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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Since Nobel Prizes are rather detached from the discovery at hands, it might be possible to evaluate the impact of null findings on later positive findings. Essentially: when awarding a Nobel Prize, map out which null findings narrowed the
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work." -- Edison By publishing
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Cambridge Analytics isn't an ad company but very much working with personal data. All that health data in healthkit would be a treasure trove for insurances, even without using it for adverts (but for determining premiums, for example)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
See http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-CoC-tp104277p1... for a complete rationale. For the point discussed in this part of the thread: "I published the currrent CoC after two separate business requested cop
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> since the practice is still fairly new "in tech". The CoC we're discussing here exists - as CoC - for Millenia. An even older example would be the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath , whi
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> If CoC's don't apply to them From the CoC page: "Having been encouraged by clients to adopt a written code of conduct" Under my interpretation (not sure if it's the right one - it might as well be satire): &quo
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> The SQLite folks are saying that code of conducts are irrelevant. Did they? It's a Code of Conduct for communal matters that was written some 1500 years ago. Given that the Benedictine order still exists, it may well be practiced
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Would love to hear of a country that has "universal health care" that does not limit what procedures people can have done to see how it is possible. It will attract quacks like shit attracts flies, so yes, of course there are
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
'fsck "-v"' and "fsck -v" return significantly different results for me.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
There's no mention of religion in the laws I cited. Some digging got me https://www.verkaufsoffener-sonntag.com/ladenoeffnungszeiten... , which tells a history of shopping time in Germany (although I don't know how
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
6.5 years from launch: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
I believe your "question" is loaded, misleading and missing the point: It's not the OSS folks complaining about a change in meaning, but those who wish to retire meritocracy because they're too inflexible to accept that
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> what “meritocracy” used non-ironically denotes is very much something which humans fundamentally do not do ... when applied to a situation where people are ranked. The meritocracy of open source wasn't about "who gets promote
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Most of that doesn't translate well to open source projects, so I'd guess that "meritocracy" in open source means something else than "meritocracy" in a stratified British society of 1958. For example, that the
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> We change and abandon words all of the time. Why are you so invested in putting up blinders to ignore that? The genesis story of meritocracy as told by its enemies is that it was used satirically (eg. Wikipedia: "It was used pejor
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> but I believe this to be false: >> open source projects tend to have less diversity than other software organizations. You won't find some high school student or a stay at home mom have real impact in corporate software proj
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Step 1: Point out how horrible "meritocracy" is Step 2: Bemoan that you need a new word for what meritocracy used to mean Step 3: ??? (my guess is: rinse and repeat)
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Can a store in Germany choose to close on Saturday and open on Sunday? https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbzg/__9.html says "no work on Sundays or public holidays from 0:00 to 24:00", plus a few except
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Saturday is still legally considered a work day in Germany. One of the more important places to remember this today are public parking lots with usage limits on work days: those apply on Saturdays just like on Mo-Fr.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Or politically caused sterilization programs. The blame game could take another few rounds.
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Germany. That is, as long as Walmart had tried to fight German labour laws. They've since given up, so I guess it's really "Germany, in the past".
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
While we're considering hilarious and entirely unrealistic moves by those in power: Ask Germany (who's also part of the project) to round up Ramstein Air Base?
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
If you need 10k cookies every day for multiple years, you're better off building your own bakery. If you need multiple years of continuous DL work, you're better off building your own DL system. If you need 5 cookies today (and ma
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Those in poverty are less likely to be qualified to go to university More than 50% each year have the formal qualifications for university in Germany. See the table on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiturientenquot
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
are you aware of https://muen.sk ? Not L4, but that wouldn't be secure enough anyway...
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"At least the same stature" as the Intelligencer (which had agreed to publish it originally and retracted due to reasons that were not scientific concerns). A paper that is, as you noted, "not serious". I guess that does
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The way it was done? Problematic to say the least, in every step taken at NYJM: 1. The underground inclusion by a single editor, seemingly bypassing their processes and the other editors 2. The revisions to politicize the paper explicitly (
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Either my communication style is horrible or you go to great lengths to misunderstand me. Either way it's sad. Papers should, in general, be judged by their merit. The editor of the Intelligencer did so and wanted to publish it in &quo
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> If people want to have a political argument, take it elsewhere For example the Intelligencer? So why did folks cause a ruckus to prevent that? Not having a political argument in a journal also means having freedom from politics. That w
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Theodore Hill (the paper's author) wrote about his side on https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p... Somewhere in the middle he linked to the paper: https://arxiv.org&#x2

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