DaveWalk

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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Depends on your field, but my local library has the latest Cell, Science and Nature magazines for perusal, and anything older than 1 year is usually released gratis. If you need more than this to stay up to the state-of-the-art, chances are
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Indeed, and as further commentary to the previous two posters -- Nature doesn't charge publishing fees, because its popularity allows for high funding revenues. This is not true for the vast majority of journals in the biomedical sci
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You're definitely on to something; the parallels between science and open software are tantalizingly close. From my experience a main problem is real estate; you can't do most science experiments without a proper lab. We could pro
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Excellent points: thanks for the cool splash of water on the article's subjectivity. Trader Joe's marketing is what causes the author to say saying something like "the lines and packed lots themselves can be reassuring, that
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Thanks for sharing your lawyer analogy -- I think it's instructive. There are many freelance-style industries out there, and several must have gone through similar boom/bust periods. It would be instructive to learn from them. You
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> [Sakaguchi] wanted everyone to feel fulfilled by their work. He asked the team to gather, off site, to discuss the survey’s results. He began by asking everyone to share something personal about themselves. He went first..."I have
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Why the FBI Chose to Try the Apple Encryption Case in the Media(fastcompany.com)
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Uber’s march across America’s regulatory landscape(qz.com)
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Robots Could Make the Supreme Court More Transparent(theatlantic.com)
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Lyft (or someone collecting affiliate money?) using spam Facebook accounts to post coupon codes on several event pages. The author suggests that these shady marketing tactics are limited by Lyft's resources and market share. Ironic tha
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Amen on David Brooks -- I feel like I am losing my mind when he pops up with his morality expertise in the media. I regularly re-read this 2004 line-by-line analysis of his 2000 book Bobos in Paradise [0]; his writing is littered with inco
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I was going to suggest the same -- I don't think Notch would be doing 24 TV interviews in 3 days, including at Fox, about his company's payroll. I think it wouldn't stick, because he is foreign and the US news-watching public
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My brain hurts just reading through this letter. I'm trying to picture my parents -- or anyone's parents! -- writing: "Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future... Our hop
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Another discussion about the piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10652145
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This is a corporate blog post. The title reads like a news headline, but the writing has a tint of marketing in it. Worst is the last section, which is simply an ad for its service. Is there any better source for this?
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I am most amazed that the technocrats who were sent copies of this book anonymously all decry that it's probably some kind of marketing. Alexis Madrigal: “It’s so weird in this day and age to just do an art project.” Seriously!? People
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I also felt that the real atrocity is the system, despite this one individual's choices. This article reminded me of an interview in the "The Giant Pool of Money" broadcast about the mortgage lending crisis. This person took
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
If I understand OP's point correctly, it's that there is no bankruptcy protection whatsoever, even with a qualified co-signer. And maybe there should be. Further, if one does not qualify for government loans, banks are the only pl
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Well said. Is there any research done at the non-low-skill sectors? I wonder if the same algorithmic approach would be successful?
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Excellent points. I really like your reinterpretation as "a zero price tag is...subsidized with something else...The cost is lock-in." It is definitely more accurate with respect to Google Inc. Though to my ears it sounds like a m
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
You have a really interesting argument against the oft-repeated "If you don't pay, you are the product." I think you are right, that there is great power in anonymized data, but ultimately motives matter. From what I saw as a
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I'm right there with you. I find the psychological race-to-the-bottom fascinating: a book at $4 is not nearly worth it when it could cost $2.50.
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Your points are well-argued. They remind me of an article in Harper's, "The Neoliberal Arts"[0] which had a similar effect on me. Allowing for just the possibility of non-financial rewards of an education shows how shallow ou
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
The penny booksellers always fascinated me. The reporting in this piece has some interesting data: Thriftbooks sells 12 million books a year, for something like $2 per book (on the $0.01 cost + $3.99 shipping). I imagine Amazon could have s
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I'm not an Apple Pay user -- is their privacy policy any good? Does it not collect metadata? The article highlights CurrentC's brazen lack of privacy. From their policy: > We share your information across our network of merchan
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> a "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" issue To me, this phrase is the essence of much of Google's features. To my discredit, I chuckled when I read the blog's phrase "we've used...deep neu
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
And Outlook, for many years.
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For what it's worth, this has been going on for at least 10 years in my experience. It's existence isn't so much news to me -- but it's news that it's still around. In the life sciences, the NIH has personally dealt
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An interesting thought! It would take some resources to host the thousands of journals out there, but fundamentally the problem is similar to hosting movies, TV shows or music.
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Early career academics are a slave to the system for career advancement; late career (successful) academics are too complacent to want to change. The only way the parent's idea will take root is if established academicians vote with th

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