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"If I'm not mistaken, enjoying the process of creativity without any results is an obvious sign of mental illness." Well fuck you too.

The author has accurately summed up what I despise about modern P.C. (I guess youth?) culture and my main source of aggravation when trying to have a conversation about basically a…

Why would you still use FB today? There are better photo sharing apps, there are better messenging apps, there are better broadcasting apps. The fact that FB monolithically enclose…

What an annoying article. I don't really see the point of it besides it being half humblebrag half swan song. All the actual information has been covered to death. I do like the pa…

That does look like a refreshing exchange. The pessimist in me thinks it's a pretty optimal "showcase" example though :P On a related note, don't some fields/journals (like pharmac…

That is true, but ref reports can definitely be nightmares, especially in niche areas where only 3-4 groups qualify to ref something. And some journals can be particularly bad abou…

I think it's fairly easy to give honest feedback about a paper you dislike without it being politically disastrous, just something along the lines of: "Is there a reason why you us…

Interesting that one of the opening premises of this piece is: "Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’…

I'm not sure how it is in other fields, but in Astronomy we have a monolithic database of publications (called ADS) where you can search by author or title or date or keywords etc.…

This is something that I had been thinking would greatly benefit the arXiv for a long time. Presently, when you do a scientific work, the article goes to a referee who then sends y…

... and the author has failed to adequately communicate that person's story. I didn't say a thing about the subject of the piece. Is it poor taste to criticize everything associate…

Author lays it on a little fucking thick don't they? Couldn't wade through the tidal wave of forced narrative. Who starts a story with a 3 minute hero shot? Just poor. "she never l…

First, some telescopes do do portions or all of their observations in queue or staff mode, where you just give them the required objects and weather conditions. Just not all of the…

Hmmm, great article that summarizes some of the more advanced explanations for the Fermi paradox. Some say that the Sun is young and so if there's other intelligent life, some woul…

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That was pretty interesting until it turned into a crazy-rant.

I guess we can replace it with "prostitution-parade" to be more PC. Sorry about that.

Is this about the vocabulary or the concept? Yes, I despise when someone begs me to force their work into my friends faces. If I like it enough I am perfectly capable of copy-pasti…

I'm fine with the illustrations, the layout is just annoying and counterintuitive. Why would you not just have a long-ass column with some images in it like basically every other a…

The opening page was my main frustration. According to my internet experience: 1) scroll down - failure, maybe my scroll isn't strong enough to get past some weird header frame thi…

I think a magazine that intentionally spurns it's own inherent benefits in favor of pretending to be something else, like a movie or a symphony, would be for chumps, yes. Websites …

Thanks for the tip.