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gently caress man this is some real fascist poo poo
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Sep 20, 2019 17:10
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mediaphage posted:I’m not being glib, I’m just putting it in the proper scope. The nitrogen counts from what I read were ~ 180 ppm. That’s not nothing but neither is it some kind of water table-ending catastrophe. I’m not sure why you think I’m being glib when I repeatedly say all these people should be fired over this. I see this differently. I see a group ignoring a predictable waste outcome of their processes and a known part of their waste management plan for who knows what reason, it certainly wasn't expensive to mitigate, just water it down. This is a group that a week ago (more or less) was outed as committing fraud to replicate was is apparently 30 year-old technology on a small scale. The PI of this group is obviously unqualified and some qualified outside source (even outside the group and within Media Lab) could have caught the problem before it blew up in the media after the pedophile money. The waste problem is a symptom of this greater problem (uncritical review of the PI's work). quote:To the extent that the media labs problems are related, I said before that I don’t think any kind of outside inspection/ regulation is going to do much. After all, it’s a university. The biggest problem as I see it is the way it gets funded. Nobody setting policy for a lab should be involved in raising private funding outside of applying for grants with a paper trail. These three sentences make me think you've never worked at a university. Grants are absolutely peer reviewed and universities take waste management seriously because they have so many potential failure points. So, your statement here, that bringing in outside peer review and vigorous H&S standards won't do much as compared to changing the funding mechanism (that will bring in outside peer review and vigorous H&S) is nonsense. Changing the funding mechanism is a good thing precisely because it will institute the changes you don't think will help. MickeyFinn fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Sep 20, 2019 |
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Sep 20, 2019 17:14
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https://twitter.com/Prestige_T/status/1174684193676234753 I'm not following the logic here. How does the battery level relate to a sudden spike in demand? e: Oh wait I see, that's the BS part and what they're really measuring is how desperate you are to accept the fare. Evil.
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Sep 20, 2019 17:18
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you're going to be more anxious to get to somewhere to charge your phone is the logic most likely.
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Sep 20, 2019 17:18
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Yeah, instead of being trapped in the middle of nowhere with no phone, you will accept an expensive ride. That's (evil) genius.
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Sep 20, 2019 17:36
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Uber should detect the type of phone you have and charge you more. That sentence is gonna be my entire resume when i apply uber
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Sep 20, 2019 17:55
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Uber should detect the type of phone you have and charge you more. There are persistent rumors that they do that. Which is why I'm a little skeptical that that price difference is keying on battery life rather than phone model--not that they wouldn't do it, but there are a lot of potentially conflating factors.
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Sep 20, 2019 17:58
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Uber should detect the type of phone you have and charge you more. They'll use the idea and not hire you
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Sep 20, 2019 17:59
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Uber should detect the type of phone you have and charge you more. I was never able to find a study on this but I remember there being a rumor that you shouldn’t shop for plane tickets and other variable cost services on an iOS or MacOS device because they would raise the prices assuming you had more disposable income from owning Apple products. I think the justification to do that was that the App Store makes a lot more money than the Google Play store, or something.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:02
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New app idea: Fake the identification your computer returns to a website to get the best prices.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:03
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BarbarianElephant posted:New app idea: Fake the identification your computer returns to a website to get the best prices. This sort of thing has been happening for years: https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-users-pay-more-than-pc-users-says-orbitz/
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Sep 20, 2019 18:08
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MickeyFinn posted:I see this differently. I see a group ignoring a predictable waste outcome of their processes and a known part of their waste management plan for who knows what reason, it certainly wasn't expensive to mitigate, just water it down. This is a group that a week ago (more or less) was outed as committing fraud to replicate was is apparently 30 year-old technology on a small scale. The PI of this group is obviously unqualified and some qualified outside source (even outside the group and within Media Lab) could have caught the problem before it blew up in the media after the pedophile money. The waste problem is a symptom of this greater problem (uncritical review of the PI's work). Thanks for talking down to me. I'm not saying there's not a need for some kind of oversight, I just don't think it comes from "Media Lab needs to be investigated" so much as it needs a systemic restructuring. I argue that the the waste problem and the lack of review both stem from the way the lab is funded precisely because it cuts out proper audits. There's a lot less external oversight if you focus your funding on pedophiles attempting to whitewash themselves. "Peer review" of an unpublished research project doesn't mean much if the PI is lying about the waste disposal. It's hardly the first time. And I've definitely worked in research labs where rules get bent when it comes to waste disposal and there's functionally no way for anyone to know about it unless someone comes forward. I don't have a way to prove that, I guess, though, so believe what you want.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:58
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AFashionableHat posted:Oh good, so Chef (ask your local sysadmin for details) is outing themselves as chuds. Lol are there any non-terrible tech companies left at all
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Sep 20, 2019 19:27
