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by DanBC 6y ago
Rowling's identity was uncovered when a family friend of her solicitors tweeted it out. > The Harry Potter author released her first Robert Galbraith novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, in April 2013 under the guise of a very British sound
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by DanBC 6y ago
There used to be news groups that would talk about "the last good version" of software, because it was widely recognised that good software would bloat until it broke. https://www.pcworld.com/article/137703&#x
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by DanBC 6y ago
Yes. There were loads of home computers and they all had slightly odd things about them. One of the main selling points of one range of home computers (the MSX range) was standardisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by DanBC 6y ago
Have you seen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Very few PCs had CD-ROM drives and multimedia software was nearly non-existent on the PC platform. Transferring data meant either a stack of floppies, or something like LapLink which used a special cable for the parallel port, or a nul
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by DanBC 6y ago
(I upvoted you, and I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes). > > Or I can give one dose to both of you. And this is what I know. At the very least, one dose is likely to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death.
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by DanBC 6y ago
A few different English dictionaries include "on the left" as a current definition for sinister. From American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. (En-En) > sinister > sin·is·ter (sĭnʹĭ-stər) > adj. > 4. On the left side; lef
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by DanBC 6y ago
I think you could use concepts from cognitive behaviour therapy here. In CBT you examine your thought and emotions, and then you look at the evidence you have to support those. [I feel anxious. I feel quite strongly anxious. My hot thought
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by DanBC 6y ago
> . Where would this chatbot ever be a good idea? This chatbot is never a good idea, but techbros (and you can sometimes read them on HN) think medicine is simple and that we could have AI triage in front of human healthcare professional
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Imagine a woman who is addicted to alcohol and drugs; who has had a string of abusive partners (who abused her and her children); and who has had several children permanently removed by the state because she was abusive and she failed to pr
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see also this: https://stories.coop/stories/saving-the-potatoes-of-the-ande... Or this: https://www.vayaadventures.com/blog/humble-potato-andes-grea...
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The Potato Park of Peru(boell.de)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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I like your points, and I think they'd be useful. > I'm not sure how much others can relate, but I am hopeless at remembering most of what I read or watch. Even when I spend several days pondering the same book chapter / p
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by DanBC 6y ago
The full title is: " https://www.nice.org.uk/news/blog/a-new-instrument-for-consi... " This is talking about using tools in addition to QALYs that are more relevant to people's lives.
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A new instrument for consideration of a broader range of benefits for people(nice.org.uk)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
> > and they shave their heads. > I think this a harmful trend too But you shave your head!!
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by DanBC 6y ago
> In contemporary international law the crime of genocide is part of the broader category of “crimes against humanity,” which were defined by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nürnberg Charter). The charter granted th
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by DanBC 6y ago
Yes, but people are still recovering from Connecting for Health and care.data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care.data
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by DanBC 6y ago
How does OpenPrescribing fit here? https://openprescribing.net/ Here's the practice-level prescribing data for GPs in England: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/areas-of-interes... Here&
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by DanBC 6y ago
There's a Youtube Channel called Bald Cafe where men are interviewed about their hair loss, and they shave their heads. https://www.youtube.com/c/Baldcafe/videos It's easy to see that for some people it&
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by DanBC 6y ago
Health and safety is used as a tool by reactionaries who lie about what it is and what it means in order to avoid thinking about how they may be harming other people. > What I suggested in my post last week, was that Safety is not a thin
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by DanBC 6y ago
And some of those children, especially the poorest, will share beds with a parent. See eg this from Buttle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45017513
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by DanBC 6y ago
GP registration in England is a little bit complex. If you live within the GP catchment area, and their list is open, they must register you and there are very limited reasons why they can decline that registration. GPs must offer certain s
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by DanBC 6y ago
"I know people who died indirectly from covid" is a confusing sentence.
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Circumvention of technical measures is part of law in many countries. See this example from the UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technological-pro... > Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) (al
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by DanBC 6y ago
When we talk about sexism in the workplace people will often say "it's a pipeline problem" -- we don't see women leaders because there aren't enough women juniors to apply for those positions. > women are more in
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by DanBC 6y ago
1 in 10 patients die within months of leaving hospital. https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1362863221305192450?... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-hospit... &g
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phe-monitoring-of...
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Data on the real world effectiveness of Covid vaccination in the UK(gov.uk)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
> What is it called if a doctor kills somebody out of "mercy," but without explicit consent? That's murder.

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