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Maybe he had some idea that his buddy ran away with and he attributed his success to his idea, while he was homeless? There was a whole TV show around a similar idea (Breaking Bad).
Im pretty certain that of plagiate software would include rejected students works whole swaths of the academic successful would be let go.
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Academic success perhaps. The killer and Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor he killed, were in the same class at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal's leading engineering school). Loureiro had a distinguished career at MIT while the killer was homeless.
Jealousy is really the sickest of sins…
>ctrl-f "gun control" >0 results Never change, HN.
How did banning drugs work out? Alcohol?
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Graduate school violence == suicide?
Grad school students are often required to work ridiculous amounts of unpaid hours for their supervising faculty (well over 40 hrs/week, sometimes meaning 7 days a week). Their eventual graduation is implicitly or explicitly tied to the approval of these monstrous bosses. Source: some of my fellow, less fortunate grad students.
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Graduate student violence is more common that it should be. For example, you hear about suicides every year. I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futures and financial power over their livelihoods. (And switching supervisors, even at th…
>I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futures and financial power over their livelihoods. I dropped out of a PhD -- took the master's I earned for coursework, did my quals so it would be clear I chose to leave, then took an "academic-is…
I moved from FAANG to general IT and this was one of the things that tripped me up for a time. Who the hell uses printers? A lot of people, it turns out.
Lowering the expectations made life a lot easier and happier. The pay is less, but I have no stress. I go home at the same time every day and never work after my end time. Worth it to me. Sorry you got jacked around.
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Im pretty certain that of plagiate software would include rejected students works whole swaths of the academic successful would be let go.
What were you actually trying to type? I can't figure it out.
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There are two types of broken clocks. One is always suspicious, the other thinks nothing ever happens. One is more often right than the other, but both are equally broken.
There's a world of difference between "nothing happens with 100% probability" and "nothing happens with 98% probability", even though they can look like the same thing when talking casually.