Can't question whether your processes actually are democratic when external factors are always interfering with your processes of democracy. They've been gaslit for so long that they've become desensitized to the smell of the ruling class. Where there's gas, there's Amerikkka.
The first new antibiotic in 60 years? Bullshit. What, does the author never read? A group at my local university published on a new class of antibiotics within the last 5 years and they are far from the only ones to do so in the world.
This is just "look, AI is shiny and will fix everything," while ignoring reality...again.
You're lucky if people in the physical sciences know how to restart their computer. Sure, they're experts in their fields, but actively avoid learning new technology unless someone twists their arm.
The fields that could benefit from robots the most are the least equipped in terms of money and requisite tech knowledge to use a robot. Instead, you're likely to see them used in for-profit labs and those aren't the ones that tend to do novel research. Well-funded biotech and pharmaceutical companies are likely to have robots, but many of those don't want to do discovery-stage research. They tend to buy discoveries from public university labs.
Yeah there are robots, but they tend to be $500,000+ and many scientists in this field are tech luddites who are allergic to learning how to program a robot.
A postdoc will do the same work for (probably) less than 1/10 of the price AND do free overtime. Better yet, you can sometimes get students to do this work for free/nearly free.
That's also assuming they are able to get funding to cover any of these costs.
As for using a multipipetter, it just depends on the experiment and you can do ~10 at once.
Awesome, ty! I won't promise I'll pick it up just yet, but if I do, I will definitely send you any of my conversions. Have been listening to your EPUB using text-to-speech while reading along and it's much easier to stay engaged. Enjoying the book so far!
Intellectual property laws are theft of human potential. Instead of focusing on actual progress, everyone is focused on how to get around patents. Incentivize innovation, not the opposite.
I think you misunderstood their comment? They're saying the high number of active users coming from Reddit was too much for the computers to handle at the time, not that the Redditors themselves were scaring people away. The speed and downtime of the .ml instance at the time is what they are saying drove people to .world.
I remember world was a bit better at the time, but both instances were frequently struggling with performance after the third-party app ban.
If you don't want to be called Nazis, then stop putting up with all the fascists in your instance. Pretending the problem doesn't exist is definitely the mature stance to take when someone points out that your instance is harboring fascists.
The barrier of an application is enough to scare off most non-serious users. I used to favor open registration, but after making an account and participating on an instance with open registration vs closed, I found the closed registration shuts down a lot of bad actors and makes the instance a more pleasant community.
I'm not even advocating for rejecting any of the applications, just having questions to answer before joining seems to significantly cut down on the trolls.
MeowZedong @ MeowZedong @lemmygrad.ml Posts 0Comments 492Joined 2 yr. ago
I experienced the same thing. Thankfully it eventually stopped automatically feeding up his vids.