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by dbingham 4y ago
So if NewEgg has gone the way of garbage as well, where do people go for trustworthy parts these days? I haven't built my own machine in about a decade, but thinking about building a new one soon...
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The problem with this is that you will never know who is actually speaking. Deep fakes are already a thing, but as they get better and more accessible we will approach a world where anyone can make anyone say anything and make it hyper bel
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by dbingham 4y ago
Students and researchers reaching out to collect data is very different from marketers trying to sell you something. These folks aren't marketing, they are trying to learn something about the world and then share that with the rest
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by dbingham 4y ago
College isn't a consumer good. We need to stop thinking of it as such. It's a prerequisite for the vast majority of jobs. Which makes it a vital public good that should be run as a utility. We should be running a public universi
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by dbingham 4y ago
> Many high school science fair projects would fall into that category. > Would that be allowed? Or will there be some gating system? I think that's up for the community decide. There have been high school science projects that
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by dbingham 4y ago
I might put that in the middle category - the category that might warrant a quick review with just that criticism and maybe a post-publish response, but no voting. "Bad" here is used to mean dishonest, very poorly done methods, or
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by dbingham 4y ago
Someone cribbing our approach would be mission partially accomplished. The idea is to displace the journal system and advance open science and academic publishing. If it accomplishes that goal, mission accomplished. I'll be a little
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by dbingham 4y ago
Virtual journals is definitely on the table. The way I'm thinking it would work is that journals can effectively create a team of reviewers on the platform and when you submit a paper, you could request review from their team. Right no
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by dbingham 4y ago
So, please know that I am I reading all the critical comments very carefully and taking them seriously. I haven't responded to all of them, partly because I don't have good answers to all the criticisms and I need to sit with the
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by dbingham 4y ago
Well, the idea is to attach responses to downvotes. So you spend several days finding mistakes, you write it up at the review stage, they say "nope" and reject your review. You don't lose any reputation. When they publish,
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by dbingham 4y ago
Definitely interested! You can reach me at contact@peer-review.io.
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by dbingham 4y ago
This is helpful feedback, and requiring responses with votes was already something we were pondering. And I'm increasingly leaning in that direction. One thing that wasn't covered in the blog post was the intention for downvotes
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Yeah, that may be. But it seems worth trying given all the negative impacts of the status quo.
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by dbingham 4y ago
> Consider finding an academic niche in which to really make this product sing; a community that is receptive to the idea. If the PoC can be shown to work in one community, neighboring fields can then point at it and say, "see, this
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by dbingham 4y ago
How would you apply that observation to Wikipedia? That's the business model we're aiming to take - crowdsourced, crowdfunded, non-profit, and community governed. And the reason for that is precisely because of the mis-aligned in
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by dbingham 4y ago
Will do my best! That's part of the reasoning behind early ask for feedback and my eagerness for it :) Trying to get people involved as early in the process as possible to get more perspectives.
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by dbingham 4y ago
Hmm... well Peerage of Science was an overlay on top of the journals. It was basically a system the journals would pay for to mediate their own review. Maybe similar tech-wise, but very different goals. > Speaking for myself, I don&#x2
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by dbingham 4y ago
So here's the experience driving that observation: I'm adjacent to a number of anti-vax communities and during the pandemic (and before) there were PDFs of "1000 papers showing why vaccines are dangerous" being passed ar
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by dbingham 4y ago
Thanks for this feedback - it's very helpful! 1) Yep. This I know. The tech is the easy part, by far. Any suggestions on which fields might be most open to this approach, and where to approach them? 2) Good point. At the moment, th
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A Possible Fix for Scientific Publishing(blog.peer-review.io)
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by dbingham 4y ago
Hey HN, I've had this idea for an open scientific web platform for years. It seemed like such an obvious thing to try. I kept waiting for someone else to build it, but to my knowledge no one else has. I finally saved up enough to ta
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by dbingham 4y ago
> Well, yes and no. I wouldn't expect frontend engineers to know the ins and outs of everything backend, but to build on your metaphore a bit further: Setting up a basic Node backend with express serving static files shouldn't
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by dbingham 4y ago
Nope, moving to Kubernetes and happily staying there. For context, I ran a DevOps team for the last 4 years that managed two products on AWS - one on EKS and one on ECS. I was mostly managing by the time we had k8s in our stack, so I didn&#
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by dbingham 4y ago
For context, I ran a DevOps team for the last 4 years that managed two products on AWS - one on EKS and one on ECS. I also just finished building out more or less that exact infrastructure on DO. I can pretty confidently say, that's n
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by dbingham 4y ago
I'm not arguing that there aren't some people who don't enjoy Tom, only that it's not a clear and overwhelming majority. The comment arguing that Tom is extraneous has 5 votes, on an answer with over 400. Though, to be
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by dbingham 4y ago
The comments on this thread make it seem more likely that your circle of people who disliked Tom is the outlier rather than those of us who thoroughly enjoy him as a character. Also, I submit as evidence this scifi.stackexchange thread: ht
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by dbingham 4y ago
That's because the unpredictability lies in the details, not the broad strokes. The broad strokes we're pretty damned sure of, and many of them are already happening more or less as predicted - just not on the timelines predicted
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by dbingham 4y ago
Here's the thing I don't get. Did you not have some guarantee of completed work? When they quoted you the $7k, I could see building timeline flexibility into that quote, but I have a hard time imagining building so much flex int
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by dbingham 4y ago
This is the thing about climate change. There are no survival strategies - you can't plan for it. The biggest problem that will come with it is unpredicability. We know the broad strokes of how climate change will impact us, but exac
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by dbingham 4y ago
There are actually quite a few community land trusts [1,2] out there. They can be conversation focused, housing focused, or focused on other priorities. But they all have similar structures - non-profits that are focused on acquiring some

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