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{Full disclosure: I'm an open access advocate working exclusively with organizations that are working to accelerate the adoption of Open Access to all scholarly journal content. MDPI is one of my clients}
Your "quick google search" is likely to have picked up disparaging comments initiated in large part by having been listed for 18 months [from February 2014 to October 2015] on Jeffrey Beall's list of potentially predatory publishers. On October 22 of 2015, Jefferey Beall himself tweeted the news that they had successfully appealed their inclusion on this list and that he was taking them off of his list. https://twitter.com/jeffrey_beall/status/659321914582679552?...
"Jeffrey Beall
‏ @Jeffrey_Beall
MDPI removed from publisher list following successful appeal. #OA #MDPI
3:52 AM - 28 Oct 2015 from Denver, CO".

Nevertheless this episode remains prevalent on such sites as Wikipedia. MDPI does not engage any of the professional "reputation management" schemes that might fight all the ways which those 18 months on Beall's list continues to crop up in various places on the Internet. They focus instead on the interests of academics who publish in their journals by providing excellent peer review with unnecessary delays taken out of the process.

They are an exclusively Open Access Publisher. They have almost 200 journals and have published exclusively open journal content since 1996. Many of them have impact factors and participate in Web of Science. All of their established journals are given the seal of approval by DOAJ (The Directory of Open Access Journals), and they are members of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) which did a specific review of their operations as part of MDPI's appeal to be removed from Beall's list.

I'd suggest in deciding whether or not to do peer review for any specific journal of theirs: look at the editorial board and particularly at the editors-in-chief. Are they respected people in your field? Contact them directly if you have any doubts. All decisions whether or not to publish articles submitted to them are made by members of the editorial board under the guidance of the editors-in-chief. So that should be the measure of whether or not the journal is meeting your sense of what is high quality in your discipline.
Very much this. The reason why we're all so overwhelmed by the online and media vitriol is those platforms have the ability to push the negative content straight to us. And they do so because they know it'll get our attention.

So... the answer, for me at least, is to turn them off. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I don't watch, read, or listen to news.

"How then do you stay informed?" you may be asking. Well, I didn't delete my family or friends and they will often bring up topics that are of interest to me. It's about to snow a lot where I live. I heard about it first from my friends and then made the conscious decision to read more about it online so I could know and be prepared.

Sure, I also get the occasional bullshit political vitriol but they're quickly realizing how ineffective that is with me because I either unceremoniously change the subject or walk away from them when they start that nonsense.
When people call your place of business and complain to your boss about your methods and mental state, when they lobby the government to open investigations into your research under the accusation of child abuse, and when they use every available method to discredit your life's work, I don't think that simply opting-out of Twitter is likely to make a meaningful difference unfortunately.
No, that's a limitation in the database. They show Max's as 737-800s. The list was filtered with regex to only pull out incidents that mention the Max.
I have reactive hypoglycemia, so I need to keep my carb intake really low, or I have a hypo.

The absolute worst thing I can eat is potatoes - their GI is higher than that of pure glucose, and sure enough I'll hypo only 30 minutes after eating them!

I spent a lot of time reading about and testing various things to see if they could allow me to eat carbs while keeping my blood sugar down. I tried cinnamon, but found no difference in my blood sugar readings (but cinnamon tea is quite delicious!).

The only thing I found that reduced my blood sugar was turmeric. Problem is that when it reduces your blood sugar is quite unpredictable, and actually caused me to hypo quite badly (I presume it depends on what else you eat).
Another reason communication works is mutability. Personal and popular opinion changes over time. We're (and especially young people) not adapted to have everything we say or do kept on record for eternity. We've done a good job of messing that up too.
I felt plenty of resentment and disbelief when a doctor said it. (Not about RSI in my case, but the point that "it's in your head" does not come off well.)
> Imagine if Spotify offered a lower rate for Android users...

They already did, the 12.99 for premium was only for purchase through the App store.
Yes please. EU commission, please fine the shit out of Apple and give them a reality check that they infact are a bully.

