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by gohrt 11y ago
The cigarrette companies hire statisticians to publish bogus research about the health effects of smoking.
782.
by gohrt 11y ago
1) Intentionally hiding the source of funding; aka taking a bribe. 2) Intentionally publishing in a sham journal to avoid peer review. These are both tolerable behavior in the free market, but ought to be firable offenses for university pro
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by gohrt 11y ago
One of them, Frank Clemente, is emeritus. He retired in 2010, and gets whatever pension or such PSU offers. I wonder what their disciplinary options are. This is clearly a case of an end-of-career cash-out of social/political capital.
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by gohrt 11y ago
By painting all of television with one brush, you underestimate the importance of a friendly face on a caring adult. https://www.google.com/?#q=mr+rogers+latchkey+kids
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's true, nothing is better than what we enjoyed when we were kids.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's incredibly tacky publish a comic piece that draws these analogies between a weakly-plotted space opera and an actual current war where thousands of people are dying, and passes it off as meaningful analysis.
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by gohrt 11y ago
NYT and/or Wired and/or HuffPo writes an article about every retro Internet fad. This is how the Internet works. Since its globally connected, fads get much larger much faster than fads of the pre-Internet age.
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by gohrt 11y ago
People who know relatively many people of race A have more trouble distinguishing individuals of race B, than individuals of race A. When all members of a race look alike, there's less intrafamily similarity to notice.
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by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/us/egg-donors-challenge-pa... https://www.google.com/?#q=sperm+donation
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by gohrt 11y ago
Did Sensenbrenner really believe that the PATRIOT act was a good idea at the time? I can't understand how that's possible. It was known from the start to be a horrid power grab. The only explanation I can comprehend is that he kno
791.
by gohrt 11y ago
I think it's fair for people to insist on a measure of honesty and accuracy in communication, and to reserve gratitude until meaningful acts are performed, not just general statements of future plans.
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by gohrt 11y ago
caching images prevents knowing the open rate; it doesn't prevent knowing the response rate on click actions. If people are reading your emails but not clicking, how is that valuable?
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by gohrt 11y ago
It wasn't resolved. Pilot Waves have nonlocality, which contradicts Relativity. (I don't know, it may be correct that quantum mechanics is non-local, but Relativity-minded folk are rightfully suspicious of such a model.)
794.
by gohrt 11y ago
Until next week when GFWoKazhakhstan blocks all traffic using the Netflix protocol. Unless the traffic is steganographically hidden, uncontrollable traffic will be simply killed.
795.
by gohrt 11y ago
Why is the boundary of a firm relevant? If Amazon buys a shoe store, does that make them more legitimate in their use of your shoe shoppng data than before? This seems like an arbitary choice that is biased in favor of big companies.
796.
by gohrt 11y ago
Adults can decide for themselves whether they want to use Google. Schoolchildren can't.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Since the game doesn't show you the effect of "wrong" answers, you're left haphazardly guessing answers until one is correct, instead of incrementally learning by exploring. Game designers, take note: design open-world g
798.
by gohrt 11y ago
The flex command suite seems rather arbitary chosen and named. Doesn't seem to reflect a decade of experience learning from the pain of CSS.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Wikipedia claims that Moses destroyed the South Bronx, not created it, and routed his projects away from wealthy neighborhoods to destroy poor neighborhoods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses#Criticism
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by gohrt 11y ago
Did you test the claim in the comment?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Article is delightfully light on data or references that could shed light on any of the one-line posited explanations for the measurement.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Brontosaurus's scientific acceptance flips back and forth as much as margarine nutrition. Previous reversals: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%09Brontosaurus%20&sort=byPopu...
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by gohrt 11y ago
Computing with frequentist statistics just means making a bunch of simplifying assumptions, setting some things constant to make computation tractable. The author correctly hints at that in the middle of the article, but then glosses past i
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by gohrt 11y ago
Invisible scrollbar is a user-hostile form-over-function feature.
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by gohrt 11y ago
A university that describes itself in the language of a polictical "think tank", conducting research in support of pre-announced conclusions, is a bit fishy.
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by gohrt 11y ago
> In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition. Many of the major players in the field were there — regulators from the Federal Trade Commission,
807.
by gohrt 11y ago
I hope this experience opened your eyes to the anti-pattern of 'lump this article in with other "men's rights movement" stuff '
808.
by gohrt 11y ago
What about the freedom of Brendan Eich to associate with his employees and stakeholders who wanted a better web browser? Note that Eich was NOT opposed by his employees. He was opposed by outside activists. I don't see the current CEO
809.
by gohrt 11y ago
Yes, we know. Profit != Justice
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's more precise to say that the majority are apathetic than reasonable . Apathetic folks are just easier to deal with / ignore.

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