DanBC

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811.
by DanBC 6y ago
Yes. See also Florence Nightingale using rose diagrams to illustrate preventable excess deaths to infection during war. https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/coxcomb-diagram-1858/
812.
by DanBC 6y ago
> I don't see how you can have an expectation of privacy when moving through the street and entering / exiting buildings. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3689049.stm > Miss Campbell had objected
813.
The Welsh village name with more than 20 spellings (2018)(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
814.
by DanBC 6y ago
In most places with bans on ads for prescribed meds you can advertise to doctors. That's why some websites have banners saying "for medical professionals only" -- they also run ads for prescription meds.
815.
by DanBC 6y ago
> That's obviously false. It's not obviously false, because there were studies available at the time that showed masks did not work to protect individuals, especially members of the public. But, again, I'd be interested to
816.
by DanBC 6y ago
Can you show me the peer reviewed studies that you think Fauci etc showed have used to recommend mask wearing in the general population? We had lots of studies around mask wearing, and most of them really struggled to show any kind of benef
817.
by DanBC 6y ago
It happens a lot for music.
818.
by DanBC 6y ago
You can count 6 shots if 6 shots were given. That's what's happening.
819.
43% of A360 attenders got Covid after attending an event(twitter.com)
10 points by DanBC 6y ago|3 comments
820.
by DanBC 6y ago
Imagine a person today who dies. They're going to weigh on average 80 kg. If they're cremated they'll be wearing a full set of clothes, and be in a coffin, and they'll be cremated on their own. There will be a full combu
821.
by DanBC 6y ago
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tinnitus/ > You may hear these sounds in 1 or both ears, or in your head. They may come and go, or you might hear them all the time.
822.
by DanBC 6y ago
> Any ecologist would tell you that trees plant themselves if left alone. They'd also tell you that the attrition rates are terrible.
823.
by DanBC 6y ago
Stonehenge has a mix of sarsen stones and blue stones. The sarsen stones come from Wiltshire. The blue stones come from the Preseli Hills in south west Wales.
824.
by DanBC 6y ago
I mean, if "the FBI supplied high explosive for these people to bomb a civilian street" doesn't meet the bar then nothing is going to satisfy you, is it?
825.
by DanBC 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing > From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound (0.5 kg) bombs (which the police referre
826.
by DanBC 6y ago
> Heaven forbid someone make a joke on the internet Jokes are funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 > I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people us
827.
by DanBC 6y ago
One thing I'd really like HN readers to understand is that UK newspapers, even supposedly respectable ones like the Telegraph, are FUCKING GARBAGE. Please stop posting links to them because they're often inaccurate, sometimes deli
828.
by DanBC 6y ago
> and served for almost 10 years before being passed on Wait what, is ten years supposed to be a good lifetime for vacuum cleaners?
829.
by DanBC 6y ago
There used to be a thing called a FrogPad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad
830.
by DanBC 6y ago
You used to be able to get software versions but Matthias was enforcing its patent. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000021.html https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3067497
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How Stenography Works(artofchording.com)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
832.
by DanBC 6y ago
People who send spam never think it is spam. They often think their UBE is somehow different from all the other stuff. They claim that the recipients want this bit of email, even if those same recipients complain about getting spam.
833.
by DanBC 6y ago
What do you think is on-topic?
834.
by DanBC 6y ago
The US testing is excessive. Over-testing leads to over-diagnosis, and that leads to over-treatment. These sometimes cause harm, and tend not to reduce all cause mortality. https://amjmed.org/over-testing-why-more-is-not-bet
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by DanBC 6y ago
> No professional (in any field) should base a decision solely on something written in any secondary source. Even if it was a specialist publication, a competent professional should do their own research, and look at the primary sources.
836.
by DanBC 6y ago
And yet all the things you mention are only important for 5 year survival rates. They don't seem to make much difference to all cause mortality. This means Americans are paying lots of money for treatment that lowers quality of life, c
837.
by DanBC 6y ago
The data that's been released in the UK was using a newer rapid method, looking at death before coroners issue a conclusion. NCISH are calling this real time monitoring data. Some local areas sometimes call this data "suspected se
838.
by DanBC 6y ago
You're mentioning "parties" and "Accra" in a weird way. What's your problem with local Wikimedia groups holding events in Ghana? These are the events you're talking about. They hardly seem to be lavish eve
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by DanBC 6y ago
It depends what logo you look at. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-review/submission-g... This page has the uppercase logo in two places, on the fixed header, and on the footer. I think this uppercase FACE
840.
by DanBC 6y ago
One of the nicest "hidden" RFCs is RFC2468. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 ("2 4 6 8, who do we appreciate")

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