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by nxobject 2y ago
> Right now our industries are competing with slave labor and lax environmental controls. If we don’t want either of those things here, we can’t allow groups who do those things to sell into our market freely. It would be nice if tariffs
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by nxobject 2y ago
Given the military heritage of the Space Shuttle, I imagine this is what a hypothetical next generation civilian Space Shuttle might have looked like, too.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Linus is one of the few people who can forcefully argue the case for moderation, and I've recognized some of the lines I've used to shift really contentious meetings back into place. There's the "shot-and-chaser" te
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by nxobject 2y ago
There's also an 8-bit architecture designed for emulating 32-bit architectures: AVR! ( https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... ... and, yes, that's the joke, it's still an amazing h
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by nxobject 2y ago
I, on the other hand, would prefer the executive branch to have a modicum of process and transparency when trying to access private information, as opposed to learning of things a week after the fact from leaks.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Then Trump's meddling with the NSF is executive authority without oversight – he cannot undo Biden-era legislative acts, which affect the NSF regardless of what Biden ordered elsewhere. Trump does not have complete authority over what
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by nxobject 2y ago
> The previous administration used executive power to direct various government organizations to factor DEI into all government funding, Not the NSF. Provisions in NSF's organic statute to create programs that "expand STEM opp
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by nxobject 2y ago
No. This isn't about grant dollars actually being rescinded while the research is in process – you can't do that. It's about a senator attempting to lead his own "investigation" into grants awarded during the Biden
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by nxobject 2y ago
I do think it's the third, _but_ I do also think it's different than the kitchen-sink organism simulations that really were just watching a lot of shallowly-programmed behaviors interact with each other. I think of it more of a mo
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by nxobject 2y ago
No – but why would you trust their Twitter feed and their Twitter feed only? Elon Musk himself has talked openly about dismantling the CFPB and USAID on his private account; in that case, it's a matter of "agency will no longer do
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by nxobject 2y ago
Self-censorship about their opinions on cutting grants that mention forbidden keywords, even if the grant outcomes have nothing to do with said keywords?
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by nxobject 2y ago
> Your main complaint is your team didn’t win and the other side gets to do things you don’t like. Where did you get this from in their comment?
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by nxobject 2y ago
They don't like the NIH, the CDC, or the Human Services part of HHS, that's for sure. Hell, they don't like the NIH so much that they're willing to overlook the fact that the basic biomedical research infrastructure in t
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by nxobject 2y ago
It's depressing that they didn't even bother to read the actual grant they were targeting.
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by nxobject 2y ago
The "database" released by Ted Cruz is particularly egregious about it – you can toss a dart at any row, read the reward description, and bet on whether the topic is actually "DEI". My favorite one is Award #2303483: &qu
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by nxobject 2y ago
Sadly unsurprising, given the witch-hunt nature of recent cuts – Emily Riehl's been a big source of mentorship and inspiration for women in mathematics, and she's been pretty vocal about it. The point is to make a show of stamping
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by nxobject 2y ago
That's a good read on the budget proposals the House Republicans are bringing to the table – the aggravating part, though, is that the loss of $4.5T of revenue won't help with the deficit or debt, since the current target for cuts
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by nxobject 2y ago
And, currently, firing everyone without just-cause protections (probationary workers, as well the contractor workforce - nearly equal in size to federal employees.)
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by nxobject 2y ago
Ironically enough, the WHOIS record points to CISA – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Very confidence-building.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I do think that there’s a debate to be had on how reactive or proactive we should be in ensuring the ethical practice of… well, anything involving significant investment. As a wage case, reactive systems like malpractice suits or board acti
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by nxobject 2y ago
It is, and I do think it’s as subtle as the conversation on any other checks-and-balances mechanism in government these days: we can weaponise both painstakingly following the rules, or weaponizing the fact that rule enforcement is a human
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by nxobject 2y ago
And, conversely, when people _do_ weaponize institutional review requirements to police research, you have a much more pressing and bigger problem: the existence of people who would be happy to find any mechanism to police research.
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by nxobject 2y ago
In the context of universities, the equivalent of riding a bike or a skateboard here is having people fill out surveys after events, or piloting new services offered by a student health clinic. (I guess the point of analogies like these are
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by nxobject 2y ago
Another equally good comparison is, say, the existence of flight plans for private pilots, flight logs, etc. There are escape hatches, too: I doubt many rural Alaskan pilots worry (or need to worry) about these things.
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by nxobject 2y ago
> I'd argue that the paperwork of regulation has stifled the common man who want to follow the laws. I’d argue that it’s not the regulations themselves, but people who want to avoid liability, whether ethical or social. (The existen
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by nxobject 2y ago
Conversely, a social and “in practice” reason why government-funded institutions _do_ use IRBs is to allay fiscal hawks and criticism about state funding being misused.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised that, if Facebook was suddenly subject to extra scrutiny, they would just hire an independent IRB in the way that corporate clinical research does, e.g.: https://www.sterlingirb.com/ https:/&#x
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by nxobject 2y ago
Perhaps the issue there is in electing a government that wishes to crush critics by creatively interpreting the law, and not the existence of IRBs.
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by nxobject 2y ago
> Why would you worry someone is doing to die testing their typing speed, or filling out an online survey? No. Because you don’t have to. This seems like a glib answer, but I assure you that, as a university employee in a research unit,
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by nxobject 2y ago
Congratulations: you are seeing the effect of decades of philosophical wrangling about the ethics of research.

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