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by lvs 10y ago
> Today, we are far more productive because of the IT revolution. Actually, this claim is not supported by the numbers. Our labor productivity (edit: growth) is actually decreasing [1]. But obviously I agree we need to prioritize scien
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by lvs 10y ago
The BBC was one of the most egregious pioneers in soliciting meaningless viewer responses in the pre-social media era. They would go so far as to kill 30+ seconds of airtime to soliciting/demanding "participatory" viewer resp
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by lvs 10y ago
Twitter is a cheap way to get response quotes for an article without asking anyone any questions. It's gotten so ridiculous that some news "content" is just a series of embedded Tweets. Serious news organizations should band
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, you've just described economically unproductive enterprises, i.e. those who offer a service or product that nobody would consciously pay for at a market rate if faced with the prospect of doing so. Another way to describe these a
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by lvs 10y ago
You implied that other major mail providers might not be subject to this search order. We have no reason to believe they weren't.
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by lvs 10y ago
Why would you think Yahoo was the only recipient of the order?
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by lvs 10y ago
I find the situation she engendered as ridiculous as everyone else, but the public report, at least as far as I could tell, did not differentiate sending and receiving of information. Ascribing criminal culpability to her is therefore uncl
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by lvs 10y ago
Thank you for stalking. The paper you cite is preclinical work in mice, and the mechanistic association between starvation conditions and autophagy induction were already well understood before this paper. (That was, in fact, the Nobel-wi
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by lvs 10y ago
Many of these are what we call "false choices" of the sort that typically arise in hypothetical utilitarian dilemma used in rhetoric and debate. Humans are creative enough to see alternative options that obviate the dilemma, at l
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by lvs 10y ago
Please, everyone in the IT/CS world, ridiculous health "benefit" claims are in fact the origin of the term "snake oil." There is no accepted guidance from the biomedical community regarding fasting that draws a lin
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by lvs 10y ago
Hi Ed, any news on when we might be able to demo the service?
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by lvs 10y ago
Radiation hormesis is one of those junk science topics that persists in the literature despite many thorough efforts to debunk it.
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by lvs 10y ago
It's because OP linked the mobile site version. Here is the journal's formatted PDF: http://m.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full.pdf
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by lvs 10y ago
Yes, your thought process was very much the intended goal of this "leak." Mission accomplished.
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by lvs 10y ago
The volume of a rocket is predominantly composed of fuel. And even if a puncture doesn't cause an anomaly at sea level, it most certainly will upon some flight condition.
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by lvs 10y ago
Spot on.
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California/EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves(propublica.org)
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by lvs 10y ago
Chrome's history search seems broken for the past 20+ versions.
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by lvs 10y ago
Nice app, but reading the unfiltered drivel of tech executives in real time is truly more than I can handle.
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by lvs 10y ago
There's one where you put six relatively small guys on motorcycles inside a spherical metal cage. They drive around in circles but can't for the life of them get any mobile phone signal while inside.
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by lvs 10y ago
No, what you're encountering is the rift between new-media science bloggery and the real rate of scientific progress. In new-media science land, a university news office press release is akin to a solved problem. Antibotics? Done!
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by lvs 10y ago
The actual cost of the coordination is miniscule compared to the profits extracted in perpetuity from copyright. There would be more than enough money in the system to support those logistics if we stopped paying publishers in order to view
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by lvs 10y ago
Reviewers are unpaid. Editors and administrative costs exist, but these don't justify the total extraction of copyrights from the authors or the public.
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by lvs 10y ago
I think the primary countermeasure would be adding white noise to the system, e.g. a nearby robot arm flailing around a conductor or a piece of meat.
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by lvs 10y ago
Intellectual property generated in other fields does not benefit from this kind of liberal license loop-hole, unfortunately. We cannot open-source all applied science according to the current rules.
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NLRB rules graduate students are employees(washingtonpost.com)
213 points by lvs 10y ago|141 comments
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by lvs 10y ago
I assume you can cite no evidence that your battery charging regimen makes any difference whatsoever.
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by lvs 10y ago
I continue to be shocked that consumer beauty products containing polyfluorinated alkyl compounds are being sold without any significant attention or regulatory oversight [1]. [1] http://www.livingproof.com/buy/our-scie
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by lvs 10y ago
Elsewhere I've agreed with exactly this. The regulators will inevitably take action on this, and they should, but it's up to us to influence that outcome toward open devices. The device should either be pre-EOL with a process fo
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by lvs 10y ago
First, a nitpick that the FCC makes regulation not legislation, and it could do this under existing authority. Second, I think a fine solution would be to force open the buildable source including all drivers and firmwares upon EOL. If to

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