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Comment Re:Do the Japanese need a lesson in biology? (Score 3, Informative) 85

If your name never changes then all of your achievements are indexed together. If your CV has to say, "I worked at XYZ between these dates, but under a different name" then that makes it a little bit harder to get a reference that's verifiably about you. You also potentially miss out on people seeing your CV on the pile and saying, "I worked with her before, she's worth calling in for interview". Little bits of friction can make a big difference.

Also, as an aside, talking about "modern audiences" reflects a cultural bias. There are cultures in which the wife always kept her surname. There's nothing inherently antiquated or modern in naming customs: it's "what I'm used to", "what my grandparents were used to", and "what that particular group of foreigners do".

Comment Re:Duh (Score 3, Informative) 181

Many professors didn't care for Einstein due to his inability to stay focused in school. He graduated in 1900 and spent the next several years working only part-time so that he could focus on writing his brilliant theories. Didn't even land a full-time job until 9 years after he graduated.

Sources? I can find unsourced claims that he was employed full-time at the patent office but finished his work in half the time and so was able to spend the other half doing physics. Certainly the "graduated" of your claim is his first degree; he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1905 and his habilitation in 1907. I see further unsourced claims that having obtained the habilitation he was only able to teach before 08:00 and after 18:00 because of his work at the patent office. 1909 seems to be not when he landed his first full-time job but when he landed his first academic job.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 4, Interesting) 375

Companies currently pay for health insurance for their employees. If you tax employers then most people won't notice the change. That's effectively how it works in Europe: technically part of the social security payment may be paid by the employer and part by the employee, but it's deducted at source. Since the point of the single payer system is that a monopoly has a strong bargaining position, the expectation is that it would be cheaper than the current system.

Comment Deanonymisation (Score 3, Interesting) 19

(reviewer identities remain confidential unless they choose disclosure)

I doubt that. It was already possible to play "guess the reviewer" by looking at their stylistic choices, suggested references, etc. and software has made it much easier. The interesting question is to what extent this will dissuade people from (a) submitting to; (b) reviewing for the journal.

Comment Re: Micro housing (Score 1) 138

Put a maximum cabin-stay duration of 60 days after which you have to change cabins. That's to prevent hoarding. Also maximum outdoor surveillance.

How Is it âoeregimentedâ

I had to check to be sure that both posts were written by the same person, because the second one doesn't seem to be written by someone who remembers reading the first one, much less writing it.

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