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Maybe a reference would help - I'm not sure how this is a meaningful statement. It seems that there could be many somewhat "generic" Western European jokes about despots which date…

> Presumably whatever anti-plagiarism software journals are using today is similarly limited. Sadly, I am guessing the problem here is the anti-plagiarism software was never run, n…

> if they do not protect against variants or breakthrough infections? The vaccines do not provide absolute immunity but they very clearly and obviously provide protection against v…

If I were the union I would take the opportunity to campaign on this. Say that Amazon’s leadership is so untrustworthy that they tried to rig an election they probably would have w…

The problem is that the election was clearly unfair and there was a widespread sense that the people voting in it thought it was unfair. A 70-30 vote in an election where you know …

I think you misread it. I believe they mean that among the coastal nations, the US ranks 3rd in terms of polluting its own coastline. I also don’t have access to the paper, but the…

For me (as someone formally diagnosed with schizophrenia): as a child I had a lot of flickering lights/shadows and brief whispers/noises, horrible depth perception, frequent dizzin…

I do feel the focus on lobbyists and corruption distracts from the more serious problem: part of the solution will have to involve reducing certain luxuries for many upper-middle-c…

The idea that Elon Musk is spending 35 hours a week (or even 20) engineering at SpaceX is preposterous. He is blatantly lying here, or pretending a few hours of doodling each week …

People are focusing on the pettiness and timing but the US government had very good reasons to do this (and other countries should follow suit): 1) The increasing commercialization…

> why Summers is still remembered as an egregiously noteworthy case of incipient cancel culture. Come on, man. If you’re the president of an organization and you get yourself into …

This is what I said: > Specifically, [the “variability hypothesis”] is a bold scientific claim that contradicted current and 2005-era understanding of human biology, and requires f…

This is probably the most compelling reason to view Pinker as a less-than-good-faith actor here: https://newrepublic.com/article/68044/sex-ed In 2005 then-Harvard president started…

Regardless of the extent that the increase is due to statistical noise or socio-political factors: it is obviously incorrect to look at one deeply unusual year and proclaim the tre…

> But is C going to be too hard for young kids to play with? Speaking from personal experience, I “learned C” alongside actually learning BASIC when I was 10-12. When I say “learne…

A lot of people have Chrome installed alongside Firefox or Edge or whatever and will just try the video somewhere else. So YouTube actually gets more revenue and Chrome gets free a…

Great link, thanks. The line about “all of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course” (from the Firefox exec) reads like a winking acknowledgement that Google’s beha…

I agree with you in general. But I think in this specific case it’s a bit more complicated: the downsides aren’t as bad as they normally would be, and the use of primitive flow con…

It wasn’t “challenged” by that scientist, the scientist provided additional information about the newer state of the art. More to the point, if you are enough of a grown up to crit…

Very nice work and much easier than trawling through the repository. Some ignorant and probably cliched musing: when I look at small utilities like these I am always struck by a se…

The science here is very well-established: http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_dating.htm

I didn’t mean it strictly literally. The original comment was a thoughtless namedrop of a brand new book (which means by tautology it’s irrelevant to the topic at hand) and doesn’t…