I have given all hope on the US govt doing anything to help the average joe. It’s a govt lobbied and paid for by corporations.
This seems like a bad thing from a conservation standpoint. 10 years ago, there was natural rare limiting due to the high time investment and knowledge/skill floor required to locate and catch fish. You’d have to trade tips with others you ran into around the area, and half of the time it was probably misdirection. Now, everything is just swarmed directly and overfished quickly.
Except that if I don't like one store, I can always go to another. That's the case with Android, and at least to an extent with Windows (even store apps can be distributed and installed by package if you don't want to use their store, plus classic Windows apps are still a thing). With iOS, it's Apple's way or no way at all. There's no competition.
I've done a lot of human behavioral genetics research and think there's not a lot more to say about big-picture questions regarding the genome and behavior (people can ignore what's been said but that's a different issue). Genes influence behavior, and so does environment. Both in big ways, and there's extremely complicated dynamic interactions between those systems. There can be big genetic insults to a behavioral system, and big environmental ones. Behavior is often measured crudely, especially in behavioral genetic studies, due to practical constraints, so distinctions that people here might care about don't get made in such studies often. There are a ton of details to flesh out, but I don't think people are going to find genes influence our behavior more than what's been documented. It's just not supported by the evidence -- and people have looked.

Also, even beyond behavior genetics, as neuroscience and genetics research progresses even further, we're going to have to face a bigger question, which is what to do about the fact we can actually intervene to influence behavior even in the face of congenital attributes. Let's say trait X is 80% heritable (they're often not, more like 50%), but you can use CRISPR-esque techniques with viruses, etc., whatever, to change the genome at any age. Think about the ethical and political issues surrounding that. When you can play God, you have the responsibilities of God too; there will be no excuses for altruistic intervention by society.

I'm happy about this article because I've also done research on psychosomatic issues, for lack of a better way of putting it, and this field is really mischaracterized and there is a lot of mob behavior against scientists.
NYT Newspaper also has a monopoly on distribution of ads on NYT pages, so should they charge themselves to put their own ads?
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It's worth noting that ignore/report is for the email server it's destined for. The server is supposed to send reports back to google (mailauth-reports@google.com specifically) about the failures and such.
> They have a monopoly over their own app store.

Um, of course?
Considering your other comment with "billion dollar investors" in a company that was barely worth 1 billion dollars back then, this definitely reads like a made-up story.
But HTTPS equivalent for email would be DKIM, not PGP.
It's starting to seem like the plane is not safe to fly without that option (and potentially some other changes that haven't been finalized yet). I'm surprised; I thought that the "nothing at the expense of safety" ethos was still followed in the airplane industry.
Sure, but that's been going on forever. There's a difference between activists that are motivated enough to show up at your workplace, and those who are willing to daylights out of you.
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{Full disclosure: I'm an open access advocate working exclusively with organizations that are working to accelerate the adoption of Open Access to all scholarly journal content. MDPI is one of my clients} Your "quick google search" is likely to have picked up disparaging comments initiated in large part by having been listed for 18 months [from February 2014 to October 2015] on Jeffrey Beall's list of potentially predatory publishers. On October 22 of 2015, Jefferey Beall himself tweeted the news that they had successfully appealed their inclusion on this list and that he was taking them off of his list. https://twitter.com/jeffrey_beall/status/659321914582679552?.... "Jeffrey Beall ‏ @Jeffrey_Beall MDPI removed from publisher list following successful appeal. #OA #MDPI 3:52 AM - 28 Oct 2015 from Denver, CO".

Nevertheless this episode remains prevalent on such sites as Wikipedia. MDPI does not engage any of the professional "reputation management" schemes that might fight all the ways which those 18 months on Beall's list continues to crop up in various places on the Internet. They focus instead on the interests of academics who publish in their journals by providing excellent peer review with unnecessary delays taken out of the process.

They are an exclusively Open Access Publisher. They have almost 200 journals and have published exclusively open journal content since 1996. Many of them have impact factors and participate in Web of Science. All of their established journals are given the seal of approval by DOAJ (The Directory of Open Access Journals), and they are members of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) which did a specific review of their operations as part of MDPI's appeal to be removed from Beall's list.

I'd suggest in deciding whether or not to do peer review for any specific journal of theirs: look at the editorial board and particularly at the editors-in-chief. Are they respected people in your field? Contact them directly if you have any doubts. All decisions whether or not to publish articles submitted to them are made by members of the editorial board under the guidance of the editors-in-chief. So that should be the measure of whether or not the journal is meeting your sense of what is high quality in your discipline.
I use a somewhat similar setup, although I kept FreeBSD ala FreeNAS.

I use a FreeNAS server to manage storage pools and the bare metal box, run Ubuntu vms on top of it, and then manage top level applications in Docker in vms via Portainer.

This is nice because the vms get their own ip leases, but can still be controlled and very locked down (or not) depending on their use.

