Eelongate

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by Eelongate 5y ago
> i suspect most financial fraud would be caught by the accountants and grant administrators at respective institutions. If it was only their money on the line, that would probably suffice. But when researchers (and by extension the i
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> "i don't know what you'd find in a financial audit that a scientific audit wouldn't tell you" Financial audits would uncover financial fraud. > "seems like a better deal to audit the results, no?&quo
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by Eelongate 5y ago
It won't change until a track record of producing studies that fail to replicate hurts the career of an academic more than not publishing anything at all. As long as publish-or-perish provides a stronger incentive than the negative
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by Eelongate 5y ago
This sort of lame duplicitous apologia is little but more of the same rhetoric that got the Bay Area into this predicament in the first place. Here is my summary of the article "Sure it's bad, but actually it's not really
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Ironically, though, the larger Firefox's market share, the more Google will pay to be the default search engine in Firefox. The smaller Firefox's market share, the more Mitchell Baker gets paid.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
So, useful adblockers that actually work well won't be allowed.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Does Brave have their own extension repository yet, or are they still leaving that all up to Google? I don't see much value in Brave supporting a feature dropped from Chrome if it only has Chrome extensions and they all drop support f
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> But this is motivated by stereometric reasons – everything on the same latitude is equally distorted Expanding on this; Mercator is useful for navigation because it's conformal, i.e. it preserves angles. When you're plott
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Many maps -especially US maps- enlarged USSR for decades. Can you provide information or citations for this? > China says "X must be visible at zoom level Y instead of at Y-5". That's not the claim made in the thr
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> If I remember correctly, this used to happen on historical maps too, the UK and Europe were often made larger than they actually are. A consequence of the projection chosen, applied uniformly (e.g. Mercator, which also makes Greenlan
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by Eelongate 5y ago
He meant to write cooling; the moderate (warmer) parts leave, leaving the fanatical 'cold' members. I agree that 'fanatical=cold/moderate=warm' seems a little backwards, but it's that way and not the other b
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by Eelongate 5y ago
All of that is completely irrelevant to my point, which is that fiduciary duty does not compel Apple to do business with China. You were peddling a falsehood.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
1897... copyright holders have really done a number on you.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
How does an app developer test 911 functionality without actually placing a 911 call? I'm sure 911 operators would not be amused by such test calls; do companies have special testing cell networks that don't connect 911 calls thr
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by Eelongate 5y ago
You take me for what, a libertarian? Do you think you know me? I never said anything about wanting a "free market cake." Regardless, nothing you said refutes me. "Fiduciary responsibility" does not legally compel Appl
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by Eelongate 5y ago
*Evaporative cooling
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Absolutely. When people have aligned incentives, the appearance of organization may emerge from the system even when nobody has actually conspired or coordinated with anybody else. Manufacturing Consent describes something like this i
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Norman Angell thought much the same... in 1909. > In The Great Illusion, Angell's primary thesis was, in the words of historian James Joll, that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Partisan fits. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partisan 1. An adherent to a party or faction. 2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. Maybe that word isn&#x
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Apple has an actual fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. That fiduciary responsibility meme needs to die already. The flimsiest business justification is enough to cover company leadership's ass. Instead of &quot
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Which agricultural revolution? Don't take it too literally, his comment is a modified quote from the unabomber's manifesto, which opens with, "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for th
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> "If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable" Thiel hasn't even done that. His position seems to be that American companies should work with the US Military, but shouldn't work with the Chi
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> " the chilling thing" Your comment implies a singular chilling thing, while his does not.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I doubt it's organized in any large-scale sense, but nevertheless it's very corrupt.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Dragging a specific method of accomplishing that into it was kind of unnecessary from GP. Without pointing out that it could theoretically be done (that rocket isn't ready yet, and may never be), the assertion that it should
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> A new entrant would come in and take up their gaming market. Miners would probably find a way to use that new entrant's GPUs for mining too. I think the real threat is that mining could chill the gaming industry as a whole. Eit
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Correct, the 'lithosphere' is the Earth's crust.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Not just competence, I think something like the bystander effect is in play as well. If you single out any single congressperson to appeal to, they'll shrug and point to their 534 other congressional colleagues not doing anything as t
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Same reason NASA built the Space Shuttle Endeavour with spare parts left over from the others, instead of building it from scratch. People move on with their lives, and the facilities that manufacture these things do too. Assuming everyth
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I read his point to be something along the lines of 'Hubble is great, I'd love to see it one day.' I guess some people are offended because he suggested spacex might be used to retrieve Hubble instead of letting it become

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