Why does he keep putting "misinformation" and "disinformation" in quotes like that?

He says something about those terms having been invented by folks at the #1 organization on the list, but... are we to believe Google Ngram is part of the plot?

>What the Mueller investigation didn’t accomplish in ousting Trump from office

What? That's not what the order said the investigation was supposed to do. It also didn't accomplish world peace or end famine.

I don't what Taibbi is trying to accomplish, but misunderstanding and miscommunication allow evil into the world.

This source seems rather biased to me, that's likely why they use quotes in this manner

Why does he keep putting "misinformation" and "disinformation" in quotes like that?

Because those terms have fluid definition that even lawyers cannot define.

Gonna use this for Dwarf Fortress.

Aside from illegally importing a chunk of sheep to clone one, this is just animal husbandry. They weren't using equipment to modify the genome in any way. They were just breeding and selecting for a new kind of sheep. Humanity has been doing this for tens of thousands of years.

I've been using PlantUML, having come from using GraphViz.

I can't tell is has any relation to this. I use it to generate SVGs in Maven documentation site builds.

>evidence based medicine

They do mention that Cochrane is only accounting for 7% of systematic reviews these days.

BTW, evidence-based medicine is not the same as science-based medicine. The Placebo Effect is evidence-based medicine.

It's a bit more important than that number suggests. For one, 7% of global systematic reviews is not a trivial proportion.

But more importantly Cochrane allows for the pre-registration of such reviews, i.e. where the methodology and goals (hypotheses) are stated before the review is conducted. This is probably the most scientifically rigorous method of assessing evidence, and is not performed for most systematic reviews.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you implying that the placebo effect is magic, or in some other way non-scientific?

Evidence based medicine (EBM) = population, intervention, comparison and outcome (PICO). In other words, PICO = RCT Randomized Control Trials. To me, EBM is medical instrumentalism (instrumentalism is one of philosophies of sciences): pick a treatment that works, without understanding the underlying mechanism. Even today, we use many drugs with unknown mechanisms of action[0].

Often times, you can find cures just by discovering mechanism of action, without PICO/RCT: for example, Helicobacter pylori causing peptic ulcers.

Placebo effect is NOT magic, but we don't understand the mechanism. Good relationship between doctors and patients help recover patients. Patients prefer to see particular doctors, even if the latter prescribe same medications as others, yet the differential effects on patients (when treated by preferred doctors vs others) is non-trivial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drugs_with_unknown_me...

As a comparison, New York Presbyterian hospital in NYC probably spent at least twice that deficit to put their logo on New York Mets jerseys.

I’m not what 7% of reviews represents, but it seems like particularly dumb austerity measure.

Only 7%?!

There are a lot of systematic reviews. They're a very popular "Grad student's first paper" in public health fields, because if you're writing Chapter 1 of your dissertation, you're already halfway there.

That’s what I mean, and one group doing 7% is impressive.

Judging by the dates, content, and mention of asking the NARA for the individuals assigned to the account...

I'm pretty sure this is record of what it took for the special counsel investigation to get access to the DMs of @realDonaldTrump.

Judging by the multiple mentions of @realDonaldTrump account and Trump himself throughout the document as well, I'd agree.

Pi is a number. You can approximate it to an arbitrary degree of precision by computing a function, but the map is not the territory.

Collusion?

I used the wrong word. lesuorac was correct (and the words matter here because part of SCOTUS's ruling was on "Congress didn't define any of these terms in the statute so we have to go into the common law definitions of them.")

This sounds like it could be bolted onto/into rsync on the server side to present filesystems larger than the server can actually store.

The United States is probably a more common example for Americans. The US Constitution makes the whole country a free trade zone between states. Borders between states are easily navigated by corporations, by design. Workers in Washington compete with workers in South Carolina. Manufacturers can freely move their plants around the US.