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Dick Nipples posted:I don't know poo poo about graduate degrees but it was my understanding that if you're an interesting grad candidate for a PhD, in general the department will fund it? Lower tier programs will charge huge amounts for very little return. Considering that even the tip top programs have terrible placement rates for academic jobs, it's incredibly predatory. That's not information that these places will tell applicants, of course, and it's not information someone with dreams in their eyes will accept easily. Given how many people are getting ripped off this way, it's easy to find others doing the same and normalize it. Master's programs usually do charge and are a money making enterprise for the department. The value proposition there varies wildly.
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curufinor posted:hosed up attitudes towards food in silicon valley: How are they going to avoid scurvy on long sea voyages?
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canyoneer posted:How are they going to avoid scurvy on long sea voyages? Fresh potato fries have barely enough vitamin c
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Dick Nipples posted:I don't know poo poo about graduate degrees but it was my understanding that if you're an interesting grad candidate for a PhD, in general the department will fund it? Any decent school will fund you but there's unfunded phd programs out there, which shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole. e: grammar Pekinduck fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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Lots of people start down the graduate degree path not knowing what it is they want to do or else hell-bent on becoming a professor and becoming an academic. The former group tend to accumulate debt until they realize they're aimless and then either drop out, figure their poo poo out, or have a mental breakdown. The latter group continues to throw good money after bad chasing after their dream, regardless of their talent, grades, or prospects of employment. Both are idiots, because in most cases you shouldn't pay for a graduate degree. Either you're talented enough the university will throw money at you, or it's a field that has sufficient funding to support grad students studying it, including working as a TA for the subject.
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canyoneer posted:How are they going to avoid scurvy on long sea voyages? I went to a very small liberal arts college on the east coast, and we had at least one case of scurvy diagnosed while I was there. I've always assumed it happens all the time at universities, but just doesn't get reported.
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curufinor posted:hosed up attitudes towards food in silicon valley: I'm a bit confused by this. Do rich people not eat oranges?
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sparkmaster posted:I'm a bit confused by this. Do rich people not eat oranges? It's more a 'nerd parents have nerd kids' issue, I'm guessing.
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sparkmaster posted:I'm a bit confused by this. Do rich people not eat oranges? The ultimate "how much of a rich gently caress are you" test is to point to a full garbage can and ask that they take care of it Rich people have never done this before and will probably consult Google for directions
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College cafeterias enable idiot children to eat like idiot children. This is not a new phenomenon.
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Doc Hawkins posted:I went to a very small liberal arts college on the east coast, and we had at least one case of scurvy diagnosed while I was there. An all-ramen diet is bad for so many reasons, scurvy and sodium being two of the most obvious ones. A friend of mine said he started losing hair in college from the malnutrition, which was his warning sign to eat more varied foods.
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EugeneJ posted:The ultimate "how much of a rich gently caress are you" test is to point to a full garbage can and ask that they take care of it Throw it on the neighbour's lawn?
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The hosed up part is that you really don't need much vitamin C to avoid scurvy. Just getting a couple packets' worth of ketchup staves it off. Content: Advice on house hacking and/or getting into the rental business for passive income. Actual post is boring, but "house hacking"? Seriously? Parents bought a timeshare but were lied to about the terms. Please help me help them! quote:I desperately need help for my folks. My parents are in their late 50s and like vacationing. They bought a timeshare about 10 years ago that they love and enjoy using. Personally, I don't think it is a great deal but that isn't even the issue here.
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Academician Nomad posted:Paying for a PhD is almost always a terrible, terrible financial choice, yes. Top programs even in history will absolutely fund your PhD, though if you have a big family or such you might need to borrow for those higher expenses because the funding can be low even for a single person. The opportunity cost of those years makes it very iffy financially even when getting paid. Funding is limited, and if teaching assistant positions are filled, and no professors are looking for research assistants, you can easily go for a quarter or two without funding from the department. When I was an EE phd student, I was lucky to have found a teaching assistant position in the physics department (because I had a BS in physics), but being an international student, that stipend was not enough to cover tuition at UCSB. So I had to take out a student loan, which I was able to pay off less than two years after graduating. I found a research assistant position after the first two quarters. Funny financial short stories from grad school: - I got admitted to grad school (unfunded) under the provision that I show them that I have the fund to pay for it. I apply for the student loan and get told that they can't approve it until I get admitted to the school. Circular logic ahoy. - An acquaintance, who was 6 months away from graduating, just flat out left. - Another student also left 6 months away from graduating, to work at a local animal shelter. - A closer friend, who lied about the death of her father so she could have some extra time to pay her tuition. After getting her masters, she got a job she didn't want to talk about. So one of her friends followed her one morning to find out that they did not have an actual job, she just sat in a lobby.
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Krispy Kareem posted:
I would like to see those studies. (not doubting you, but I'm curious) Also, I know that that DARE has been a pretty dramatically visible policy failure that was obvious on the ground the entire time the program ran, so I'm skeptical of the policy efficacy claim. El Mero Mero fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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El Mero Mero posted:I would like to see those studies. (not doubting you, but I'm curious) Of course, it doesn't really change people's minds. If you believe in personal responsibility, you will continue to after reading it. And if you didn't, not.
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theHUNGERian posted:- A closer friend, who lied about the death of her father so she could have some extra time to pay her tuition. After getting her masters, she got a job she didn't want to talk about. So one of her friends followed her one morning to find out that they did not have an actual job, she just sat in a lobby. As an Asian, is the most Asian thing in the world.
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El Mero Mero posted:I would like to see those studies. (not doubting you, but I'm curious) The Brookings institute has done multiple studies, so you can just Google them and poverty. And DARE was just an excuse for police departments to get a Camaro or Hummer. Most of those anti-drug programs suck. I mean, Nancy Reagan came to my school and I'm still drug free and proud to be, but I don't think she was really responsible for that. It doesn't mean they shouldn't keep trying to make good policy, though.
