Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 4 minutes ago:
Dining halls isn’t “food expense”. Student dining halls are paid for by meal plans.
Catering private parties with private chefs is a big part of management in acedemia. That’s part of the reason why they can’t afford to give raises. The deans want their galas.
Why are you trying so hard to make mountains out of mole
Why are you ignoring that the income vs salary doesn’t add up? Private chefs isn’t something regular low level executives get outside of acedemia.
giant conspiracy
It’s not a giant conspiracy when it’s documented.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 3 hours ago:
Great link. Thanks!
There are interesting expenses in there. Like $178M spent for travel and food. I wonder how many teaching assistants and adjunct professors get private jets and private chefs like the President and his executive staff and all the Deans and their staff. I had a friend 10 ago who applied for the job to be the private chef for a dean in a medium college.
en.wikibooks.org/…/Stanford_Research_Scandal
Those perks didn’t end when the scandal was exposed. They only changed to take the money for perks from tuition instead of the government.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 21 hours ago:
adjunct professors, lab managers, researcher techs
Those all fall into the underpaid category too. Adjunct professor is particularly abused.
$2.5B from tuition and endowment, $2.2B in sponsors and $1.6B in donations. $6.3B a year income. 27.4k total employees. If each and every employee was paid $100k, that’s $2.7B for salaries.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 23 hours ago:
That’s still 1.4B a year. They get $1.1 B in tuition a year. That’s $2.5B. They have 2300 professors. At $200k salary that’s only $0.4B of the $2.5B.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 23 hours ago:
It is a lie that CEO’s publicize about themselves. He has two children. If he actually was working 7 days a week from the moment he woke up he would have never had a chance to get married and have children- which is the life his workers lead.
Musk used to brag about working 7 days a week on day, and the next brag about how he neverussed his children’s soccer games.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 2 days ago:
Alcohol is a solvent that can release flavors that water cannot. Alcohol can also bond with fats enhaving our perception of flavor.
So it isn’t alcohol and Mexican in particular but alcohol and whatever spices are dissolved by alcohol.
- Comment on Napster - I miss it. All free and it worked great 1 week ago:
Argh! I read it 3 times and missed it. I only know Celebrate.
- Comment on Napster - I miss it. All free and it worked great 1 week ago:
So a program that interfaces to a discord channel?
- Comment on Napster - I miss it. All free and it worked great 1 week ago:
??? Is that a reference to a program because I didn’t see them in the list.
- Comment on Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.” 1 week ago:
I think a light version runs in a web browser but the full version is a program.
- Comment on PIGS IN SPACE!! i don't really know what to make of this one 1 week ago:
I didn’t remember that one and it turns out it was from a new version done in 2016.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
Like a landlord is going to fix your clogged drain anytime soon. They’re not your mom, they’re a business. You’ll be lucky if a plumber comes out in a couple of weeks.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 2 weeks ago:
Ice can’t break steel beams!
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 weeks ago:
The entire MacOS including finder and the tools was 216KB on the 400KB floppy.
- Comment on No need for blue tooth 2 weeks ago:
Transistor war!
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 weeks ago:
The original Macintosh had 128k of ram.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 3 weeks ago:
When I’d get stuff, I’d always offer it to the employees first. My employees used to encourage vendors to show up to get free stuff. I’d let them get whatever they could. One employee got free night vision goggles.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s likely intentional. What’s the point of a good reputation if you don’t milk it for profit? Bestbuy alternates between good and bad. Build a good reputation, the cut corners for profit for several years until people notice while banking that profit. Then restart the good reputation.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that MS fixed Windows search when Google had its Google Desktop search product and Windows Search went back to horrible when Google discontinued Desktop Search.
You can find files faster on Windows by using the command line directly command with recursion switch and watch every directory tree scroll by until it finds the file than wait for the GUI even when Indexed.
- Comment on I put these 2 pics of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker together, can someone who's more clever than I am come up with with some captions? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on They Live 2069 4 weeks ago:
2069 and vr headset looks like it’s from 2019?
- Comment on Crosspost if you agree! 4 weeks ago:
He did explain the reason. Garden hose.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter that they have no basis for a lawsuit. Nintendo starts a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous, and the developer has to pay a lawyer to defend or they lose to default judgement.
The US isn’t like EU. Everyone pays their own costs whether you win or lose. If you win, you can then start a new lawsuit to recover legal costs but that costs more money and you aren’t guaranteed to recover the money.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 4 weeks ago:
There’s no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.
That’s how it’s been going for a long time.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 4 weeks ago:
Is it always 20 minutes? Or is it sometimes 15 minutes and sometimes 25 minutes?
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah if U2 is grunge based on time period, then Motley Crue and Michael Jackson is grunge.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If you want to go tiny you could get an Anbernic Gameboy like the RG35xxSP. They run Linux with a gaming UI on top. But it’s very easy to run full desktop Linux distros on them.
Skip to 5 minutes. youtu.be/EvbGb_rHFqk
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 month ago:
I got a set, tried to use them twice and they failed both times.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 month ago:
Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 month ago:
That’s Les Grossman.