Docker volumes are mounted over NFS from the underlying NAS, and the docker level data is backed up with the rest of the NAS.
Either way "pilot error" is defined with reference to some "reasonable level" of competence with the aircraft.

If multiple pilots are making the same error the issue is with the aircraft changes, not the "reasonable competence".

Ie., its redesign hasn't been thought through properly
> Phones now have the same level of processing power as portable computers. We shouldn't be obligated to only run applications that are siphoned thru a third party "trusted clearinghouse", be it the smartphone or the operating system vendor.

I pay a lot of money for iPad Pros and Google Pixelbooks for precisely this functionality. When the user can run anything they want, the result is the unsafe landscape of malware we see on common desktop OSes.
Is that still a thing? What about horse riding with both legs to one side?
This is also happening with research on detransition -

>Bath Spa University is conducting an internal inquiry into claims that it turned down an application for research on gender reassignment reversal because it was “potentially politically incorrect” and would attract criticism on social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/25/bath-spa-u...
Can you clarify what you mean by underpowered? Not every site wants to replace terabytes of disk with NVMe storage to make paging faster - especially sites that have a lot of throughput and long retention demands.

Second, even if quotas could be used - and there are plenty of sites where they cannot - there’s still a broker-replacement scenario that needs to be accounted for. Most folks don’t want to intentionally impede the recovery rate of a failed broker.
What is "should"? Who determines should, aside from what the law currently says?

Maybe I'm uninformed, but it doesn't appear to me that access to an app store and the terms of such access (which by the way didn't even exist almost 10 years ago) is a public utility or good with an expectation of equal access or certain fair pricing.

Then, under what right does anyone claim that Apple (or any ecosystem platform) has to do anything beyond what is regulated in the payment and terms of operation? What makes your 30% price the right call? If you're an app developer, are you equally ok with someone else determining what you get to charge for your app when you're done with it? Isn't that the same (lack of) logic?
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Over the last 100 years or so, we have gone from having Philosophers who were the thought leaders (and shapers) for the masses to legion of online warriors.
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Steven Pinker wrote a book literally titled "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature," in which he makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
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Then the question becomes whether or not research underwriters are letting these tweets affect research funding. Hopefully they aren't.
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My dad has had iPads since the first one, and it is still jarring for him to not be able to just click a "store" button in the Kindle app. (I believe it used to have a webview for the store built-in; I do not use the Kindle app)

He was very confused when it disappeared. I imagine most users feel this way. I had to coach my mom to sign up for Pandora on the website so she saved a couple bucks a month, and it was baffling to her why it costed more in the app.
It’s thanks to crap like this & the total lack of original innovation on the iPhone platform, that I am seriously considering the Samsung S10, after 8 years of exclusive iPhone use.

Post-Jobs Apple is over & done for. They are in “rent collection” mode now.

So long & thanks for all the fun. It was good while it lasted.
>Why can Spotify not redirect users to subscribe on their own website?

Because it's forbidden by apple to inform your user that it's cheaper on the website.
Whether you are white or black or have epicanthic fold or stuff like that is 100% encoded in your genes.

Someone saying "in terms of IQ, asians > whites > blacks", which is easily provable, will get in big trouble.
>So please stop mistaking social-media activism for normal activism and using this to simplistically and superficially discredit non-dominant political opinions (and push dominant propaganda forward like "left and right all extremes are same"

We should care who is dominant or who wants to be “right”. We should care to cultivate scientific consensus. Misinformed or incomplete science bound by some legal principles cannot be worse than “we feel this is the right and moral thing to do”. They can both be right or wrong and I don’t see why we’d have a preference for the one having less data to back it up. Again, all bound by some legal principles (data says sick people cost too much, herd them like cattle and drive down costs).
Nice to read this.

I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have paper ballots with the ability to cryptographically verify the inclusion of your vote in totals all the way up (ballot collection box, polling location, district, city, county, state, nation).
PWAs are getting more and more native access every day. File System access is a planned feature.
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Yeah, it was supremely frustrating for us. The original store experience was fully native, and still a far better experience than what the app has today :(
Depending on the situation, disabling autopilot is not the correct thing to do.
That was identified as a contributing factor in TransAsia 235
https://www.asc.gov.tw/upload/cont_att/9b051632-ebf6-427f-b0...

