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This actually sounds like an honest (mis?)diagnosis. Confusing migraine and temporal lobe epilepsy is not a particularly egregious mistake, and the two conditions often occur together. A number of anti-seizure medications are prescribed to prevent migraines.

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Wasn’t one of the early findings of the investigation that Reif had signed a thank you note to Epstein for his donations, and had sat in the meeting where the institute decided faculty could take Epstein’s money as long as he donated anonymously?

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I always assumed that this disconnect was because most domestic u.s. air travel is business related, so that in general, the traveler is not the customer.

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There was a lot of strange stuff going on with the FBI in the Tsarnaev case. Agents from the Boston FBI office traveled to Florida and shot Ibragim Todashev and then couldn’t get their story straight about whether he attacked FBI agents with a broom or a samurai sword or a table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev

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Ah, where’s the latest orbital data?

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This seems like an unlikely coincidence — if I’m reading this other link right, it had been flying over Syria.

https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=39025

Edit: obviously I read it wrong. Still a strange coincidence though.

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Yeah, aren’t most games single-threaded? I doubt this affects gaming performance very much.

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Alternative (and to my mind more likely) hypothesis: poor brain health causes bad decision making and unstable income.

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Yeah, the whole problem is that traditional publishing is designed around creating the best experience for publishers, not for authors or audiences.

The reference formatting thing is just one of the ways they make it obnoxious for authors (it would be better for authors if you could just send them a list of DOIs and their computers should make it look the way journal style dictates — ELife does this). Idiosyncratic rules about the naming of sections or formatting of methods or supplementary material make transferring article between journals (even at the same publisher) unnecessarily tedious.

From the audience perspective, nobody wants to vault over the paywall to click on the link to click on the link to get the pdf that displays in a pane of the browser window. Nobody wants an enhanced pdf, whatever that is. I don’t want to see a pop up with the articles you think I should read next because they happen to share a single word in the title. I just want to click a link in pubmed or google scholar and go direct to the pdf. A few months back someone posted an enhanced google scholar that just linked directly to the PDFs from sci-hub. The user experience was so good that it really highlighted how obnoxiously bad publisher sites are.

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Except Ito wasn’t the only faculty member taking money from Epstein, and the Media lab wasn’t the only department. The thank-you letter to Epstein that Reif signed was for money Epstein gave to support Seth Lloyd — a professor in mechanical engineering and physics — and the earliest known money from Epstein after his conviction. The ‘if not for Ito’ reading doesn’t make sense.

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Speaking of universities that can afford it, did the other university in Cambridge ever complete it’s investigation into Epstein funds?

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Does “deceive the integrity” have some specific legal meaning wherever you’re from? I can’t find any hits for the phrase in DDG. What are you trying to argue?

I was not vindicating Ito of anything except the narrow charge (made in Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article) of attempting to hide the source of Epstein funds from MIT by marking them as anonymous. It’s clear now from Reif’s letter that this was actually done with MIT’s knowledge and at MIT’s request.

Both Ito and MIT decided to take Epstein’s money, knowing that he was a convicted sex offender.

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So it looks like Ito wasn’t trying to deceive the administration about the source of Epstein’s donations by marking them as anonymous (as the New Yorker article implied), but rather he was marking them as anonymous because the administration was aware of and accepted Epstein’s post-conviction patronage, on the condition that it remained anonymous.

Do universities routinely do this (with money from Epstein, or other unsavory individuals)?

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