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mediaphage posted:Thanks for talking down to me. I'm not saying there's not a need for some kind of oversight, I just don't think it comes from "Media Lab needs to be investigated" so much as it needs a systemic restructuring. I argue that the the waste problem and the lack of review both stem from the way the lab is funded precisely because it cuts out proper audits. There's a lot less external oversight if you focus your funding on pedophiles attempting to whitewash themselves. Who says media lab needs to be investigated? And you most certainly did not argue this in your post, you explicitly say the audits won't do much: "I don't think it means that the Lab needs outside review just because this followed soon after the Epstein things." No one is saying this would be ok without Epstein's money. If anyone arguing that the Ag Lab's problems would be ok if it weren't for Epstein, it's you. quote:"Peer review" of an unpublished research project doesn't mean much if the PI is lying about the waste disposal. It's hardly the first time. And I've definitely worked in research labs where rules get bent when it comes to waste disposal and there's functionally no way for anyone to know about it unless someone comes forward. I don't have a way to prove that, I guess, though, so believe what you want. Grant applications are peer reviewed. If this lovely PI had tried to get funding through a grant proposal process, it seems like he very likely would have failed. All the attendant problems could have been solved. He might have slipped through, no system is perfect, but it is less likely.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:29
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MickeyFinn posted:Who says media lab needs to be investigated? And you most certainly did not argue this in your post, you explicitly say the audits won't do much: "I don't think it means that the Lab needs outside review just because this followed soon after the Epstein things." No one is saying this would be ok without Epstein's money. If anyone arguing that the Ag Lab's problems would be ok if it weren't for Epstein, it's you. This got started because of a call for Media Lab to get outside review. I don't think an "outside review" of Media Lab as an organization is going to do a damned thing. Who's going to be the outside review for the entire department of a university? MIT could easily handle all of this in-house, might as well see what they do with it. I don't think a grant proposal is going to catch a prof who's lying about waste disposal. Even then, you keep arguing that the grant applications will solve all of this. They get their $75 million budget from private donors.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:38
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AFashionableHat posted:There are persistent rumors that they do that. Which is why I'm a little skeptical that that price difference is keying on battery life rather than phone model--not that they wouldn't do it, but there are a lot of potentially conflating factors. brb gettin a broke rear end nokia and fat rear end battery
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Sep 20, 2019 19:43
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Pochoclo posted:Lol are there any non-terrible tech companies left at all I wouldn’t be at my current employer if we were, and I’m our data and privacy lead so I’d know. I’m the most excited person in the company for GDPR compliance, it makes my job so much easier. I’m also lucky, though, in that I’m at a place in my career where I can tell a company to pound sand and not really encounter much inconvenience for doing so.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:45
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Pochoclo posted:Lol are there any non-terrible tech companies left at all AFashionableHat posted:I wouldn’t be at my current employer if we were, and I’m our data and privacy lead so I’d know. I’m the most excited person in the company for GDPR compliance, it makes my job so much easier. Does DuckDuckGo count? They seem reasonable. I like the people behind Ghost, too.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:46
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mediaphage posted:This got started because of a call for Media Lab to get outside review. I don't think an "outside review" of Media Lab as an organization is going to do a damned thing. Who's going to be the outside review for the entire department of a university? MIT could easily handle all of this in-house, might as well see what they do with it. Yes, the people proposing projects at Media Lab should have those proposals reviewed, by peers in the fields they work in. A kind of "peer review," if you will. The normal kind of review of academic proposals. quote:I don't think a grant proposal is going to catch a prof who's lying about waste disposal. Even then, you keep arguing that the grant applications will solve all of this. They get their $75 million budget from private donors. The waste disposal is a symptom of an idiot PI. I hope he isn't going to put "we'll dump all our waste illegally" in his proposals, that he isn't writing because Media Lab gets its money from billionaires. Your thought process is in the right place, but all the details in your posts are weird.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:48
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Ripoff posted:I was never able to find a study on this but I remember there being a rumor that you shouldn’t shop for plane tickets and other variable cost services on an iOS or MacOS device because they would raise the prices assuming you had more disposable income from owning Apple products. wanna do this on my 486 to see if I can get paid to take flights
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Sep 20, 2019 19:59
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Peanut Butler posted:wanna do this on my 486 to see if I can get paid to take flights The algo would peg you as having high disposable income if you bring a 486 online, putt you in a high price bracket.
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Sep 20, 2019 20:17
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Peanut Butler posted:wanna do this on my 486 to see if I can get paid to take flights There has to be a browser extension that lets you fake this. There also needs to be laws against such practices, although it seems like a longshot getting anything like this passed. It exploits the basic assumption that prices are the same for everyone, as they would be in a physical store. Maybe a company getting caught red handed changing prices for racist or sexist reasons would spur enough public outrage.
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Sep 20, 2019 20:22
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ponzicar posted:There has to be a browser extension that lets you fake this. There also needs to be laws against such practices, although it seems like a longshot getting anything like this passed. It exploits the basic assumption that prices are the same for everyone, as they would be in a physical store. Maybe a company getting caught red handed changing prices for racist or sexist reasons would spur enough public outrage. Yeah, faking "User Agent" should be trivial. You don't even need an extension apparently. How to change your browser's user agent? Click the “Emulation” tab and choose a user agent from the “User agent string” box. You can also select the “Custom” option in the User agent string list and type a custom user agent into the box. You can find extensive lists of user agents on various websites, such as this one. This setting is temporary. https://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/
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Sep 20, 2019 20:29
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:gently caress man this is some real fascist poo poo I've already speculated that one of the reasons game companies don't want to disclose loot box odds is because they use algorithms to manipulate the odds/drop results based on spending/engagement/login/etc. habits on the fly.
