There's a lot more to come out on this part of the story in the coming year.
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It probably makes sense to start out by not asking for too much data in order not to scare people for what's coming down the line.
As Scott McNealy once told an audience years ago:
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Why the downvotes?
Always remember that tools like PAR are of limited system if the filesystem becomes corrupt.
Also worth mentioning:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3244537/#:~:tex....
Healthy weight is also a lot more complicated than just one hormone. Taubes is not discussing, for example, the difference between healthy and unhealthy obesity and the role that dysfunctional adipogenesis plays in the latter by inducing hypertrophic changes in fat cells (distended fat cells) rather than hyperplasia (create more fat cells).
A lot of research has focused on finding agonists for PPARgamma to restore healthy adipogenesis and reduce unhealthy inflammation of fat tissue. Some have been taken off the market for suspected toxicities, but piaglitazone is still widely prescribed.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-science...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/what-kind-researcher...
Many young scientists have left the research community after completing their PhD's because they were unable to obtain funding the old-fashioned way, by submitting grant applications that are evaluated through the peer review process, rather than by kowtowing to a sexual predator who was facing charges for the sex-trafficking of minors and was trying to buy his way out of federal prison by "facilitating" donations to Harvard and MIT through his billionaire co-conspirators that include Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, and Les Wexner, in exchange for thank-you notes, as a form of reputation laundering, from co-conspirator and still-president of MIT L. Rafael Reif.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
For research journal articles, just search Google for sci-hub to find the latest domain name for Alexandra Elbakyan's paywall-bypassing site.
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/06/27/mit-president-c...
Apparently when he's not busy providing reputation laundering for members of organized crime like Jeffrey Epstein, Reif is running a "sanctuary university" for Chinese spies like Chen.
MIT profits from turning a blind eye to their scientists' ties to Chinese Communist Politburo, much like they turned a blind eye to Epstein's sexual abuse of 12 year-old girls, that in this case enabled a scientist like Gang Chen to take away $20 million in federal research grants from more deserving Americans ... so they should be held accountable too.
More here:
https://theconversation.com/the-thousand-talents-plan-is-par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
One wonders then if Rafael Reif, who forbade any pro-Palestinian activism that was deemed too "anti-Israel" as one of his first policies after he became the 17th president of MIT, is now proud of this state of affairs.
The larger problem here of course involves what this rabbi wrote about after it was revealed that Mr. Reif had sent a personally signed thank-you note to a fellow by the name of Jeffrey Epstein:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201127110135/https://www.chica...
Thankfully this article lives on in the wayback machine, because it reminds us that the issue here is more than just about their treatment of fellow Palestinians.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets...
So apparently Frank was one of the sugar-daddy's enablers too.
I'm sure the Crown Prince could use a little more "reputation laundering" from his friends and supporters states-side after the CIA announced that it was the Crown Prince himself who ordered the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Epstein apparently was a good friend of the Saudi Crown Prince and visited him there on the eve of Mr. Trump's election:
https://www.insider.com/epstein-riyadh-saudi-arabia-private-...
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/31/universities...
The crux of it is that MIT refused to disavow any kind of trespassing charge.
(https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/01/15/swartz-attorney-ortiz)
For his deliberate mishandling of the Aaron Swartz case, as well as his cover-up of ballistic missile defense research misconduct at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and his personally signed thank-you note to an alleged member of organized crime like Jeffrey Epstein which was intended as a form of reputation laundering in exchange for millions of dollars in gifts that MIT received from not just Epstein directly but also from several of his billionaire friends who allegedly owed him a "favor" (some of whom now also stand accused of abusing underage girls on properties which were allegedly outfitted with surveillance cameras for blackmail purposes), perhaps it's time to revisit once again the call for Rafael Reif's resignation from his position as president of MIT:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Decentralization + filters which are either trained by machine learning or appointed by the community that the forum serves (rather than the stockholders that the platform enriches) is what needs to replace Facebook, Parler, etc.
Yes, this creates waste, but it would help to realign incentives between buyers and sellers.
Unfortunately this will make a lot of people more sloppy shoppers and the next step will be to limit the percentage of purchased goods that can be returned which will play right into the hands of the junk manufacturers.
TeXmacs does not run in the browser.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-14/mit-sloan...
Instead of de-platforming Mr. Matzneff, he was applauded for his work on French television show Apostrophe, and even received a "thank-you note" from former President of France Francois Mitterand, which one of his victims described as designed to help Mr. Matzneff avoid arrest by French police much like in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who received his "thank-you note" from still-president of MIT Rafael Reif, before finally being forced to face charges 30 years later for the sexual abuse of minors:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...
Who are the experts who get to decide what counts as a "falsehood"?
For example, how many of us really know the details about how polls operate in each of the 50 states to know whether or not fraud could have occurred on such a level to affect the outcome.
For my part, I don't really care all that much because the bigger problem in this country is not whether Trump or Biden becomes our next president in a few days, but for how much (in terms of corporate campaign donations) this new administration was purchased.
Until we remove corporate donations from the election process, a lot of the candidates' campaign promises, on both sides, is just a bunch of empty rhetoric.
For example, Fauci's decision to prioritize the value of human life, including elderly life, over the economy is one I happen to agree with ... but will not deny that there is a political dimension, as well as a moral one, in taking such a position too.
When someone like Trump is in office who he doesn't like, then I presume that this expertise to censor "falsehoods" is supposed to be found in unelected "experts" like our social media tycoons.
"Brilliant guy"?
Their "Crown Prince" assassinates a dissident journalist by placing a plastic bag over his head to suffocate him while his fiance waits outside the embassy in her car.
And leaders like president Rafael Reif at MIT invite this brutal dictator onto the MIT campus in order to thank him for his donation to the Media Lab in a photo op covered by the newspapers, presumably as a form of reputation laundering and because Rafael Reif cares about human rights about as much as he cares about the sexual abuse of 12 year-old girls.
Why is the Crown Prince's violence "more legitimate" than folks who perhaps mistakenly think the election was stolen from them and feel the need to break a few windows in order to protest the ballot count?