> It demands people ask: Do you prefer Hong Kong's past? Or its future?
Such a formulation is either sheer ignorance or worse, full-on deliberate cynicism.
Hong Kong's "past" was a typical colony where the governor was appointed by the British government with no local input whatsoever, and where any assembly of more than 6 people was deemed illegal and brutally suppressed. The type of thing that people like Gandhi (who are apparently heroes in contemporary narratives) fought against throughout their lives.
The British government only started changing the laws and handing locals more political freedom and freedom of speech once they knew that Hong Kong was returning to China no matter what (surprise, surprise).
In all such propaganda you see now, they try to construct a "past" that never existed, and apparently a lot of the young generation who never experienced the old days fell for it. But the older generation would tell them outright that "Hong Kong's past" is far less rosy than what's made out to be.
It's just astonishing when you see the amount of people waving British and American flags on the streets during the protests. What kind of "fight for freedom and independence" is that? Just imagine the reaction to protesters in a US territory or a European region (Catalonia etc.) waving Russian or Chinese flags.
Not sure it’s a “long-running Internet movement”. You make it sound like one of those loony anti-science conspiracist agendas. There have been a lot of serious articles written about it. I don’t think it’s hard to believe that a lot of scientists and institutions have the incentive to try to keep a whole system of focusing on removing beta-amyloid going as a self-fulfilling cycle. Getting funding and publication citations snd promotions etc. could always be the fundamental incentive out there.
... that said, of course there's some valid criticism of science funding underneath, and (the whole role, purpose, and status of) the academic sphere (with its traditions and privileges) which largely determines the outcome of how grant organizations end doing funding decisions.
I've been doing research as a post-graduate and I can definitely say that a big part of academia is just an echo chamber for what is mainstream. Mainstream is not necessarily bad. But the echo chamber happens uncritically and even in bad research. It is frightening at least.
the problem is that ... there's currently no better theory that matches the data than the amyloid cascade one - as far as I understand (and of course I'm extremely far from an expert on this)
still, I think it's correct to state that it's very hard to falsify the hypothesis, because it says that AD (Alzheimer's disease) goes through the following stages: unknown proximate cause leads to appearance of amyloid plaques which then irreversibility lead to Tau bundles (tangles) which inevitably lead to neurodegeneration which then show up as AD
the model states that by the time the plaques are there it's "too late"
of course there are drugs being tested to try to "solve" this from multiple angles, for example make the progression slow enough to "not matter", prevent the tau bundles, etc.
It's mindblowing how the majority of the comments here seem to be rather cynical and distrustful. I'd be really discouraged if I were the author. I (as an engineer) found the article rather well-written and convincing! Well, at least it did get 100+ upvotes.
Thank you for pointing this out! I wrote the article, and that was exactly the point I was trying to make. I agree with most comments in this thread, but they're addressing a different issue. I assume they didn’t read the article in full. There’s a common frustration with designers who create superficial user interfaces—visually attractive at first glance, but offering little to the user. There's a good article on this topic called, "The dribbblisation of design."
Good design isn’t about making things pretty. It’s about making things make sense. Visual design is just one piece of that puzzle.
To reduce a designer’s role to 'making it look nice' is a fundamental misunderstanding of the craft. The shape of the interface reflects the thought behind it—ideally rooted in a deep understanding of the user’s context, goals, and jobs-to-be-done.
That's a similar thing to clothing though. You may argue how it can be manipulated all you want, but people do think in this way and it's a socially agreed upon contract to show you care enough about the occasion and have enough respect for the other people present. No head of state shows up to a meeting in shorts and slippers for a reason.
I was wondering about grammar checking tools in the era of LLMs, especially for grammar checks beyond English, and Sapling https://sapling.ai seemed decent. Nobody seems to have mentioned it here?
You can always come up with criticism for anything. Do they deliver some interesting ideas (while understandably they might oversimplify some other aspects) and are not complete frauds? If so there is some value in them.
Such a formulation is either sheer ignorance or worse, full-on deliberate cynicism.
Hong Kong's "past" was a typical colony where the governor was appointed by the British government with no local input whatsoever, and where any assembly of more than 6 people was deemed illegal and brutally suppressed. The type of thing that people like Gandhi (who are apparently heroes in contemporary narratives) fought against throughout their lives.
The British government only started changing the laws and handing locals more political freedom and freedom of speech once they knew that Hong Kong was returning to China no matter what (surprise, surprise).
In all such propaganda you see now, they try to construct a "past" that never existed, and apparently a lot of the young generation who never experienced the old days fell for it. But the older generation would tell them outright that "Hong Kong's past" is far less rosy than what's made out to be.
It's just astonishing when you see the amount of people waving British and American flags on the streets during the protests. What kind of "fight for freedom and independence" is that? Just imagine the reaction to protesters in a US territory or a European region (Catalonia etc.) waving Russian or Chinese flags.