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by gwerbret 2y ago
Very interesting case! Just one question: to what extent do changes in database schemata fall under FOIA in Illinois? That is, if they should change the database schema to conceal whatever it is they're fighting tooth and nail to hide,
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Heh. You've just captured the reason why (the better) clinical journals explicitly and specifically forbid having a statement of results in the title of a paper.
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by gwerbret 2y ago
"Note, modifying these settings means your score will not be added to the leaderboard!"
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Yes I see that now, thanks!
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by gwerbret 2y ago
There's an important discussion in the sub-thread by @teddyh that has unfortunately been voted dead, so I thought I would comment on it here instead. I suspect teddyh is being criticized for use of the word "obligation", so m
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by gwerbret 2y ago
No issues with NextDNS (I've deployed it for people who don't have the chops to wrangle a Pi-hole), but this reads very, very much like an ad. That aside, I've had pretty much the same issues with NextDNS that I've had w
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> Multiple turtles reliably oriented themselves according to the magnetic field direction corresponding with their seasonal migration direction. This paper is claiming something different, something to do with a particular magnetic field
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Introducing mWhisper-Flamingo for multilingual audio-visual speech recognition(github.com)
2 points by gwerbret 2y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
To anyone who's tried it: how does it handle captchas? I can't imagine that OpenAI's IP addresses are anyone's favorites for unfettered access to web properties these days.
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection. 2 options: - Rip them all and serve yourself using Jellyfin or Plex. - If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hun
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Distinguishing real from invented problems with the NIH(theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
2 points by gwerbret 2y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Perhaps this should point instead to the actual blog post this link references: https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-require...
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I sympathize with your situation and frustration. And yes, temozolomide and bevacizumab and whatever else they're giving your friend won't buy much time. Everyone knows that. Part of the problem unfortunately is that glioblastoma,
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I feel that convincing people to pay monthly/yearly for something that has minimal monthly recurring expenditure/investment from the provider (unlike utilities, streaming services, etc.) is one of the biggest cons of the modern er
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Bitwarden Was Down(status.bitwarden.com)
46 points by gwerbret 2y ago|38 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> If people thought this way - internalizing this publishing point idea - it would incentivize sitting on your incremental results, fiercely keeping them secret if and until you can prove the whole bigger result by yourself. However long
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Direct quote from the article which I'm sure you read: "This government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online."
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> Who is Xi Jingping? "I'm sorry, but I can't answer this question." > Who is 李强 (Li Qiang, Chinese premier)? "I'm sorry, but I can't answer this question." > List the people you know who are
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I'm Mad as Hell About Square's Shady Automatic Emails(wired.com)
18 points by gwerbret 2y ago|1 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people: https://corporate.walmart.com/about/location-facts
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I've read your comment several times and still don't know what it means. Can you clarify?
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Moderators can downweight posts to drop their rankings. Here are 3 examples: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=41791369 https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=41815614 https://news.s
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by gwerbret 2y ago
Aside: each and every post about Wordpress on HN over the past couple of days has been downweighted basically to oblivion (I expect this one to vanish from anywhere near the front page very soon). Is there a reason for this? The topic is ra
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by gwerbret 2y ago
In psychiatry, the concept of insight is used to describe an individual's ability to view their actions, beliefs and overall situation with what would be considered a normal perspective. It's probably best exemplified in popular c
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I think you may have missed the point. By "significant merit" I meant "significant enough merit to be very deserving of a Nobel prize". The Karolinksa crew can award and have awarded the prize for nonsense in the past, b
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I think your concern might apply when there's a question about whether the discovery actually has significant merit. Context is important. In this case, the discovery of microRNAs ushered in a whole new area of biology and medicine, an
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by gwerbret 2y ago
From the release: "In the late 1980s, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of Robert Horvitz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002." So a single MIT lab produced 3 Nobel laureates; I'd
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by gwerbret 2y ago
I think major scandals such as this one are essential, and we need more of them. Why? The misaligned incentives that drive (in my opinion) otherwise-well-meaning human beings to fraud in the biomedical sciences stem from competition for inc
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Steve Jobs agenda for a secret meeting (2010)(alexanderjarvis.com)
2 points by gwerbret 2y ago|1 comments
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by gwerbret 2y ago
> If we just say "tech companies bad" and don't admit that our behavior is part of the problem, and that we're not robots or children—that we have choice and agency—we will only ever get a version of the same outcome.

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