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by pms 11y ago
It is a scary vision. However, the scary part seems to come not so much from the increasing data availability, but rather from the increased likelihood of discriminatory uses of such data. Enforcing non-discriminatory uses of data sounds li
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by pms 12y ago
It seems that the articles is not available any more... Here is a copy: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/sh/cb87dfea-7551-46e7-a162... Also, here is one of early comments: http://musicfordeckchair
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Publish and Perish at Imperial College London: The Death of Stefan Grimm(dcscience.net)
141 points by pms 12y ago|35 comments
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by pms 12y ago
This sounds like a comment from the Apple design team itself. The Apple watch looks very common and cheap; the only good thing about its look is that it is highly personalizable.
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by pms 12y ago
Could you provide any arguments, instead of just bashing Wikipedia?
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by pms 12y ago
It's funny to see all scores being 0-0, 1-0, or 2-0... ;)
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by pms 13y ago
The assumption of the gamers being a minority is incorrect, at least for young male adults [1]. [1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28101518/ns/technology_and_science...
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by pms 13y ago
There is a bigger system than Google/Facebook here: all the engineers that work for these and other companies. It's not just this one person who is affected. There are all these engineers whose wages and opportunities are lower th
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by pms 13y ago
Maybe this kind of taxation could be a way of coping with NSA surveillance of European citizens? (That's just a provocative sentence, so please keep on reading.) Currently, Europe is at data disadvantage comparing with USA, and this di
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by pms 13y ago
Simply brilliant video. I think that people who pay for these guys are miserable. It's up to them to choose what's "fun" for them. If playing this kind of game is "fun" for them, then it's fine for me. I&#
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by pms 13y ago
How can you call it a better solution? I totally don't get it.
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by pms 13y ago
I realize :)
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by pms 13y ago
Well, it is damn boring.
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by pms 13y ago
I follow Starcraft 2 pro scene and it is not so bad, although, many players are young, so immature behaviors happens sometimes. I guess that competitive strategy games are different from competitive FPS.
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by pms 13y ago
Well. That's obvious. The question is if we need it, and if it won't be abused? I think we were doing pretty fine without monitoring phone calls, so why do we want to monitor on-line services? Because it's simpler is not a good answer.
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by pms 13y ago
Actually... Why do they want to pass this bill in the first place? I mean... The things they want to do are comparable with monitoring all phone calls. Listening to all phone calls and trying to catch dangerous words in the conversations. W
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by pms 14y ago
Sure, but reviews are not transparent, nor accessible to the public. Why not? Wouldn't it be nice to see what other people think about the article before reading it? Currently there are citations, but that's about it.
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by pms 14y ago
Well, a technical solution is needed to make changes faster and even better, namely: 1. Provide for the papers a system of transparent reviews and ratings accessible and readable to the public. 2. Provide a recommender system and a search e
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by pms 14y ago
Sounds really good. Could you link me to some material about this?
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by pms 14y ago
Well, the coercive component is the unified reputation that you gain in this site, just like the reputation that you gain in SO. Obviously, the higher reputation you have, the more recognizable you are and more people read about what you do
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by pms 14y ago
Why not, if you would get reputation points for it? The idea is to review the papers which you want to read anyways, or perhaps you have already read them and you want to express your feelings about these papers, hopefully in a way useful t
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by pms 14y ago
Could you give me examples? Thanks!
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by pms 14y ago
I think that there should be something like SO (Stack Overflow) for scientific papers, with anonymous user-generated reviews and ratings of the papers, and reputation being acquired by the users, both based on papers and their reviews. I wr
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Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover(paidcontent.org)
275 points by pms 14y ago|147 comments
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by pms 14y ago
Didn't he? He is tackling the issue head-on, and he is verbose about it. This is the way many politicians are. Not very sophisticated, to say the least. This is his strategy, let's see how will he take the jail time though.
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Not only SimCity servers are overloaded, but the game itself is mediocre.(gamespot.com)
2 points by pms 14y ago|0 comments
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by pms 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is the future. Perhaps for the masses, to some point, as you write. However, I already find myself uninterested in any large productions, cause in the end they are indeed all the same... I gamed a lot in the past. Nowad
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by pms 14y ago
Perhaps, "free speech" is the best term to use here. I think you refer to free culture, and/or free knowledge.
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by pms 14y ago
The stuff you write is bullshit. If we treat the law the way you treat it then we violate the rule of proportion again. How can you talk about "criminal intent" when we are talking about copyrights protection? It's extremely different to mu
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by pms 14y ago
Actually... I don't get why he was doing circles on the parking lot... I mean, think about it. Why he was doing it? I guess to check if the car will get discharged in next few minutes to write in the review that car got totally discharged a

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