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by mjfl 6y ago
There are plenty of other options, the one I'll focus on is already is in widespread use: science seems to progress fine using only preprints. It is the norm in physics and becoming the norm for biology to read the preprint of a paper
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by mjfl 6y ago
> no bias. Is that a joke? Have you ever been in academia? Bias is everywhere. Bias towards certain hypotheses, political outlooks, methods, etc. The more senior someone is in a field, the more biased they tend to be! I've seen the
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by mjfl 6y ago
Implying that they cannot do a bad job is an assertion in infallibility.
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by mjfl 6y ago
peer review is not infallible. Stop worshipping it.
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by mjfl 6y ago
> AFAIK there aren't many (or any) renegade theoretical physicists/mathematicians working on teams at the LHC or ITER or similar sized projects, as an extreme example. the research productivity at LHC and ITER is extremely low.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Life science research is also conducted in a weird way, where usually the PI mostly does administrative work while grad students / post docs do the actual experiments. It’s weird that they become experts in their field and then put the
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by mjfl 6y ago
How about this: military has lots of republicans in it, and they wanted to go on republican Twitter - the one Dan Bongino Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are telling them to go on, and so they did.
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by mjfl 6y ago
They say they controlled for BMI, but if the dependence on BMI is nonlinear (i.e. higher BMI reinforces it's own destructive effect on testosterone) then there will still be a residual effect after that control. I think this effect is
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by mjfl 6y ago
I would argue there hasn't been enough cooling. My mother has been having a vicious political argument with my aunts for the better part of a year. Created familial rifts that probably wouldn't have happened without social media.
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by mjfl 6y ago
I looked at the title and thought "You know it would be really cool to learn rust by making a Roguelike with it". Then I clicked the link and searched for Rust and there it was! Upvoted!
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by mjfl 6y ago
I've read comments saying, "if you don't like Apple's policies, build a new smartphone." Are these people aware that that the same type of argument lead to the creation of parler: "if you don't like twitte
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by mjfl 6y ago
you are all dancing around the point, which is that the middle class very much still exists.
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by mjfl 6y ago
> If there are no barriers to scale, eventually there are a small number of big winners. There is technically no contradiction between the existence of a middle class and the existence of a small number of big winners. > Perhaps the m
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by mjfl 6y ago
The culture has changed around here in the last 4 years to favor centralized regulation of communication, which is a dizzying reversal of what it was about every year before that.
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A simple direct RT-LAMP SARS-CoV-2 saliva diagnostic(medrxiv.org)
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it will change, soon.
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by mjfl 6y ago
What do you do that makes you feel like you are a useful contributor to society? And how much are you paid for that?
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by mjfl 6y ago
> Ideally, you'd want to have control over people's education and social structures to prevent deviation before any censorship is even needed. Is this satire?
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by mjfl 6y ago
then I would say your vision is incoherent since you obviously aren't for small pockets "absolute free speech" but aren't willing to commit yourself to controlling speech ubiquitously which would be necessary to prevent
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by mjfl 6y ago
"people are finding ways around it" was his main gripe with censorship.
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by mjfl 6y ago
So what you are recommending is that we prevent people from escaping censorship - is that right?
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by mjfl 6y ago
Imagine a world with 1 trillion people on it. A new Einstein is born every 10 years. Better access to information, the ability to augment their minds with computers makes them 10x smarter than Einstein was. Is it so hard to imagine that the
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by mjfl 6y ago
> Are we going to see more Syria/Yemen/Sudan-type conflicts or will we get back to a conventional war with tank battles and all? Every major power that can manufacture tanks also can make nukes. Thus there will probably be no p
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by mjfl 6y ago
what do people think about the voting irregularities in this election - the delays in Nevada - the early calls in Arizona - the delayed, large swing in pennsylvania - the glitches in Wisconsin and Michigan - the military vote coming in 4:1
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Isn't this exactly the plot of some Orwell story or something? The children are encouraged to report their parents' thoughtcrimes to the party. I'm actually serious.
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by mjfl 6y ago
I was hoping that this was going to teach me how to build an altar to Khorne.
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by mjfl 6y ago
You don’t think that fatality rate is low because police are trained in how to to decrease their risk in the dangerous situations they get into every day? How often do farmers go on house calls to calm down a belligerent drunk estranged hus
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by mjfl 6y ago
It certainly seems very corrupt to me for any founder of a company to withdraw any significant amount of the invested capital as cash.
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by mjfl 6y ago
Thought I would post some of the contents of the suppressed articles. They seem falsifiable through financial transaction records: > A tranche of emails from a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden — published exclusively by The Post last
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by mjfl 6y ago
If something is going to be suppressed as Russian propaganda, there better be evidence that it is Russian propaganda. Otherwise the suppression itself is propaganda in the other direction.

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