Academic fraud is in no way a thing that is limited or even disproportionately prevalent in China. Perhaps the flavors of it are biased to one form or another in different cultures, but don’t mistake that for more or less fraud in that culture. Perhaps you notice more from China simply because there are simply more Chinese people in the world than any other nation behind Indian people in India.

Incentives matter in any system. The incentives are perverse right now.

There was a whole season of The Wire that was dedicated to the theme of news publications demanding that more be done with less as budgets were cut. Craigslist was a major factor in the trend as it cut revenue severely for local publications.

It would be great if corn got that feature

There’s a variety of maize that does fix nitrogen:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140/

There are some political and technical hurdles to adapting it more broadly to the agricultural industry.

FYI: https://lemmy.ml/c/learningrustandlemmy

Maybe @SorteKanin@feddit.dk would be interested in helping people there.

Relevant information:

GovTrack.us posted about the bill in question:

Appropriations legislation covering a bit less than half of the overall funding needs of the federal government was passed by the Senate 75-22 around dinner time on Friday 3/8. The bill was signed the next morning by the President. Even though technically Biden did so after the Friday midnight deadline, the government never shutdown for even a few hours.

The Science section of the bill contains the majority of the Science related appropriations.

GovTrack.us also provided links to summaries of the bill from The New York Times by Catie Edmondson and The American Prospect by David Dayen.

They wrote ablog post about it

https://jewy.blog/2024/03/04/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy

Bookmarks?

Are you talking about your saved posts?

Let’s go!

Those are “new” comments.

The biggest thing that PieFed has done is get up and running on public data with new accounts open to the public. This trial by fire will make it fail fast or become much improved. It seems that the main developer is quite experienced and has thought about architecture and improvements that have already been implemented. I think it’s promising for all of these reasons.

My biggest potential concern is that moderation tools have not been implimented yet (unless the were very recently).

As far as Python being difficult in larger systems, this can be mitigated by experience and good practice. But I tend to agree that Python is typically not the ideal choice for a large project.

Furthermore, a statement from Open Collective Europe: https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation-us

Full text of the bill is linked to in the Senate Appropriations Committee Press Release