Brakenshire

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by Brakenshire 5y ago
> Yes there is a huge difference with the latter being a 1,000 British colonial-era holdover that's home to the largest tax haven hub in the world. In what sense is it a colonial-era holdover? Unless you mean Norman colonialism.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
You want to turn it down for someone on the pavement, but not for someone crossing a major road at night.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Five years ago there was nothing else, but now there are many options.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
We don’t really know anything about Sparta which wasn’t written by outside observers.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
I was surprised Mozilla gave up on Servo before realising its potential, particularly for a parallel layout engine, because that could have been a massive advantage on mobile, especially on cheap smartphones which have many cores but each l
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
There’s also a concept of dating the age of hedgerow by the diversity and randomness of plant species.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
This isn't true, you don't have to be a member of the EU to be part of the Horizon programme, which is the EU's science funding mechanism. Membership of Horizon was part of the Brexit deal for the UK, although it seems to be
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
The UK has actually remained a member of the EU's science funding programme after Brexit as part of the exit deal, although that membership has not been formally ratified yet.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
The Romano-British and the Anglo-Saxons a similar lesson!
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
This is interesting: > However, Apple is unique in putting emphasis in keeping hardware interfaces compatible across SoC generations – the UART hardware in the M1 dates back to the original iPhone! This means we are in a unique position
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Can the M1 MacBooks be used with Linux?
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
There's a 15 minute BBC radio programme based around this object here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01ghc4h
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Governments want to tax profits rather than revenues. A tax on revenues would kill a lot of high growth businesses.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
> Somebody, somewhere made a choice to push the vaccines and not the monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies have been investigated at the same time as vaccines. Companies could have offered low cost production at large scale, but t
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
> I'm unaware of a single study on the safety or efficacy of mixing vaccine types like this. The Com-Cov study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3874014
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
They increased UC for the pandemic, and then reduced it, much like the Furlough scheme, and both of those policies would have been considered centre or centre-left responses if done by a centre or centre-left party.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Can you really see neuroplasticity in an MRI?
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
One big reason is you're removing the economic incentive to produce good evidence. The herbal remedies industry is a perfect example, there will be valid treatments there but yet the industry is almost entirely medically useless. Some
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
I agree, that's well put and I think that could work very well. I think the key would be having clear centralized standards for how the trials are conducted, or you could have doctors skirting the system and just using it as de-facto p
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
We do have to make drug discovery vastly more efficient, but we want to make it more efficient at making useful drugs available, not just making drugs available. If you decouple availability from effectiveness then drug companies will just
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
For 3 and a half decades.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
It’s a joke at the expense of the astrologer. Rome had Augurs with official responsibilities for predicting the future, so maybe these kind of jokes were more subversive at that time. Although I could imagine a modern joke about an astrolog
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
I’m not sure allotment is the right word, at least in England allotments are much more intended for hobbyist gardening, they’re small, often you’re not even allowed a shed, staying there would be unlikely practically or legally. Isn’t this
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Allotments in England are different, more like an open field broken up into 50ft x 50ft squares specifically for hobbyist gardeners, and often you’re not allowed to have any buildings on them at all.
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Along the same lines, an issue I was interested in a while back, has anyone written a script in Linux to get the webcam to dynamically crop to faces/people?
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Does this work for Linux?
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
> Before everything started changing in 2020 (Ford is pulling out of the car market in the US except for select models), what models were UK specific? The Puma is Europe-specific and was launched in 2019. I don't understand the case
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
Many of the smaller Ford cars seem to be designed by the European subsidiary and then either exclusively sold in Europe or later sold in America, for instance the Kuga which is now being sold as the Escape in the USA. Ford obviously aspired
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
> We have empirical data showing how safe actual level 2 self driving cars are in practice. Do we? Where does that come from? The data Tesla provides is hopelessly non-representative because it makes the assumption that the safety of any
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by Brakenshire 5y ago
If the accounts are subject to ID verification then the abuser can be prosecuted.

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