BlackVanilla

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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
This seems like the games and aptitude tests that some employers make you complete near the start of the process. There is a difference, currently most tests are critical thinking tests or personality quizes that may not match up to the ski
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Challenges and opportunities for better nutrition science(bmj.com)
1 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|0 comments
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Glastonbury Festival: Traces of drugs found in river at site(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Improving health despite working in a screen-based job
38 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|52 comments
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Crowdsourcing Treatments That Work(stuffthatworks.health)
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International Space Station facing irreparable failures, Russia warns(bbc.co.uk)
18 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|4 comments
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MIT Challenge(scotthyoung.com)
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
The UK's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (where people are put on furlough and the government contributes to wages) seems to have damped the creative destruction usually seen in recessions. To use a basic example, assuming there will
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Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search(theregister.com)
198 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|90 comments
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Perseverance Mars rover's first rock sample goes missing(bbc.co.uk)
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
Discussion in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884602
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Was it ‘crazy’ to re-create a flu virus that killed 50M people? (2014)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|1 comments
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The Secrets of Buying (2006)(tynan.com)
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Restoring Holcombe Moor(nationaltrust.org.uk)
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
I'm aware this issue has been prominent in US politics. In the UK, hopefully a public inquiry on the pandemic response is held and the rules on public inquiry allow for such emails to searched. I think it would be wise for guidance on
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UK Gov rules out searching Hancock's private emails on Covid decision-making(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|2 comments
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Kashmir students climb mountain to cross digital divide(bbc.co.uk)
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Tech firms use remote monitoring to help honey bees(bbc.co.uk)
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
Relevant recent discussion: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013) ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359269 )
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
This is a G7 agreement, so it seems the success of the policy will depend how much sway this will have with G20 countries. If it doesn't get the G20's agreement, what stops multinationals from simply domiciling themselves in anoth
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Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen(bbc.co.uk)
280 points by BlackVanilla 5y ago|138 comments
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
I recently found out about Summit Public Schools. By the sounds of it, this model aims to provide students with more autonomy than they would in a normal school. There is an emphasis on self-directed learning and teachers act more as mentor
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
I should've been more precise in my wording. There was not enough detail where it really mattered, such as the example you give of 'preventing/hospital management'.
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
My observation is that countries with detailed plans for rare, but serious, crises are more likely to be better-placed than a country that does not. I realise this is a fairly obvious one and other factors may change outcomes thereafter.
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
Taiwan had pandemic plans. Many suggest that countries cannot be compared. While this is true in some instances, it is not a useful observation in this case. Taiwan had a detailed plan in the event of a pandemic, the UK did not. This allowe
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by BlackVanilla 5y ago
I think the most valuable thing we can glean from this is the failure of systems. The focus by the BBC has been on transient matters. What will happen to Johnson and Hancock for instance? I think the focus on this is misplaced. If 'les
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Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns (2019)(newyorker.com)
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by BlackVanilla 6y ago
Perhaps in cities, where there is more footfall, it might save money to employ one. But you're certainly right, in these rural Swedish shops, there doesn't seem to be.
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by BlackVanilla 6y ago
Very true, and young people too! I think these shops could reduce loneliness as customers may talk to each other. There's more chance of interaction with a shop than no shop. The concern is where technology is used in place of staffed-
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Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free(bbc.co.uk)
248 points by BlackVanilla 6y ago|413 comments

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