the current problem with journals is that there is no money in it for authors. journals oly exist because of historical reasons, and older folks still value them.

Arxiv exists as a semi journal, which is some what cc4 (or some other cc of your choice) and that is great, but still one source.

You can just host your research papers as websites, as in just a web article, and use some vcs like github, codeberg, or self hosted forego system. That is arguably the best case.

I have a paper which is on arxiv, and my supervisor has been “polishing” it for a journal, but to me that is a useless process, because i almost never care about things like journal impact factor or h index. to me, the only thing valide is steps for reproducibility, that is, give me a recipe, and if i can recreate, then you did a great job. This could mean, for example, releasing all your raw unprocessed data.

how to handle reputation for who can review, but I think there are ways to do that and that’s beyond the scope of this post as I imagine it could get pretty complicated and would require feedback from people actually in the industry. The reviewers can submit comments and reviews back to the author via federation, but this time the process can be open instead of behind closed doors.

one of the reasons reviewers are effective is that the remain anonymous, that is why they can shit talk a lot. You would not have the slander, if you make the identity real.

I think we should not have reputation or verification, as i stated above, if you post on your own website, and not have gatekeeping. Yes a lot of the work may not meet “some standards”. but even with current system, a lot of work is published which is substandard. if we can release work in open, and colaborate as we do for open source software, thart would be the ideal thing for me. Each issue could be a literal git issue, each correction can be a pull request, and so on. Fully transparent, and somewhat resistant to whole network failing. (assuming you have local copies, you can just spin another instance, and your paper still stays onloine)

my take away was never hating person in photo (that part was just in case we are hating the person in photo, but my second para in the original comment is what i got - old relegious person is rude to service worker). I have not experienced it, so i can not relate, sorry.

In our home we have “coolers” (the big kind with metal bodies and large water storage, and padded, perforforated walls). It is outside our house and blowing air inwards. We try our best to seal the area around window with lots of cardboard, fibre sheet and thermocol, and then depending on time of day, confining the space (by closing other doors in home). It is not AC cool, nor is it really effictive when it is hot (50+ C) outside, but other time it works fine. In the nights it does a pretty good job (good enough that i have caught a cold right now). When we do not want the noise, we just run the water pump, so occasional winds from outside come and are cooled by the running water. Water usage is slightly high (we usually require one filling a day, which would be 40-50 litre water i guess), but we sometimes keep cycling between pump on and off to conserve some more water. If noise is a big concern to you, you can try to basically cover whole of the front (with some sound insulating material, like fibre sheets(the polymer ones often found in packaging)) and then make some side channels for air. Or something more simple is using lighter curtains just in front of cooler. This will break the flow of air, but if you have sealed rest of the are, so air can’t leak elsewhere, then you would get air breaking its flow and flow around the obstacles and reach you, but not as loud. We do something similar, we have not covered fully, we have left partially open (60 % i guess from the middle) but to cover noise, we partially close it by window (which is kept in place by curtain over it) so we get a tighter channel of air (as it bends around the edge of window). If you stay in the channel, you get large air flow, but more noise, but if you move away from it (from my casse, even by a foot) then the noise is cut in half. The rest of the room is now cooled by this air current mixing with rest of room air. If room is large, t=you may also have to turn your ceiling fan on for this, but we do not have to.

In really peak summers (and peak hours of the day), we use ac for few hours (1-1.5 or 2) and when it gets cooler outside, fall back to cooler.

can i not just express my non liking. I did not yell or abuse, so i don’t know what i did to convey that i am not calm

I am sorry for your experience, but generalisation is what i did not like. I am not in us, or a place where christianity is the major relegion. The behaviour may be region specific, but still, this seems wierd to me.

yes

i don’t have high blood pressure, thankss for the concern though

i know it is a stock photo (did not know, but guessed), but can i still not find it wrong. i think my original point still stays, hating random old people is not fun to me.

I am not religious, and I am not old, but this does not sit right with me. I don’t know who the person in photo is, but we are “hating” on them just because they look old?

I understand it is a “meme” and i should laugh at “stereotypical karen” but is not that one of the things that people state they disliked about reddit?

leave the home, and hope that they are happy with that, in case that is not enough, you can give up non vital appendages

can’t disagree

In India Fieex deposits for a period of ~400 days offer that. For lower periods it is lower. It is not a great investment if you account for inflations (that would be another ~5%, so after a year, the effective value would be close to 1.07/1.05 ~= 1.0190476)

If there are no universal truths, then that would be a universal truth, self contradicting

Probably make a fixed deposit with the principal of 1 Million, and then after a year, (Assuming annual interest rate of around 7%) I would get 1.07 million, and give you 1 Million back, and still have USD 70,000, which is still a good amount to get for free. If we get quarterly interest rate, it would be slightly higher, so will try for that

the forever relevant - in the search of whether they could, they forget about whether they should

I don’t know what is concerning, me knowing how to read this, or being able to read this even when I am not from a sms generation (not that i am very youung, but where i live, sms was very expensive, so many people did not message untill we had internet based messengers)

There is a first of everything I guess

May I ask, Is it functionally equivalent of proprietor-ship? (share holding is with one person, but they may have employees or contractors or free lancers) or completely single person business?

this seems extremely clickblaity. At best, you could say a liquid which takes a seemingly gravity defying shape. There could be a billion ways to reach such shapes (for example surface tension of the liquid, and it having some bistable, or a metastable state that we achieve with this shaking)

I did this yesterday, and slept for 4 hours

gyms are still training, you are still using muscles.

We both are basically talking about same things, the only difeerence is the method of wearing of the claws - done by cat themselves (by daily using them or using scratch posts, etc) or by stimulating or accelerating the wear, by doing it by ourseleves. Maybe I am an old school guy, but to me the former seems better (animals are left better on doing things on their own). This when extrapolated to humans is a bit wierd, because we do not necessarily bound humans these days, and my point is mostly falling back to, if you raise cats, they should be allowed to be free (cared for when they are weak) but not when they are capable. This when extrapolated to humans would be equivalent of saying we should not take care of healthy middle aged people, which i do not agree with at all. I know my views are now clashing, but maybe this is because it is not easy to comment on this. There was a comment going ver domestication - it mostly went like - “we domesticated them” so now they are dependent on us.

In fact I am even more conflicted on this one - cats (indoor or outdoor) wreck havoc on wildlife around, especially near/within cities (they are basically the best predators here - small, agile and smart. In jungle there are bigger cats competing, but here they are top “cats”. And from a wild life conservationist persepective, I would never even want a cat to have sharp claws. But when I would be asked for any individual cat, I can’t resist but allow them to exist as is. Maybe this is because us humans consider ourselves indepndent of the food web, and now want to act “god” here to affect this. Maybe we are the ones to be blamed for bringing cats with us. (which we are responsible for, but I don’t know how to react to that)