festidious

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   by festidious 9y ago

   The author should tread carefully... I think the crisis of irreproducibility and the publishing bubble extends to the heart of scientific disciplines as well. Like a lot of things in life, reality is probably more complex than the postmoder
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   by festidious 9y ago

   One might argue that a more practically consequential question is what happens when this same argument gets extended to achievement tests, or admission tests, such as the SAT, GRE, MCAT, or LSAT?
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   by festidious 9y ago

   The problem is US health care providers are immune to true competition: 1. They often enjoy state-sanctioned monopolies in the form of overly restrictive licensing laws. They're basically unions that enshrine certain false assumptions
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   by festidious 9y ago

   This talk makes perfect sense if you know a bit about Steele's recent research history. It was a main focus of Fortress ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language... ), for example, which was int