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by m-watson 9y ago
Yes, thank you for saying this. I feel like, often, people use science as some ethereal being. It is a process that has to be used. If that process isn't happening it isn't science. That doesn't mean everything has to be
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by m-watson 9y ago
I agree it shouldn't be used blindly but that seems like the extreme. In fact the science side of things would say don't use anything blindly. Science isn't some infallible entity it is a process that is supposed to be self
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by m-watson 9y ago
It is nice to see this ruling, it makes scrapings legitimacy more concrete. There was the court's rejection back in 2017 for LinkedIn's case[1] that made an implicit statement but an actual ruling is helpful. [1] https:/&#x
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by m-watson 9y ago
I don't know if the exploitation will be fast enough to make a huge difference, at least for the time being. It being so difficult to get to it gives other leading countries, namely China, to re-think their exploitation and sale of th
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Understanding financial levers – modeling the unit economics of Bird(techcrunch.com)
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by m-watson 9y ago
I'm not sure the previous poster is 100% correct but honestly I have not looked into it in depth. I know the times I have gone through it the journals did provide typesetting and copy-editing for some aspects of the paper. However, to
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by m-watson 9y ago
Just open it in private/incognito browser, free and less tracking!
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by m-watson 9y ago
Very true on both counts. I do enjoy a good ridiculous arxiv every once and awhile. I think that is partially where community comes in handy.
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by m-watson 9y ago
Here is the pre-print version of the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05363 It is a kind of funny situation that springer has this published. Pre-prints are extremely useful in fields where they are widely used. Ph
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by m-watson 9y ago
I think it is reasonable to question academia and research but I think a problem, often, is people want science and research to give us answers. It does not, it provides evidence, and once that evidence gets supported enough times it is vi
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by m-watson 9y ago
This is ridiculous that it was even introduced but the article itself (and many ars comments) note: * Just because it was referred to a committee or even introduced doesn't mean it has any legitimate chance of being passed * Even if it
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by m-watson 9y ago
Just to add on top of that the OPM breach was and still is pretty serious. A lot of personal information for a lot of people was leaked and is easily in the hands of malicious state and individual actors. The sheer scale of the breach and
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by m-watson 9y ago
Those comments are a lot of fun to read through. It seems like, at least on HN, people were generally positive about Dropbox. A lot of comments about solving a problem (more so for windows users) and having a good demo.
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by m-watson 9y ago
I suppose we currently are not and don't? I think a big aspect of this is that everyone makes mistakes and with an increasingly interconnected, complicated, and honestly insecure digital world those mistakes are just going to be ampli
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by m-watson 9y ago
That is definitely an interesting perspective and I would agree there are a lot of people who just want the lower cost and clean bed for a night. However, is this move to add functionality really moving Airbnb out of the low cost market?
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by m-watson 9y ago
There are longer wavelength amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (LASER without the L for light) devices but there are technological limitations like cavity size (often larger) and lower power. An example used in astronomy is
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by m-watson 9y ago
Yea that title is just absurd. DHS wants to release an inert gas to see how it flows through the environment and how it is absorbed into things around the town.
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by m-watson 9y ago
Tedious comment, I know, but with the real title being "I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S." And it not being DC's I-66, this title is misleading. If the idea of DC being in the title is th
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by m-watson 9y ago
The Outer Space Treaty may say that but back in 2015 the United States said it will allow US corporations to keep and sell what they mine in space. So it will be interesting to see how it actually plays out. [0] https://www.congr
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by m-watson 9y ago
Not really addressing the heart of your question but WaPo is owned by Bezos and his holding company not Amazon. So they would not really have a great reason to siphon off Amazon's revenue stream.
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by m-watson 9y ago
Aw, you beat me to it. I had a meeting to run to and didn't respond. But adding to that there is a whole wiki (of course there is) about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob