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721.
by panarky 3y ago
If you have evidence of scientific misconduct then show what you've got. If not, the culture-war bullshit is off-topic.
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by panarky 3y ago
And the alleged misconduct happened before he joined the university.
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by panarky 3y ago
The student-run newspaper broke the story and relentlessly pursued it. Stanford president’s research under investigation for scientific misconduct, University admits ‘mistakes’ https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/2
724.
by panarky 3y ago
What if requiring meat in the loop necessarily means more human suffering? Maybe you're not offended as long as there's someone to blame, but I'm offended at the unnecessary additional human suffering.
725.
by panarky 3y ago
Exploit began on May 15 . Microsoft drove out the attackers on June 16 . But only after a customer tipped off company researchers of the intrusion. Is anyone at Microsoft paying attention? Other than the legion of PR flacks furiously obfu
726.
by panarky 3y ago
I've been wondering if it's better to delete my account or just stop using it. Deleting my account doesn't destroy my data, everything still exists, it's just not visible to me anymore. But deletion allows someone else t
727.
by panarky 3y ago
> exceeds the world supply People say this as if it's evidence of some dark, fraudulent conspiracy. But it's simply because the exchange allows traders to sell short. If Alice owns 100 troy ounces of gold held in her name at
728.
by panarky 3y ago
Nearly every asset depends on the existing regime for its value. Public and private corporations are chartered by governments. Real estate is titled into existence by governments. Currency and bonds are issued by governments. When the regim
729.
by panarky 3y ago
Highly relevant to a startup ecosystem doing thriving business selling dollar bills for ninety cents.
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by panarky 3y ago
Freedom of association must include the freedom not to associate or it is meaningless.
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Civil Society Orgs Oppose Protest Song Ban(eff.org)
2 points by panarky 3y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
Sure, just like all the CO2 from diesel engines manufacturing and transporting last year's useless, disposable consumer products is now "invested" into the atmosphere, and the disposable consumer products themselves are now &
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FIFA used AI to identify and report 300 online abusers to police(espn.com)
2 points by panarky 3y ago|0 comments
734.
by panarky 3y ago
What are the ideas that they don't like, that we don't hear? Is there a list of these dangerous ideas somewhere? Because I'm searching for new, dangerous ideas that I haven't heard before, and they're not so easy to
735.
by panarky 3y ago
25% of America's roughly 1,000 malls have closed over the last ten years. The pandemic accelerated a demise that was already underway. But it's fun to take a larger trend that's been happening for many years in many cities, a
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by panarky 3y ago
> solely for information transmission Certainly one function of financial markets and prices is to convey information, but that's not "solely" their purpose. They also provide a mechanism for resource allocation, risk ma
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by panarky 3y ago
Microsoft has killed more products than Google.
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by panarky 3y ago
My doctor advised me to get the Shingrix vaccine with a 97% effective rate instead of Zoster with a 52% effective rate. But if Zoster also prevents dementia and Shingrix doesn't, what's the expectation-maximizing choice?
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by panarky 3y ago
As if the skyrocketing rate of anxiety, depression and self-harm that started with the release of the iPhone and Facebook weren't bad enough, now we're going to mediate human relationships even more immersively through silicon and
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by panarky 3y ago
Rating inflation isn't caused by customers "giving 5 stars like candy". It's caused by platforms redefining 4 stars into a failing grade.
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by panarky 3y ago
Battery life is quoted at two hours when using the external battery brick.
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Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant(eff.org)
1050 points by panarky 3y ago|319 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
Which is why Lyft does that annoying 59-second countdown until you can see your driver's details and actual wait time, so you have a sunk cost to discourage you from switching to Uber when the actual wait time is longer than promised.
744.
by panarky 3y ago
Also, riders are using two or three different apps, so if Uber promises a 2-minute wait and then confirms with a 6-minute wait and Lyft is promising a 3-minute wait, cancel the Uber ride and now that driver is available again.
745.
by panarky 3y ago
If they don't cause many collisions, the cost of replacement parts isn't significant.
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by panarky 3y ago
If I refuse to use a product because I think it's too dangerous, but I die anyway because of your use of the dangerous product, does my estate sue you personally for gross negligence, or must my estate sue the maker of the product? N
747.
by panarky 3y ago
> armchair doomerism Exactly. For years the cranks and conspiracy theorists have been whingeing about rumors of oil being traded in currencies other than dollars, as if that would somehow wipe out US global power. This argument never m
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by panarky 3y ago
No. I'm arguing that a clean, electric fleet of autonomous cars, that would maim and kill far fewer people, where the capital is provided by the corporation instead of being extracted from workers through deception, would be a vast imp
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by panarky 3y ago
Google's missing piece isn't the app. And it isn't the lawyers. It's the network of riders. Waymo promised to 10x their scale this year. Waymo could saturate the territory with empty vehicles waiting for riders on the Wa
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by panarky 3y ago
Yea let's just keep workers in such a precarious state that they not only must sell their labor for pennies, but incredibly they must now supply the capital to the corporation, all to do a job that isn't even necessary for a human

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