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 Discussion on question by White Rose:…

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Neinstein
Jun 22 19:53
Some info much needed. The student brought you a doctor’s notice, probably proving they were sick the day they missed the lab. Why do you believe this is not adequate to satisfy your requirement of a medical emergency? (I think it goes without saying that requiring hospitalization as a threshold for this is unreasonably extreme. People get very sick all the time, and only a small fraction of these cases requires hospitalization.) Additionally, I believe your department or university has specific rules about how to handle cases with doctors notice - why aren’t you following these?
 

 Discussion on answer by user182601: W…

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Neinstein
Mar 14 04:33
@HarutMarut what I mean is that absolute monarchy is a fundamentally different type of government from constitutional monarchy, which you are citing as examples that monarchy is still surviving. The latter is basically democracy with archaic remnants of monarchic character, with a guy called king but having no meaningful authority at all. The answers would be very different for the two: the former survived for historical advantages, as diuscussed by some answers, but is dead except a few pockets of anachronism. The latter survives today purely due to tradition.
Neinstein
Mar 14 04:33
@deep64blue Basically, they exist because they agreed to give up all the power they had just so the family can still call themselves royality. The word remained, the meaning was lost.
Neinstein
Mar 14 04:33
@HarutMarut I feel like you should clarify what level of “monarchy” do you seek answer for in the question. The wording fits absolute monarchies, while your comments suggest including constitutional monarchies. These are fundamentally different. This answer, correctly, suggests that monarchies are not really alive and well, except a few anomalies. Constitutional monarchies are the dying remnants of absolute ones: in all aspect they are democratic countries with elected leaders, and the monarch is merely a showman kept for traditional reasons, with no real executive power whatsoever.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: How to…

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Neinstein
Mar 13 14:40
@ÆzorÆhai-him- I really disagree. This is not "put a woman to work" but "include a member of the opposite gender" in the (currently one-person) curator board. Most times this would be the goal of DEI - why would it be so fundamentally problematic here?
Neinstein
Mar 13 14:40
@ÆzorÆhai-him- That’s what OP tried and failed already. Accepting that the reality that the field is so gender skewed that, as OP experienced, it’s plausible that there’s indeed no suitable female candidate within OP’s extended connections (rather than going for a frame challenge, which you seem to be inclined to), this is a great answer to the question. If the gender ratio cannot be improved, the balance must be reached by reducing the need for it, i.e. account for allegations of mysgony. This method, if successful, achieves that effectively.
Neinstein
Mar 13 14:40
@dee I wouldn’t say it’s disappointing. It’s practical and realistic. The question shows OP is already putting great effort in finding suitable female presenters in a field where female researchers are underrepresented. If methods for actually finding good ones fail, OP doesn’t have the power nor is he responsible to rapidly change this reality until the next seminar. This way, he can effectively diminish accusations of mysgony, and instead shift the focus from this false problem (alleged discrimination) to the true issue (female underrepresentation in the field). This is not bad at all.
 

 Discussion on question by Muhammad Ik…

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Neinstein
Jan 7 10:44
A definition of “racism” is severely missing from this question. The word is used in many contexts with vastly different meanings. Sometimes it’s anything that ties a specific property to a specific group of people, i.e. racial stereotyping (“Mexicans love spicy”). Other times it specifically refers to purposeful negative discrimination regarding a specific group (“blacks are not allowed in this coffee”). Occasional incorrect usage even considers personal preferences racist (“black girls are not my type, I find white blondes more pretty”.) It should be defined what level of usage do you mean.
 

 Discussion on answer by littleadv: Wh…

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Neinstein
Dec 19, 2024 00:35
I think the last paragraph makes this answer much weaker than it could be. Terrorism is not defined by whether people became frightened by the act of the criminal; rather by whether it was committed with the specific intent to scare (certain) people. If a gang shoots an art collector and steals his recent purchase, and I get scared from buying art, this won't suddenly turn it into a terrorist attack from a simple murder-theft.
 

 Discussion on question by Von: Fixing…

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Neinstein
Oct 22, 2024 14:32
@Von I'm not sure I understand your doubt about "Is Alice just flexing, or is there something I'm not seeing here? Is a 10x engineer a real thing?", given you also factually mention how "Alice steps in for 1 hour, and does the work of the entire week's worth of the 20 junior contractors.". If she was faking, how would she manage this, how would she show up real results?
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 Discussion on question by BiriBora: M…

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Neinstein
Oct 21, 2024 02:00
@Flyto since OP got access by a friend leaking the letter from the department hurting system, we can assume this doesn't apply and there has been a severe breach of confidentality. OP, there's a good reason these are confidential.
 

