fiprofessor

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   by fiprofessor 4y ago

   Amusing, but MDPI is a semi-predatory publisher: https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-pre... A common tactic is to have tons of "special issues" that pump out a lot of articles.
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   by fiprofessor 4y ago

   Even the two articles that the essay cites from the NYT and New York Post, once you get past the headlines, go on at length about how these things were risky and volatile, or even downright scams. Almost every article about cryptocurrency i
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   by fiprofessor 4y ago

   Except that what's being implied about the New York Times and New York Post articles in that quote is misleading. Yes, the headlines mention the flashy gains, but both of the referenced articles repeatedly mention the losses and scammy
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   by fiprofessor 4y ago

   > One reason is that only the transcripts of conversations from Farm Hall survive, not the original recordings. (Those recordings were never kept: Tape-recording technology was in its infancy in 1945, and the conversations were recorded