I'm happy to report that I've observed very little of what you describe.

In Canada the fight has gotten nasty, with governments in Alberta and Ontario putting forward legislation that could remove existing bike lanes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-bike-lan...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-b...

Maybe "hatred" is too strong of a word, but if I were a cyclist in Toronto or Edmonton I'd feel rather victimized.

When I go to research lectures, I sometimes hear that in response to audience questions, although not especially consistently. Some speakers do this more than others, I don't think anyone does it all the time.

I'm not even sure I could have answered you at the time. In my memory, it was mostly students promoting the honor code. But I have to imagine that the university was quietly doing things to keep this going.

Strictly speaking I'd agree with you -- but I would consider a higher baseline of morale to be itself quite special! Especially when it is shared amongst the entire community.

Is it propaganda? In some sense, yes, the only way to maintain such a culture is to repeatedly insist on its importance to prospective and current students. But if so, then it is self-fulfilling propaganda, and in my opinion the honor code made my experience richer.

It's not a place you'd drive across the country to see, but it's beautiful and highly worth a visit. There are some freaky trees -- with knobs of roots that stick out from the ground, like nothing else I've seen. The place is kinda creepy, as if you're about to be attacked by zombies, and I love that.

There is a two mile elevated boardwalk which takes you around some of the most scenic areas of the park, and further hiking trails which branch off of that. There is also a river that goes through the park, and it's quite atmospheric in a canoe.

When I started my Ph.D. program, there was a weekly seminar that I started going to. At first, I instinctively left each week immediately after the talk was over. But I noticed that a lot of people would hang around afterwards and chat. Even though I found it a bit awkward, I started following their lead -- a habit I'm very glad I developed!

This has several advantages: exercise is obviously good for you, and you can meet people while you're there. But more subtly, once you show up, someone is constantly telling you what to do. For me, this has meant much less of a drain on my mental energy and discipline than if I tried to work out on my own.

Good luck!

Academia, at least in math, has a tradition of being public. Conferences will advertise at least the list of speakers, and sometimes the full list of attendees. This is widely considered a good thing; people trying to decide whether to go to a conference will want to know who else will be there.

Moreover, the conference organizers have sent out multiple emails to the attendees warning that scammers were targeting them, and emphasizing that there were no third parties legitimately involved.

So I can't and don't fault them.

The request was made via a document signing service which is apparently legitimate. The email came from the signing service's domain.

I got in touch with their customer service, and they refused to claim any responsibility: "We do not take responsibility for the actions or communications of companies that choose to use our service. If the email you received originated from an external organization, any concerns about its content or legitimacy should be addressed directly with that organization, as the document's sender and owner."

Obviously I am not going to correspond with a scammer for any reason.

Is this legal?? Do I just need to accept that this is the world we live in?

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I understand that, if you have a current and active polo club running, then you either have to keep it going or run the risk of pissing people off.

But, if I can ask you to speculate, why might Harvard have revived its club in 2006?

Indeed, Tao himself has written criticism of the "cult of genius":

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...

Picture him as the star player on a basketball team. He may be the strongest player on the court, but he's still playing the same game as everyone around him.

If your 74 traps solve your problem and in a month you have no more mice, then congratulations.

But it sounds like rather than buying more and more mouse traps, you should find and fix the underlying cause.

Also, how much of this communication is actually necessary? If someone doesn't care about an issue enough to write their own email, then why are they sending an email about it in the first place?

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/j1vm8j/gold...

You said it yourself, these are overwhelmingly people who've never built or maintained anything complex in their lives. If you're going to listen to what people on the Internet say, why not seek out people who can earn your respect?

This is a very interesting question, and a great motivator for Galois theory, kind of like a Zen koan. (e.g. "What is the sound of one hand clapping?")

But the question is inherently imprecise. As soon as you make a precise question out of it, that question can be answered trivially.

I couldn't find any way to actually turn off notifications in MacOS. But you can set "quiet hours" to be from 2:00 AM until 1:59 AM.

There is a wonderful book, Japanese Pilgrimage by Oliver Statler. He goes into the history of the pilgrimage and of Kobo Daishi, the monk whose path the trail follows. He also discusses his own personal experience walking the trail.