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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Crichton's and Grisham's books are both forgettable but quite enjoyable reads. In both cases, their formula is easily learned, and the 2nd and nth books you read just seem to scream out "formula." That's why I'
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You actually did the research I suggested! I'm so thrilled. I wouldn't use Amazon since they have so many warehouse workers, unless you can restrict it to IT. I was imagining some data scientist (call her "Diane") at Exx
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> To me this comment falls somewhere between "No true Scotsman" and whataboutism. Just because we're benefiting from history, doesn't mean we can't criticize it. To me, that's somewhat like: your parents wen
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Right. Take their annual report, divide the net income by the number of employees. Call that 'X'. Then do the same for some big tech companies. Call that 'Y'. The employee count is way less than for Exxon. Most likely,
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A dinosaur media company cheers on a dinosaur energy company's demise. > a culture that’s increasingly out of step with the world around it. Those interviewed describe an organization trapped in amber, whose insular and fear-based c
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> The implementation of the next version of the Internet will seek its fundamentals in the Blockchain and the cryptocurrency world. Bad opening line. Hard pass.
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This isn't a bad construction worker OR an ethical security researcher story. This is a straight-up exposé of "journalists" and nothing more. They print "experts say" and "studies show" stories when they d
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I'm all in favor of design for the sake of design. I've tried fly fishing a few times, and not surprisingly, found it quite difficult. There's a pond near me with no fish that's solely for fly fishers to practice. I can
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Good one. Can you work in a "T" after PINO?
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If you like to talk to people with a drug habit who just want your money, be my guest. It might be a rather focused conversation, though.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
In addition to janitors & wait staff: you can chat with the homeless people, too. You don't have to ask them about "their situation" or offer to help them. Weather, sports, the traffic... just treat them like a person wh
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
The argument that "more knowledge is better, always" is just not viable. Not when you look at all the people driving alone in their car, or walking alone on the street with a mask on. There are, as any doctor will tell you, large
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Orwell was a generation ahead of Foucault, but he lived through many of the same events. Unlike Foucault, he drew the correct conclusions about them. His work will still be read when Foucault is just a footnote.
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Since it's too late to edit that, I'll add this as a reply: If you ("you" being a scientist) are explicit that your "science" is in service of your political agenda, then you've accomplished this: Anyone
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> communicate to the public as a single body, not as individual scientists That's a laudable goal. You will never, never get any body of scientists, or any other class of people, to agree on their overall goals for society, so if sc
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
You can find someone to disagree on anything. There are people who think we never landed on the moon. There were undoubtedly those who thought Copernicus was full of it. They were wrong. And Foucault is only "prominent" for people
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> scientists desire to have a positive impact on society (beyond simply increasing knowledge) That's where you're off into Error Land. Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science. If you wanted to benefit societ
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OK, so they can't be credible unless they support some left wing causes. Can they be credible if don't support any right wing causes?
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That's just your opinion, not any law or regulation. Non-profits are free to adopt whatever slant on civil liberties or any other issue they care about, as long as they don't support political candidates or parties, or otherwise v
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Correct. "Our values" used to mean "civil liberties." That's what the "CL" in the name means. Now it apparently means "subscribes to currently trendy theories of social justice."
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"a straw man argument"? I deliberately parodied your words. If you think a non-profit should be non-partisan (a reasonable argument, by the way), then Media Matters should be as well. Correct? Or maybe a vast number of 501(c)(3) o
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Maybe you all could stop with that tired old "fire in a crowded theater" trope. This isn't that. This is scientific debate.
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Can you tell me any right-wing causes Media Matters for America ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America ) has supported? Because it certainly looks highly partisan to me. I’d hope that any organization
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I just did a Find and the words "vax" and "vaccine" do not appear on the page. Maybe you can explain how you concluded that from "a quick skim."
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OK, maybe I'm missing Succession too much. Can you name a few?
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I worked at the Daily Illini for part of a semester, and my job was to write headlines. The main concern then was "does it fit in the column head?" I guess now the length constraints are less, unless there's also a print edit
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> The life you want, the marriage you want, and the family you want are going to be fueled by the business you build. I hope no one believes this, but apparently one guy did. I suppose you can find people who started a business, made it
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You left out lead poisoning (unless that's included in "self inflicted accidental poisoning"). Yeah, everything that could go wrong did go wrong. We can't run a natural experiment where everything but that one thing
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That IS kinda the elephant in the room, isn't it? > “The battle to feed all of humanity [was] over,” he said in no uncertain terms. Soon hundreds of millions of people would die no matter what emergency measures were adopted. Thing
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Car dealers' economics go in cycles. Right now they're coining money, but by the time the media catches on, things will have changed again.

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