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by matt4077 8y ago
Climate researchers mostly have tenure. They cannot be fired for going against majority opinion. And in most countries except the US, they do not rely on outside funding to any significant degree. So participating in a giant fraud would act
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You can somewhat improve privacy even when using Google Analytics, although I am not sure if this allows using it without users' opt-in. Somewhere in the settings, you have the option to anonymise users, which is achieved by deleting&#
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Fines for GDPR transgressions are administered by the 28 national government's data privacy regulators. The money also goes into the countries' coffers, not the European Union. See for example https://www.gdpreu.org&#x2
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It's not so much "authority" but "trust" that has gone down. There used to be institutions that were regarded as the gold standard for truth: the FDA, top science journals, the CDC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a
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by matt4077 8y ago
Here's the Kaggle competition for this year, with many more potential starting points and ressources: https://www.kaggle.com/c/womens-machine-learning-competition...
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Energy use is another factor. The EU just nixed rules which could have allowed new generations of supersonic air travel due mostly to this concern. This seems to be inherent to the physics: air resistance rises with the cube of speed. You c
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Can Animals Commit Rape or Murder?(theatlantic.com)
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How MSG Got a Bad Rap (2016)(fivethirtyeight.com)
124 points by matt4077 8y ago|173 comments
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients(nytimes.com)
137 points by matt4077 8y ago|44 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
Those three are not the “left-wing equivalent” of Fox. See, for example, the media bias chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com Left equivalents of Fox are Daily Kos et al.
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Funny dog videos are “comfort food”. Fox News is hate porn.
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Here's some Google technology: https://goo.gl/images/jUnTNJ Traffic Accidents are the leading cause of death from injury among young people. (Click on the other charts to find the one showing injury being #1 among
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I imagine fewer people would own cars if the money spent on roads had been invested in train tracks and subway tunnels.
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> How can the government not approve their own permits on time? I'd consider a positive to see that the government does not get to take shortcuts, but has to abide by the same rules as everyone else.
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They have some data available at https://data.occrp.org . As far as I can tell, the data for this investigation is not (yet?) accessible. https://www.occrp.org/en/troikalaundromat/about-the-data has s
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by matt4077 8y ago
This is a rather confusing list of grievances. I have no idea why it's being upvoted, except maybe that any broadside against journalism currently finds its audience? As far as I can tell, the author mostly wants journalists to focus m
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> All of it, unless forced to disclose by political factors. Here's a list of DoD press releases: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Releases/ It lists around 500 just in the last year. I don't quite see ho
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by matt4077 8y ago
That does sound like him. Posner is probably best known for (a) suggesting an open market for babies, and (b) being one of the smartest humans of our era. He's a Chicago School market-mechanisms fetishist, but a reasonable one believin
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by matt4077 8y ago
You're describing something, but it isn't "wealth". Or, if it is, it's useless. And if wealth is zero-sum, how can we "all end up a good deal 'poorer' than we were before."? NB: that whole senten
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Today, I can find a supplier for any widget I can think of on Alibaba. This wasn't possible in the 80s and 90s. I personally know someone who got rich buying toys in china and selling them in Europe. His business failed around 10 years
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by matt4077 8y ago
When you're "facing" a storm, it is one visible on the horizon. The term implies forward-looking (and therefore uncertain) predictions. Subheads also work rather bad as click-bait, considering you only get to read them afte
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by matt4077 8y ago
I'm flagging this for spreading misinformation. WHO: "[..] measles, which we know to be about 98% effective" "Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients" https://www.who.in
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by matt4077 8y ago
Holocaust denial isn't victimless. In fact, I would argue it's far more dangerous than these vaccine hoaxes. "It happened, and therefore it can happen again" is the motto here. It is the singularity of barbarism that has
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The "marketplace" analogy is comically flawed. The actual marketplace works only when it's tightly regulated, from anti-trust to consumer protection to standards and on. When disputes arise, the totality of civil law and the
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All the information on vaccines is out there, from trial data to journal articles to wikipedia articles to graphic novels on the history to your doctor being willing and able to explain them. The existence (and growth) of these "scepti
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The title is comically grandiose as far as I can tell. Which isn't easy b/c the text is rather verbose, and far too inside-basebally. I was expecting some license changes or similar to be hidden between the lines. But it appears R
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Almost by definition, people prefer to live in dense areas. In terms of prescriptive advice, high-density housing reduces urban sprawl. If you can convince a third of suburbia to change to denser housing, commute times for everyone would
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Well, as you say, it's an opinion piece. It's raison d'être is to allow people to make informed decisions. To that purpose, it is helpful for a society to have reasoned analyses that go beyond the low-value collection of ste
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> This is clearly a redesign done by someone who doesn't use GitHub They have >500 commits on Github in the last year: https://github.com/tonsky
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Seriously: when was the last time you were infected with malware from ads? This is a talking point from a different millennium. Almost the same for redirects, at least for reputable publishers that will be most harmed by this. This attitude

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