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by DanBC 6y ago
> Last time I looked you could write the MP3s to a CD. Format shifting isn't always legal. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-q...
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by DanBC 6y ago
I'm submitting this because this chap knows his subject well, and clearly enjoys talking about it.
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Bearings: The secret life of components – a series of guides for makers(youtube.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
People forget that spying on citizens by the post office goes back hundreds of years. This doesn't make it in any way acceptable, but people shouldn't act surprised that post offices spy on citizens when it's an activity th
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by DanBC 6y ago
> I’m a 3rd-year student at a university which is considered prestigious here (Russia) I'm assuming your first language is Russian and that you're speaking English as a second language. If true, you're writing is excellent
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by DanBC 6y ago
You might be interested in the radio programme "Brian Gulliver's Travels". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Gulliver%27s_Travels https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m29vt They in
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Adult Online Hate, Harassment and Abuse: A rapid evidence assessment (2019)(gov.uk)
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by DanBC 6y ago
Eh, to be more clear: in England, a drug overdose death would tend not to be recorded as a death by suicide unless the coroner had said the person intended to die, or had given a narrative conclusion where intent is unclear. Death by misadv
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by DanBC 6y ago
It depends on the country. Suicide stats come in roughly three different forms: 1) Coroners reports 2) National statistics organisations 3) Early data / real time surveillance The data from coroners will tend to undercount. Coroners ha
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by DanBC 6y ago
You might be interested in the comments of one of the authors of the research that's being referred to: https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1382257477111140358?... Some cautions re our new paper on su
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by DanBC 6y ago
The article was not paywalled to me when I posted it.
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Inclusive Transportation Is About Much More Than Lifts and Ramps(forbes.com)
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India’s second wave(ft.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Given that the UK is one of the better countries in medical care quality, why are things still so bad? Some people have spoken about the GP missing EDS, and those are good points. There's a bit of work happening in England to impr
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by DanBC 6y ago
> the MDMA Phase II results from MAPS's trial make MDMA look like a magic bullet. Some gentle caution: we thought the same about Prozac, and about cognitive behaviour therapy. Mental health interventions often work better in trials
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/19/india-suffers-... > India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths– followed by China and Nigeria – according to a report published on Wednesday that es
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Britons with a first dose of Covid vaccine have become infected with variants(independent.co.uk)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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The obscure maths theorem that governs the reliability of Covid testing(theguardian.com)
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A scannable QR code advertisement created by drones above the skies of Shanghai(twitter.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
The other ingredient of acrylic paint is an acrylic polymer.
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Riots stopped because Prince Andrew or Philip or something – he’s dead(irishtimes.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
So, in about 10 years we're going to have yet another source of trillions of particles of microplastic?
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by DanBC 6y ago
Yes. One of the authors is very clear that this is early data. https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1382248431272480769?... What is message from our new paper showing no rise in suicide in pandemic? •ear
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by DanBC 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd describe C&W as a "top" hospital trust, but I thought this was interesting.
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Top hospital trust makes Covid jab mandatory for all staff(hsj.co.uk)
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Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic(thelancet.com)
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The young creatives who went undercover to prove ad industry gender agenda(thedrum.com)
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by DanBC 6y ago
We're not talking about what Minsky did or did not do. We're talking about the situation that Stallman set up, and then defended. In Stallman's version Minsky did have sex with a coerced trafficked 17 year old, and Stallman
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by DanBC 6y ago
Again, that's not the claim that RMS made, is it? RMS started from the position that she was 17, and trafficked, and that Minsky had sex with her. He then defended that behaviour. What actually happened isn't particularly relevant
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by DanBC 6y ago
US trafficking laws include the concept of "reckless disregard".

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