mcpackieh

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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> What is striking about the allegations of plagiarism against President Gay is that the improprieties are routine and pervasive. > She is accused of plagiarism in her dissertation and at least two of her 11 journal articles. Two s
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
"War on __" doesn't imply an irrational war on __
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I'm not sure I buy that. I think the reputation of soldiers varies greatly with the public perception of the wars they fought. Soldiers are highly regarded when they're seen to be fighting some great evil, but at other times sol
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
We need to have severe penalties for negligent DMCA takedowns, not just willfully malicious ones. Including disbarment and possibly imprisonment for any lawyers involved. Taking down pages about NASA rocketry because they shared a name
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
It's well respected in the sense that when you're at a dinner party and tell people that you're a school teacher everybody says "Oh how nice! that's such an important job. You must love working with the kids, rig
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
The fact that nobody was injured in the previous incident is fortunate for anybody who might have been injured then, but doesn't diminish the importance of addressing whatever flaw caused the explosion. Considering that we're tal
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Tell us how you really feel. :) Anybody who says that deserves a prompt smack. I told you how I feel you smarmy parasitic prick.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You nose detects it and your brain reacts to it; it's odor. Just because you don't consciously perceive it doesn't mean it isn't odor. If it isn't odor then there isn't any other good word for it.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You've rightly hedged with "sometimes", the article on the other hand is very whiggish and seems to incline that any perception of decline at any time in any place is a cognitive bias and not representative of reality. What
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> In any case, I don't think anyone is qualified to credit or discredit a claim in a medical or psychologically diagnostic sense without a clinical interview (something that few psychiatrists are qualified to perform by the way). T
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
So let me get this straight, your training as a psychoanalyst qualifies you to discredit a woman's testimony, despite you never having met with her? How wonderful. By the way, have you read this? > Today, the American Psychiatric
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
When chemicals float through the air into your nose or mouth and get detected by your brain, that's odor. Conscious perception or unconscious emotional reaction makes no difference, both are odor. If there are no chemicals being emit
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If tears are being detected by the brain, it's through chemicals from the tears traveling through the air and landing on sensors in your nose (or mouth); that is odor. If there is some mechanism other than odor by which humans might
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If they think it's being absorbed through the lungs then they should plug the subjects noses and have them inhale instead of sniffing it. But that's a far fetched assumption. Assuming the effect is real at all, it's almos
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If both are actually odorless then what's the mechanism? Magic? Obviously if there is any effect then the tears aren't actually odorless.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> What's a viable business model for web search other than ads (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Naver, etc.) or paid search (Kagi)? Not my problem. Those companies, and any other with business models reliant on advertising, don't
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You think it implausible that somebody might grow weary of discussing such dreary things?
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I've used several laptops as file servers in hot apartments without AC and haven't had issues. The trick is to make sure you're not running a bunch of bloat you don't need (which is the root cause of 99% of "my old
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> websites shouldn't be able to make money from advertising at all. This is the case. Advertising is a scourge, psychological warfare waged by corporations against our minds and wallets. Advertisers have no moral qualms, they wi
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
That data come from surveying people directly, not data aggregated through medical professionals. So no, your supposition is incorrect. Transgender people really do report a 4x higher rate of severe long covid symptoms as "cisgendere
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
What a strange remark. Would you object to somebody saying they are tired of human conflict, hunger, disease? These have all existed for the entirety of humanity, so by your thinking people cannot be tired of them?
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
And the reason they insist on checking the ID of a 40 year old man with gray in his beard and photoaged skin is because... 1) A teenager might be a special effects makeup artist.. or 2) because the law compels them to be bureaucratic twats
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> they don't want to be in the legacy media licensing business. Isn't that business basically free money? The way I see it, no capital investment is needed. You just need to keep a few accountants and lawyers around to ha
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I'm answering the question "How do I pronounce ...?" The procedure is the same for any name or technical term. You pronounce it however you feel is best (which will mean different people pronounce it in different ways.)
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Why should they settle for lesser protection of the word engineer when they're winning their legal battles to protect the word engineer itself?
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You literally suppressed the discussion.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You pronounce Riza the same way you pronounce any other name; whichever way feels most natural to you the speaker. If the person with that name wants you to pronounce it another way, they'll tell you (and if they aren't in earsho
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Your impression of a consensus is shaped by lopsided censorship and suppression of the other side. 98% of assistant professors say they self-censor, and 81% of those say they're self-censoring views critical of Israel. That's 79%
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Of course both claims are false, but they are nevertheless popular points of view, and the popularity of these points of view explain why academics feel suppressed. That's the point I'm making here, I thought that was clear.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Aaand it's flagged. This kind of discussion is suppressed on HN too, not just on campuses.

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