JR1427

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by JR1427 3y ago
I totally agree. In the UK, many (often well off) people in towns and cities want to have an open fire or wood stove for fun. It makes no sense for this to be legal in densely-populated areas, that can afford cleaner alternatives.
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If you want to pop to the shops, hopping on a bicycle can be the better option. If you want to hunt small game, a bow can be the best choice. But if you're attacked by zombies, you grab a gun and get in the car.
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by JR1427 3y ago
Thanks for the followup. I guess my reaction is partly just that if a site wants to immediately spam me and try and grab some details, then I don't want to be there. On a related note, I'm usually a fan of the EU, but the mandator
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by JR1427 3y ago
Academic books are terribly expensive. When I was at university (Oxford, UK, 2009), I bought about four key books, and spent well over 100GBP. I simply couldn't afford more. I had a student loan which covered tuition and some of my liv
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by JR1427 3y ago
Click on article. Discover I have to sign in to read. No thanks.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I suppose ultimately you should read philosophy if you find it interesting. I like talking about philosophy, but find it hard to talk with people who have formally studied it, because they often rigidly cling to sets of ideas that get attac
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by JR1427 3y ago
That's why it is important to keep weighing yourself, as it is very hard to otherwise notice slow weight gain.
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by JR1427 3y ago
That is a really good point. "Whatever works for you".
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by JR1427 3y ago
I'm not bothering anyone with my opinion. You are completely free to not read my comment.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I hate the way Google answers the question it wishes you had asked, but didn't. E.g. you search for something obscure or specific, but all the results are relating to a similar search, that has loads of results. It's as if Google
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by JR1427 3y ago
I should say that I did weigh myself every day. No need to analyse, but you do need feedback in order to know if what you're doing is working.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I can't be bothered to read the article, but I recently discovered I can lose weight fairly easily by, wait for it... just eating a little bit less of everything I already eat. Other than that, the only conscious change was to sometime
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by JR1427 3y ago
I have very rarely had the urge to vandalise something, and never acted upon it, but this screens might tip me over the edge!
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by JR1427 3y ago
People who 3d print stuff seem to forget that filament printed enclosures don't look good, and certainly aren't nice enough to sell.
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by JR1427 3y ago
When watching single-celled nematode embryos under the microscope as a PhD student, I was often struck with a sense of the cell and its innards (microtubles, for instance) being very much like a crystal growing.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I was just saying in another thread how the big journals are click-baiting tabloids...
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by JR1427 3y ago
Yes, I do think it pretty reasonable. I don't watch "normal" TV, only YT, and I like it. Obviously there are the increasing number of ads actually within youtube videos, but at least you can skip over them.
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by JR1427 3y ago
I agree, those are all existing problems. But I would say the don't detract from the benefits. Maybe peer review should be time limited, but have the reviewers comments be immediately available for the authors to respond to, rather tha
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by JR1427 3y ago
I am much more naturally a generalist. I started as a cell biologist, and now write software full time, but also like hardware, woodwork, literature, etc. Everyone says that to get ahead you need to specialise, but this does not come natura
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by JR1427 3y ago
Speaking as a former scientist, it's worth remembering that peer review is not just about ensuring quality by preventing poor research being published. It also leads to good research being improved, in a very similar way to how code re
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by JR1427 3y ago
This would mean that not too exciting results never get published. Just because a topic/finding is not earth-shattering now doesn't mean it isn't useful information for the future.
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by JR1427 3y ago
Ah, I see. That makes sense! Although not all timezones are +/- an integer number of hours.
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by JR1427 3y ago
But the mugger could have avoided making the deal with the thug, so I don't see how that deal changes much.
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This is a classic "clever but stupid" idea. There is no compelling reason to adopt decimal time.
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by JR1427 3y ago
Why is having fewer time zones a good thing? Wouldn't this actually be confusing, because things would have to be happening at different local times depending on where you are in the time zone?
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by JR1427 3y ago
This just seems to add another pretext (alongside terrorism) to snoop on someone. Great...
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by JR1427 3y ago
I want my daughter (aged four) to enjoy writing by hand. It's part creative, part practical, but I also think that humans have a connection to the physical act of making things, or marks, that will take a (very) long time to go away, a
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by JR1427 3y ago
As other have said, the vast majority of necessities we unaffected by the pandemic. I don't know anyone who couldn't get their medicine, food, etc. We even had toilet roll the entire time!
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Also, if civilisation breaks down, I'm not sure I want to be around to see the result anyway...
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Preppers forget that society preps, too, just not necessarily at the individual level. We have warehouses full of extra stock etc, and carefully-managed supply chains, and emergency services. This is all prepping. I think preppers should po

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