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DNI, passport or drivers license. All of these IDs cost money. DNI is compulsory after 16.

In Spain, the national ID (DNI) costs 12 euros. They wave the cost under certain conditions.

Most european countries require some sort of government ID before voting. I don't see what the big deal is.

But… what about the turtles?

Yes!

Financially.... what a way of boomerlight the youth. Of course , he is a 75 year old tenured professor.

Spanish speaker here. Also surprised that I understand the whistles, in particular the second video.

Does it happen to you that when you think of a word in English, even if you don't vocalize, some of your vocal cords become tense or move? Well, these whistles feel the same.

This one:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...

It is a long topic and the causes I don't understand well. We spend more time trying to obtain funding and satisfying some metrics rather than doing actual research we find meaningful or useful to society. The competition among peers in your same lab makes difficult to build healthy work relationships. We see how much of the people that become successful do it so in a way which is orthogonal to scientific values.

This might be something that has been going on since "the world is world" but talking with the old timers it seems it has been exacerbated in the last decades.

In addition to that all, in the universities and research labs, the HR and management departments have exploded (Have you seen the graph at [1]?) And they all seem to focus in stuff like in the article rather than taking care of the existing talent.

This article might lay the issues better than I did [2]

[1] https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/ey...

[2] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt

Oh, come on.

There have been Barbie doctor dolls and astronaut dolls since at least the 80s.

That is besides the point. The point is the constant drilling of this topic in every form, painting the woman as oppressed superheroes and males as privileged oppressors. This with the goal of getting more people into a debased field while salaries and family-work balance keep getting worse.

I remember when similar techniques were employed by the Soviets (posters of woman in the army, posters of woman making weapons, etc.) We now consider that to be propaganda.

I am a profesional in the science industry and the profession is so debased I would not recommend my children to get into the field. We all talk about burnout and loss of meaning. We see other eras (eg. the 50s-60s in IBM, Bell Labs, etc.) as a past golden age. This seems to be something generalized and across technical fields.

Instead of focusing on figuring out what happened we have all the HR people working nonstop to try to pump more people into the field and painting it as a rosy.

Ha. Try to publish that.

Why are there per-country caps to immigration? Perhaps, looking at the history of the Mexican Republic of Texas can shed some light:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas

> additional groups of settlers, known as Empresarios, continued to colonize Mexican Texas from the United States. A spike in the price of cotton, and the success of plantations in Mississippi encouraged large numbers of white Americans to migrate to Texas and obtain slaves to try to replicate the business model

> Angered at the interference of the Mexican government, the Empresarios held the Convention of 1832, which was the first formal step in what became the Texas Revolution

> By 1834, the American settlers in the area outnumbered Mexicans by a considerable margin. Following a series of minor skirmishes between Mexican authorities and the settlers, the Mexican government, fearing open rebellion of their Anglo subjects, began to step up military presence in Texas

> In March 1, 1836 the Convention of 1836 came to order, and the next day declared independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.

I am not sure that is a good analogy.

In abstract terms you can think of the inertia as the time constant of a linear ODE. For the same perturbation of the state, the larger the inertia the slowest the variation.

In a grid with low inertia changes in demand (wether increase or decrease demand) are very sudden and thus difficult to control.

That would be very cool.

There is this passage in Genesis [1]:

"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

If you read the list of verified oldest people [2], the only person surpassing 120 is her.

I wonder if in ancient times they had some statistics and they found out there is some sort of hard limit to human lifespan.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%206%3A3...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...

> It does not make sense at all.

Please, I am open to see why you think so.

> As a counterexample, Haskell drew mostly from an academic user base

May I infer from this statement that you agree with me that Julia draws mostly from an academic user base? In that case, I do not see how your counterexample invalidates what I said. Perhaps some constructs from Julia end up in "real world production languages" but what I said is that the development experience in Julia is subpar and it shows when one is trying to develop larger codebases where software engineering practices become more important.

Completely agree with 4 and 5. I use Julia regularly and while it is great for scripts and proof of concepts of mathematical stuff it might be too complicated to implement in Python or in C++ once one starts to grow an application it is tremendously frustrating.

