All of Zachary Jacobi's Comments + Replies

Anything from outside whichever country you live in that has good global reach. The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, BBC, and Reuters are all good options.

I've found that the important thing is to check the news often. You can use one source for this, because the goal is just to find out what interesting things are going on. Then when there's a story you care about, you can get it deliberately from multiple angles.

Here are some good pairs of news sources:

Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera (Middle East)

Al Jazeera and Jerusalem Post (Middle East)

Jerusalem Post... (read more)

If I remember correctly it went from 7 to 3 when I edited the first time. But if that represents the difference between one and zero upvotes, then maybe it was just coincidence?

2habryka
Yeah, that does sound more like coincidence. That would have been a single vote.

Fixed the image (kind of; there's a broken image icon stuck at the top that doesn't show up in the editor). The strikethrough shows up in the editor but not here. I've opened a bug for it.

Earlier, it seemed that the karma for this post reset when I edited it. But that didn't happen when I edited it this time. Could someone in the know chime in if karma is reset by edits, or if I was just confused by e.g. people removing upvotes?

3habryka
I fixed the broken image thing, and am deploying a fix to the strikethrough not rendering right now. Should be up in the next 10 minutes or so. Sorry for the confusion!
2habryka
The karma thing seems worrying. Karma should definitely not reset by edits. Do you know at what karma level your post was at earlier? There might be a bug here.

It appears that there's a bug on the daily page. It looks like you're determining which day a post falls on by UTC (or some other timezone that is ahead of me), but then not showing days in the future based on the users timezone (or some other criterion). As I write this, there are two posts that briefly flicker when I load daily under the heading Tuesday, January 2nd 2018, then disappear once page load is completed.

3Raemon
Thanks! Yeah, we're aware of that one, will hopefully fix soon

This formulation reminds me somewhat of the Bayesian approach to the likelihood of research being true from Ionnidis 2005 (Why Most Published Research Findings Are False).

(Also, I'd like to thank Tessa Alexanian for providing comments on an earlier version of this post. Her advice is the reason this is at all coherent)