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I’d encourage you to read Taber with a grain of salt. As someone with some on-the-ground experience with production agriculture, I find her takes sometimes distorted and one-sided. They do feed a narrative that clearly resonates with folks without that background, though.

Personally I use the “turn off self view” option in Zoom, which at least reduces my own self-consciousness (and Zoom fatigue!).

Main advantage would be running existing IDL programs without the proprietary license. For any new development the alternatives you mention have a larger userbase.

All I know is that Jay Sullivan has tweeted less than 700 times in his life, which does not suggest fantastic engagement with the product he’s supposed to be leading.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jaysullivan/status/15138653219411...

The author provides laughably little justification for his claims for the causes of these phenomena.

For a more meaty examination, I’d recommend Robert Putnam’s “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.”

Yeah, by any objective measure 80s NYC was way more dangerous than Capitol Hill, Seattle is today. The cognitive dissonance here is interesting.

“American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress”

https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...

If you have small kids I recommend blue painter’s tape. Great for temporary toy reconfigurations as well as hanging drawings on the walls.

#betterposter is a great format. Really helps folks get the key message across in a crowded poster hall.

Good to see this common-sense law spreading.

"The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist" (https://washcycle.typepad.com/home/2008/07/the-myth-of-the.h...) highlights why this issue provokes such strong emotion from drivers:

> Running a red light is so dangerous for cars that it isn't just illegal, it's taboo. You're breaking a social construct. That means people find it objectionable and abhorrent. So if education is needed, maybe it's needed to explain why it's safer for cyclists to do it than for drivers.

This article suggests that the “one video at a time” format makes attention metrics much more reliable:

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algo...

How do the populations compare? I think lots of folks overindex on blue vs red when the more relevant variable may be scale/density.

> maybe homeowners don't want to have their neighborhood become overcrowded.

Then it’s time to collect your scarcity-generated windfall and move someplace rural you’ll like better! Super-common, and you can even complain self-righteously about the terribly governed crime-ridden hellhole you’re leaving behind.

That doesn’t tell us much about the quality of the work under discussion.

I used one for years! Finally gave it up in 2011 when I got a smartphone.

I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically…

[2017]

> well technically the ukranians were doing the shelling first, starting on february 17th, killing ethnic russians in donbas.

Many sources argued both in advance and at the time that these were false-flag attacks designed to create a pretext for the invasion. (Eg, https://www.voanews.com/a/shelling-mortar-fire-intensify-in-...)

So the accusation of propaganda can go either way.

Crypto is dropping fast

That description of what happened in Seattle is inaccurate. See https://kuow.org/stories/we-know-who-made-the-call-to-seattl...

Mid-level police commanders unilaterally decided to abandon the precinct, which allowed CHAZ to form. Not “the city,” and not in the face of “armed rebellion.”

(Yes, there were guns and unfortunate violence later: after the police left. Their job is maintaining public order; they failed.)

I get rate limited on mobile all the time. It doesn’t mean anything.

> Yes, I spend an excessive amount of time looking at myself. It’s ridiculous.

One of the best things I've started doing in Zoom calls is hiding my "self-view" when I have my camera on. It feels so much more natural to converse with others without seeing and monitoring my own face--I find it helps reduce Zoom fatigue.

This (pre-pandemic!) blog post highlights exactly what you describe--that active moderation is needed to make remote meetings successful, and that there are lessons for in-person meetings also:

https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su...

The rationalists’ heuristic is: no one else has experience or facts I need to understand this problem. I can approach it from first principles and my conclusion will be the best.

Some caution is warranted here. AGN have “red-noise” variability that can produce signals that look periodic. There have been lots of similar claims that fizzled. Thankfully this one will become clear soon.

Not yet. If Facebook can produce so many conspiracy theorists and so much radicalization, what will TikTok be capable of?

Stay tuned!

Those are still new costs, though.

…in fact, that’s not what she’s saying at all. She is free to criticize the work without making a positive case for something else, and she does. You have projected what you think she’d rather see into the essay—it’s not there.

Full paper is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3f3a

(AAS journals are now completely open access, so no paywall.)

AAS is a nonprofit society, though, so while there may be some cross-subsidy of other activities those page charges must reflect to some degree the actual costs to maintain the journal.

My own guess is that the CRUD apps used to host the articles are bespoke enough to be priced more like consulting-ware than commodity software, and the market is too small to attract cheaper entrants.

Journals without page charges simply pass those costs on to readers (or their libraries), which slows scientific progress.