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  • Jeez, you fools. How about rolling into the lab at 11, drinking coffee till 11:30, have at most half an hour to reminiscue about yesterday’s failures, while looking at results well-knowing they’re unsalvageable, and then going for lunch with the crew?

    If you start your day at 8:30, you misunderstood that it’s not your paycheck that makes a PhD great.



  • Tourists are not culture. They’re a zombie plague.

    I promise you, if you move there, learn Spanish and start working for a local company, you’ll learn that people there are extremely welcoming to foreigners.

    But if all you want is an Instagram shot in the same spot as the other 16 million people who visited just this year a city of 1.6m, and an “authentic” paella (you won’t get an authentic one, trust me, but you’ll be told it is and you’ll keep bragging about it to your colleagues once you return from your vacay, even though the thing you tried tastes nothing like what a paella should taste, digression end), then you bring a negative cultural value. You’re an annoyance, and a one that’s not worth whatever financial benefit it brings.

    One could also argue that most of your financial contribution goes to making hotels and landlords richer, and nobody really needs that.

    So, I’m with people of Barcelona who paint “fuck you tourists” on their walls.


  • Definition of a country is a weird thing as there is no institution to certify that. Countries exist through an acknowledgement by everyone. So, those “international waters” are only international for parties that recognize Taiwan as an independent country.

    So, you can keep insisting that this is a simple fact, but actually it’s by definition an opinion. E.g. it could be international waters in the opinion of one country and not be in the opinion of the other.










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    This is no way describes how I feel. I almost never experience below -5C, e.g. like 20F, but from there down it doesn’t really matter if it’s 10F or -10F. You need special clothing and then you’re fine.

    While my pain point is at 95F, most people I know consider “hot outside” being around 80F, and “unbearably hot outside” at around 88F. So, how is this intuitive?


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    As a European I can perfectly feel the 0 degree. I step outside and 5 seconds later I can tell you if it’s below zero or not.

    For me “it’s now really hot” in summer is exactly when it’s over 30C. It being 86F doesn’t make any more sense. Approximately above 35C I will avoid going outside. Which would be 95F, not 100. From here, the temps in summer in the south of Europe are often around 100F at peak. Above or below doesn’t matter.

    All that Fahrenheit scale is good for is if you live in a continental climate, more to the south, e.g. some useless place like Oklahoma, where 0F is approximately year low, and 100F is approximately year high.

    For all other places, where the temperature delta over the course of the year is not as extreme, this Fahrenheit scale is as unintuitive as celcius, e.g. you just get used to it.