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by selfishgene 7y ago
After fraud allegations leveled by Prof. Ted Postol against MIT Lincoln Laboratory https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401412/postol-vs-the-pent... were covered up by the same man (MIT President Rafael Reif) that
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Lots of so-called "non-profits" do not increase social welfare in any meaningful way. Even many IRS-approved "charities" are complete scams. So just remember to look before you leap.
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Hope it was one that Aaron Swartz was able to download before MIT arrested him.
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Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993)(jstor.org)
34 points by selfishgene 7y ago|15 comments
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by selfishgene 7y ago
This one is also quite helpful: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox ... for all of the folks out there who don't have a university picking up the tab for the articles that they want to read. It&
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Could TeXmacs solve some of the problems mentioned in the slides? http://www.texmacs.org TeXmacs is based on Guile and there is apparently already a Guile-based implementation of Emacs that is near feature complete. Perhaps a Gu
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Just a few weeks ago someone posted the following study on hacker news: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183507/ Here the authors claim that they were able to identify a particular gene that is l
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Can this run graphical version of emacs or just terminal? Any support for Kui? ( https://medium.com/the-graphical-terminal/visualizing-ci-cd-... ) Would like to be able use latex-preview in something like this.
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by selfishgene 7y ago
They could offer a digitally signed binary that is free (as in beer ... which would presumably be supported by ads that could not easily be stripped out) and a parallel open-source (ad-free) version that charges users directly for API acces
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by selfishgene 7y ago
It sometimes seems that Google uses open-source as more of a marketing ploy than a commitment to respecting user freedom. Why doesn't Google (first) fully open-source the entire Android platform before worrying about "silicon&quo
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Growing economic inequality, if left unchecked, is going to make this an increasingly tough proposition. Wonder why the author of the article did not focus instead on encouraging older folks to be "a little more kind" by, for exa
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by selfishgene 7y ago
What this author forgets is that many young people today are not procreating because having children is increasingly becoming a luxury of the upper middle class. Why should childless individuals care all that much about how issues like glob
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by selfishgene 7y ago
Let's assume for sake of argument that "inequality" is in fact "inevitable." Then what policy conclusions are we supposed to draw?
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by selfishgene 7y ago
What this author forgets is that many young people today are not procreating because having children is increasingly becoming a luxury of the upper middle class. Why should childless individuals care all that much about how issues like glo