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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 1 in ~news
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Comment on Alzheimers paper retracted after a decade of resistance in ~health
tealblue Link ParentSorry I'm having trouble understanding the last bit. Do you mean that people might have their reputation damaged for verifying his research?Sorry I'm having trouble understanding the last bit.
to make this research without it being tarnished by his name.
Do you mean that people might have their reputation damaged for verifying his research?
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Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2024) in ~health.mental
tealblue (edited )Link ParentPersonality disorders are a bit tricky since AFAIK, in contrast to an analogous non-personality disorder (say OCD vs obsessive-compulsive personality disorder), an exclusionary criteria is often...Personality disorders are a bit tricky since AFAIK, in contrast to an analogous non-personality disorder (say OCD vs obsessive-compulsive personality disorder), an exclusionary criteria is often the willingness to change. So it may be understandable if they'd be hesitant about the diagnosis with a patient that's actively trying to fix the problem. I'm not a mental health professional, but perhaps it may be useful to ask the therapist what their candid thoughts are about the diagnosis and if they're thinking there may be a more appropriate one for your situation.
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Comment on Alzheimers paper retracted after a decade of resistance in ~health
tealblue Link ParentMy view is that you'd need to be within the field to accurately assess what is even happening here. If you want to place pressure, place pressure on making sure that people within the field...My view is that you'd need to be within the field to accurately assess what is even happening here. If you want to place pressure, place pressure on making sure that people within the field themselves follow through on whatever their assessment may be of the situation. You seem to be convinced that Tessier-Lavigne built a career out of fraud, which isn't the case. He built his career in the 90s over the discovery of netrins, which is a long verified result at this point. He also published papers in the years after the 2009 Alzheimer's study discrediting the claims made, so it's not clear how much he actually misled the field on this.
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Comment on Alzheimers paper retracted after a decade of resistance in ~health
tealblue Link ParentI'd just say that this whole issue should be arbitrated by people working in the field. .. This is also worth noting: "Concerns about three [of the five] papers—one in Cell in 1999 and two in...I'd just say that this whole issue should be arbitrated by people working in the field.
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This is also worth noting: "Concerns about three [of the five] papers—one in Cell in 1999 and two in Science in 2001—had first come up on PubPeer in 2015 when Tessier-Lavigne, then president of Rockefeller, was under consideration for the Stanford presidency. At the time, he submitted corrections to both journals, but Science failed to publish them because of an editorial error and Cell did not find a correction was needed." (source)
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Comment on Alzheimers paper retracted after a decade of resistance in ~health
tealblue LinkIt's worth noting that Tessier-Lavigne was not found to have manipulated any data himself, only by others working on the papers in question. It would be best to let things play out and for the...It's worth noting that Tessier-Lavigne was not found to have manipulated any data himself, only by others working on the papers in question. It would be best to let things play out and for the scientific community to neutrally reevaluate his findings in light of this news. What would be worse than the findings in question being wrong outright would be his findings being mostly right or on the right track but being dismissed flatly as wrong because of what happened.
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Comment on Toxic posts on economist job website traced to users from elite universities in ~life
tealblue (edited )Link ParentThe concern though is that they guessed the function for how usernames are generated: Which was confirmed with three usernames, which seems a bit small. I'm not sure what a good number would be,...To recover IP addresses from the observed usernames on EJMR, we employ a multi-step
procedure. First, we develop GPU-based software to quickly compute the SHA-1 hashes used
for the username allocation algorithm on EJMR. In total, we compute almost 9 quadrillion hashes
to fully enumerate all possible IP combinations and to check which of the resulting substrings
of hashes match the observed usernames
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Our statistical test is very conservative and minimizes the probability of falsely assigning
an IP address to a post because the p-value thresholds we employ are of the order of approximately 10-11.The concern though is that they guessed the function for how usernames are generated:
We guessed that EJMR’s usernames were generated as follows: u = S(H(M(t, a, o)))
Which was confirmed with three usernames, which seems a bit small. I'm not sure what a good number would be, but why not create a bunch of their own posts to generate usernames to test?
Edit: Though if I had to bet, I'd say they got it right. It would seem quite unlikely to have gotten the first username to work with an unconvoluted string formula by luck and, assuming the SHA-1 function is pretty chaotic w.r.t. input (I don't know if this actually holds, so correct me if I'm wrong), extraordinarily unlikely that it would work for the next two usernames. The language correlations on p. 29 are also pretty convincing.
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Comment on Realized my screen is 144, not 60 hz in ~tech
tealblue Link ParentThe main idea is that, if you're not raising your prescription/not wearing glasses, your eyes should only be working a little bit to accomodate bluriness. Any more and your eyes/visual system will...The main idea is that, if you're not raising your prescription/not wearing glasses, your eyes should only be working a little bit to accomodate bluriness. Any more and your eyes/visual system will basically stop trying, and you might find yourself engaging in bad habits like putting a screen all the way up to your face to read it. In either case, you definitely should communicate with an eye doctor about it.
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Comment on With offices sitting empty, US landlords are ‘handing back the keys’ in ~finance
tealblue Link ParentI'm curious, what abuses were there in the US?I'm curious, what abuses were there in the US?
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Comment on Realized my screen is 144, not 60 hz in ~tech
tealblue (edited )Link ParentWell, using corrective lenses when they're only marginally necessary can weaken your eyes. Of course, it's something you should talk to your eye doctor about if you can get away with not wearing...Well, using corrective lenses when they're only marginally necessary can weaken your eyes. Of course, it's something you should talk to your eye doctor about if you can get away with not wearing glasses all the time.
