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  • When I graduated college, I was interviewing with the charter school that my mom works at. They were looking for ANYBODY with a degree in physics. It didn't matter that I wasn't a licensed educator, it didn't matter that all I had was a Bachelor's degree. They were offering an annual salary of $42,000 per year.

    Two years later, I'm making over 4x that amount, annually, as a software engineer.

    I really would love to teach, because I love science and I love teaching. But I love financial stability and a good work/life balance wayyy more.

  • Libertarian Party Embraces Remorseless QAnon Shaman’s Run for Office
  • To be fair, allowing felons to run for office means that a leader's political enemies can't be charged with phony crimes in order to prevent them from running for office. It's a safeguard against authoritarianism.

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    "We have the technology, but we’re not going to save your kid because we can’t make any money on you’? Really?"
  • Yup.

    I work for "medium pharma". We spend between 1 and 5 dollars per experiment (depending on the cell type). We run close to 2 MILLION experiments every week. We are still years away from any of those experiments yielding a safe compound that can move on to human trials, assuming we don't run out of money first.

    Targeting drugs for rare diseases won't be profitable until we achieve proper high-throughput experimentation, analysis, and somehow streamline the FDA approval process. The government needs to fund academic research on these diseases, but no university lab can match the kind of experiment production that we're already doing in industry.

  • General chat - how's your running going?
  • I've gained about 30 lbs (14kg) over the last two years. I fell out of the habit when I got my first job out of college, but now that I'm not working remotely I have a better schedule, yet I still have trouble maintaining motivation long enough to make a habit of it.

    I love running, but I can't seem to make myself do it. With winter closing in again I worry that I won't be able to muster the strength to go run outside again until the spring.

    Any tips or inspiration anyone could share would be appreciated.

  • Egon Scent
  • That money IS going to NASA, and then NASA decided it was a worthwhile investment to work with SpaceX to transport astronauts to the space station, resupply the station, and be an important research partner in autonomous landing systems, full-flow staged combustion engines, and many many more.

    The rest of the money is coming from commercial launch customers, government and private customers alike.

    Also, fiber internet doesn't do you any good while you're in the air or on the sea.

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