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ipioxu15on Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy

Wrong.

According to the article, the "punishment" on table was a disciplinatory hearing. The PI decided to resign rather than undergo that.

The situation is not materially worse than someone getting fired for a reason, and I don't see many stories on HN about that.

ipioxu15on Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft

And you need to source your claims. Nobody has reason to believe a word of what you write.

Presumably, it is based on claims by Russian and Syrian authorities. These are not impartial sources, and they delayed access of international inspectors to the site.

OPCW has confirmed use of chemical weapons by Syrian government during the civil war at several separate occasions.

ipioxu15on A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

> A hobby that has some relatively low chance of impacting society.

As opposed to more important pursuits, such as advertising.

ipioxu15on Six Months at Riot Games

The CEO speaks for the company, like it or not.

ipioxu15on Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead

> Because the fossil remains were found in deep waters where coral typically can't survive, the researchers suspect that the reef drowned due to rising sea levels leaving behind the newly discovered fossil structure and a small section of living coral, which was able to stay in shallow water.

Not related to the mechanism that is killing the Great Barrier Reef, which has survived sea level changes.

ipioxu15on No Paper Is That Good

> The psychologists think this has something to do with child psychology and have written 10,000 pages on it.

If you mean that 10000 pages in total in 10-page papers, you have read the literature, and become the hero child psychology needs by writing a paper refuting this.

On the other hand, if you did not read the literature wider, how do you know that you are first to do so, or that the misconception is even shared by other than the authors of those papers. Of course, the implicit assumption in all this is that psychologists are stupid.

ipioxu15on Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services

Yes. However, systemd did this part certainly right --- the service files and their dependencies are much easier to understand compared to e.g. its counterpart in upstart.

ipioxu15on Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?

Corruption, nepotism, and hypocrisy all in one --- beautiful, modern American values.

ipioxu15on EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME

Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17063109

ipioxu15on Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food

There's nothing strange: GP is giving those as historical examples of this sort of behavior by the industry, not claiming the jury is out today on these topics.

Especially with climate change, there is no doubt the industry has done all it can to cloud the issue in the past, and still continues it. You could add other things (e.g. smoking) to the list.

ipioxu15on A Git catastrophe cleaned up

Git is certainly the best of the version control systems to date, and I'm happy that it won. Experts have no problems with issues like this.

The described failure mode also can occur in any existing version control system --- the user is essentially did

cp -f ../mybranch/somefile-new.c somefile.c; hg commit somefile.c

The history in mybranch touching somefile.c is now partly useless, since all the patches are already applied. Of course, the branch can still be merged, if the conflicts are resolved --- the conflict resolution is then pretty much doing the above command again.