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by merraksh 10y ago
Then ask a German, or a Swede. The answer might be different.
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by merraksh 10y ago
I already said why I posted both. There have been lots of duos and trios of related and equally oriented articles on HN top30 before. Feel free to channel your frustration directly to the PR funnel you mention. Just please post some more E
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by merraksh 10y ago
Or everyone's equally as rich, or well served. The purpose of a public transportation service should be to serve the whole city, not to run just the profitable courses.
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by merraksh 10y ago
I submitted the NextCity article after reading the article, but then decided to submit the report as well. I do think they can be read without redundancy, as the NC article is a bit easier. I'll leave it up to the mods to drop either,
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How privatization increases inequality(inthepublicinterest.org)
127 points by merraksh 10y ago|198 comments
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Examples of How City Services Privatization Leads to Inequality Are Piling Up(nextcity.org)
103 points by merraksh 10y ago|56 comments
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by merraksh 10y ago
Related: My Prime Factorization Sweater, by Sondra Eklund. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905733
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by merraksh 10y ago
The news of another exploding Samsung product offered the Internet plenty of fodder. I don't find it useful to reproduce sarcastic tweets in the middle of a Washington Post article. I believe it does not add any information to what t
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by merraksh 10y ago
Not to mention that if they run it on a VM and the host crashes or becomes unusable, they lose business. It seems the C64 is robust enough for them, no need for extra layers.
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AP: Across US, police officers abuse confidential databases(bigstory.ap.org)
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by merraksh 10y ago
Agreed. It's been 20 years that I use low brightness (and not too high contrast), plus I code on dark background. Another thing I noticed helps is some other light source in the room, possibly a desktop lamp to light the wall behind th
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by merraksh 10y ago
yes.
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by merraksh 10y ago
In Italian, it's still "chiocciola" (pron. kiotcholah), i.e. snail.
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by merraksh 10y ago
Related: has videos with bacteria gradually developing resistance to increasing concentrations of antibiotic. http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12852924/evolution-bacteria-time...
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Yahoo to confirm a historic hack affecting 200M users(recode.net)
152 points by merraksh 10y ago|5 comments
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by merraksh 10y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12537649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627965
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by merraksh 10y ago
Part of the confusion for {c,m}time probably comes from [c]time: [c]hange [m]etadata [m]time: [m]odify] file [c]ontents
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by merraksh 10y ago
In academia, the two most important sources of feedback scientists receive about their performance are the written evaluations following the submission of papers for publication and proposals for research funding. Unfortunately, in both ca
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by merraksh 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443629
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by merraksh 10y ago
But then the independent third party has an incentive on results that are in favor of the payer, i.e., the company.
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by merraksh 10y ago
Sure, but only if those in charge of approving/denying grants (at the NSF, NIH, etc.) also have high ethical standards. And they happen to be researchers and research managers.
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by merraksh 10y ago
Facebook ploughed on – before performing an embarrassing 360 and claiming that it was imposing this policy out of concern for victims. A 360 would be embarrassing as it places you back to the same road. Perhaps it was an "embarrassin
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by merraksh 10y ago
While the post you're replying to is a little tongue-in-cheek, it made very valid points. What you are proposing is to forget all lessons we should have learned from the past: that meddling with sovereign states is very short-sighted (
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by merraksh 10y ago
It is just a coincidence, obviously, but the Italian for "scam" is "truffa". Truffle itself is "tartufo".
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by merraksh 10y ago
Totally agree, but what percentage of (1) is w.r.t. the total grant?
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by merraksh 10y ago
I know money is money, but that tax-payer money I was mentioning is the research funds themselves, not the money used to pay subscription.
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by merraksh 10y ago
You said previously that "Science publishing needs to be coordinated by the major funding agencies.", a bit stronger than "I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals". I'm not challenging
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by merraksh 10y ago
And currently, that taxpayer money is going to for-profit companies. What I propose is better. No, research money is going to researchers, publishers get (other) money for different reasons. The cost of maintaining journals would have to
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by merraksh 10y ago
Science publishing needs to be coordinated by the major funding agencies. Those who give the money are the rightful ones to say how the output gets disseminated. I could not disagree more. Even if funding agencies were unbiased, they shou
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by merraksh 10y ago
In my field, most cutting-edge papers show up in the monthly digest from www.optimization-online.org, a pre-print site for optimization papers.

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