docbrown

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by docbrown 2y ago
Retracted and sham papers is actually a major problem. Estimated 10,000 papers were retracted in 2023 ( https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio... ) and that is thought to be only a sm
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The 15-Minute City–No Cars Required(bloomberg.com)
7 points by docbrown 6y ago|2 comments
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by docbrown 6y ago
Barely half have some sort of 401k program and the average holding amount is only $40,000. Nothing to really gloat about. Earners of $100,000/year or more have 5x the amount in holdings as compared to those earning $99,000 or below. On
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by docbrown 6y ago
Of course stocks have real tangible value or else we wouldn’t be able to buy and sell them. They’re not something that you barter with. However, the majority of Americans do not associate stocks with voting rights. Only a slim minority of A
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by docbrown 6y ago
> Personally, I think letting people go there own way as much as possible is the best course, and empowering the United Nations is pretty much the opposite of that. As in a Native American reservation type of self localized governing? Th
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by docbrown 6y ago
Perhaps we may not need to agree on every topic but there must be a discourse happening between each other in good faith. This rarely happens in our current political climate as most people (using Twitter as a sample group) is hyperreactive
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by docbrown 6y ago
I really hope these past eight months cement the idea in more peoples head that the stock market has little correlation to reality. It fluctuates based on personal sentiment from institutions and money managers. Political policies may drive
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by docbrown 6y ago
>but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions. This is where the problem lies within our current political discourse: both parties have fundamental differences within themselves on what they view as being morally on
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How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking (2012)(wired.com)
1 points by docbrown 6y ago|0 comments
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by docbrown 6y ago
Reeder was a great app even when used on the iPhone 4, granted it was the best one out as the time. I believe Reeder 3 was the final version I bought before phasing out of using RSS. My Main Twitter account was started in 2009 so I think it
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Writing academic papers in plain text with Markdown and Jupyter notebook(sylvaindeville.net)
1 points by docbrown 6y ago|0 comments
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Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
6 points by docbrown 6y ago|0 comments
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Installing Linux in a Hard Drive(spritesmods.com)
3 points by docbrown 6y ago|1 comments
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by docbrown 6y ago
I don’t think they should or ever will step away from wood bats. It’s one of the few things that levels the playing field for all batters; instead letting brute force be the power behind the contact. Aluminum and corked bats would ultimatel
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by docbrown 6y ago
> It surprises me that 5 of 200 that do so well actually enlist. I’m generalizing here, but: No matter what their score was (high or low), most people are going to take the ASVAB because they want to join the military and reap the benefi
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by docbrown 6y ago
A marketing stunt that involved the police conducting a raid on Jason Chen’s home and then barring Gizmodo from future Apple events? Yeah, that’d be one hell of a PR stunt if it was.
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by docbrown 6y ago
They’re incentives were an attempt to change social media with a more refined version of interactions. Of course getting big names on it early on would drive interest. That sort of business behavior was not done in bad faith. The problem wa
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by docbrown 6y ago
> Reddit's ban today is the equivalent of them saying "You can't quit, you're fired!". This implies the Reddit ban is directed toward TD specifically, which it’s not. This is Reddit taking a long-term stance on w
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by docbrown 6y ago
The online digital textbooks and homework, Cengage’s MindTap, requires flash for their statistics portion. Flash is also used for their digital textbook. I’ll assume this carries over for any type of assignment page that requires input from
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by docbrown 6y ago
Health data related to Native Americans is already highly undercounted and incomplete as compared to other groups. This continued surpression of their ways of living is sad to watch. When NA’s already have little trust in Western medicine,
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by docbrown 6y ago
[retracted] and I hope this is just a misunderstanding. As the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, 2019-nCoV is a novel (new) coronavirus.[0] The CDC defines coronavirus as a virus that was not previously known — check the
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by docbrown 6y ago
The Lee-Leahy amendment passed the Senate. Not sure how someone can say there is no counter-balancing entity with regard to FISA courts. From Senator Mike Lee's webpage[0]: The Lee-Leahy amendment will strengthen third-party oversight
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by docbrown 6y ago
Third parties being able to submit amicus curiaes seem like a counter-balancing entity—dependent on which way they argue.
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by docbrown 6y ago
> the previous process which was to just call a judge of a secret FISA court which no one is really allowed to know the details of. This is simplifying the process to imply it’s nothing more than just a phone call away. I do not think a
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by docbrown 6y ago
somewhat of a dated article (2010) but the average lifespan of those admitted to nursing homes for EoLC is actually only about six months.[1] however, some may stay longer, but then they have to worry about their condition worsening and eve
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by docbrown 6y ago
Why does it have to be introduced in a “meaningful way” to be relevant? If there was at most a single case of it within the U.S. that would show that the disease spread earlier than what is assumed. Again, your argument rests solely on the
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by docbrown 6y ago
> if someone could point me to a nursing home where 5% of the population died in a week Sure, if we were talking about mortality rates but we’re not. we’re simply talking about prevalence of COVID prior to the major breakout of February
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by docbrown 6y ago
I understand that line of thinking but that would imply the prevalence rate of COVID was in complete parallel with the incidence rate. The former is what we do not know and that's clear when we've had patients labs reran from 2019
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by docbrown 6y ago
> I still think there's a possibility this virus was already in the US before 2020. Yeah, I don’t understand why people are so against the idea of it being in the U.S. before 2020. There’s no possible way we can trace every American
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by docbrown 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand this argument. Are you speaking of sick people coming into the hospital during this pandemic or overall? Because I can ensure you, many hospitalizations are not due to a lack of PPE. Broken hips are not caused

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