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    4 days ago

    Real talk, what is the real barrier to somebody creating a competing publishing firm for these things.

    I’m not a scientist, but I always hear about how expensive it is to either publish or get access to scientific papers without contacting the author directly. Why does that reputation exist? Why does it seem like the scientific community is so dependent on stuff like this?


  • This isn’t 32000 in 1 wave, though. This is ~2500 a year over 13 years. Even the answers given at the beginning of the study could have changed wildly if the same people had been polled at the end. And even if not, 4 people per city is not representative of an entire city at any given moment of time.

    What demographics in China did they poll each year? Did they poll people of different racial profiles? Did they poll uyhgurs? Were the candidates selected randomly or were the assigned by the government? If the latter, were they coached or paid? Any number of things could throw off that study.





  • I think a lot of the confusion is that they were between takes.

    He was drawing the weapon and rehearsing what he was going to do as they were discussing the next take and she was watching him through the camera. But the shot they were going for was most definitely him pointing the gun at the camera. The AD, I believe, was the one that handed him the gun without verifying it was cleared.

    Baldwin is guilty of putting trust in the people around him doing their jobs correctly.


  • He was following the directions of the director and everybody involved, including the woman who died, agreed to do the scene. She wasn’t just some random person on set, she was behind the camera because she was the director of photography.

    If she didn’t feel the scene was safe to film, she had the right to say no to using a realistic prop. This is an obviously sad incident. But Manny people were found or pleaded guilty to the events. Baldwin just isn’t I’ve of them. Actors can’t be expected to be experts and have to defer to experts on set all the time.





  • Not sure if you’re suggesting that it’s a problem of knowing the language or sarcastically saying that Node.js allows for developers to not know what’s happening.

    On the case that you’re thinking it’s a knowledge of the language issue, that’s not what I’m getting at. Typically, what I see with full stack developers is an over reliance on frameworks to do the heavy lifting to the detriment is their skill sets. Often not knowing how to optimize DB queries or trouble shoot performance problems. This works fine in purely CRUD use cases, but falls apart when scaling using more complex patterns starts to occur. I’ve spoken with Sr and staff full stack developers that truly believe the only thing you need to do in order to scale a web app is add nodes.





  • Incomplete doesn’t mean invalid, though. I can say I didn’t enjoy the first half so much that I didn’t give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn’t enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.

    I don’t have to continue to subject myself to something I don’t enjoy. I can explain what I don’t enjoy. People don’t need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I’d expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.


  • Besides, if you haven’t finished a movie, you can’t claim to have a valid opinion of it.

    I’m sure you didn’t mean it to sound this way, but this kind of gate keeping sounds very elitist. I can have a valid opinion of a movie I didn’t finish.

    Usually, me not finishing it means that through the portion I watched I was disliking it so much I decided finishing it was a waste of my time. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. I don’t need to see the ending to know i didn’t enjoy the journey. The onus is on the creators of the movie to ensure I enjoy or am at least engaged throughout and I don’t, nor does anybody else, owe it to them to see though the time I’ve set aside to watch it. Especially if they could be bothered to hold up their side of the bargain.



  • I didn’t actually know about Dave the Driver being a big publisher until just now. I felt that game was kinda under-developed for how hyper it was and now I’m even more disappointed.

    It only has like 6 major areas and the levels didn’t have that much variety. Plus the side content is fairly under polished. I enjoyed it for the first 60ish percent but was kinda forcing myself to finish it by the end.