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by btrettel 7y ago
The requester being snarky is obviously not a valid legal reason for Facebook to not follow the law. But the people who fulfill these requests are human, so you should expect that acting like a jerk probably won't help. Further, Ruben
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by btrettel 7y ago
Academics should make their databases easily archivable then. One thing I don't like about COS preprint sites is how much they rely on JavaScript. I'm not sure the Wayback Machine can archive them correctly. It might take a specia
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by btrettel 7y ago
The snark isn't helping him as far as I'm concerned. I've filed a couple dozen FOIA requests and I would never write anything like he did. I would consider FOIA requests to be similar because the agency you're requesting
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by btrettel 7y ago
The one preprint site that I use which is hosted by the COS seems to be doing okay, fortunately: https://blog.engrxiv.org/financials/
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by btrettel 7y ago
Nice website! Some unsolicited advice: Just looking at the switches page of your website, most images are around 100 kb despite being visually fairly simple. Naively saving one as an indexed PNG image resulted in no visual changes but reduc
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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, looks like WhoisGuard is Namecheap's version of private registration. Some registrars don't charge for that, by the way.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Fair point, you're correct. Private registration not being available is the main disadvantage then, which as I said is not a problem for a personal website.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'm switching my personal website from .org to .us. There are a few major disadvantages of .us: 1. only available to people in the US, 2. private registration is not allowed. While the latter is not a major problem for my personal webs
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've had $lastname.org since 2004 but plan to move to $lastname.us for similar reasons. I did register $lastname.org until 2029, though.
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by btrettel 7y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure what the reviewer is arguing, but your suggestion seems reasonable. Perhaps it's bad English. On a reread I get the impression that they were trying to say that I was being rude. Maybe I've misinter
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by btrettel 7y ago
Empirical. I work in fluid dynamics. While I think purely formal fields like math have their advantages (as you point out), I would not be surprised if that literature is less reliable than most people believe. I know from my own experience
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by btrettel 7y ago
> My personal impression is that the volume of academic publishing has increased so much that it's impossible for readers to really keep up, and making it more difficult for scientific consensus to form completely. I've noticed
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by btrettel 7y ago
Maybe, but my fellow researchers' evaluations of importance seem to differ significantly from my own, so I'm not sure this is a good thing. I think it mostly helps improve the presentation of the paper by clarifying unclear parts.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Here's one example showing why people might be reluctant to speak out about wasteful training: (Sorry, this is a bit long!) Early in my PhD, I was made vice-president (or something like that; I don't actually remember) of the univ
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've been thinking about publishing all the peer reviews for my own articles. This idea seems to be controversial [1], but I do think it's important to know what the reviewers said as it lets us know what was checked and can give
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by btrettel 7y ago
In my experience, Linus's law [1] is false in scientific research. There's a popular view that peer review is a strong filter that allows other researchers to have confidence that a claim is correct. My guess is that this might co
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by btrettel 7y ago
On this subject, what are some other good website about pages?
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Taking up the lane at the intersection is unrealistic in a lot of city scenarios, nobody I know advocates for getting in front of cars in the crosswalk or waiting in the middle of a long line of stopped cars at a red light. My understa
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by btrettel 7y ago
Okay, I think I was unclear. I was thinking 100 meters or longer. I made a slight edit to my comment. My point was that for starting and stopping to be a major contributor, getting up to speed had to be comparable in energy to drag. Turns o
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've been cycling for transportation for over 10 years. I don't know anyone who advocates for running reds who has rode a similar amount of time or longer. I have heard that argument before, but I think it underestimates the damag
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by btrettel 7y ago
I was thinking that too, but it turns out that the percentage increase in energy is independent of the speed in a fairly simple model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22257938
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by btrettel 7y ago
Fair point. That hasn't been my experience in pedestrian-heavy areas, though I figure this varies from location to location.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I made an estimate and while it was higher than I expected, the increase in power is not anywhere near what you mentioned. I'm using the value of Cd * A from here (0.6 m^3): https://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/aero
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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, I was angry, and I'm sorry about that. My reaction was emotional. But I think it's perfectly reasonable to be angry when someone almost causes you serious harm. I think how unseriously the scooter rider took the incident is m
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by btrettel 7y ago
I think drivers speeding is considerably more dangerous than cyclists running red lights. In my experience, the vast majority of the time cyclists run red lights, they check both directions before going and there are not conflicts. The exam
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by btrettel 7y ago
Interesting that they found cyclists are more likely to run red lights than scooter riders. Here's what a near collision between a cyclist and a scooter rider (who ran a red) looks like from the perspective of a cyclist (me): https:&#
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'm not arguing that people shouldn't make decision-irrelevant predictions. My main point is that if you want valuable forecasts, a good place to start are decision-relevant ones. Putting predictions in essays seems good but would
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by btrettel 7y ago
The basic idea of integrating predictions into essays is good. On this subject, I've been thinking recently about using metadata for predictions. This could make analysis easier, e.g., imaging running an analysis script that got predic
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by btrettel 7y ago
Reminds me of this site: http://fabiensanglard.net/
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by btrettel 7y ago
I think scientific translations are undervalued in academia and the general public. Whether or not a direct scientific discovery is made is irrelevant in my view, as this work enables other discoveries to be made. Still, making a good tra

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