throwaway57023

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   by throwaway57023 7y ago

   It's funny how people, especially Americans, talk about race as if it were an unchanging construct. You see swathes of scientific literature classifying people into races even though the classifications are inconsistent. So you get whi
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   by throwaway57023 7y ago

   Who should be responsible of deciding if anyone is indecent or inclusive? Are decency and inclusivity even real?
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   by throwaway57023 7y ago

   Stallman's advocating of an extreme ideology and it permeating the otherwise extremely capitalist tech world is in fact the only good thing he did in his career.
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   by throwaway57023 7y ago

   Writing code in research is quite different from writing code in industry. For starters, in research, absolutely no one will read your code. Not your boss, not your peer reviewers, not your colleagues, not your tech-savvy users. No one. The
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   by throwaway57023 7y ago

   I came here expecting a report on the (very real) issues with the current publication system in academia, such as a few publishing houses extorting enormous amounts of money off researchers and ultimately taxpayers, the flaws of the traditi