John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@avehtari Probably my thesis...😭 😂

@andrew Oh, and for funsies, here's the same set of sed regular expressions that will take the raw html starting at <div class="sourceCode" and do the same thing:

```
:%s/^.*\(@.*\)<\/span>\{<span class="ot">\(.*\)<\/span>,.*/\1{\2/g
:%s/.*\{\(.*\)\}.*/\{\1\}/g
```

But the bookmarklet was a lot faster to get working 100% 😂

@andrew

I see...I think there's some trouble here, unless you only care about this url based method working for your WIP papers only (rather than universally).

In this more limited case, you can use a bookmarklet. Now, I'm no expert at Javascript, but it seems that you can do the following based on the website you linked. Just save the following code as a bookmark, and you can automatically copy to your clipboard from anywhere on the page, and import to zotero from there.

It would be even easier if the zotero API had a way to save from bibtex instead of just doi, because in that case we can just wrap the bookmarklet in another function and call it a day.

Hope this provides something useful you can build on or use :)

```
javascript:navigator.clipboard.writeText(document.getElementsByClassName("sourceCode").cb1.innerText)
```

@andrew You mean like this?

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1038/nrd842/transform/application/x-bibtex

Just put anything between "works/" and "/transform" and it will return bibtex information.

Or did you mean something else?

@trinsec Mazel Tov! 👶 😂

@leahdriel I personally prefer the "cawlection of corvids", but that's just because I like the puns 😂

@FredBarraquand @sortee @royalsociety I think this, along with Registered Reports, could be an excellent path toward improving many of the systemic issues with academic publishing. Any thoughts on integrating these two approaches?

Well, it's good to know that fantasies can become a reality, that is, if your fantasy is to wonder what it's like to have a cartoon villain run your healthcare system 😂 ....😭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2sDx0Y_I-k

@art4857@101010.pl @freemo DAVx5 is available on Fdroid, have you tried that option because it works great for me :)

I've never used Orgzly, but I'm gonna try to get it all integrated with WebDav though that or some other option, as I'm not the biggest fan of syncthing, personally.

@freemo I think it's the expected number of bits, in that they can determine the most significant bit of the nonce but with probability <1.

@freemo Well yeah, but <1 bit is pretty rough, no? Admittedly, I don't have anything to compare that number to, so some perspective would be great :)

@freemo I don't regularly use this stuff, particularly for signing, but I did see an interesting paper recently that illustrated how ECC can be broken with < 1 bit of nonce leakage.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/615

Which seems to be caused by the need of uniformly distributed nonce values, which can unexpectedly broken via modulo bias as shown: https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2020/07/28/the-definitive-guide-to-modulo-bias-and-how-to-avoid-it/

@TheStrugglingScientists Thanks for the advice! I've considered it, but I don't think I can right now due to my research load, though after I graduate that may be a different story 😅

Also, I was going to email you guys about possibly being a correspondent on your blog/podcast regarding academic writing and productivity tips.

I can send more details soon, but would you possibly be interested in having someone come on at some point regarding these topics? Just let me know! 😁

@TheStrugglingScientists I like woodworking, and I've made some beautiful pieces, but I don't have enough time due to research...but someday, I'm making myself some beautiful barrister bookcases. I just need a sponsor or I'll never make any money with it 😭

@Pat @freemo @rbreich I do have to say I like this "ultra-flat" tax idea pat is proposing here, it seems very clever: every time dollars change hands, 0.25% of that goes to the government, but I do think there are good reasons for tax exemptions (such as for groceries and other necessities).

However, I also know that regardless of the highest margin tax rate, the government has consistently only received around 16% of GDP, due to increasing corruption caused by the wealthy paying for laws that benefit them and are cheaper than the tax rate.

I think until we solve the corruption problem (maybe programmatically? but that opens up a completely different can of worms) it seems like we're stuck.

