DanBC

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by DanBC 4y ago
> I have no doubt they waste tremendous amounts of money. Do you have any examples? > If done properly privatisation and deregulation could just save it. How do you de-regulate healthcare without killing people? We already have priva
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No, it didn't. The only things that worked were increasing the price and providing nicotine replacement treatment.
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The watershed is a good example that supports my point. We have law that says "don't advertise to children", and that's quite tricky so if a beer company says "we only placed ads in programmes that aired after 9pm w
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> The problem here is that “harm” is subjective Sure, but we have national laws, regulations, and cultural norms that specify harms and YouTube just shrugs their shoulders and says "we don't care".
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> When you deal with the scale that YT are operating at, automating content moderation is the only cost effective way. At some point the Silicon Valley excuse of "we can't afford to do it" is going to run into dumb but pow
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All the research we have shows, very clearly, that shaming people does not work.
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I had to edit the title quite a lot to get it to fit the HN limits. Sorry. I'm not great at doing that, so if you think there's a better title email HN and get them to change it. The full title is "Suicide numbers during the
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Suicide numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends(thelancet.com)
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> The NHS is a disaster and the reason isn't because of "privatization" You're in luck. Current UK government believes in privatisation of public services, massive tax cuts, and funding those tax cuts by massive cuts
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I feel like tutorials should make it clear when they're giving you correct technique or some quick and dirty hack. One of the images shows damaged insulation and too much solder. https://content.instructables.com/ORIG&#
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Lots of the joints in the images are sub-standard. This method is fine if you're happy bodging something together, but it's not great.
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> Other nations with "good health care" seem to [...] have long wait times at the ER, How are you measuring wait times? How are you defining Emergency Departments? In England there's a 4 hour target for people to be seen,
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The unedited title is "Open Letter to address the use of Electronic Air Cleaning Equipment in Buildings" which is a bit too long for the HN title field.
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Addressing the Use of Electronic Air Cleaning Equipment in Buildings(medium.com)
9 points by DanBC 4y ago|1 comments
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I'm not very good at making long titles fit the 80 character limit for HN. If you can think of a better title please email HN to get them to change it. The title of the paper is "Evaluating a commercially available in-duct bipolar
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Evaluating a commercial in-duct bipolar ionization device for pollutant removal(sciencedirect.com)
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full title is "Irish Librarians condemn publisher Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections" which does not fit into the title. If you can think of a better title than the one submitted you should email hn and a
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Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections(libraryassociation.ie)
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Yes, that's the point. People can get the meaning even if the legibility is degraded, but this can only go so far. People scan the sentence, and if that doesn't work they scan groups of words, and if that doesn't work they re
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by DanBC 4y ago
> So the rule is that you can't use a computer you don't own (and are just renting in some capacity) to download your own videos? Or to download videos for "fair use" use cases? One of the (many) reasons the DMCA is b
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It's hard work though. https://www.oldfonts.com/antiquepenman/wp-content/uploads/20... I can read this, but mostly I'm doing it through context and word recognition, not letter recognition. It'
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> Where's the outrage for that?? https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137 > As use of the internet has expanded there has been an increasing awareness that online content and activity can cause serious harm to
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Over a million patient contacts per day. How many court cases?
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> was concerned that a cancer drug called Avastin, was not widely available in the UK One of the important points here that the "privatisation is great" people are missing is that the reason Avastin isn't used off label so
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It's from this bit of one of his shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6Ez8oYDrU
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"Your name must contain..."
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> If water utilities were private, they would be significantly more accountable for their actions. Both criminally and civilly. Tricky to swim in English rivers or beaches at the moment because they're covered in human shit. We have
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> If people are drinking themselves to death, that is within their rights. Addiction is rarely a choice. Alcohol producers should pay for the costs of the harms they cause rather than off-loading those costs onto the state.
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Raising prices is about the only thing that works to change behaviour. But it needs to be tied to treatment too - there's no point making alcohol harder to get if you're not also making treatment for alcohol use disorders easier t
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This film about Richard Batterham, independent potter. It's just half and hour of him talking through his process and his art and what's important to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3hRRIO4-c Harlan County

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