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Quick, someone administer the Voight-Kampff test, mysidia is using AI words!

A peer reviewed publication doesn't mean it's absolute fact. It means it's passed two hurdles - the author's best-effort attempt to validate the data, and the referee's cursory vetting of their publication. It's not until there is a significant body of literature supporting the claimed facts that the science is considered 'solid'. If it takes a decade to determine the science is bunk then that's part of the process. Sometimes it takes a few weeks (like LK-99), and sometimes it takes a lot longer (Just found out about polywater - fascinating example of pathological science).

The question is whether search engines are an improvement on organizing structures or just a useful solution for people without a lot of file history. After using a computer for a few decades I've accumulated many files. If I want to find something from a few decades ago it's going to be very difficult to use a search function. I have the same problem when I'm trying to google something I saw in the early 2000s - unless it has a cult following it's impossible to find because the keywords have been reused so many times.

Good explanation. I just thought I would add a bit on "relativistic mass" and say that you have to count all the energy/mass sources when you calculate gravitational effects and inertia. If you have an asteroid filled with photons it will attract objects in a similar way to an asteroid filled with matter.

New version of gunboat diplomacy?

Bahh, it's just a PR stunt for the new game Timberborn.

Wild conspiracy theories involving California power utilities you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You assume that you can hire a subject matter expert for every single subject they might publish on. Or are you suggesting giving an honorarium to peer reviewers (making the publishing process even more expensive)? I don't see what that accomplishes. As for the anonymity, if you are a subject matter expert then you are probably publishing in the same places as the authors. The anonymity allows a researcher to question data without having to worry about personal retaliation against them.

Because we know that "everyone" is very good at judging scientific validity.

This is when I'm at work connected with a hardline. The software is buggy (mostly happens when track changes is on).

These requests might be at odds, but better caching and better syncing: Caching - when I click a link or use corporate infrastructure I don't want to sit there for 30 seconds waiting for everything to reload the exact same information it loaded 10 minutes ago. And then once it finally loads, I need to click the next link and wait another 30 seconds (because for some reason the most useful components are always 10 clicks in). Syncing - My company has switched to Office 360 and the syncing is terrible. We're always receiving the dreaded document out of sync message. In an age where first person shooters can instantaneously tell you that a sniper from halfway around the world killed you with a headshot, why am I still receiving document out of sync messages?