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Research. Specifically I want to work in affective neuroscience. Eventually I hope I can guide my own research, but for now, I suppose monkey work for someone else. Is that naive/too simplistic? That is, am I leaving a lot of steps out?

Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted to know. I have another question. Suppose a job requires extensive knowledge from multiple fields. Is the interview process the only way to communicate that you, the applicant, actually possesses this extensive knowledge? It's just that, to me...

Hey all! I have a personal question, but hopefully this will be useful to more than just me. I'm going for a Ph.D in cognitive neuroscience. I am convinced this is what I want to do. Once I've achieved that, is it totally unrealistic to attempt another postgraduate degree in another field...

It seems the IRS views bitcoin as gambling also.

You misread my post. I wrote inane, as in silly and stupid. Also, I said it would be nice if people were periodically evaluated to make sure they are in control of their own decisions. I understand libertarians won't think the seat belt law is useful precedent, but it is an example of the US...

I know you were joking but I kind of non-ironically agree with russ_watters about money and stupid people. That literally is what online poker is - taking money from stupid people. Even at low stakes, it just feels weird. I 100% agree these bets are risky and not guaranteed for any outcome...

I believe I understand the difference. Both consist in extracting wealth from trades without adding anything to, well, ANYTHING. I find fad-profiteering to be a bit more nakedly avaricious than arbitrage, but I find both to be morally murky. I gleefully engage in arbitrage in video games...

Ah, so that's called arbitrage. But how else one would extract wealth from bitcoin trading other than arbitrage, though?

I think Pythagorean, you're talking about the best way to extract wealth from short-term fluctuations in stock prices? And russ_watters, you're talking about the best way to extract wealth from the aggregate growth of companies, right? Since bitcoin doesn't change, I don't see it as being...

I don't get it. Creating a workable welfare program is literally impossible without sociology, which I assume has to be a social science, given the name an' all. Welfare helps prevent poor people from starving, which is a Good Thing. Which social sciences do you have beef with, exactly...

Some background reading in order for people to tease apart the physical/physiological/mental aspects of color: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Color bobie: whether or not one believe colors exist outside of perception changes how one would answer your question. I like Descartes...

interesting paper on the topic on arXiv.org : Bitcoin: a Money-like Informational Commodity Jan A. Bergstra, Peter Weijland (Submitted on 19 Feb 2014) The question "what is Bitcoin" allows for many answers depending on the objectives aimed at when providing such answers. The question addressed...

Just as bonds are rated by the creditworthiness of the issuer, I think the £3000 disbursement should be rated by the likeliness that it will enable the homeless recipient to "succeed", which I presume would look something like having a place to stay, clean clothes, enough food and the ability to...

I think the circumnavigation bit was meant to be a thought experiment that highlights that the universe (whether it's finite or not) can't have a center so we don't have to waste all that time you're referring to searching for the center.

for example, in Japanese the syllable ふ is somewhere between fu and hu. The 'f's in futon or coffee for example don't really sound much like how English speakers pronounce them (palatal instead of glottal).