DanBC

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by DanBC 5y ago
Don't look at the CDC stats for the previous year. Look at the Australian stats for 2019 -- these were different strains of flu.
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by DanBC 5y ago
What's being stolen in theft of electricity? The electrons or the holes?
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by DanBC 5y ago
A gentle reminder that some of the 2019 flu strains were pretty rough. See eg Australia having a lot of problems with it.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Theft means a possession was taken. Usually, but not always, which is why theft of electricity is a thing.
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by DanBC 5y ago
Words can be used as metaphor.
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by DanBC 5y ago
There have been hundreds of lawsuits by Monsanto. I don't immediately recognise which case you're talking about. Do you have any links please? > GMO IP protection does nothing to prevent farmers from continuing to grow previous
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by DanBC 5y ago
When you see videos about this they can be quite complicated - they talk about a "core" which includes stuff like straw or hair, and then a shell. If you're making dorodango you can ignore all of that. You'll just need t
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by DanBC 5y ago
The UK's most popular newspaper ran with "page 3" topless models until 2015. https://inews.co.uk/culture/page-3-why-end-stop-no-more-the-...
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by DanBC 5y ago
The story is to illustrate why poor people stay poor, not how rich people got rich.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Tires are rubber, > many textiles are polyester Rubber can be natural or synthetic, and the synthetic rubber is a plastic polymer. Tyres use a mix of natural and synthetic rubber. Polyester can be natural, but it's often synthe
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by DanBC 5y ago
> none of its proponents think through logical consequences. They do. Can you point me to the page you read about heroin maintenance that didn't include anything about the consequences? > you may argue a heroin addict has a right
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by DanBC 5y ago
I don't think anyone has been prosecuted. I'm not arguing with your point - this stuff is messy. It's not clear cut. There's a combination of how the law is written, how courts have interpreted that in the past, whether
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by DanBC 5y ago
I'm in favour of banning hate speech. My worries about this law are that it compels sites to host some speech that they'd define as hate but which the current UK government doesn't. For example, a forum that provides peer sup
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by DanBC 5y ago
The full title is "Landmark laws to keep children safe, stop racial hate and protect democracy online published" which is too long for the HN title box. I feel like many on HN are missing some important parts of this proposed new
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Landmark laws to stop racial hate and protect democracy online published(gov.uk)
1 points by DanBC 5y ago|4 comments
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by DanBC 5y ago
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/part/III The police think Bob has material that they need to see. They think that: The key, password, code is in the possession of the person given noti
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by DanBC 5y ago
Especially in the UK where ICO hasn't taken any GDPR enforcement action for like 6 months.
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by DanBC 5y ago
No-one is mentioning that this bill will compel platforms to host content they do not want. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-laws-to-keep-chi... > All in-scope companies will need to consider and put
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by DanBC 5y ago
That's not how suicide statistics work.
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by DanBC 5y ago
The data is probably good, but SA has a habit of dumping 48 different sources into an article, and pulling out 250 short snippets from those sources. So things tend to get misunderstood or misrepresented. The original researchers are often
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by DanBC 5y ago
> a known effective mask. ...if you got a real one, and not one of the less effective fakes.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Once N95 masks became readily available and cheap, it was (and is) mysterious why people weren't being told to wear them Because they're difficult to wear. There are a bunch of photos on social media of HCPs who've got
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by DanBC 5y ago
I want to know how much money will be spent painting fucking Union Jacks on all the trains.
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by DanBC 5y ago
UK trains are really variable. If you're going from most major cities to London you get a newish train, on a fastish route. If you're going between major hubs you're probably going to have a nice experience. But the local tra
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by DanBC 5y ago
Wait until you find out what the Dambusters called their dog.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Many US grocery stores sell fully-cooked chickens with minimal spicing for about six dollars. These are loss leaders and are often less than half the price of an uncooked chicken An uncooked chicken is about $10-$15? (£7-£10)? I don&#x
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Would $1,000 (in 1982 money) have been too much? To compare some prices: In 1983 Lotus 1-2-3 was selling for $495, which is about $1320 today. In 1988 CompuServe was charge $11 (so, over $20 today) an hour. In 1983 an IBM 5150 was betw
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HSA has 'its role' in relation to Facebook moderator working conditions(irishexaminer.com)
2 points by DanBC 5y ago|0 comments
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> Leftists are going for internal passport systems and repeating the mistakes of the Nazis. You lose any credibility when you compare compulsory vaccination to genocidal campaigns that killed 6-7million Jewish people and 2-4million disab
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by DanBC 5y ago
> Is there another event besides the releasing of the first smart phone in conjunction with social media that we is a possible contributor to the rise of suicide and depression from 2009 - 2015? Global economic collapse. People love to l

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