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by derbOac 2y ago
What I want to know is what to do about this? I'm seriously asking. Protest, write letters, call legislators, donate to legal organizations? It feels like you can be doing all of this and it's not enough.
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I have a problem with any of this being secret one way or another. If someone is detained the public has a right to know about the case. Otherwise it's all abductions as far as I'm concerned.
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Interesting article, important issues, but it seems to conflate at least a couple of different things? Overall the theme is bad norms, but one issue is insufficient diversity in normative samples, and the other is the difference between &qu
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by derbOac 2y ago
I remember that study when it was published and was always surprised it didn't have more impact at large. It seemed critically important for a number of fields. Ironic, really.
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The the thing is, I agree, but I don't think that decision should be made unilaterally by a branch of government that has no constitutional authority to do so, under questionable circumstances, without expert input, in the middle of fu
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Kinda undermines the arguments about fentanyl from Canada (as if those were believable to begin with).
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I think it remains to be seen what happens with this, but so far I think there's been more noise than fundamental shifts. I don't mean this as a criticism — I sympathized with the essay and agree with a lot of the points it makes
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by derbOac 2y ago
Just to reinforce what others are saying, security isn't a binary yes or no thing, it's on a continuum that has tradeoffs with usability, and where you want to be on that continuum depends on risk. There are things you could do to
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by derbOac 2y ago
Also Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tovhrfml47r6u4idaitaxefk/po...
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There was a lot of chatter on Bluesky earlier about what devices and systems were and should have been used in this particular case, and whether or not some of the testimony given was truthful or accurate. https://www.cbsnews
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by derbOac 2y ago
Miele sells dumb dishwashers in the US. I recently bought a Bosch and regret it for some of the same reasons as this article. I probably should have got the Miele but CR ratings were slightly higher for Bosch, the repair rates in different
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think it's great to bring more measures of pain to bear on things but admit I'm disturbed by the rhetoric around things. It's a classic problem with measuring anything neuropsychological: pain is inherently subjective. So
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I think it matters for several reasons but I think the opportunity to ever really know with a high degree of certainty has long gone.
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This is a complicated topic, but it seems especially difficult because there are cases where something has been clearly falsified, and yet people persist in believing it, and and even worse, don't seem to adjust their approach to the s
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by derbOac 2y ago
Meh. I do research in this space and they've sucked it dry, even given everything you're saying. Progress is going to be elsewhere, like rare variants etc.
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This paper was discussed in another forum, and people raised that point. However, it was also pointed out that this paper isn't really about supply , it's about supply regulation and supply constraints : "... We also use
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by derbOac 2y ago
Well, now those incentives work in the opposite direction. There have been many reports of Trump being livid that his deportation quotas aren't being met. When the incentive is a quota rather than just adjudication, you end up with wha
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Foundations of Geopolitics(en.wikipedia.org)
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Is there a site that tracks the overall state of the Tor network?
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So everything not pediatric cancer research is of questionable value? Of value to who exactly? Trump and Musk? RFK Jr? mRNA vaccines seem pretty valuable to me, for example. They did to the Nobel committee.
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by derbOac 2y ago
> That's tens of billions of dollars you could be spending on your own infrastructure, education, welfare, and so forth. I don't see that money being reallocated domestically to infrastructure, education, or welfare. The opposi
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by derbOac 2y ago
Not trying to be hostile but as a source on metrics, that one is grossly misleading in several ways. There's lots of problems with scientific publication but gish gallop is not the way to have an honest conversation about them.
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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my...
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by derbOac 2y ago
Well, they did vehemently deny it was part of their plan. I wasn't someone who believed their denials, but yes, some people will be surprised by this. They probably won't believe it's happening even while it's happening.
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by derbOac 2y ago
This is not the way to come to know. Regardless, much of this was known already if you would just look. The idea that Elon is discovering anything other than for himself, to say the least of being in a position to decide what to do about wh
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by derbOac 2y ago
That's what representation in Congress is for, and why the Constitution specifies that Congress holds the power of the purse, not the president, and especially not an unelected billionaire with conflicts of interest.
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Just for perspective, the annual research budget of a university I looked at the numbers for recently (not Cornell, but R1) would go through that in less than two decades, even if it were completely dedicated to research and nothing else.
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To borrow a phrase, any sufficiently incompetent organization becomes indistinguishable from malice. Although I agree with others' sentiment that focusing on incompetence can be more persuasive to certain segments of society.
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I think you underestimate the role of misinformation. I don't think "all" saw it coming even though many or most did. I share your frustration with how someone could have voted for these criminals but I've also seen very
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by derbOac 2y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It's a viable explanation. Russian state media were allowed into the Zelensky meeting while other traditional news orgs were not. The use of tariffs and customs against trading partner

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