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Retracted and sham papers is actually a major problem. Estimated 10,000 papers were retracted in 2023 ( https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio... ) and that i…

Barely half have some sort of 401k program and the average holding amount is only $40,000. Nothing to really gloat about. Earners of $100,000/year or more have 5x the amount in hol…

Of course stocks have real tangible value or else we wouldn’t be able to buy and sell them. They’re not something that you barter with. However, the majority of Americans do not as…

> Personally, I think letting people go there own way as much as possible is the best course, and empowering the United Nations is pretty much the opposite of that. As in a Native …

Perhaps we may not need to agree on every topic but there must be a discourse happening between each other in good faith. This rarely happens in our current political climate as mo…

I really hope these past eight months cement the idea in more peoples head that the stock market has little correlation to reality. It fluctuates based on personal sentiment from i…

>but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions. This is where the problem lies within our current political discourse: both parties have fundamental differences with…

Reeder was a great app even when used on the iPhone 4, granted it was the best one out as the time. I believe Reeder 3 was the final version I bought before phasing out of using RS…

I don’t think they should or ever will step away from wood bats. It’s one of the few things that levels the playing field for all batters; instead letting brute force be the power …

> It surprises me that 5 of 200 that do so well actually enlist. I’m generalizing here, but: No matter what their score was (high or low), most people are going to take the ASVAB b…

A marketing stunt that involved the police conducting a raid on Jason Chen’s home and then barring Gizmodo from future Apple events? Yeah, that’d be one hell of a PR stunt if it wa…

They’re incentives were an attempt to change social media with a more refined version of interactions. Of course getting big names on it early on would drive interest. That sort of…

> Reddit's ban today is the equivalent of them saying "You can't quit, you're fired!". This implies the Reddit ban is directed toward TD specifically, which it’s not. This is Reddi…

The online digital textbooks and homework, Cengage’s MindTap, requires flash for their statistics portion. Flash is also used for their digital textbook. I’ll assume this carries o…

Health data related to Native Americans is already highly undercounted and incomplete as compared to other groups. This continued surpression of their ways of living is sad to watc…

[retracted] and I hope this is just a misunderstanding. As the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, 2019-nCoV is a novel (new) coronavirus.[0] The CDC defines coro…

The Lee-Leahy amendment passed the Senate. Not sure how someone can say there is no counter-balancing entity with regard to FISA courts. From Senator Mike Lee's webpage[0]: The Lee…

Third parties being able to submit amicus curiaes seem like a counter-balancing entity—dependent on which way they argue.

> the previous process which was to just call a judge of a secret FISA court which no one is really allowed to know the details of. This is simplifying the process to imply it’s no…