kersplomp
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- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 weeks ago:
To say it’s “completely incorrect” is an exaggeration at best. The paper you cited is far more nuanced than that.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.
That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.
Just picking the first one:
Payne’s work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given.
When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the “most important research” he’d seen on the subject.
The real snub with Payne is that her title was “Technical Advisor” for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn’t until the 50’s she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
You’ve never done ecommerce logistics
I literally have. Go climb up a tree.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it’s old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It’s the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything’s 50% off.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
Honest question, why does the fediverse like firefox so much? This is not a common opinion to have on the internet, but everyone here and on mastodon seems to have it.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
Some random Chinese company: does something jenky.
Blogger: “The entirety of China is doing this jenky thing!” - Comment on Alternatives to Hashicorp Vault? 4 months ago:
Do you always complain about CC-NC licenses?
“Oh no, I can’t get rich off this thing I got for free”