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Sep 20, 2019 21:31
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https://twitter.com/RobertBryan4/status/1175136189675913217
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Sep 20, 2019 21:53
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SaaS - Salad as a Service Thanks you can deposit the millions in VC funding in my account
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Sep 20, 2019 22:17
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MickeyFinn posted:Yes, the people proposing projects at Media Lab should have those proposals reviewed, by peers in the fields they work in. A kind of "peer review," if you will. The normal kind of review of academic proposals. This. Like how the living gently caress did their agricultural computer get away with faking it for years and years? And, as an ag scientist I follow on Twitter points out, they were building on technology that was ten years obsolete in the first place, and apparently did no consulting at all with people in ag science. An MIT person actually commented in wonder on a Webstreamed panel that oh, there are agricultural colleges in the middle of the country. Land grant colleges have been a powerhouse in agricultural research for a very long time. Treating them like "oh, those cute people in the flyover country" is cutting you off from the cutting edge.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:22
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This. Like how the living gently caress did their agricultural computer get away with faking it for years and years? Showing it to people who didn’t know any better.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:52
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Pochoclo posted:SaaS - Salad as a Service Cloud-based Quinoa Delivery Now tech companies can also get in on South American farmer exploitation!
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Sep 20, 2019 22:55
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Cloud-based Quinoa Delivery I thought that the problem with quinoa was that when it first became a trendy health food in the first world, the price of quinoa skyrocketed. I would think that that would be good for the farmers there, but maybe not the other locals who temporarily couldn't afford to buy quinoa.
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Sep 20, 2019 23:08
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silence_kit posted:I thought that the problem with quinoa was that when it first became a trendy health food in the first world, the price of quinoa skyrocketed. I would think that that would be good for the farmers there, but maybe not the other locals who temporarily couldn't afford to buy quinoa. lol if you think the farmers got fake edit
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Sep 21, 2019 04:06
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Land grant colleges have been a powerhouse in agricultural research for a very long time. Treating them like "oh, those cute people in the flyover country" is cutting you off from the cutting edge. One of the things that blew me away when I got started in science is how clique-y it is. Throw in some old-fashioned I-am-a-computer-toucher-and-therefore-smarter-than-everyone and it's really easy not to have any idea what is going on in the field you are "disrupting" until it's too late. Peer reviewers are often petty and sometimes can't wait to get to the second page of your manuscript to start trashing it, but it is better than this billionaire-fueled incompetence.
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Sep 21, 2019 08:19
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silence_kit posted:I thought that the problem with quinoa was that when it first became a trendy health food in the first world, the price of quinoa skyrocketed. I would think that that would be good for the farmers there, but maybe not the other locals who temporarily couldn't afford to buy quinoa. quinoa was a food that everyone tried to stake ever escalating positions on if eating or not eating it made them the most woke.
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Sep 21, 2019 13:03
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MickeyFinn posted:One of the things that blew me away when I got started in science is how clique-y it is. Throw in some old-fashioned I-am-a-computer-toucher-and-therefore-smarter-than-everyone and it's really easy not to have any idea what is going on in the field you are "disrupting" until it's too late. Peer reviewers are often petty and sometimes can't wait to get to the second page of your manuscript to start trashing it, but it is better than this billionaire-fueled incompetence. Academia is extremely insular and petty and would be called corrupt except for the fact that there's usually so little money in it
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Sep 21, 2019 14:03
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:quinoa was a food that everyone tried to stake ever escalating positions on if eating or not eating it made them the most woke. I usually like “healthy” foods but quinoa tastes horribly bitter and gritty to me. So I’m very woke/anti-woke by never eating it.
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Sep 21, 2019 14:23
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JK Fresco posted:Academia is extremely insular and petty and would be called corrupt except for the fact that there's usually so little money in it I'm stealing this.
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Federal law says you can't claim efficacy in smoking succession unless you submit actual clinical tests to the FDA. Guess what Juul is doing in their political advertising?quote:In his letter, Walton cites a Prop. C mailer that includes a testimonial from a San Francisco woman and cancer patient who said vaping was the only thing that helped her quit smoking after nicotine patches and gum didn’t work. The letter also cites a presentation made by Prop. C campaign manager Tom Hsieh in which he tells an audience that vaping is less harmful than smoking and is “a legitimate off-ramp for people who are addicted to cigarettes.” quote:Proposition C goes much further than that. It proposes to “comprehensively authorize and regulate the retail sale, availability and marketing of vapor products in the city and county of San Francisco.” The measure was crafted and is being pitched in a multi-million-dollar campaign by Juul Labs, the San Francisco company whose sleek USB-drive design, subtle vapor plume and high nicotine levels have made it No. 1 in the fledgling market.
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Sep 21, 2019 16:27
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ryonguy posted:lol if you think the farmers got
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:gently caress man this is some real fascist poo poo I don't think you know what fascism is tbh
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