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Looks like i will be skipping 11

> Hello! if (haveTime(you)) { iHave(something); iWantTo(etc) }

FTFY

Me too what s going on

The idea behind "fact checking" is that facebook wants to push the burden for the crap they broadcast to someone else, and it works, lawmakers go along with it.

Facebook should be banned from allowing any content about COVID in its network, for public health reasons. They are a shit company that leeches on the free content of their users, who would expect any kind of good to come out of this. No need to sue them , investigate them etc, just ban anything that mentions covid on their network

There s nothing "old" about jquery, quite the opposite. the github projects based on jquery actually work, while almost everything made for the "post jquery" world is abandoned, totally not working, or impossible to develop on.

Europe celebrating for becoming a regulatory minefield is not a good sign.

Is this google scraping the bottom of the barrel ? That would be a worrying sign

And it doesn't help that navigating "google business account" is a nightmare. I m looking how to edit aliases to an email account, there's no option to edit it.

i like vr, but if one wants isolation to work, just move in a cottage

> Every day, millions of Americans use online services like Google Search, Maps and Gmail to find new information and get things done.

Can we talk about this instead? Whats up with not finding the things i search for. Either the internet has stopped having the useful info i was seeking or google couldn't find it. It would not be a great annoyance if it was easy to switch to bing. Google holds all the entry points to the internet for themselves

$5 domains, $70 in ethereum gas fees

Randomness is also evolutionary. It's wrong to equate evolution with optimization

I think it can definitely be stated that having weekly decisions about something as serious and possibly long-lasting as vaccinations are a bad omen. Especially if we consider possible adverse effects in children we should instead opt for partial lockdowns at least temporarily to stem the wave

Another one that works:

    javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.st/'+window.location

(scihub detects most academic websites)

all of those sound quite mildly incremental though. Note how many of these wars achieved nothing and basically circled back to where they began, the same old conflicts returned ... with the addition of china

It could be some new friction-based regenerative braking, we ll have to wait to hear from TSLA

is google at all into biotech?

No doubt it has always been gambling, and equally addictive. But that includes all trading, not just crypto

(2018)

And yet the future is all about Identity politics. It's an optimization problem really. Recent crises show that liberal democracy can no longer serve the needs of individuals that have increasingly more freedoms (partly thanks to technology) and who are no longer willing to compromise with large groups. The challenge is going to be how to build political systems that simultaneously cater to all the various identity dimensions of citizens, while at the same time avoiding the oppression of 50% by the other 50%, as happens in democracies. This is a technological problem (after all democracy itself was technology), and interestingly many of the decentralized projects aim to solve parts of it. What seems to be lacking is an integrated understanding of all such parts.

Would be nice to see a new version of irc but it's going so slowly...

Businesses have always invested the same % of revenue in advertising. They ll keep doing it without google, and they will still need publishers to display the ads. Other companies will reemerge

I don't know i'd watch ads in a convenient rss reader that looks like twitter. I just wouldn't want users to lock their content into it.

On the contrary, brevity is such a big virtue that even people who don't have it are forced to spam twitter with their tweet threads

For me, twitter home is just random. Developers should check their code, there must be bugs or something. I ve been using twitter chronologically for years now which begs the question: why did we give up on rss?

not really. on the opposite, youtube, which does compensate for popular content, has vastly better content. Since people know there is a way to make money by making content that is likeable, the likelihood of making good content is higher. In facebook people make $0 always, hence they have no incentive to put any effort

It's their blogs, they don't do unpaid work for facebook

It's hilarious to me that the author pretends we should have higher standards of facebook. Hey do you know how much facebook paid for the content they publish? You know what you get for $0 ? Nothing or less than nothing. And it s not just facebook, all of them are selling attention, not content. As long as users are not compensated for their content, the audience will be fed with trash

Here is an incentive they could use: If a paper publishes the code it used, they can be allowed to skip the methods section about it. Describing code with words is at best awkward and usually error prone as people forget to update the text.

To be clear in my field the journals require publishing the code, but in my experience the code that gets reused gets more scrutiny, often without benefit to the researcher.

I agree, and of course it is. But the underlying issue here is that paper production is the wrong way to do science, there simply isn't enough attention to validate all those papers

Depends on the field. Let's assume you are not in math /CS/Physics

What can go "wrong"

- Someone may find a minor rounding error and now you have to issue a correction to the paper which, laudable as it is, is a bad thing

- You 'll end up having to maintain an open-source-something and possibly forks

- Your open source code may end up as a github repo in which you are just one of the contributors, not the owner and others are leeching credit from u

- People who want to criticise you will find excuses in the coding style.

Research code is messy -- it must be messy imho, or else it's probably insignificant. People who don't publish it are definitely shielded by the obscurity , while i have received scrutiny for entirely inconsequential details. You can choose to publish it in a less accessible way , which will thwart people with bad intentions. Even publishing it as a tarball in a web server is enough work to keep them away.