DanBC

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by DanBC 5y ago
> Incels kill fewer people each year You don't have any evidence at all for that, do you? You have no idea what the real number is. > lightning strikes, About 20 people each year in the US die by lightening strike. That's
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Yet whenever Monty Hall comes up on HN there are long threads of people discussing slightly different problems. The answer to "should you switch in the Monty Hall problem" is very much "it depends how you've worded it&qu
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by DanBC 5y ago
NCISH (National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Self Harm (formerly NCI into Suicide and Homicide by mental health patients)) is an important research project. If you have an interest in suicide and suicide prevention this is essentia
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Ncish Annual Report 2021: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales(sites.manchester.ac.uk)
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YT videos often don't do well on HN, and in this case it's a shame because this is an interesting look at the many ways this dam spillway failed. He has a lot of great videos on his channel too.
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by DanBC 5y ago
> it's a wildly misunderstood language concept here on HN. An alternate understanding is that people are not as funny as they think they are.
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Two of your links are to the same story. https://theferret.scot/nhs-patient-data-breached-1395-times-...
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I get really confused when these kinds of posts get lots of upvotes. There's almost no insight here. And the tiny little glimpse of insight he has -- they flub it. The valuable part is not "being direct with other people so they c
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by DanBC 5y ago
https://boingboing.net/2005/11/07/astronomically-overp.html > Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and lis
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by DanBC 5y ago
> risk to young healthy individuals is negligible, No. https://twitter.com/Samanticka/status/1393188103586816001?s=... >> Think of a virus where 70% of kids are totally asymptomatic, less than 1% have sev
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> > Terefore, this feld may contain a mixture of NHS recorded gender and self-reported gender. Genetic sex in the UK Biobank was determined NHS recorded gender can be self reported. https://pcse.england.nhs.uk/help&#x2
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by DanBC 5y ago
Some people really dislike the permissive licence used by FreeBSD. They see large companies, such as Sony, using FreeBSD and they wonder whether any useful code, hardware, or cash are sent to FreeBSD as a result. It can feel to some people
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by DanBC 5y ago
(I don't think you should be downvoted for expressing a reasonable opinion). I think it suffers from the same thing a lot of social media suffers from: if you know who to follow your experience is a lot better. But discovering who to f
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by DanBC 5y ago
> And how do I move a browser window, now that my 8-15 browser tabs consume all of the title bar area? Keyboard shortcuts? Alt space brings up the "restore, move, size, minimise, maximise, close" menu. Windows Key + cursor keys
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This is a 404.
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You can control your tiktok feed. If you make no attempt to control it you get an eclectic mix. If you use the tools that tiktok gives you you'll end up with a curated feed. TikTok is very good at giving you the content you're i
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> I genuinely don't understand why everyone has insisted on talking about COVID-19 in terms of absolute deaths. For everything else like heart disease etc. we talk about statistically "losing X years of life". We do this b
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by DanBC 5y ago
> which is evidenced in significantly higher suicide, Most places haven't yet seen increased suicide rates, and certainly not "significantly higher suicide".
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> Look it's always been known since the very early days of Wuhan crisis that masks will significantly reduce spread and risk (from past smaller pandemics & the nature of transmission of this virus) We have a lot of research in
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What makes you think the pandemic is over? New variants are still emerging, and some of them are pretty worrying. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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Children grow into adults. We're protecting those future adults.
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We also vaccinate them so they don't infect people who can't be vaccinated.
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Explained: UK Online Safety Bill(dcms.shorthandstories.com)
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Tax laws are what's written in acts and statutes, but also how the courts interpret those laws. When a company plans their tax they can either use the laws as they're intended (tax planning), they can deceive the tax authorities i
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There's a really nice document that lists incoherent tax arguments in the US. https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/the-truth-about-frivo...
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Depending where you are, misadventure isn't really a euphemism. In England: Suicide means the deceased did something to end their life, and had the intention of ending their life when they did it. Misadventure means the deceased did a
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This link does not work. I don't know how to make it work. https://watermark.silverchair.com/15-3-345.pdf?token=AQECAHi... Removing the token gives https://watermark.silverchair.com/15-3-345.pdf And th
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It's good! The book is also enjoyable, and covers a little bit more detail.
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Facebook -v- the Competition and Markets Authority (UK)(judiciary.uk)
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When you include residents in the US pay the "average across all specialities" is way less than $300k. > Specialists range £41k to £76k. You've misunderstood what they said. They said "speciality doctors", not &

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