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by unishark 6y ago
There's also reproducibility issues in biotech research. Investors are reluctant to believe anything works anymore until they see successful human trials.
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by unishark 6y ago
Being good at cold reading does not mean you can actually predict the future, which is what they are claiming to do. But if they could do so with sufficiently high accuracy to accomplish something useful, then this would still be interestin
903.
by unishark 6y ago
Sounds like you're comparing dense areas with lockdowns to less dense areas with little or no lockdowns. Because churches would obviously cease to be a factor if they implemented the same restrictions as done in NYC.
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by unishark 6y ago
> You're wrong, they do not magically start working if you believe in them. If you're nervous for ANY reason it will give off a false positive. Not only if you're nervous of the machine itself. If you're just as nerv
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by unishark 6y ago
There are researchers using functional MRI (and machine learning presumably) to try and detect lies. There may even be some trying to use it commercially. I imagine it's about as reproducible as most fmri research, as in not.
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm not advocating their use. Just arguing for a less politically-motivated description of a technology's accuracy.
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by unishark 6y ago
The issue is accuracy. In terms of being able to infer lies from skin response, this is an effect that actually exists for many people. The net scientific conclusion is that can work but poorly, not that is is complete nonsense like ESP or
908.
by unishark 6y ago
Universities can be punished by NIH in addition to the feds if they violate privacy rules in clinical studies. Columbia was threatened with losing all their research funding if they didn't get their act together after a big breach a fe
909.
by unishark 6y ago
Someone with a medical license and the legal ability to collect and secure data gave it to these clowns who clearly had no idea what they were doing.
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by unishark 6y ago
> In contrast, replacing the battery in my HP Elite x360 was a piece of cake - no nasty glue, no proprietary screws, and oem batteries available everywhere. Replacing the battery for my Surface Pro was a different story. The shop told me
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by unishark 6y ago
> Obviously "making a point" or "satire" is not a valid justification for scientific fraud. Otherwise anyone caught in plagiarism or whatever could just use that excuse to avoid consequences. This is not good logic. O
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by unishark 6y ago
I'd say his goal was clearly to make a political point, not a scientific discovery. But making political points is not unethical behavior. As for the difference between science and satire, I think you missed my point. Which is that the
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by unishark 6y ago
From skimming the PSU story, it looks like there might be a political factor in that one. I wonder if the same objections would have been raised had his research goal been to expose sexism in acceptance rates of science journals or somehing
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by unishark 6y ago
From your comments I gather numerical algorithms aren't really your area. It really has worked as a separate silo for decades, and experts probably have little interest in ever writing a web server. What is the problems you are referri
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yet when Schwartz practiced altruistic, civil disobedience in line with that sentiment, MIT's response was to sue him until he killed himself. MIT arrested him for breaking into a closet to access the network. I've never hea
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by unishark 6y ago
I teach at a University. Our grads in CS and engineering certainly do flow directly to jobs. But not FAANG except a few. Either way though, and despite what college-dropout CEO's may think, our universities actually do teach our studen
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by unishark 6y ago
I don't see how this one fits. Were you the busy-body who wanted rules enforced in this story? Generally cities are a hassle everywhere, with some exceptions. Have you been to New Orleans? Generally in the US, people who want to be lef
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by unishark 6y ago
They will want to do the job if it pays better. Others will want to go to school to earn the skills. It's just supply and demand. It strikes me as silly that it's next to impossible for an average STEM grad in the US to actually p
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by unishark 6y ago
> This tactic of elevating your pet issue by linking it to a hypothetical catastrophe seems a bit unserious. I see it in the spirit of computer security research. "Here is a way evildoers could hack this system". Neither the fo
920.
by unishark 6y ago
I'd say the defining feature of a trade show is businesses demonstrating their specialized products for members of the profession. The word "show" is also important here. Without that, a meeting of a profession is commonly ca
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by unishark 6y ago
> The whole phrase "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is precisely against equality - it recognizes that people have different abilities, talents, capabilities, and things happening in the cours
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by unishark 6y ago
> Taxis have had "You can't get a ride in a poor neighborhood" for ages. Also restaurants refuse to deliver to poor neighborhoods after their delivery person gets robbed there once or twice. I've seen this problem in
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by unishark 6y ago
The discrepancy between finding a ride quickly to low-crime areas, while finding one slowly or not at all to high-crime areas will be attacked as systemic racism from the organization. Political correctness basically requires drivers to tak
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by unishark 6y ago
To first order, both Uber and drivers were willingly choosing to work together. The state is outlawing a money-making venture consenting adults wanted to do. You don't know that the second order effects will be what you want. Governmen
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by unishark 6y ago
My understanding of libertarianism is as basically generalizing on the idea of freedom from slavery as the most fundamental right. "Liberty" is then the narrowly-defined freedom from having force used against you. And you are only
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by unishark 6y ago
> Illegal child pornography, terrorism radicalisation and other modern issues have also been around forever, it doesn't mean that the scale and leverage of the internet haven't made it worse, at least in tooling. Ergo I can&#x
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by unishark 6y ago
As economics say, if something can't go on forever, it won't.
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by unishark 6y ago
Illegal taxis and rental housing (whether short or long term) have been around forever though. And they weren't just a fringe thing. College students and immigrant groups may predominantly use them in many places. If there's a cur
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by unishark 6y ago
This is not new. Meanwhile many of those same cities declare themselves sanctuaries and refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law. The US has always been partly "wild west", for better or worse.
930.
by unishark 6y ago
> The problem lies in the fact that there are a great many things I can hack together in an afternoon to "replace" some kind of external dependency, but the quality discrepancy of these hacks is highly variant. Perhaps it'

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