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> i suspect most financial fraud would be caught by the accountants and grant administrators at respective institutions. If it was only their money on the line, that would probably…

> "i don't know what you'd find in a financial audit that a scientific audit wouldn't tell you" Financial audits would uncover financial fraud. > "seems like a better deal to audit…

It won't change until a track record of producing studies that fail to replicate hurts the career of an academic more than not publishing anything at all. As long as publish-or-per…

This sort of lame duplicitous apologia is little but more of the same rhetoric that got the Bay Area into this predicament in the first place. Here is my summary of the article "Su…

> Ironically, though, the larger Firefox's market share, the more Google will pay to be the default search engine in Firefox. The smaller Firefox's market share, the more Mitchell …

So, useful adblockers that actually work well won't be allowed.

Does Brave have their own extension repository yet, or are they still leaving that all up to Google? I don't see much value in Brave supporting a feature dropped from Chrome if it …

> But this is motivated by stereometric reasons – everything on the same latitude is equally distorted Expanding on this; Mercator is useful for navigation because it's conformal, …

> Many maps -especially US maps- enlarged USSR for decades. Can you provide information or citations for this? > China says "X must be visible at zoom level Y instead of at Y-5". T…

> If I remember correctly, this used to happen on historical maps too, the UK and Europe were often made larger than they actually are. A consequence of the projection chosen, appl…

He meant to write cooling; the moderate (warmer) parts leave, leaving the fanatical 'cold' members. I agree that 'fanatical=cold/moderate=warm' seems a little backwards, but it's t…

All of that is completely irrelevant to my point, which is that fiduciary duty does not compel Apple to do business with China. You were peddling a falsehood.

1897... copyright holders have really done a number on you.

How does an app developer test 911 functionality without actually placing a 911 call? I'm sure 911 operators would not be amused by such test calls; do companies have special testi…

You take me for what, a libertarian? Do you think you know me? I never said anything about wanting a "free market cake." Regardless, nothing you said refutes me. "Fiduciary respons…

*Evaporative cooling

Absolutely. When people have aligned incentives, the appearance of organization may emerge from the system even when nobody has actually conspired or coordinated with anybody else.…

Norman Angell thought much the same... in 1909. > In The Great Illusion, Angell's primary thesis was, in the words of historian James Joll, that "the economic cost of war was so gr…

Partisan fits. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partisan 1. An adherent to a party or faction. 2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, pe…

> Apple has an actual fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. That fiduciary responsibility meme needs to die already. The flimsiest business justification is enough to cov…

> Which agricultural revolution? Don't take it too literally, his comment is a modified quote from the unabomber's manifesto, which opens with, "The industrial revolution and its c…

> "If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable" Thiel hasn't even done that. His position seems to be that American companies should work with the US Military, b…

> " the chilling thing" Your comment implies a singular chilling thing, while his does not.

I doubt it's organized in any large-scale sense, but nevertheless it's very corrupt.

> Dragging a specific method of accomplishing that into it was kind of unnecessary from GP. Without pointing out that it could theoretically be done (that rocket isn't ready yet, a…