 Discussion on question by Time4Tea: A…

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Neinstein
Oct 16, 2024 22:00
If your proposed revision didn't convince even your own supervisor, you can safely assume it won't work on the reviewer either.
 

 Discussion on question by ohno: A cow…

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Neinstein
Sep 17, 2024 10:17
... you both think you are in the decision maker position. This is at most 1-2 interactions. The fact that he has a personal problem with you because of this suggests that you had much more than that.
Neinstein
Sep 17, 2024 10:15
@ohno I just really don't understand. If neither you, nor the team had no idea that the new guy is the leader, how was the new lead supposed to, you know, lead? In the eyes of the team he's just a random new guy. I don't understand how this did not lead to immediate issues that would in turn reveal the situation. The first time there's a decision to be made, be the smallest one, you two would have had to clash, discuss the leadership, and realize ...
 

 Discussion on answer by grawity_u1686…

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Neinstein
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
@ChrisH Yes, inkscape is among the worst in this regard, because it has a built-in path field for export that defaults on a relative path. If you open a .svg file, edit it, and export it as png to the default path, you'd have all reasons to expect it to be next to the .svg file. But no, it will export it in the random Snap folder it's running in, and you will never find the file. It's a horrid mess. /rant
Neinstein
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
I don't get Snaps. Really. They are horrible UE. They are slow as hell to start (tens of secods for even the simplest app!) and have all these stupid user-side side effects. Like OP experienced, if they launch a file explorer (to save/load something.), it will place you in a weird location you never supposed to be at, as opposed to the $PWD from where you started them, or at least to $HOME. I'm an experienced programmer, lived on Ubuntu for a decade, and yet Inkscape still confuses me with this once per week. Imagine what it does to an average user.
 

 Discussion on question by mreff555: D…

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Neinstein
May 20, 2024 09:45
INFO: did you have any communication with the meeting organizer? If yes, what was the response? If not, what stops you from writing a two-sentence email and ask if the meeting was shecluded on an off-day by mistake?
 

 Discussion on answer by Allure: Why i…

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Neinstein
Mar 3, 2024 17:13
As others in the comments, I'm still not convinced at all about why would the initial temperature need to be not evenly distributed. Assuming a full spatial symmetry of the Big Bang itself - which, if not true, would raise it's own questions - the temprature distribution should be exacty homogenous. Anything that causes it not to be is a result of some symmetry breaking, which should be explained. I don't see a need for "communication" between the regions of space.
 

 Discussion on question by Vertex: How…

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Neinstein
Dec 2, 2023 01:44
This is, of course, if OP discloses their reason. If they do not, there will be some hard questions that will always raise other red flags. Same as people get after a "usual" failed PhD, but now with a missing letter of reference included. If it ever slips that OP was ready to defend and then refused, it gets even worse.
Neinstein
Dec 2, 2023 01:39
@AmericanMoon I'm not sure why to disagree with the "recruiter roleplayers". OP is about to make a carreer-limiting sacrifice to cause damage to their current employer over a (perceived or real) mistreatment. A recruiter can't judge the righteousness of this revenge. They will see that if OP percieves something as a mistreatment, they are demonstratedly willing to go extreme lengths to take revenge on the company. I don't see why anyone would even consider hiring such an employee.
Neinstein
Dec 1, 2023 16:47
As someone in the comments put it - if they are willing to sabotage their own carreer this much over an alleged mistreatment, to what lengths would they be willing to go sabotaging a random company?
Neinstein
Dec 1, 2023 16:43
@AmericanMoon OP explicitly stated that their motivation is to take revenge by making the department lose the (alleged) 100.000$.
Neinstein
Dec 1, 2023 16:40
@Vertex so it seems that the department has actually taken steps in the right direction? If yes, I would re-consider whether a personal vendetta againist the department is even really in place, regardless of whether and how you should do it (which at this point has been discussed more than enough).
Neinstein
Nov 29, 2023 08:48
"the department gets somewhere around the equivalent of 100 000 dollars when any graduate student finishes, and many do" - if many do, why do you feel you'll make any significant impact on their budget by reducing this number by one? You are focused on the per-phd reward, but that money (even if true) probably doesn't have nearly as much significance as you seem to believe.
Neinstein
Nov 29, 2023 08:40
What you are about to do is something they won't even remember a few months later, but it will badly haunt you forever.
Neinstein
Nov 29, 2023 08:40
@Vertex I understand you got a lot of input on this already, but I want to ask the question plain and simple - is causing a minor inconvenience to your department (remember, you're not even their only PhD student) out of spite so important to you that you are willing to throw away 5 years worth of your hard work, and nix all carreer benefits it was about to grant you in your whole life?
 