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Comment on Technology is making people busier during their so called free time in ~life
tealblue Link ParentThere also is an issue of people setting boundaries between work and their normal life, and technology plays a significant part in that. Sometimes I'll send an email to a professor and get a...There also is an issue of people setting boundaries between work and their normal life, and technology plays a significant part in that. Sometimes I'll send an email to a professor and get a response late at night, which leaves me a bit concerned.
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Comment on Is there a programming language that brings you joy? in ~comp
tealblue LinkI don't program much now, but I took a programming class a while ago structured around a Java textbook that I really enjoyed and remember having had a significant effect on the way I structured my...I don't program much now, but I took a programming class a while ago structured around a Java textbook that I really enjoyed and remember having had a significant effect on the way I structured my understanding of things in general (I'd say because the language feels philosophically tractable). Python though has always felt weird and unsatisfying, and I could never get into it.
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Comment on The myth of the unemployed US college grad in ~life
tealblue LinkThe issue is that we care too much about making the lives of college grads work out and too little about the lives of high school grads working out. Employers have no reason to trust that a high...The issue is that we care too much about making the lives of college grads work out and too little about the lives of high school grads working out. Employers have no reason to trust that a high school degree means anything for a long list of reasons, including that it's become commonplace to pass failing students that in some extreme cases literally don't know arithmetic or how to read for the sake of funding.
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Comment on The myth of the unemployed US college grad in ~life
tealblue Link ParentI'd say it's the opposite. Big business tends to push for more education to bring down the bargaining power of skilled labor.I'd say it's the opposite. Big business tends to push for more education to bring down the bargaining power of skilled labor.
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Comment on When the New York Times lost its way in ~humanities
tealblue (edited )Link ParentIf you look at the UK, a decent argument can be made that the Tories cared slightly more about the poor than the Liberal party (look at Disraeli or the difference in how the Tories and Liberals...If you look at the UK, a decent argument can be made that the Tories cared slightly more about the poor than the Liberal party (look at Disraeli or the difference in how the Tories and Liberals treated Ireland during the Potato Famine--obviously labour movements will represent working class interests better, but I don't think you can take it as given that classical conservatives favor the elite while classical liberals favor the working class. Take a look at John Adams' concern about the emergence of an oligarchy in place of strong state institutions. You also can't ignore that in the American context, the working class populists often in conflict with the Whigs in the pre-Civil War era saw slavery as a form of social mobility for white men.) Also, look at "Red Toryism" and "Progressive Conservatism" in Canada.
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Comment on When the New York Times lost its way in ~humanities
tealblue Link ParentA fundamental problem with the GOP, IMO, is that the Democrats already have their own in-house conservative wing which makes much of the GOP redundant. Conservative Democrats seriously need to...A fundamental problem with the GOP, IMO, is that the Democrats already have their own in-house conservative wing which makes much of the GOP redundant. Conservative Democrats seriously need to switch parties to allow Democrats to pursue a solidly left vision and to dilute the "reactionary" elements of the GOP.
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Comment on When the New York Times lost its way in ~humanities
tealblue (edited )LinkI don't see the issue in presenting conservative opinions, as long as all factual claims are fact-checked ("contextualizing" is a different question). There's a question of what balance there...I don't see the issue in presenting conservative opinions, as long as all factual claims are fact-checked ("contextualizing" is a different question). There's a question of what balance there should be between Democrats and Republicans, and I'd say that any newspaper/magazine interested in giving neutral coverage of the issues (plenty don't, which is fine) should represent voices roughly based on the amount of cachet the individual has with the voting public.
Side note: I think it's a decent litmus test is to see if someone can at least
strawmansteelman conservatism. It's fine to have a strong conviction of what makes more or less sense, but I have a hard time taking seriously anyone who is out to paint the very concept of conservatism as evil (not conservatism as it exists today or the American flavor of conservatism, but the basic platonic notion of political conservatism). (I'm not sure why so many fall into this camp in the US specifically. I'm guessing it has to do with what is perceived as conservatives being on the wrong side of history every step of the way. Though, John Adams is widely considered a conservative and was on the right of side of slavery compared to Jefferson; Lincoln was also a Whig (a generally conservative party) and at one point described the Republican party as decidedly a conservative party—on the whole, he could probably be best described as what was then known as a liberal conservative. So, I'm not sure if this is a historically accurate argument. Intensely liberal readers who look at history seem to too often shift the goal post of what is liberal and conservative to include all good and evil respectively.) -
Comment on Thoughts on anti-Zionism? in ~talk
tealblue Link ParentPersonally, I don't think that the intense spotlight on Israel is primarily due to anti-Semitism (though that's probably a contributing factor). That land has been notoriously a point of fixation...Personally, I don't think that the intense spotlight on Israel is primarily due to anti-Semitism (though that's probably a contributing factor). That land has been notoriously a point of fixation and contention throughout history.
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Comment on Thoughts on anti-Zionism? in ~talk
tealblue Link ParentI'm not convinced that nothing can be done, given that the US has done little to nothing to meaningfully pressure Israel to stop. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem with no concessions and Biden...I'm not convinced that nothing can be done, given that the US has done little to nothing to meaningfully pressure Israel to stop. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem with no concessions and Biden has repeatedly said that US support for Israel is unconditional, which makes any pressure positively toothless.
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Comment on Thoughts on anti-Zionism? in ~talk
tealblue Link ParentI think maintaining precision and avoiding definition drift is important. If you're opposed to the views of people who consider themselves Zionist, you're not automatically anti-Zionist. It's not...I think maintaining precision and avoiding definition drift is important. If you're opposed to the views of people who consider themselves Zionist, you're not automatically anti-Zionist. It's not even a broadly anti-Israel stance, in the way someone might be anti-China. Anti-Zionism is belief in the disestablishment of a Jewish state of Israel.
I fully stand by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, but I feel there should be a system of due process determining that the person engaged in insurrection before disqualification.