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by woofie11 6y ago
Academic hiring and promotion. High-quality academic curation doesn't effect anything in your career. On the other hand, the impact of your own research does does affect it. I'd like my taxpayer dollars to go a little less towards
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yeah. It ain't happening. I thought Harvard would take some flack when people noticed 43 percent of white students admitted are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. That blew over in a week. Varsity Blues did nothing either
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by woofie11 6y ago
It varies field-by-field. In my field, peer review is a joke. I'm glad it's not a joke in your field yet, but incentive structures say it eventually will be. If incentives don't change, it's a question of when, not if.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I went to MIT. MIT has procedures involving NDAs and non-disparage agreements to cover up academic fraud. Academic fraud widespread, at least in the departments I worked with, and the Institute can apply *a lot* of pressure to get people to
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by woofie11 6y ago
Silos. Europe is independent. North America is independent. South East Asia is independent. Africa is independent. There are scientific exchanges, humanitarian aide, artistic exchange, coordination on climate change, and similar, grounded i
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by woofie11 6y ago
We don't have an infinite pool of human states. We have one history. We don't have examples of modern and unconnected. We do have examples of collapses from too much interconnection and trade. A good example of systemic collapse o
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's a comment about the other piece: Trade and specialization. It's more efficient to have specialized countries. If Germany and Japan focus on optics, that's more efficient than having an optics industry in each country. Ev
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by woofie11 6y ago
More debt generally leads to more economic growth. More trade leads to more economic growth. Those are true statements. They also lead to brittle economic systems. In 1900, if everyone was asked to stay home for 3 months, they'd go hom
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, I'll be much more likely to try it if: - The app page clearly says "Free forever," ideally in some kind of legally-binding language - The app page clearly says "No ads, no data harvesting, ..." ... and so on.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Which one? That's a serious question. Last time I looked at expensive vacuums, e.g. Dyson discontinued parts after 10 years. It might not break, but you can't buy a roller for 10-year-old models. Shark was way shorter. I found no
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'd want to understand long-term sustainability. * Is my data harvested? * Do I get billed in 3 years once you have marketshare? * Do I listen to an ad? Bandwidth ain't free. Or if there is a secretive business model, have a clear
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by woofie11 6y ago
For me, credibility isn't binary, but a spectrum. I saw problems before (NYT was never one of my heroes, per se, but just a high-quality, thoughtful, high-integrity newspaper). It always had its flaws, but for the most part, it seemed
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by woofie11 6y ago
Prohibited? They shouldn't be, any more than they should be prohibited from replacing their logo to a swastika. We have freedom of speech, and that's important. If the government tried to go after NYT for a swastika logo, I'd
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by woofie11 6y ago
I feel like the NYT used to be more credible and run fewer hit pieces. I'm not trying to argue zero, by any means, but I feel like in a very short time -- basically the past 4-8 years -- they've gone from one of the most credible
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by woofie11 6y ago
After giving it some thought, I think I have the right system. After the invasion, the UK monarchy is no longer hereditary. Instead, the French and Irish parliaments, in a joint session, elect the British monarchs. Everyone's happy. Ir
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by woofie11 6y ago
Historically, Ireland and France were England's sworn, mortal enemies (Scotland for a while too, but that's faded). Regardless of current forms of government, they have the best candidates to take the British throne by force. A Fr
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by woofie11 6y ago
Seems like the right step then, might be to stage an insurrection, depose the queen, and take the throne, eh? I'm looking at you, readers from Ireland and France. :) Have at it.
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by woofie11 6y ago
And as a high school student back in the day, I really would have appreciated the ability to pay for something like this! Really, not everything on the web needs to be mission-critical.
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by woofie11 6y ago
... assuming I never work on another project again, switch jobs, or fail to get around to evaluating your tool during the two weeks. I've exhausted enough 2-week trials to know. And at the same time, I'm hesitant to start them, si
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by woofie11 6y ago
> Or somebody evaluating the options before deciding. Or somebody just making something the quickest way possible, leaving slow decisions for later... This is exactly it. I've been both with and without purchasing authority. WITH pu
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of that. You disincentive usage. Daily quota is the way to go. Amazon free micro instances are a perfect example. Enough to build. Not enough to go to production.
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by woofie11 6y ago
My experience too. ALWAYS have a lifetime free plan. It's okay to make it a useless lifetime free plan (your data disappears every 2 weeks; you have a 3 email per day quota; etc.). It just need to be enough to seriously evaluate your p
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by woofie11 6y ago
To be clear, that's just what happened this morning, between posts. Google has a looooooong history of this stuff, including with paid accounts, services, and partnership worth millions to Google. Just last month, Google f---d me as a
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, the only ones it's had with >$10b revenue historically are advertising, and literally like two or three products. You can't generalize from a small n. But there are plenty of horror stories of being deplatformed by Google
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by woofie11 6y ago
And I just got f-ed by the Google Cloud team this morning, albeit their Workspace division and not GCP. I have a GSuite legacy account for my personal domain name. Most of my family is on it. It was free. I just tried to set up Google Voice
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by woofie11 6y ago
At least when GCE tried to recruit me -- now almost a decade back -- it was with millions of dollars of concessions where they would clearly be operating at a loss. We tried them. If, instead of $$$, they had treated customers like human be
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by woofie11 6y ago
The big difference was that AWS left behind a trail of vocal, satisfied customers. Google has left behind a trail of de-platformed, de-monetized, (as you pointed out) re-priced, discontinued, API-changed, and otherwise angry customers. Genu
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by woofie11 6y ago
... and it comes with a built in wealth tax (zakat), which is just about the best economic idea EVER. And it prevents loans with interest. And there are versions which embody economic free trade (the whole debate about political borderds).
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by woofie11 6y ago
That's not really my experience. (1) Right now, virtually everyone agrees that individual choice is important and all humans are born with equal rights (2) If they don't, it's often possible to come up with solutions which wo
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by woofie11 6y ago
Perhaps. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. I'm a firm believer in continuing to innovate and improve governance. I don't think it's just an abstract philosophical argument. These things can

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