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by vacri 9y ago
The IRB is there to protect innocent subjects from malicious studies. It's not that the system is 'broken', it's just 'not perfect'. It's actually been pretty disturbing to read this whole thread. So many
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by vacri 9y ago
> when the person is underage This feels like post-hoc reasoning, given that the parents are involved, and that the person can also stop, transfer, whatever on their own later on. > while they were still a child Referring to 17-ye
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by vacri 9y ago
Let's wrap some context around the situation here. Party X is an organisation that proudly boasts about its hatefulness, misery-spreading activities, and sticking its finger in the eye of 'the establishment'. They approach on
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by vacri 9y ago
What's the 'due process' for cancelling a domain registration?
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by vacri 9y ago
So if you hear someone describe a movie as 'humdrum', you think they liked it and would recommend it?
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by vacri 9y ago
I think you should follow your handle.
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by vacri 9y ago
> and shouldn't (in my opinion) be a matter for Google to decide ... why in hell not? Google is not a government-supplied service. They're a private company. How can you be for blanket freedom of speech, yet restrict a priv
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by vacri 9y ago
Story points vary wildly between teams. I'd argue that they're a worse metric than LOC
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by vacri 9y ago
> support the Nazis right to express themselves I'm not particularly fussed over nazism getting a raw deal in the free speech debate. It's not the 'thin end of the wedge' when an ideology that caused the deaths of o
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by vacri 9y ago
First, no I'm not trying to make two wrongs into a right. Pretending that this is a new thing is a faulty assumption. And if you want to fix something, starting with faulty assumptions is the wrong way to go about it. The political for
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by vacri 9y ago
> there has long been an expectation that owners won't bias news reporting Have you heard of a man called Rupert Murdoch? "Owners don't bias news reporting" is an ideal , not an expectation . Pointing out an ideal
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by vacri 9y ago
s/chilling/humdrum/ Go to google, get google's view on things. Go to facebook, get facebook's view on things. Go to X, get X's view on things. Powerful companies using their influence on the media is business-a
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by vacri 9y ago
> abundance of ads I wouldn't mock the Americans too much for their famous love of advertising. I haven't found a sport yet that is as much a slave to advertising as Aussie Rules. Try to find a square meter of space[1] at an
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by vacri 9y ago
Why do you have a major problem with consenting adults at college level, but not at professional level? How is consenting-for-money any different to consenting-in-hopes-of-money? As for fame, which players get significant fame? Every team h
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by vacri 9y ago
Aussie Rules has nowhere near as much contact as gridiron, and the kind of contact it has is rarely as full-on as in gridiron. There's no real contact in aussie rules if you're not on the ball, whereas every play in gridiron, more
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by vacri 9y ago
Rugby is a much better analogue to gridiron - it's essentially the same game. Two lines of players run at each other, with a certain number of attempts to run the ball downfield, and almost every 'play' has contact of players
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by vacri 9y ago
I never claimed to have their P&Ls, I was just pointing out that that $20M is not 'pure profit'. Exactly how much spoon-feeding do you want?
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by vacri 9y ago
You're missing my point. Painting a $20M donation as pure profit is misleading if it ends up costing 99% of that to get the donation. Yes, in absolute terms, there was a net benefit, but in your own words: don't pretend you don&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm just countering the idea that there is no cost to the state.
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> Waukee will see a construction boom, higher employment, and more tax revenue. The city will also now have a major corporation throwing its weight around to get its way; one with no loyalty to the residents or their concerns.
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by vacri 9y ago
So Iowa doesn't have to deal with providing services to the site? Land management services, emergency services, water, sewerage, etc?
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by vacri 9y ago
> On top of that Apple is pledging to give them $100M for various things The article points out that the pledge contains the significant words "up to", and is actually only pledging $20M. So, for $20M, they get $20M off their
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by vacri 9y ago
Ultimately, the issue is this: it costs less overall for the author to just comply with the standard way studies are done, than for the committee to carve out and justify exceptions just for his study. The author complains of the IRB not do
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by vacri 9y ago
The interesting thing is that HN is usually a place where people are usually quite militant about their data not being used for purposes other than intended. From the responses in this thread, it seems HNer's are actually fine with the
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by vacri 9y ago
The pen vs pencil thing is a total canard by the author, who is looking to 'dress-up' his indignation. Hand the form to the subject. Hand a pen to the subject. Subject reads and signs the form. Take the form from the subject. Take
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by vacri 9y ago
Ethics committees are there to protect both the institution and the subjects of the study. One of those protections is avoiding misleading the subjects, unless absolutely necessary and beneficial. How many times have you seen people here
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So, an example of how the author doesn't understand the point of these requirements is the 'encryption' (anonymisation) process, added to 'the files had to be kept together!'. The anonymisation process isn't ab
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by vacri 9y ago
The author complains about there not being enough of an ethics gauntlet with the bipolar test in question, and then complains of having to run an ethics gauntlet to do the study. The author keeps on bringing up nazis and suggests he knows a
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It's extremely difficult for a regular user to use the web without bouncing into something provided by one of those two groups.
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by vacri 9y ago
The problem isn't the understanding of statistics, the problem is a grossly-misleading name.

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