I am happy to see some humor at the top of hn, the bar is high though.
That's how we like it in here. If you want to joke on HN, you have to put in some work :).
When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
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#42“Couldn’t you have waited until the morning?” “No! The committee is using a poorly designed auction system to disburse the awards and if we don’t both accept the award in the next 70 minutes it will go to Piketty!”
Jokes aside, why is it so important that they reach him at 2:15 AM and can't wait until the next morning?
If I wont the prize, I'd want to be awoken at 2:15am. Heck, they could drop a bucket of ice water on me and wake me up to tell me the good news.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?
I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)
I have a friend who calls me at 3am (or something equally ridiculous). I always answer in case he is in trouble, when he's just pissed I'm grateful it isn't anything serious and chat away with him.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe a custom format for twitter (and even github: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com )
dang, is this new? I've never seen this before either. Pretty useful.
Great for GitHub and Twitter for sure. Much nicer to be able to see the username the repo/tweet is from rather than just "github.com" or "twitter.com".
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#45Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not.
Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now?
Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…
> Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. I too had thought that this was the case, but it appears the press does get at least some advance notice. Last Wednesday Jennifer Doudna found that she had won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a phone call from a reporter. Ref: paragraph 7 of [1]: > At a press briefing today, Doudna noted she was asleep and missed the initial calls from Sweden, only waki…
That doesn't contract it being a secret beforehand, though, or indicate journalists are given advance knowledge. It sounds like the timeline was:
1. They fail to contact Doudna to inform her she's a winner
2. They publicly announce she's a winner
3. Journalist calls to ask her about it
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#47when you win "Not a Nobel Prize" ... https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
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#48when you win "Not a Nobel Prize" ... https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
Somebody always comes up with this thinking that nobody else knows it.
The Nobel price in economics has much more prestige than two of the 'real' prices (Peace price and Literature price). Unlike committees for those prices, Riksbank pretty much always selects someone deserving the price.
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#49Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not. Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now? Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.
Berkeley has a denser campus therefore parking spots are probably more valuable there.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…
I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?
Are you expecting to win a Nobel soon? Perhaps it is not a problem for you, but a high-profile scientist has to think about those things. That’s part if the minutiae of their existence.