@freemo I found the problem in your algorithm: goto is considered harmful, and in this case its apparently harmful to the eggs 😂

@Paulos_the_fog @freemo @rbreich That's quite the generalization there that I'm *sure* is healthy for political discourse 😛

Fundamentally, wealth should be earned according to value production. Some skills are more valuable at a given time in any arbitrary society, and those who are capable of producing the most value should be rewarded accordingly to incentivize them to continue to do so. When this doesn't happen, you get places with high economic inequality due to high rates of political corruption (e.g. the curse of natural resources) rather than alternative, less insidious causes of wealth inequality, and by the Pareto principle, this is the expectation.

Of course, this is assuming the economic system works in a vacuum of purely rational entities with long term thinking being the dominant form of thought. But in the absence of perfection, principles must suffice. I think people should be monetarily rewarded for how much they make society a better place and improve the lives of those around them, and so long as the rules/laws/morals aren't being skirted around in the process, I think that's fine. Once things like patent trolling, pharmaceutical patent extensions, copyright extension lobbying, etc. become a problem then they must be addressed, but these issues are consequences of greed and what I referred to as the "idolatry of money", not wealth itself.

(And of course, I think the wealthy have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate, but I'm less amenable to the government forcing that to occur and in a way that often dilutes the impact the funds have on those individuals who are supposed to be aided due to the impact of middlemen on this redistribution: all those IRS agents have to be paid after all. Not that all taxes are bad, but many are paradoxical in effect.)

@freemo @rbreich I'll push back on this one, if only because I don't want to look at my dynamic programming assignment 😂

I agree wealth inequality itself isn't the problem; however, I don't think the market is good at assigning value judgements to things, which leads to a whole bunch of really screwed up stuff, and the subsequent conflation of benefiting from capitalism with worshiping mammon.

For example: the CCP has been torturing religious and ethnic minorities for decades, mass surveilling their people, murdering political dissidents, and *MOST IMPORTANTLY TO INVESTORS* preventing individuals or corporations from withdrawing assets from the country "illegally". Yet, our investors, companies, etc. speculate that China is "the next big thing" and lose their asses while enriching a hostile country. People continue investing in Nestle and Tesla despite the provable child labor in their supply chains, (and of course the rest of the atrocities Nestle got away with). Why? Because making an extra 2% ROI is all that matters.

Meanwhile, private equity firms in the US buy up failing companies for pennies on the dollar, try to squeeze *every* *last* *drop* of capital out of them, and cause lasting damage in the process (see the environmental damage caused by rail issues across the US, alongside the mess of our hospitals, many of which are owned by private equity). Their M.O. is to run things so lean, and to cut so many corners, that the business fails anyway, but at least they didn't let any of that money go to the worke- I mean-down the drain.

The impacts of our modern values in relation to money go on and on, because nearly everyone has a price but not a spine: they'll sell out their employees and the business they built up to get rich, and leave the people they employ in the hands of a board who never sees them, and frankly doesn't care about them at all. For most, it's not about loyalty, purpose, effecting change in the world, and eking out a living (even a good one!) in the process; it's solely about the number of 0s on the check. It's so bad to the point that peoples lives and finances are ruined for "shareholder value", while disregarding the people who actually generated value for the company and the economy.

Finally, the reasons that the poor "cannot create wealth" is that often it is taken from them while the wealthy are given kickbacks in an almost perverse way: banks charge more fees for lower account balances, accessing credit with lower APY is more difficult, etc. Of course much of this boils down to financial literacy, but when a single car accident can bankrupt a family due to exorbitant healthcare coverage, adversarial insurance companies can screw anyone who can't sue them (by not paying out), etc, it's easy to see that there are not enough legal protections for the impoverished when the penalties for victimizing them are a pittance or even nonexistent.

So while I can agree that money *itself* isn't the problem, the modern "idolatry" of it is such a perverting influence that people conflate the two, because frankly it's difficult not to.