see why that should be necessary. Tesla should not have been able to do this, period. Maybe you're right. However, much of the modern hardware business …

> Sounds like all around bad decisions. The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left…

Totally different context, but at my company, they started reusing some IDs that are supposed to be unique because they ran out of them and the old-as-fuck computer systems can't h…

Coming from theoretical physics background, I find the mathematics and physics side of game development quite easy. Is this considered a real advantage if I wanted to pursue a care…

I have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and I feel the same way about it. It's not an illness, it's simply a maladaptation to the kind of world we live in. Most milder menta…

This is, I think, why simple things are so difficult to do in large corporations and everythings costs about 10-100x more money than you would expect. Often, it would be much easie…

Is this how software development in corporations really works? I'm not a software developer, but I've contributed to some large open source projects and I thought it would be simil…

How do you get a software engineering job as a physicist? I'm one and I tried applying for a few (mostly with titles like "machine learning engineer", etc.) and mostly received no …

Data science is an oversold profession. When studying it, you learn really cool things; Bayesian models, reinforcement learning, AI, all the trendy stuff. In reality, most of the d…

I can find dozens of "bright lights" in a Finnish online store. Looking at the specs of one of them ( https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/714353/Innolux-Epic-... ), it promises…

I can sort of see a lot of the fitness industry being disrupted by this. Much of what physiotherapists and personal trainers do is just showing people how to do stuff like squats a…

I don't think the point of prison is to change your views (the system doesn't care what your views are). It's to make you less likely to re-offend and the vast majority of people t…

Do you mind if I ask how do you even manage to do 60-70 hours a week of productive technical work? I can do maybe 2-3 hours of programming a day before my concentration starts drop…

To be honest, I was pretty discouraged by the other comments here. I know many friends here, who are like me, and work 40 hours per week on paper, but in reality they have somethin…

I live in a smaller European country where salaries are a lot lower than they are in the US. The upside is, I feel that the pace of work is also a bit easier; I get 5 weeks of paid…

We tend to reserve the word "tech" for new technology especially. Cars, power tools and horse wagons were also new sexy technology once upon a time, but no-one calls companies maki…

ADHD isn't a discrete trait, it simply means that "you are in the lower x percentile of the population in the ability to concentrate". Even people whose concentration skills are cl…

Every time someone tells me they have ADHD and suggest they should take some measures to accommodate it, I think of this Slate Star Codex post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/2…