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by q1w2 5y ago
The theory is that there is a pressure in certain academic fields to reinforce existing popular narratives with new publications, motivating researchers to confirm them, and thus for other researchers to cite them. ...but since such effor
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Victims make poor decisions all the time. It doesn't really imply the story is false - although I happen to find this story unconvincing also.
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One of the most eye-opening studies I saw was that social science papers with the most citations, had the highest likelihood of not being reproducible. Meaning that Social Sciences are actually pushing out misinformation more than not.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's not just interior temperature - it's about being able to defrost the windshield so you can just drive off in winter.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Given the high water table in Florida, only people living in the countryside have septic tanks. None on the coast would have a septic tank
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by q1w2 5y ago
You are right to be suspicious. While the original author of the article isn't from the site - it is very very interesting to see it propagated by Russian sources. Good catch.
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Most septic tanks are not in coastal properties. The water table isn't going to change for a property unless you're right on the water or living on wide low lying march/delta type areas.
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I'll add another - Chronological ordering within the day isn't very useful. I'm more interested in what other readers (of my type) have found "important/interesting/insightful/etc", so I care about t
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Virtue theater
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I suspect the wealthiest people already know what's in these books. The more likely strategy here is to avoid the controversy if the public and media were to see them.
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This is essentially creating an auto-immune disease in old age - by having the body target it's own cells. It's also not clear how the researchers prevented the immune cells from dying in the Thymus (who's function is specif
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by q1w2 5y ago
Unlike large immovable factories, or big supply chain companies - game companies rise and fall in a market that is kill or be-killed. Any game company that unionizes will, in my opinion, have those studios shut down, and new ones open up in
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by q1w2 5y ago
Encouraging military personnel to search for and exfiltrate data goes WAY beyond what a normal journalist does. Regardless of whether you think it's unethical - it's illegal.
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The Nobel Peace prize has become somewhat of a joke. It's been handed out by politics, with prizes handed to people who have ordered attacks on civilians time and time again.
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The real danger is when they act in unison. ...as we are seeing developing in China. If anything we need to create moats between big tech and gov't. ...and one of those tactics is breaking up tech monopolies/oligopolies.
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This is like the exception that proves the rule. He was an exceptional specialist. The reality is that there is a big demand for people willing to help direct/manage developers who are not great with their time, and to have some degre
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by q1w2 5y ago
China is bringing nearly 25 1GW nuclear plants online over the next 5 years. They additionally have investments all over Africa for the export of natural resources like coal/oil. I really don't see them falling into crisis over
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by q1w2 5y ago
Extradition treaties are carefully worded, but yes, they are rooted in power politics. The judge in this case, followed the rule of the extradition treaty law... ...but then again, ALL laws are rooted in the initial power politics that set
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by q1w2 5y ago
At a higher level, I believe what we're seeing with these cases, is the nationalization of giant corporations under the umbrella of their "home" governments, and thus, the malignment of these corporations by foreign governmen
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by q1w2 5y ago
> Google also has the power to immediately disable Microsoft Teams on most Android devices, until the fix is rolled out. This seems heavy handed and unreasonable. Disrupting millions of people's lives to fix an unusual use-case (e
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is the relevant bit... > The Blanco Fault Zone is a transform, or strike-slip, boundary; that means it's where tectonic plates slide along one another. The most dangerous and powerful faults are usually seen in subduction zones
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by q1w2 5y ago
> traditional inactivated vaccines yield more robust and long-lasting protection This is wrong. The formation of memory T/B cells has nothing to do with the vaccine tech. Both create lasting T/B cell memory immunity. The prob
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by q1w2 5y ago
Your first sentence is contradicted by the last sentence in your first paragraph (which is correct). B-Cell immunity is much much harder to detect and cannot be done in any test given to the public. It's also difficult to determine fr
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is the meat in the meat... > Neutralization against the Omicron variant after three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was comparable to the neutralization against the wild-type strain observed in sera from individuals wh
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think what they meant was that they detected bot activity associated with the account.
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If you think of the fundamental concept of a trade. Person A has too many apples. Person B has too many oranges. Person A and B trade half of their produce, and now they each have a healthier/balanced diet. Being healthier means the
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by q1w2 5y ago
My work has brought me to live in a few different cities in Europe for a year or so. You might be trying to compare it to countries with unhealthy eating habits. Swedish people are definitely a little chunkier, on average, compared to their
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by q1w2 5y ago
Any tax cuts are trickle down? So the Democrat's push to reinstate the SALT tax credit (cut) are trickle down also? Are tax cuts in any bracket trickle down? When the GOP raises taxes - do they implode?
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I haven't seen a politician advocate for trickle down since the early 1980s. Why is this strawman still the target for low-effort articles?
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Not really. They used this term in the housing crisis, in reference to stabilizing home prices. They recognized that home equity loans were driving a lot of spending AT THAT TIME. It's not some general core principle. Also, the sti

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