Silicon Valley's Dumbest 'Inventions' of 2017gizmodo.com3 points·by mvonthron·9 tahun yang lalu·0 comments
mvonthron·7 tahun yang lalu·discussBoeing statement: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...This PR is helpful in that it reminds me that there are actually people paid to take a simple set of information and mix in with a ton of PR bullshit so that you have to read it 4 times before you actually understand that yes, they screw up.
mvonthron·8 tahun yang lalu·discussreviewers are not paid by the publisher in the current system eitherbasically: - authors pay to publish their work - readers pay to read the articles - reviewers review pro-bono now you are thinking "well where the hell goes the money" and you are in the same situation as 99% of scientists
This PR is helpful in that it reminds me that there are actually people paid to take a simple set of information and mix in with a ton of PR bullshit so that you have to read it 4 times before you actually understand that yes, they screw up.