You’re making a comparison then quoting only one side of that comparison, which is deeply confusing. I’m pretty damn sure you’re wrong about Europe on a relative basis. The percentages in most of Europe are MUCH higher.…
Yes, that’s all correct. There’s always a meta-game. Part of the meta-game of academia is that feedback timelines are long enough that you can play the “wrong” meta-game and still come out ahead. If you don’t want a…
Or, you’re building a thing you can sell to others for a reasonable price, because it actually works. This won’t get you a Stanford professorship. That’s something you can cry about from your mountain chalet or…
First of all: we’re pretty far off topic now and I don’t think this particular point is at all relevant to the main thesis of this thread. That said, even if we accept the general premise of your post, which I don’t,…
Also, to state the ultra-obvious given our venue: you can find patrons outside of mega companies that require NDAs.
Sorry, you’re totally correct! It’s important to point out that US professors are sometimes able to go without public patronage, but that this is very much an anomaly. The US private sector funds A LOT of R&D relative…
Only when they are disseminating in an academic venue. Most non-university research dissemination happens outside of academic venues. And even then usually only because it’s expected, not because it was actually useful.…
Contributing to humanity’s knowledge is MUCH easier in the private sector than in academia. In the private sector you can choose your patrons and your dissemination mechanism. Many, many scientists publish papers,…
> What happened to learning the fundamentals and gaining the rest through work experience? Why subsidize job training with valuable shareholder capital when you can have universities teach the fundamentals AND teach…
Okay... But given that they are also cutting Mining and Ag programs, I'm not sure what exactly they expect the future of the stat's economy to look like. Seems desolate in any case. This is the end-point of WV mentality.
In theory it makes perfect sense to cut the degree programs and keep (perhaps smaller or at least lower overhead) departments as pure service depts. The problem is that, in practice, tiny majors use of very few…
Well the first and biggest problem is that phd students are INSANELY cheap teaching labor. Math PhD programs run at a loss in absolute terms, but almost never compared to the alternative of having to pay market rate for…
This sort of victim mentality is endemic to the region. WV could have taken the path of western PA. Not perfect, still some deep scars, but a flourishing new economy that can help pay for long term recovery and provided…
The decline of coal was hastened by public policy, but was inevitable. Also, other parts of Appalachia haven’t met West Virginia’s fate because the states successfully diversified their economies and don’t rely as…
> Graduate schools still are something of a novelty, and higher diplomas something of a rarity. The latter, therefore, carry a vague sense of preciousness and honor, and have a particularly "up-to-date" appearance, and…
...and the rest of campus is some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
> You can be asked to leave which then could be turned into trespassing. The OP definitely asked for the deliveries to stop, and even had a confrontation with the delivery driver. Seems pretty clear that he's expressed…
It's not about rooms. One of the required courses is sailing. Only so many little training sail boats can even fit on the Charles.
Build housing and transit! Aggressively! Angrily! Eminent domain aggressively to build better transit, force the placement of stations where it make sense geographically, and fucking roll over NIMBYs within 4 miles of…
Right. The difference is that you don't NEED a whole damn team to do financial forensics on the sale if the actual owner is recorded on the fucking plat map. For normal people docs with equivalent or more info are…
Also, AC uses way less carbon than heat.
Nah, it really is super contextual. My parents own an epic amount of mostly useless junk. But they also have an enormous house with a storage room in their basement the size of my entire condo. Actually, bigger. The…
More-over, the government agency is using a much better definition! Affordable should mean affordable, not taxpayer-funded.
No, >99.9% of people will never have their privacy violated because they aren't afforded the ability to hide their ownership. Check out your county's plat maps -- if you own property, you're probably in there. TBH? I…
Yes [1]. They also provide tuition scholarships for children of staff and graduate students [2] who could not otherwise afford childcare in the Boston area (which runs on average $20K/yr against a post-tax stipend as…
You’re making a comparison then quoting only one side of that comparison, which is deeply confusing. I’m pretty damn sure you’re wrong about Europe on a relative basis. The percentages in most of Europe are MUCH higher.…
Yes, that’s all correct. There’s always a meta-game. Part of the meta-game of academia is that feedback timelines are long enough that you can play the “wrong” meta-game and still come out ahead. If you don’t want a…
Or, you’re building a thing you can sell to others for a reasonable price, because it actually works. This won’t get you a Stanford professorship. That’s something you can cry about from your mountain chalet or…
First of all: we’re pretty far off topic now and I don’t think this particular point is at all relevant to the main thesis of this thread. That said, even if we accept the general premise of your post, which I don’t,…
Also, to state the ultra-obvious given our venue: you can find patrons outside of mega companies that require NDAs.
Sorry, you’re totally correct! It’s important to point out that US professors are sometimes able to go without public patronage, but that this is very much an anomaly. The US private sector funds A LOT of R&D relative…
Only when they are disseminating in an academic venue. Most non-university research dissemination happens outside of academic venues. And even then usually only because it’s expected, not because it was actually useful.…
Contributing to humanity’s knowledge is MUCH easier in the private sector than in academia. In the private sector you can choose your patrons and your dissemination mechanism. Many, many scientists publish papers,…
> What happened to learning the fundamentals and gaining the rest through work experience? Why subsidize job training with valuable shareholder capital when you can have universities teach the fundamentals AND teach…
Okay... But given that they are also cutting Mining and Ag programs, I'm not sure what exactly they expect the future of the stat's economy to look like. Seems desolate in any case. This is the end-point of WV mentality.
In theory it makes perfect sense to cut the degree programs and keep (perhaps smaller or at least lower overhead) departments as pure service depts. The problem is that, in practice, tiny majors use of very few…
Well the first and biggest problem is that phd students are INSANELY cheap teaching labor. Math PhD programs run at a loss in absolute terms, but almost never compared to the alternative of having to pay market rate for…
This sort of victim mentality is endemic to the region. WV could have taken the path of western PA. Not perfect, still some deep scars, but a flourishing new economy that can help pay for long term recovery and provided…
The decline of coal was hastened by public policy, but was inevitable. Also, other parts of Appalachia haven’t met West Virginia’s fate because the states successfully diversified their economies and don’t rely as…
> Graduate schools still are something of a novelty, and higher diplomas something of a rarity. The latter, therefore, carry a vague sense of preciousness and honor, and have a particularly "up-to-date" appearance, and…
...and the rest of campus is some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
> You can be asked to leave which then could be turned into trespassing. The OP definitely asked for the deliveries to stop, and even had a confrontation with the delivery driver. Seems pretty clear that he's expressed…
It's not about rooms. One of the required courses is sailing. Only so many little training sail boats can even fit on the Charles.
Build housing and transit! Aggressively! Angrily! Eminent domain aggressively to build better transit, force the placement of stations where it make sense geographically, and fucking roll over NIMBYs within 4 miles of…
Right. The difference is that you don't NEED a whole damn team to do financial forensics on the sale if the actual owner is recorded on the fucking plat map. For normal people docs with equivalent or more info are…
Also, AC uses way less carbon than heat.
Nah, it really is super contextual. My parents own an epic amount of mostly useless junk. But they also have an enormous house with a storage room in their basement the size of my entire condo. Actually, bigger. The…
More-over, the government agency is using a much better definition! Affordable should mean affordable, not taxpayer-funded.
No, >99.9% of people will never have their privacy violated because they aren't afforded the ability to hide their ownership. Check out your county's plat maps -- if you own property, you're probably in there. TBH? I…
Yes [1]. They also provide tuition scholarships for children of staff and graduate students [2] who could not otherwise afford childcare in the Boston area (which runs on average $20K/yr against a post-tax stipend as…