I have clear and satisfying workflows in C (vim + make + gdb + valgrind) and Python (vim/vs code, pdb) but I cannot say that debugging and tracing errors is a comfortable experience in Julia. Essential development tools are relegated to third-party libraries (e.g. Revise.jl and Debugger.jl) and are often clunky or responsiveness is limited (e.g. Revise.jl won't work when you change a struct)

I believe the problem is that, because of Julia is marketed towards scientific computing and HPC, it draws mostly from an academic user base which is not that interested in software development.

This has also harming other fields. I work as a researcher in a traditional engineering field with a very long tradition and well stablished methods.

There is a push to use AI and Quantum such that in order to get funding or publish papers you need to say that you’re applying XYZ AI technique to solve a well known engineering problem.

Because funding agencies want to sell to their investors or government managers that they are in the new hot trend, if you want to get funding money you need to have something related in your proposal. Of course, having previously published papers on the topic helps so that motivates people to send papers on the topic. The journal editors know that the topic is hot so they prioritize papers on this topic as their metrics will increase.

The result is tons of rushed papers saying “Applying XYZ AI technique to well known engineering problem” usually without examining previous research methods or proper benchmarks.

At the end the only barrier for this bro to happen is the individual moral standing of each researcher. Unfortunately, careerism usually trumps over this.

Sorry if this was too bleak.

I think that statement about "complex systems" being an alternative paradigm to reductionism is a bit unfortunate (articles in Wikipedia have varying quality). I believe they refer to emergence, a concept which they include in "complex systems", because reductionism in its simplest form means that the whole is composed by the parts and emergence says that there are phenomena which emerge from the combination of individual parts and distinct to these. But these two concepts are not orthogonal, see:

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/4615/whats-th...

The World3 model of the MIT study is just a set of 149 differential-algebraic equations [1]. The output of the model (population, industrial output, etc.) is mathematically a composition of simpler parts. They are saying that the earth is a very complex system but these four or five variables can be explained by these bunch of equations that represent basic processes. To me, that is reductionism.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147466701...

When I was an undergrad I discovered blogs about peak oil, the limits to the growth, and Turchin’s cliometrics. As an adolescent I really enjoyed Asimov’s Foundation and all of this knowledge resonated with me.

I had a fried who read Von Mises’ Human Action and he labeled me as a neo-Malthusian . And, according to his “school of thought”, my understanding of the world and economics incorrect. We had many interesting discussions about what we thought we knew.

Now I’m in my 30s and my thought has changed drastically. I believe that reductionist (materialistic) approaches to analyze human endeavor are misguided. There is a bit of hubris in thinking that a computer simulation can predict the entirety of human action. I am definitely not suscribed to the Austrian school of thought, however.

The Holy Bible. It taught me that vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

Western culture is not a monolithic entity. And in fact, it is not even western.

In Europe when we learn history we start with Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Pink Zeppelin not Led Floyd

> Men’s brains were on average about 11% larger than women’s—as were their hearts, lungs and other organs — because brain size is proportional to body size. But just as taller people aren’t any more intelligent than shorter people, neither, Eliot and her co-authors found, were men smarter than women.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence

It surprises me how lenient the US is about American business not providing English signage. Wouldn’t this be considered a form of discrimination? I’m sure that if a German grocery store were to open in Paris with only German signage there would be an outrage.

I don’t think comparing number of publications says anything.

I don’t understand how the travel ban to EU was reinstated but citizens of countries like India still can travel to the USA.

I do not see why, everyone is being respectful. Perceiving and understanding diversity of styles is something nice which to me, as seen in other fields like mathematics, leads to new ideas and insights.

Unfortunately, seems like more people share your opinion that this post is a bad idea. Les than 30 min ago this post was in the second page of HN but now I cannot find it anywhere.

I would not say that EU grads are better than American grads or the opposite. They both have different set of skills and strengths.

My experience is the following: I’m an European grad but did my PhD in the USA . In Europe tests were brutal and you had no help whatsoever from the professors. Your grade in a course was 80%-100% a single final test and lots of people would fail. Also, professors would not restraint criticism toward students.

In USA students seldom fail, grades are inflated in most universities and they not only depend on tests but also on homework and a variety of activities. They also spend lots of time doing extra activities and “leadership” stuff and learning how to self promote.

That being said, I feel that American students end up being much more driven and optimistic and many of them end up trying and succeeding at doing new things.

Historical reasons. Europe was wrecked in WW1 and WW2.