 Discussion on question by Angel: What…

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Neinstein
Oct 4, 2023 23:21
@armand Yes and it's easy to distinguish. In pranks the pranked also laughs.
 

 Discussion on answer by Gh0stFish: Cr…

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Neinstein
Sep 20, 2023 08:47
@DannyBeckett Electricity bill is not the only damage caused to the company. Aside from the fraudlently purchased equipment, the increased CPU/GPU load causes extra wear on the computer parts, decreasing their expected lifetime; and possibly disturbs or enlengthens any process-intensive job on PCs, such as compliation, code benchmarking, simulations/calculations, rendering, etc., costing the company time. Also, performance analyses may have been disturbed, leading to misleading informations, and damage caused by decisions based on them.
 

 Discussion on question by Robert Colu…

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Neinstein
Sep 6, 2023 12:12
@Michael That feels like an unfounded generalization. Just because English uses a markedly difficult jargon for legal stuff, why could, for example, Chinese laws and contracts not be written using everyday terms and without overcomplicated flourish? I don't say it's the case, I don't know Mandarin at all, but I don't see it must be that Chinese laws are merely understandable for common Mandarin-speaking people.
 

 Discussion on answer by aquaticapethe…

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Neinstein
Aug 11, 2023 05:28
re #2: you not only need expertise to install it, but highly specialised equipment as well as you have to clean the coolant tubes, fill the system with the coolant, and seal the tubes airtight.
 

 Discussion on question by Coala: Is h…

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Neinstein
Aug 3, 2023 10:44
I'm no expert in reviewing - but wouldn't an appropriate review give the author the virtual benefit of doubt, focusing on that the authors solved a problem that already had a solution and failed to emphasize why their solution is superior to the prior one? Even if they really did, I'd not directly assume they failed to do such a basic thing as a literature survey.
 

 Discussion on answer by TheDemonLord:…

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Neinstein
Jun 8, 2023 08:50
@TheDemonLord We are here to aid OP, not to judge OP. By insisting on the specific tag even after OP explicitly expressed his discontent with it, you're doing the latter.
 

 Discussion on answer by Thomas Schwar…

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Neinstein
May 2, 2023 12:26
Ideally, science *in general* **should** be above nations and political disagreements. The creator of the Iris database, for example, may have been a horrible person, but that doesn't mean that the database itself is unethical. If the data was obtained in scientifically correct way, not using it because of person-related idealistic reasons is a only waste of rescources, helds back scientific advancement, and achieves precisely nothing.

For example, the imfamous Nazi human experiments in Dachau were no doubt the most unethical experiments ever in history. They are horrible, period. But the …
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: What s…

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Neinstein
Apr 13, 2023 06:16
@hddmss ^ best advice. And the best way to do is to try to detach yourself emotionally. Your supervisor is, frankly, an a-hole, and there's nothing in you that will influence it. Find safety in being absolutely professional in any communication, respond to insults professionally, and don't let them evoke any emotion in you. Just do your job as good as you can, prepare to answer all questions anyone would ask about your job, and if your supervisor starts with personal insult, just reply with a coldly astonished expression, and with "I'd prefer to discuss my work rather than my person".
 

 Discussion on answer by haxor789: Doe…

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Neinstein
Feb 15, 2023 16:42
@TheNorman while there were acts regarding minorities in Ukraine that raised some concerns, they were NOWHERE near any level that could even remotely justify even a small-scale war, let alone a blatant invasion. And I'm ignoring that these happened after the annexation of Crimea, ergo after the war actually started. With your logic, Hungary would have just reason to outright invade Romania, Turkey to invade Greece, and so on, for similar level of anti-minority cases. Obviously, they don't.
 