Through simulations they think a crash would have actually been avoided had autopilot been left on.
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Sure about my tone, maybe it wasn't the best to convey my analysis, but that's how i have fun during my lunch break, and i prefer high variance comments. Joke aside, sure it was specifically about online toxicity, but it didn't mention anything about why this kind of harassment keeps happening more and more on specifically these online media. Also they put the focus on the confrontation between two sets of people, the scientists on one side and the religiously activists on the other. Honestly this is a reuters report, it's a serious newspaper so the reason of this omission (of something well known) isn't just "they forgot", there is meaning to it. They might not have done it consciously or anything, but the fact is that their behavior is exactly the same as the dominant behavior in face of fake news: confront the people that wrote it, not the people that designed (and get money off of) the tools that shaped/spread it. I argue this is a face of the dominant thought which must be recognized for it's non-rationality and bias towards control structures.
I hope we find more individuals and companies that just opt out if the entire Twittersphere.

Everyone does not deserve an equal voice on all topics and tempting yourself to read such unchecked commentary is only personally counterproductive.

Keep a few trusted advisors close, toss the rest of the social justice couch warriors to the side.
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I didn't say that some don't have a physical cause.

> CFS/ME is a diagnosis based on real, observable behavior.

That's not a meaningful diagnosis. It basically comes down to something like "people who report this set of symptoms, and who don't test positive for anything we know about". Medicine is full of this stuff. They used to just put it in Latin. Because then it sounded like they knew what it was.

Doing reliable science with human subjects is hard. And when you don't actually have a reliable test for something, it's impossible.

I'm not saying that any of these diseases diagnosed as CFS/ME aren't real. I'm just arguing that it's hard to assess treatments when you have such a poorly defined diagnosis.
If Google's GCP marketing material is to be believed, you are truly on their infrastructure on GCP, so if GCP is having issues so are Google's main services.
At least the performance issue of Firefox on Mac is being worked on and should hopefully be resolved soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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Wha? You buy an Amazon Alexa and it only supports certain music services. Certain Bose speakers have Spotify integration https://www.spotify.com/uk/bose/ - how is this not the same?

It's your device that you bought, which quite clearly doesn't support the things you want, so why did you buy it?
Their magic trick is creating products and services that people want to buy.

No one told Google to skimp on customer service and make 18 chat programs that don’t work. No one told Microsoft to drag their feet on preventing malware from destroying the usability of their system. It was Microsoft’s choice to profit from letting manufacturers sell computers riddled with malware that you had to spend hours to remove after buying. It’s google’s choice to not offer product support such that you can’t use their “flagship” devices for 5 years.

Apple invested in setting up their retail stores, training employees well, making their devices easy to use, and now they are reaping the rewards.
They can, but that doesn't stop Apple's behaviour from being anti-competitive and illegal under EU law. Apple only control a minority of the smartphone market, but they exert a stranglehold over that share and use that stranglehold to artificially disadvantage competitors.
Interesting to learn the source behind the story, pretty harmless stuff
All the listed people are in the legislative branch. The FAA is part of the executive branch. Short of passing a law that grounds the 737 MAX, legislators don't really have a say here.

Interestingly, Trump has also come out against the plane, but his uninformed Twitter ramblings are by and large (rightfully) ignored by the executive branch. And he's not against the 737 MAX for valid reasons, but for luddite ones.
Aside from the other replies, I'm baffled as to how you decided that Hotspot being safe would mean V8 is safe.
No G Suite, but the Linux Plumbers Conference (https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2018/) is making use of it, though with some substantial modifications to make it more mobile friendly. I also wrote (https://lwn.net/Articles/758878/) a review of Indico on LWN for the curious.
Also that was the 90s. Way more corporate money runs in the govt now so things like this are unlikely to ever happen.
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Well, repressed emotions is a term that doesn't have any clear physiological meaning and I think that might be the problem. I see a lot of success around the acceptance of the term "stress" which has clear physiological as well as psychological meanings, both for professionals and lay people. Maybe we need more terminology like this.
Doesn't Spotify compete directly with Apple Music? In which case, wouldn't the message be "don't compete with us"?

Potential antitrust issues notwithstanding, it seems like such a message would be very much aligned with Apple's interests.
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I'm not sure on the best solution. From the security perspective many enterprise customers like want the intermediaries removed so that they can see the real final destination. If the destination changes at some point you should update to the new destination, but it might be interesting to record the change when your system checks link validity.
For what it’s worth, the story seems to be that he was out of writing said software before having the ideas for criminal enterprises. He was supposedly rather spiteful of freeloaders after releasing E4M, and went after the TrueCrypt authors in particular.

It’s very Breaking Bad.
The Netherlands too. It has a near monopoly on IM here.