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New comment by _pius in "When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma"

_pius — Wed, 26 May 2021 23:53:19 +0000

actually, having gotten a phd and attended many journal clubs, "seen his papers roundly critiqued on the merits at too many journal clubs to count" is as strong a point as anybody can make.

Journal clubs are vicious. Everybody's got their brains and knives out …

actually, having read what you wrote, saying that “journal clubs are vicious … everybody’s got their … knives out” undermines your argument by implying that even good papers will be “roundly critiqued” in that setting, making this about as weak a point as anybody can make.

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on further reflection, what I do find to be a strong point but in favor of Loeb’s argument is the fact that it triggered the scientists who wrote this comment and its grandparent to underscore the point of the article by more or less heaping scorn on the author, listing their own credentials, and proceeding to make — forgive me — non sequitur arguments from authority instead of substantively refuting the claims.

if this is what happens to a former department chair at Harvard when they question orthodoxy, it indeed does not augur well for less-credentialed researchers, regardless of the merit of their work.

“Collectors might be confused … you're not auctioning the [320x200] originals”

_pius — Thu, 20 May 2021 02:40:14 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/golan/status/1395171551037767680

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216756

Points: 37

# Comments: 9

A Tale of Three (Miami Tech) Weeks

_pius — Fri, 07 May 2021 19:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsorbricks.com/writing/a-tale-of-3-tech-weeks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27080060

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Kremlin: Russia is preparing to be disconnected from SWIFT

_pius — Wed, 05 May 2021 01:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uawire.org/kremlin-russia-is-preparing-to-be-disconnected-from-swift

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044963

Points: 29

# Comments: 13

Field Notes: Miami

_pius — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:56:22 +0000

Article URL: https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-miami

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904221

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Wyoming's Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) law passes WY Senate 28-2

_pius — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:34:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98776/wyomings-dao-law-passes-state-senate-in-a-28-2-vote

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26517412

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Age of the Essay

_pius — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:14:56 +0000

Article URL: http://paulgraham.com/essay.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427123

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A guide to ecofriendly CryptoArt (NFTs)

_pius — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/memo/eco-nft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The End of Indie

_pius — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:39:25 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@bryce/the-end-of-indie-6e1b92d90b09

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26318721

Points: 77

# Comments: 7

Twitter Previews ‘Super Follows’ to Let Users Charge for Exclusive Content

_pius — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:07:21 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-super-follows-1234915452/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26267572

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Tether: The Story So Far

_pius — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240860

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Two LeBron James Cards Are Worth $7M

_pius — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/sports/sports-trading-cards-millions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26197160

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Rep. Pressley Introduces Federal Job Guarantee Resolution

_pius — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-pressley-economists-advocates-unveil-historic-federal-job-guarantee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184940

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by _pius in "Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley"

_pius — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:56:04 +0000

So by that logic Obama should be small capital black since his father was from the wrong side of Africa and not a slave … Oh the racialist hierarchies we build.

Not sure why you’re injecting inflammatory bile into an otherwise civil thread. If you read past the first sentence, you’ll refute your own point. Think before trolling.

New comment by _pius in "Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley"

_pius — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:39:06 +0000

This may or may not change your mind on the topic.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

From the article:

To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”