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> Impact factor means less these days when we see how citation manipulation and stuffing skew things. Academic publishing is a racket. So I don't much care. Lancet played politics …

Not sure who you represent (i.e. who "we" refers to in your message) but what you all do with your money is your choice, and I don't have any objections to whatever basis you all d…

> “About half of prime age men who are not in the labor force may have a serious health condition that is a barrier to working,” Not sure why what Alan Krueger thinks may or may no…

Just to be clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Psycho... > According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.538, rankin…

> The idea that every able bodied person has to work is not supposed to be the way our society functions; at least not in the last 100,000 years. So the fruit of who's labour exact…

> Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. ... > There is not ye…

> If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. Personally I would ask them to stop glad-han…

Pretty offensive to me.

What is a category mistake?

By that logic the Fed's low rates is what buried the middle class in debt by a much larger degree than corporate savings.

> I do think Go was far too adamant for far too long about not needing generics (also known as parametric polymorphism); seems sober minds clearly disagree about where to put the b…

Come now, you are just bargaining. Just move on and get to the final stage of acceptance and hope.

32,510.30 USD/BTC

> The bottom earners probably have zero excess earnings but somehow pay similar tax per dollar earned as the top 1% earners who have pretty much only excess earnings, even when not…

Spoiler: was a lab leak. > Usually caused by contact with animals, the outbreak in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was due to a leak at a vaccine plant, according to Lanzho…

> I expect a few prominent politicians to be soon either arrested or "convinced" to step down. Won't happen because the media and FANG runs cover for politicians in the west as opp…