librarianscott

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by librarianscott 2mo ago
The original thought on copyright was that facts should not be copyrightable. This should be extended to all science and all non-fiction. Also the original thought was that parody should not be copyrightable. Most fiction is formula-based,
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by librarianscott 4y ago
No, the author(s) of the journal article still retain their copyright in most cases. This is about access to the articles without having to pay a charge to read it.
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by librarianscott 4y ago
Now they are removing the 12-month post-publication embargo period for peer-reviewed manuscripts that result from federally funded scientific research. So, 12 months sooner.
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by librarianscott 4y ago
But autofill doesn't work on non-Safari browsers on your Mac. Yet I truly love Keychain so much in my Apple ecosystem I go to the trouble of exporting my passwords every few weeks to Chrome.
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by librarianscott 4y ago
Brain games do little for the older mind. You are much better off lowering blood pressure and walking. But, if you insist, read [1]. [1]: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/cognitive-health-and-older-ad...
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by librarianscott 4y ago
There are many, many, many pharmacy drugs that can stop suicidal thoughts fast and don't have the track record of the "modern antidepressants". Long, long, long track records. Small dose lithium and lamotrigine come to mind r
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by librarianscott 4y ago
Nonsense. As a non-profit founded in 1926 with 50 testing labs and partnerships with outside labs, the proof is in the test after test after test after test that is unbiased and, more importantly, the criteria and testing methods are always
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by librarianscott 4y ago
The literature is actually quite robust on the benefits of probiotics. Take a look at the different peer-reviewed studies just on this list of products sold in the U.S. [1]. The quality of these studies is quite high, and highly scrutinized
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by librarianscott 4y ago
But, yes, there are a number of apps that work with the Apple Music subscription that aren't Apple apps. For example, Cider[1]. [1]: https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/28/cider-is-an-alternative-apple...
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by librarianscott 4y ago
So, now we can't use Teams to have the "water-cooler" moments that supervisors claim we need, but really we are having them on Signal or IOS and they just can't measure that. Organizations really, really, really hate tra
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Ask HN: How hard would it be to port ublock origin to Mac Safari?
5 points by librarianscott 4y ago|3 comments
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DuckDuckGo's Browser Won't Block (Some) Microsoft Trackers(pcmag.com)
4 points by librarianscott 4y ago|1 comments
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by librarianscott 4y ago
The contracts with Microsoft need to be explained in more detail. Is there anyway we can edit the code to remove these exceptions?
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by librarianscott 4y ago
Reminds me of the Copernic Agent (not their current desktop search product). Are there any other metasearch engines that download the results these days rather than stuff everything in the browser?
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by librarianscott 4y ago
This. It is amazing how long blood pressure pills, cholesterol pills, and vitamins take to make a budge in your blood tests.
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by librarianscott 4y ago
2020 article.
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by librarianscott 5y ago
It's about etiquette, not about your time. Remember what Emily Post says about hello[1], "On very informal occasions, it is the present fashion to greet an intimate friend with “Hello!” This seemingly vulgar salutation is made acc
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Hacker News is more about having a discussion of, usually, tangentially topics to the link someone has posted. But if you wish to discuss some of Caplan's theories such as "“Conventional education mostly helps students by raising
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by librarianscott 5y ago
But in practice, spreadsheets are usually used for "brainstorming" in a research question to pose some possibilities, while jupyter is used for creating an executable paper for an actual scientific discussion. The danger in both s
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Um, there actually are peer-reviewed studies which address things like running and health. For example, "The Influence of Running on Lower Limb Cartilage: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis," Sports Medicine (2022) 52:55–74 [1]
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by librarianscott 5y ago
But people should be helped to draw their own conclusions with annotations where every time some crazy idea is repeated it is automatically flagged with "This idea has repeatedly been debunked by 37 national societies of medicine and 1
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by librarianscott 5y ago
I love your counter examples. In moving beyond the famous Shannon-Weaver model of communication[1], the one with the "signal," "noise," "channel" that network folks love, researchers settled on the importance o
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by librarianscott 5y ago
The most well-known Z39.50 using software that still works is a paid citation manager called EndNote (the desktop client not the web client). You can ingest PDFs with that software too. I don't think the open-source Zotero has added th
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Taking off the mask to squirt the spray seems risky anywhere in the hospital. I doubt crowded hospitals will adopt this protocol especially with a more transmissible variant.
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by librarianscott 5y ago
You can't have a years-long pandemic without consequences, good and bad. My state of Texas has had schools open almost all of this time--and we're not doing better than the other states. Where are all the folks in the United Stat
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by librarianscott 5y ago
For me, I'm not looking for happiness at work. I look for meaningfulness. Contribution. Participation in society. Challenges. I'm not so sure I'm 100% into logotherapy, or if it is just the Protestant work ethic, but I can&#x
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Which machines did you use for your rTMS? Or did you do something besides rTMS of the clinically available noninvasive types[1]? [1] https://www.uptodate.com/contents/unipolar-depression-in-adu...
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Go all in on the boringness. You can't fool your brain no matter how many Spoon-full-of-sugar songs you try to sing to make it go down easy.
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by librarianscott 5y ago
It stopped coming up in search results from any of the major search engines.
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by librarianscott 5y ago
Though, you can turn off the ads[1], which makes all the difference. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/settings

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