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by data_acquired 3y ago
+1 on the point about movie-star and athlete unions. And as you said, the descriptions of unions are pretty cartoonish and portrayed as universally undemocratically accountable to their members. What I find even more remarkable about the &q
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by data_acquired 3y ago
No incentive for other countries to join a strike in the US. Odd to expect them to. And the solution for dealing with poor working conditions in the now is...what? Post-docs write their congressman to better pay postdocs at the NIH? Postdoc
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by data_acquired 3y ago
So, naturally, the solution here is that folks continue being underpaid? I'm yet to see a case here that research-based institutes will have a worse union or one that cannot take action because of a bizarre self-interest argument about
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by data_acquired 3y ago
Scabs in a scientific union strike? I’ve routinely see it take months for a new joinee to get up to speed on someone else’s project. And hiring is strictly controlled, and no one has a budget to suddenly hire new workers out of the blue to
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by data_acquired 3y ago
People’s careers are being involuntarily set back already for reasons more physical and real than the risk of being scooped. I’ve been scooped. It sucks. The scooped paper doesn’t land in a big journal. It certainly knocked down the impac
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by data_acquired 3y ago
Fair point about how the funding actually works. The UC strike did allow for a good increase to the post-doctoral stipend, and the institutes likely had to move money around in order to make the increases possible. What's also interest
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by data_acquired 3y ago
The assumption is that the movement has built enough support for everyone to strike together. But a strike walk-out is one of all kinds of bizarre reasons one ends up getting scooped. Mice get sick, chemical stocks go bad, collaborators lea
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by data_acquired 3y ago
>Although NIH wages aren’t inherently tied to those training grants, if wages increased significantly for NIH fellows, universities might “raise holy hell”, Wiest says, because it could incentivize researchers to apply for NIH positions
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by data_acquired 3y ago
Researcher here. I agree with your assessment of the way credit is given to authors, and there's a possibility of being scooped because folks are on strike. I think you're forgetting that there's work-related conditions arisi
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by data_acquired 3y ago
I'm fascinated by the discussions around creativity and remote work both on this forum and elsewhere. What is the fraction of open source code [by which I mean community-maintained and built rather than through a company] that ends up
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by data_acquired 3y ago
> due to mutations during your lifespan, genetic diversity within your body increases, which increases the prevalence of genes that cause individual cells and tissues to compete with one another rather than cooperating; in the extreme, w
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by data_acquired 5y ago
One of Atul Gawande's books (Complications) mentions that amongst deaths where an autopsy is done, the cause of death was misdiagnosed by the doctor about 40% of the time. Quote from book [Page 197, Chapter name : "Final Cut"
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by data_acquired 5y ago
They did test against antibodies from human sera samples (Figure 2E), but as parent commenter noted, this doesn't test for T-cell mediated responses.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Yeah, its not clear if preventing symptomatic infection is as crucial an end-point in contrast to preventing hospitalization, the latter of which is indeed mediated by T-cell immunity rather than antibody titers. The following detail is wor
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Medical experts have had a worse-off time than, say, physicists or chemists though? And strains of economics experts are understandably not trusted depending on one's income class, but putting economics on par with physics, chemistry
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Notable blurb from the report itself --- "However, whilst this approach [content removal] may be effective and essential for illegal content (eg hate speech, terrorist content, child sexual abuse material) there is little evidence to s
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by data_acquired 5y ago
+1 on this. Virtually all the sources interviewed are connected with the military or the government itself, which fits a propaganda model or at least a very one-sided view on the gravity of the threats. Not to say that the facts and inciden
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Worth pointing out the author of the piece, Stephen Bryen, is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (Source : https://www.usnews.com/topics/author/stephen-bryen ). This organization ( https:/
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by data_acquired 5y ago
I meant various strains of anti-war/Communist-leaning (specifically,Marx)/anti-imperial views across countries through the late 1800s to the late 20th century have been deplatformed (be it newspaper bans or other restrictions on s
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by data_acquired 5y ago
The anti-imperial, Communist-leaning, anti-war Left has been de-platformed a lot through the ages though. So its been biting that segment of the Left for a long long time.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
I'm sure this has been asked on HN before, but is there something intrinsic to complex systems and the need for a reset? That is, as a given system gets more complex in design and purpose, is it inevitable that beyond a certain point o
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Fair enough. It does sound like you fall/fell on the more advanced side of the grad student curve though. +1 on 90% of papers having nothing much to say.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
I guessed that you're a biologist (or have some kind of bio fascination) given your account handle ;) I'm a molecular biologist myself (more on the comp. side) for the last decade. HIV is certainly a special case given it codes it
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Wow, didn't know about this case.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Lovable HN snarkiness here. I didn't say that every virus does it. Geez.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Yes, happens a lot. HIV is a notable instance.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Yeah, this is a well-known controversial aspect of PNAS publishing. However, not all uses of this track of publication is necessarily nefarious. See this for instance -- https://www.nature.com/news/scientific-publishing
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Yup, that's what Five Eyes is partly about. GCHQ can snoop on US citizens and share intel with the NSA, and vice versa with the NSA and UK citizens.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Oh good god :) Picking up writing from reading the average paper is likely injurious to the health of your future readers. Few papers are well-written and you're likely to unknowingly pick up bad habits from reading the average paper.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Right, I would say that's just sloppy writing in general and not sloppy because of the use of active voice (and certainly an example where passive voice is better). You're right in terms of what I meant by "clarify", whi

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