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Basically now they can do a meta study on how the review process of IRB has flaws. As shown, if you intentionally try to bypass the IRB, apparently you can. It's even reproducible.…

I actually hacked something together like that and it surprisingly looks much better in a video than in real life. I guess the main reason being that we have two eyes and the brain…

From my experience living in Korea and the fact that Korea has one of the lowest productivity of all oecd countries, it is half-half. A lot of the time is actually not "hard-workin…

Clicked it because no idea what RVs are: Recreational Vehicles, meaning vehicles with fancy interior, e.g. kitchen and so on

It's a partial vacuum not a full vacuum. Stopped watching at that point..

The singularity? :p

"The solution might be found in a form of constraint: more standardization of the time for work and the time for life." And stuff gets even more crowded because everyone is free at…

Normally it is called sanitized, but that doesn't make a good headline

Most tap water in Germany is "recycled" water. I think this goes for most of Europe? Drinking tap water and adding your on carbonate is even a thing here (German use the word as sy…

They don't charge you until they ship, so basically you are just saving the spot and can cancel before they ship when reviews are available (hopefully?): https://twitter.com/Palmer…

It rubs me wrong that nobody here considers that maybe the guy is really called Achmed. But then the joke is on you I guess

Still wouldn't change much because, thanks god, the US law is not global ^^

Giving a German view on that, where tuition is free: In Germany imho sometimes the problem is that professors don't really care much about the teaching, because they actually want …

South Korea has(or had, they may have changed it in the last few months) a law that enforces the usage of ActiveX for everything which needs security (e. g. online banking, online …

There was a startup at my university which also mass produced spider silk. The stuff they do you can see on this website with awful bullet points: https://www.amsilk.com/industries…

I was really wondering, because Japanese doesn't even have a Q

And so much other stuff is wrong with this report. I wonder who paid for making crap like this Suggestions on title, etc. are welcome. It's my first Hackernews

Maybe it's the other way round. If you feel healthy you don't mind working longer..

That's what the numerics course is for, at least at my university

I didn't know apple invented multi-touch.