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I remember when the DARE officer came to our school and asked us if we saw any recent anti-smoking PSA's on TV We all lit up and cheerily talked about the commercials (this was one of them) and he had this sunken look on his face like "the commercials aren't scaring them and they're happy...uh oh"
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Blinkman987 posted:As an Asian, is the most Asian thing in the world. She was from India (Asian).
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Apparently the 15% tax on It doesn't say if people are just paying the extra tax or Canadians themselves are loading themselves up with debt, but the debt situation is so bad that the IMF is giving out warnings. If it is like every other real estate bubble out there, it's going to be ugly when it pops.
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I loved when the DARE officer visited my fifth grade class and insisted the only definition of a gang was people out to commit crimes. At that age I pretty much only read Stephen King and Arthur Clarke so I tuned him out after that.
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"r/personal.finance posted:About $80,000 student loan debt and $10,000 credit card debt between my husband and me. We make $75,000 a year between our two salaries. Should I go back to school for an additional degree? It won't result in much of a pay increase for me (about $2,000 more a year, maybe).
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$2,000 more a year!?
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LLCoolJD posted:“It turns out when you put soup and grilled cheese together, it’s really wonderful,” Kaplan informed his audience, as if divulging a trade secret. I've actually eaten at one of the Houston locations. It was pretty bad food to be honest. One of those weird 5Guys grilled cheese is like a hundred times better and a third of the price.
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Pretty sure those five guys "grilled cheese" sandwiches are just like american on a bun which is a pretty tough bar to come under goddamn five guys is disgusting Err wait is all fast food still american cheese I'm too out of touch
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Coca Koala posted:You want bad with money? Here's bad with money. Nothing quite boils my blood these days than stories of people making over half a billion loving dollars and instead of putting it to good use or gently caress even just retiring happy forever on your own private island you instead are now so far up your own rear end that you need to ~change the world~ because you are some kind of sandwich god e: quote:And internally, The Melt’s mission statement has changed. “The Melt was founded on the idea of ‘better food for our kids, and jobs creation,’” a publicist for The Melt wrote in an email. ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkk yyyyyyyooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:Pretty sure those five guys "grilled cheese" sandwiches are just like american on a bun which is a pretty tough bar to come under goddamn five guys is disgusting the cheese is not the secret a five guys bun is cake minus 90% of the sugar
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curufinor posted:the cheese is not the secret Soooo, bread?
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i guess i just can't see the outage or BWM in this sandwich story, it's funny and the guy is obviously kind of nuts but thats pretty common with that crowd (like Steve jobs going with alternative medicine to treat his entirely curable cancer, whoops lol)
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He wasted a tens of millions in exuberant idiocy. Do you need a crayon drawing?
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Is this similar to that Tom+Chee restaurant that tries to make tomato soup and grilled cheese trendy? I went there once, enjoyed my meal, and never wanted to go there ever again.
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Doc Hawkins posted:He wasted a tens of millions in exuberant idiocy. Do you need a crayon drawing? where did it say that? i just saw he had investors, and the restaurants are doing fine now wow, such bwm
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Solice Kirsk posted:Soooo, bread? Cake is 1 part egg 1 part milk 1 part butter 2 parts sugar 3 parts flour, leavened by baking powder Normal burger buns are 1 part egg 1 part oil 4 parts water 12 parts flour, leavened with yeast
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Zo posted:where did it say that? i just saw he had investors, and the restaurants are doing fine now quote:The Melt has grown in fits and starts — launching, then dismantling, a fleet of food trucks, for example. quote:The new dishes attracted customers; adding meat entrées yielded an impressive “25 or 30 percent increase in sales overnight,” according to Bower. But the menu overhauls proved challenging. Introducing — then dismantling — a breakfast menu is more complex than, say, a software update. Ditto for burgers: As several ex-Melt employees told me, the push into meat required remodeling stores to accommodate new equipment, re-training crews to handle new processes, sourcing different ingredients, and, in some cases, closing and moving existing stores. (Some food courts have rules in place to ensure tenants do not compete in the range of foods they sell.) Also he's a loving moron who didn't even think of basic things like "people usually don't have sandwiches for dinner": quote:To Kaplan, the public’s anemic appetite for grilled cheese at dinnertime was not a foreseeable issue. “No one had ever tried to open up grilled cheese restaurants across the country,” he told me. Although that might be because he has the usual techbro problem of not relating to food like normal people do: quote:In short, like many entrepreneurs, Kaplan harnessed software and hardware to tackle the critical problem of his own satisfaction. “Today when I want my burrito to be fresh and hot, I have to go in and wait on a long line to get my hot fresh burrito,” he said at the All Things D conference. In Kaplan’s mind, that merited action: “We needed to reinvent the whole fast casual restaurant business.”
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yeah, like i said, that's all funny, but it's just outside investment money and the stores seem to do fine now
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He had to stand in a line. Being a tech bro, I do believe his outrage at standing in a line is genuine. The year 2017 and we haven't innovated out the line yet!?!?! He got mad at a Chipotle and decided to open a grilled cheese restaurant.
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quote:I'm doing a big rear end party soon and was looking into 10-days-long Snapchat filters. I was hoping to get the Vicinity of my property (About 8k Sq. Ft) and pay $1,000+ for that Ten days. I select my property, fine, but then it says that the geofilter area has to be at least 20k Sq. Ft. "Ok, like every respectable business they are milking me, the client", so I select the entire street, which takes my 8k up to 20k on the dot.
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I paid 400 dollars for something whose marginal cost is probably measured in cents, but they're the ones getting ripped off.
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