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by gmd63 3y ago
I just find it odd that people think folks who allegedly value observation enough to make it their full time job would be against observing themselves.
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by gmd63 3y ago
Working with a labmate is also constant surveillance. I think you're dressing it up to be something far more negative than it actually is. I think streaming or recording would decrease cynicism. The openness would allow scientists to a
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by gmd63 3y ago
> The thousands of research scientists behind those studies aren't idiots nor are they all paid off by Big Curcumin. I think more evidence is needed by the author to make that assertion.
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by gmd63 3y ago
Just as everyone in the Tour de France was doping during the Lance Armstrong era, the concentration of cheaters increases the higher up the "success" metrics you go. Because cheating without getting caught will always be the &quot
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by gmd63 3y ago
Agreed. The idea that financial engineering is somehow necessary to "promote liquidity" in facilitating the changing of ownership of a business is completely arbitrary, and not inherently good as far as I'm concerned. Sure, r
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by gmd63 3y ago
"Checked that things were proceeding as expected" meaning that there is some process going on that you could be recording? I don't think it's fair to paint recordings of exploratory work as meaningless. You obviously hav
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by gmd63 3y ago
That's why the incentives exist. Folks who can stomach it get tax breaks or bigger grants. Evidently, we're not able to stop fraud, so it makes sense to analyze how much we're spending fighting fraud, and spend that paying pe
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by gmd63 3y ago
I find it concerning that, proportional to the rigorous selectivity in academic admissions, the expulsion process for misconduct like this is lax or apparently in this case nonexistent. This guy was selected to be trained in biochemistry ab
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by gmd63 3y ago
The solution is unfortunately for everyone, more transparency in research. When you conduct an experiment, why on earth is the report composed months, sometimes years later, instead of being streamed live and recorded? Just the same as in b
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by gmd63 3y ago
People in lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have experienced more depressing life events, dampening their brain activity in general
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by gmd63 3y ago
Interesting, didn't realize it was weighted like that. Thought the points were objective measures.
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by gmd63 3y ago
Why is this post decaying in HN placement faster than older posts with fewer upvotes
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by gmd63 3y ago
A magazine subscription is entirely different. With online services the company can trivially monitor your usage (and likely already do to sell your data / make UX decisions)
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by gmd63 3y ago
I feel like with the level of surveillance we point at ad targeting, if we just steered it in the right direction it would provide at least some clue in sussing out who is power gaming versus people who are earnestly trying to do good for t
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by gmd63 3y ago
It's wild to me that folks seem to be unable to figure out how to fix rot at large companies when this is such a toxic set of trials for selecting people to put in power
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by gmd63 3y ago
Because accurately pricing sales around intended purchases makes the economy better And it's more efficient for a company managing subscriptions to automate accurate pricing the right way than it is for each and every customer to sift
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by gmd63 3y ago
I expect you to take personal responsibility for your belongings while you're at the office and someone wants to rob your house Don't expect the police to track the guy down
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by gmd63 3y ago
It's pretty **** easy to infer that a customer wants to save money when possible That businesses and advocates play dumb when it comes to this basic fact is no longer astonishing to me, sadly
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by gmd63 3y ago
You can check to see if thousands of customers actually used a subscription service last month in less than one second, and automate it Why not point this logic to companies and ask them to do this for their customers? Surely you can see th
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by gmd63 3y ago
Because with great power should come great responsibility, yet for some reason we allow giant companies who literally study your behaviors to exploit them to get away with charging you for services you didn't use, when it's trivia
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by gmd63 3y ago
It should be illegal to charge someone for a month of a service that they did not use. It's trivially easy to see that someone doesn't log in. Then you just pause their subscription after refunding that month. Next time they log i
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by gmd63 3y ago
If the web is being polluted by a nefarious search engine provider that is excluding the polluted pages from their algorithm, you wouldn't see the same pattern across search engines Not saying or even suggesting that's happening,
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by gmd63 3y ago
A company's value, as assessed by the market , declining is not always, or even often, bad. Healthy biology demands regular cellular death through apoptosis. The corporate landscape should not riddled with cancers of companies refusin
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by gmd63 3y ago
That's a want, not a need.
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by gmd63 3y ago
It's said in many contexts. I have no interest in a civilization in which the only skill we select for is ability to eat and deceive your fellow man. And I don't believe nature would have much interest in it either.
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by gmd63 3y ago
If you're cheating, you're trying to lose the bigger game.
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by gmd63 3y ago
> how can you spend your life working to get to the garden of Eden, and then not eat the fruit? Even just a taste. Because it's insect-brain level behavior to surrender in faith to some abstract achievement without understanding its
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by gmd63 3y ago
Think of Comcast but for puppies' health
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by gmd63 3y ago
You joke but it's not benign. The reason economic regulations exist is to ensure we maintain the economy as a crucible for rewarding the smartest and hardest workers in society. When private money can grow cancerously via pump and dump
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by gmd63 3y ago
It's a crypto exchange. It does have something to do with crypto. Just as banks eventually emerged from absolute anarchist cavemen trading stones, centralized applications emerge from the alleged true freedom of the crypto space simply

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