 Discussion on answer by SpaceWolf1701…

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Neinstein
Nov 9, 2022 05:29
@AncientSwordRage I don't feel like it's a "gotchya" moment as you describe, in fact I don't really understand the issue. Shrek was apparently based on a fairy tale. This tale included a talking donkey. The world of Shrek is filled with fairy tale characters. Why does this donkey not fit there? Why must it be from another fairy tale, when this is by far the closest, if not blatantly obvious, match? You could as well ask "where is the frog queen coming from? I know about the frog princess tale, but I'm looking for something else."
Neinstein
Nov 9, 2022 05:29
@GreenAsJade The source material was a fairy tale. What's the issue?
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: Is th…

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Neinstein
Oct 16, 2022 06:18
@Nohbdy Your analogies don't really apply to Russians though. As far as I'm concerned, the general idea about current Russians is that they are being oppressed by an authoritarian regime doing bad shit, but they don't really support these actions. People I met were sympathetic to those of Russian origin (as long as they didn't display support of the war). This is quite different from the attitude against people of middle-eastern origin after 2001, when the common racist assumption was (and, unfortunately, often is) each of them having a bomb in their jacket.
 

 Discussion on question by user131096:…

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Neinstein
Sep 29, 2022 17:44
@Traveller I think what he meant was to keep travelling until eventually he returns home.
 

 Discussion on answer by sf02: How to …

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Neinstein
Sep 25, 2022 22:23
@kubanczyk In an ideal world it would be fine, but I'd estimate at least 75% of people would still be kinda hurt. So it's better to be somewhat more tactful and add some vague excuse, such as having an unreliable afternoon seclude.
 

 Discussion on answer by wimi: Is it e…

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Neinstein
Sep 19, 2022 12:42
@wimi I'd also add to the answer that a fake affiliation is not only unethical, but very probably legally problematic. The body of the true affiliation would definetly have issues if it wasn't mentioned, since it's the body that literally pays the scientist to do work for it. Not to mention all the grants that probably contractually require an acknowledgeent.
 

 Discussion on answer by Franck Dernon…

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Neinstein
Aug 31, 2022 10:33
1-2 years ago, when I looked into this, Tansferwise (now Wise) used to be cheaper than Revolut. Did this change?
 

 Discussion on question by Blade: Stud…

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Neinstein
Aug 18, 2022 14:04
Just imagine the email chain here:

>> Dear Prof, may I know if there is an attendance policy for this course, and if yes, what is it? -- sincerely, Student

>> Dear Student, your question let me determine that you are a lazy student who does not have the capability to enroll in this course. I asked the department head to remove you from the list of participants. -- Sincerely, Prof
Neinstein
Aug 18, 2022 13:56
Also, going from the student asking an administrative question about the course rules, to being personally offended by an action you merely assume they will do in the future, and consequently considering ourtight firing them from the course, solely because your ego feels hurt from a possible future event, is not only the biggest mindjump ever, but also childish.
Neinstein
Aug 18, 2022 13:56
@Trunk and the personal feelings of the professor really play no place here at all. Professors are grownups and expected to act professionally. There either is or isn't an attendance policy, and lacking any, the professor being sad about a sparse classroom may play zero effect on the students.
Neinstein
Aug 18, 2022 13:42
@Trunk The student asked the question three times because he never received an answer to it.
Neinstein
Aug 17, 2022 17:21
Why didn't you answer the student the first time already? Unless you didn't even have an idea about whether there will be some attendance policy, there was really no reason to withhold this info for four months. And if you didn't, you could've just say that.
Neinstein
Aug 17, 2022 17:21
Why do you find the student's attitude problematic? It's a reasonable question. It's possible he may have seclude clashes, commute issues, or anyting similar. Asking about attendance policy does not make nim an awful student.
 

 Discussion on question by Sandra: Is …

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Neinstein
Aug 5, 2022 22:24
@Sandra NAA, but a personal opinion. You were forced in a situation by the issues of the academic word: overstrict supervises, monetary limits, and artificial temporal limits on research combined. You made a discovery that was new to science;otherwise you wouldn't have been in this situation to begin with. And then you faced an unfair decision: conceal the discovery and become a scientist, or reveal the discovery and perish from the word of science.

Had you chosen to reveal the discovery, it would have vanish. You wouldn't have publish your thesis, fail your MsC, and become some forgotten …
 

 Discussion on question by academic_bu…

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Neinstein
Aug 2, 2022 18:11
@academic_burner "I would question the purpose of the e-mail address record if not to send e-mail to." - Sending email to 1-2 individual is by no means similar to sending it en-masse to hundreds of thousands.