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I wonder if those PhDs are ready to suffer so much, why don't they work at SV companies where they can get free sushi + 6 figure salary and lots of interesting problems to solve.

Why these people are so hung up on getting PhD title.

Or any not become a YouTuber?

We can easily see that ElectroBoom on YouTube is more respected in the world than any other person holding PhD in Electrical Engineering.


It's not particularly hard to understand. Some people love to work on deep, challenging problems that can take years to solve. This kind of problem solving doesn't really exist in the tech industry. The vast majority of industry work is grunt work - the cutting edge would be implementing papers that poor graduate students publish. The rare places it does exist (e.g. Google/Microsoft research) generally require a PhD in the first place, and are very competitive roles.


Plus, in academia (at least in most countries of the EU, where you receive a salary during your PhD... I don't know how it works in other countries) you can focus on stimulating problems with little business value, and you can decide on your own your research topic, which is a kind of freedom I can't imagine in any industry.

I'm more than willing to trade a significant amount of my salary for that freedom.


The "title" is by far the least important part. I really only use it for junk mail and annoying airlines.

I went to grad school because I loved science and mystery stories as a little kid, and my mind was absolutely blown when I discovered that you could get paid (a little) to solve scientific mysteries. I like the idea of figuring out the world and making it a better place much more than I like nicer clothes or a fancy car.

I'm not a YouTuber because I use a multimillion dollar MRI machine, which my credit card wouldn't authorize, my landlord won't let me fill a room with monkeys, and I do my best work when I have colleagues to bounce ideas off of, not just comment boxes.

I do grumble about academia a lot, but it mostly comes from wanting to see it live up to its ideals and possibilities. The current structure is bad in so many ways. You, the taxpayer, are paying for many of these students' training. Wouldn't you rather that they thrive? Even if you don't care about them as people, wouldn't you rather see a return on your investment, in the form of discoveries that make your life longer, healthier, and happier, than have them burn out and quit?


Still dreaming? PhD work can be done by students from poor countries needing a visa


I was super depressed until I discovered Ketamine, so I took my credit card and started getting Ketamine sessions which costs roughly 600 dollar per session.

I was shocked to see how much it benefited me for chump change sum of 600 dollars.

SSRIs never worked for me to begin with. I did many other illegal drugs like Amphetamine, Weeds, Meta amphetamine they helped but only in short term.


How long does one "ketamin session" work? Is it normal for this to be so expensive?


I don't think EU will break them up.

See Volkswagen group.

EU already doesn't have economic boiler rooms like Google or FB, so they won't go around breaking their own companies for a while untill it all changes.


Silicone valley has been expanding since long time as more capital, human resources and companies come to SV.

So no, it's not correct to say SF is not part of silicone valley, it has started to become part of silicone valley now.


Considering you can't even spell the name of the region (after two attempts), I doubt you're in a position to correct someone whose knowledge of the region goes back to 1984.


I don't even care what other Googlers are doing but it's the best time to deliver performance when Google is in turnmoil, I'll be securing trust of stakeholders and promotion.

I'll work overtime and crank more code, while others try to debate their moral stance

Always think about how you can benefit from a particular scenario


This is Sanskrit name for Vulture

Ghid = Vulture

Ra = In Sanskrit RA is the acoustic root of fire. RA also connotes with light or spiritual light.


No. This is clear apophenia. Ghidra is a reference to the Japanese video game boss of the same name, which was supposed to be called Hydra, but due to mis-translation, came as Ghidra

In Sanskrit, a vulture is vocally spoken aloud like [Giddh], emphasis on the end.

> Ra is the acoustic root of fire

Any source for that?


Funny, I'd assumed it was a reference to the movie monster.


There is, read my last comment on this thread.


My friend does it, he operates a company (In NYC) which accepts the payments and he then wires the creators after holding back X% in reserve fee less the service fee

He's been doing it for a while (4 years) now averaging 500K per month in payments.

All his customers are people from third world or second world countries like Russia, India etc...where accepting international credit cards is bit difficult and probably has more fees.

He raises invoices in his own company name then the creators are written off as independent contractors.

So creators will need to do their own taxes.

He's using Braintree and Stripe and load balancing between these two.

He's one man show and knows nothing about law/accounting.

He also got one accountant who is helping him calculate and make financial reports

It can be done I guess


Please get me in touch with your friend, my contact info is in my profile.


Would you be open to sharing the name of your friend's company?


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