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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm not claiming suppression, just noting that economic incentives are misaligned, and noting that we, as a society, have in our toolbelt a whole host of treatments, and only a handful of cures.
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by pksebben 4y ago
uh, I did, and I think you might wanna take another look at "climategate", cause it sounds like a bunch of nutjobs flailing about snippets of text taken wildly out of context. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by pksebben 4y ago
Foucault lived when the actual Nazis were in power and saw the rise of eugenics, so I'd bet that has more to do with his relating power and the course of science than "scientists are respectable ergo oppressive". Iirc he was
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by pksebben 4y ago
how do you define legitimacy, in this case? feels like an odd term to use in a discussion about objectivity
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by pksebben 4y ago
I found that missive (regarding politics and it's influence on the scientific community as a whole) conspicuously.. missing.. from this article. It's not so much about how politics affects the outcomes of science, imo, but how pol
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by pksebben 4y ago
this view of an average Americans level of agency in our political process could most politely be described as 'simplified'. Before you even get in the weeds as to how voting actually works, that two party thing you mentioned prov
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by pksebben 4y ago
>2. Most standardized tests aren't used in the expectation that the testee's knowledge will matter in the future. Instead, the idea is that people who score higher will be generally more competent at whatever it is you want the
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by pksebben 4y ago
there are more reasons that this take is bunkum than that article seems to be aware of. - security. the most common vector of attack is through dev boxes. centralizing creates a single point of failure. - vendor capture. right now, it'
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by pksebben 4y ago
not to mention, horsepower is hardly ever the choke these days. I would say that the greatest limiting factor here is the lack of screen space, because now your dev must context switch to read documentation etc
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by pksebben 4y ago
I would like to put in a vote of confidence for emacs and evil-mode, here. it's vim with all the emacs goodies.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Excellent find! I'm gonna peruse for a while. To save the next guy typing: https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/crowdfunding/
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by pksebben 4y ago
Thanks for the well informed response! I had not yet heard of Bayh-Dole and you gave me some good googlin'. In regards to your explanation in [2], that sucks - I kinda figured that's how things were but I sorta went around academ
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by pksebben 4y ago
one sort of wonders what the value in standardized testing is, in a world with such easy access to information.
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it's situations like these that make me think perhaps we shouldn't be scaling quite so large. That is to say, quite so high. Scaling past a certain size puts you kind of further and further outside of what your environment can o
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm sure there's a ton of special interests who wouldn't want all the research made public. the oil industry immediately comes to mind. so does tobacco, gambling, pharma, and farming.
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perhaps the law needs to change. There's also more interests in the world than corporations and universities. an organizational Monopoly on ideas is dangerous - it stifles innovation and destroys competition.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think part of the point here, is that the value from that investment should go to the investors, who are (if you buy the 'by the people, for the people' hype) the taxpayers. Say I'm vulture capitalist Tom, and I pay a few g
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by pksebben 4y ago
What's the business? My interested is piqued.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I don't! As mentioned in another comment, I had not heard of them before. I'll be trying them out. On first blush, it looks fairly close to what's in my head - so perhaps this is not a thing to chase. The one critical diffe
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by pksebben 4y ago
Truly a tricky spot. Who keeps an eye on the features for things like code quality / deliverables? I don't know how I would solve this, yet.
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by pksebben 4y ago
This is when I admit that the concept isn't quite done baking. My intuitive (read: hand-wavy) answer is that the negotiation between devs / feature requesters should take this into account - the pricing reflecting the amount of wo
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by pksebben 4y ago
it's an ethos thing. I think a capitalist mindset (grow grow grow) is antithetical to good open source. once money is the primary motivation, good software that does good things that people actually want can't be the primary mot
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by pksebben 4y ago
I don't believe I can succeed where they failed- hadn't heard of em! would be awesome to not have to build it myself, so I'll go check em out.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I have a concept sitting in <that folder with all the ideas> that is pretty high on my list of "man, I want to make this happen" but would need a team to execute on. The idea is to integrate the kickstarter model with github
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by pksebben 4y ago
They do mention this as their own strategy - a cloud-hosted subscription version of plausible is available where they manage and run it for you.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm convinced that people afraid of electronic voting are either hucksters that like the status quo or people who've been convinced by them. if you're worried about voting being a black box, it already kind of is. what proof
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which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that FAANG companies have a massive lobbying spend. The issue is that some systems are invasive. If we don't make any collective decision to restrict some behaviors (like lobbying)
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by pksebben 4y ago
a very large portion of those goods and services are unnecessary, though. think about how frequently you have to buy a phone or replace a mechanical device - I've seen dishwashers from the 50s that still work, because they were built b
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by pksebben 4y ago
this had me right up until she starts putting Dave Chappelle and JK Rowling in the same space as Salman Rushdie. Who's declared fatwah on Dave Chappelle? what groundbreaking social commentary is Harry Potter making? What, other than th
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by pksebben 4y ago
yeah, I don't speak any other languages fluently but I also find that sentiment disgusting and reductive. use whatever language you want, wherever you want.

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