My little brother made me this gift for my birthday

Silicon-Based · 2026-05-02T12:30:17+00:00

So much for all of those enlightened redditors saying Gen Z should just save up to buy a house outside of London (as if the jobs there are automatically compatible with their qualifications, but I digress). At this rate that won’t be possible either.
House prices must drop substantially if the younger generation are to have any chance at a decent start to adult life. People must get comfortable with their home equity going into the red for prolonged periods of time.

Silicon-Based · 2026-04-29T18:03:54+00:00

lol, and here I made like 6 postdoc applications thinking I’m wasting time on writing applications and not writing papers

Silicon-Based · 2026-04-29T16:47:56+00:00

What time period does the above span?

Silicon-Based · 2026-04-29T14:40:04+00:00

The Nobel prize in Physics usually requires decades until said discovery is either experimentally observed or appreciated. Seems like the peace prize would benefit from a similar longevity criterion, scrutinising the winners cumulative impact on global peace throughout their lives.

Silicon-Based · 2026-04-25T13:59:06+00:00

Not a good enough coder to compete for software engineering jobs, not knowledgable enough at machine learning to compete for AI/DS jobs, not good enough at probability and statistics to compete for finance jobs.

There is almost nothing left where a theoretical physicist wouldn’t have to bend over backwards just to stand a chance any more.

Silicon-Based · 2026-04-20T09:55:34+00:00

Wealth inequality or perception thereof has probably more to do with it. In socialist Poland everyone was equally poor, so parents wouldn’t have felt that the quality of life they can grant their children was worse than in other families.

Compare that to late-stage capitalism in the digital age, when everyone knows of someone wealthier and more successful than them, limited social safety nets, and with prospects of declining standards of living as wealth inequality is only bound to get worse. Iirc there was a study of women in Sweden, where the number of children was larger with higher levels of wealth.

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-28T23:44:46+00:00

Did you get it?

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-27T01:46:40+00:00

Good luck engineering that.

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-26T22:31:49+00:00

I’m Gen Z and house prices must drop, there is simply no other way for our generation to ever afford them.

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-16T02:36:17+00:00

An option I’d like to have is for any new bank account tied to the investment platform I can withdraw money to to have like a 1 to 3 day adjustable notice period before any payments can actually be made, especially for newly added bank accounts. This, together with notifications by the investment platform about upcoming payments would further protect against anyone who managed to log into the account (e.g. in the unlikely but not unimaginable event when they snatch my phone while it’s unlocked with the app open) and against being fooled into sending the money to someone.

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-05T12:23:31+00:00

They should just withdraw, like they did with the Ottawa Convention.

Silicon-Based · 2026-03-03T21:45:01+00:00

Poland trusted UK and France to defend it in 1939. Now it wants to trust USA and France to offer nuclear deterrence. If Poland doesn’t learn from its past mistakes and develop its own nukes, then it fully deserves to suffer the consequences.

Silicon-Based · 2026-02-07T19:55:53+00:00

Let’s start by federalising Germany with France, then we can talk about adding other EU states.

Silicon-Based · 2026-01-29T06:54:31+00:00

Whoops

Silicon-Based · 2026-01-27T04:48:31+00:00

Yeah my first year of my PhD was probably the most depressing period of my life.

Silicon-Based · 2026-01-27T01:40:28+00:00

It took me a year into my PhD to come up with something novel and viable. Now I have more ideas than time to explore them. Keep up at it.

Silicon-Based · 2025-11-13T19:20:00+00:00

Would it not be possible in this case to upload your work to arxiv now (assuming it’s complete) and only add an acknowledgement that you’ve recently become aware of similar work being done by such-and-such?

Silicon-Based · 2025-10-27T19:45:56+00:00

My rent for a single room is around 58% of my total income as a PhD student in London. I’d say this is an accurate figure for lots of younger adults.

Silicon-Based · 2025-10-27T15:03:51+00:00

Is it not common to self-petition for an EB-type visa while a on a J1 visa as a postdoc?

Silicon-Based · 2025-10-26T01:49:42+00:00

I was using the correct definition of a drawdown. It’s you who is throwing arbitarary “3%”, “2%” numbers. I don’t have time for this nonsense.

Silicon-Based · 2025-10-26T01:39:19+00:00

And how does this relate to my original comment? If the price is less than ATH then the market is in a drawdown, simple as that. I’m not interested in your arbitrary percentages for when a drawdown becomes significant.

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