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Clearly, Charlton Heston is the 12th Doctor. (To have returned to earth in the future, I mean.) Wonder who his companion was, though? Hmmm... If you have any interest in feeling what it must be like to *be* Mr. Friedman, you may create your own at the above link. Oh, GOODY!! I'm tempted to save it for my birthday, but... nahhh... 
Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
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I don't know if it's gone, but it has changed. We just filled a junior engineering position in my company. What I saw was tremendous wage compression. The best grads out of college were touching six figures, and many highly qualified candidates with 10 years of experience were making about the same amount. That's one of the reasons I bailed on engineering and went into law, so there were indicators of it there in the mid-1990's. I was also concerned about the "industrial scrapheap". Naturally, I missed the "lawyer scrapheap", which appears to be worse. In any event, I console myself that I am, at least, not inhaling industrial fumes.
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Clearly, Charlton Heston is the 12th Doctor. (To have returned to earth in the future, I mean.)
Wonder who his companion was, though? Hmmm... That reminds me about the Twelve Monkeys. I really enjoyed that movie. I should watch it again. Granted, I also enjoyed the Planet of the Apes. I would watch it again, but I've already seen it enough. I couldn't be bothered to watch the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 87%. Maybe it's a good movie, after all. I was quite unimpressed with Beneath the Planet of the Apes. I just found Westworld the other day. How I never saw that movie before is beyond me. Seriously, it was a 1970's movie that I never even heard of before.
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It's very confusing if you don't understand that the entire story actually takes place on Earth and not "The Planet of the Apes."
I think they should have renamed the movie "Future Earth".
That would have made it much less confusing to the average moviegoer.
It's also a much more honest title. JonLaw, were you confused by the mean movie?  It's okay.  We still love and respect you. <3 <3 <3
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Awwwww..... so warm and fuzzy... Iron Empires and Iron Fists in Iceland was so heartwarming. I laughed, I cried... I... er... smirked? Well, no matter. I feel cleansed. 
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It's pretty much the BigLaw system for elite school undergrads.
It's an insane inhuman system for the simple reason that it's an insane inhuman system. I don't think it's "insane". If you want to make a lot of money in your early 20s, you usually need to make some sacrifices, and employers know it. If "make a lot of money" is so highly ranked among your priorities that you're willing to accept the kinds of trades they're asking for (and which you've presumably already made in the achievement arms race required to get the job in the first place), then insanity has already been achieved. It's all about inter-temporal consumption smoothing and the attendant subjective discount rates people attach to consumption now vs. later, be it for leisure, products, or what have you. I wouldn't say one set is "better" or "worse", just that they're different and filtered through different subjective lenses. Just as people vary in risk appetite, so too they vary in intertemporal "patience". Personally, while I wouldn't want to pull the kind of hours now that I did in the past, I'm grateful I had the opportunity to do so early on. In a few years I gained the experience that people in in-house corporate roles would have had to slog through decades of work to see. Those time economies were definitely worthwhile, and I think they often get overlooked in the work-life balance calculus.
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Graduate school cured me of that urge to work more hours.
(Just noting.)
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I'm also left wondering (and I'm not the only one) where the heck these magical new "product innovations" are going to come from, exactly, since scientists and engineers are not being stabled in any way that fosters innovation to begin with. I couldn't agree more. I could go on at length, but I don't want to give you cataracts. *Mumbles something about automatic revenue elevators and a fixed 24 hour working capacity. Bashes head against wall.*
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I couldn't agree more. I could go on at length, but I don't want to give you cataracts.
*Mumbles something about automatic revenue elevators and a fixed 24 hour working capacity. Bashes head against wall.* Some of them will come from outsiders: people who opted out and work a low-impact or part-time job that meets their financial needs while they work away on what will turn out to be something that will disrupt their fields. I read recently that there's an initiative to encourage theoretical physics in Africa ( here's one institute). If I remember correctly, the idea is to encourage physicists who haven't been immersed in current trends, with the hope being that they might have fresh insights that others have missed.
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I couldn't agree more. I could go on at length, but I don't want to give you cataracts.
*Mumbles something about automatic revenue elevators and a fixed 24 hour working capacity. Bashes head against wall.* Some of them will come from outsiders: people who opted out and work a low-impact or part-time job that meets their financial needs while they work away on what will turn out to be something that will disrupt their fields. I read recently that there's an initiative to encourage theoretical physics in Africa ( here's one institute). If I remember correctly, the idea is to encourage physicists who haven't been immersed in current trends, with the hope being that they might have fresh insights that others have missed. Thanks for the link, Val. I'll read that with interest.
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