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by Nursie 9mo ago
It’s very unlikely to happen because at this point it seems to be effectively a lost technology. Nobody’s making the tubes any more. It’s bit like cassette decks - there’s only one manufacturer left and the mechanisms they build are not up
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by Nursie 9mo ago
This is absolute nonsense. Doctors test for deficiencies in vitamins and minerals and recommend cheap effective supplements to address them and other conditions all the frickin time. My partner is currently taking completely unpatentable
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by Nursie 9mo ago
There must be a name for this sort of fallacy of thinking. “A isn’t perfect therefore I choose to believe in B.” Where A is an evidence-based discipline with some shortcomings and B is unevidenced woo. I’d rather something that works and ca
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by Nursie 9mo ago
I didn’t claim that Chinese biotech isn’t great. I am sure that like most Chinese research, engineering etc it is world class. But there is evidence from all around the world that the Chinese government is actively pushing TCM, that they pu
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by Nursie 9mo ago
According to those sources above, they're not only 'treating' locals but starting up training centres. It seems to be about exporting culture as well as opening up new markets for TCM 'pharmaceutical' companies. No
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by Nursie 9mo ago
You said it, so I had to look it up: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/10/chinese-traditiona... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3326972/ho.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
As someone not in the US, but who listens to a lot of UK and Australian news here in Australia, it is noticeable how often the words "Donald Trump" are the first things spoken in any given bulletin. Can't imagine what it must
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by Nursie 9mo ago
They have previously pressured the WHO to include TCM remedies in its literature. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-health-...
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Because they've done it before? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-health-... https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240042322
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by Nursie 9mo ago
China is likely to use its influence to push "TCM" further into the narrative. Not that the US national health agenda is exemplary in its use of evidence and scientific knowledge at the moment either. Sad all round. (Edit - downvo
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by Nursie 9mo ago
Who knows? The numbers that choose to take this action are pretty small so there’s no particular driver for any political reaction. Turns out if you make people show up, most of them decide they do want to vote. We also have a lot of choice
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by Nursie 9mo ago
You can pay the fine or spoil your paper. If significant numbers do this, it will be reported publicly. As it is though, people tend to vote for one of the parties on offer, of which there are many. And as it's also preference voting
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> Want to limit certain time window for counting? Why would you want that? Surely what you want is to enable everyone to vote, and then to count all the votes? In the UK where I have most experience of this stuff, there are many, many
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by Nursie 9mo ago
It’s hardly major news either way. Yes, it’s bad for owners if they removed a feature. But if the feature wasn’t legal and contravened CO2 and air-pollutions laws then I guess that’ll happen. Previously that might have required a recall.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
That's quite a clickbaity headline! It's forcing lexus to disable the remote starting of ICE vehicles so that they can be idled and warm-up pre-use. Idling is regulated in a bunch of places, for reasons of emissions and air pollut
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> Melbourne's had laws so strict that they've done a bang up job of ruining the local live music scene. And Perth ... the zoning here seems to work in a way that suburbs don't get shops, restaurants and bars integrated int
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by Nursie 9mo ago
> not a democracy Democracy comes in many flavours and it's very hard to see the US federal system as outside of that when it is composed of elected representatives. It's not a direct democracy, it's not a democracy where
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by Nursie 9mo ago
This is the bit an author friend of mine really hates. They didn’t even buy a copy. And now AI has killed his day job writing legal summaries. So they took his words without a license and used them to put him out of a job. Really rubs in th
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by Nursie 9mo ago
But it’s not just about recall and reproduction. If they used Anna’s Archive the books were obtained and copied without a license, before they were fed in as training data.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
They don’t even need a deal, the agreements have been in place since sometime in the 1950s.
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by Nursie 9mo ago
The US used to have multiple military bases in Greenland during the Cold War. It has closed most of them and is down to one. It could, at any time, reopen them and move troops there under existing agreements, or build more. Nobody would bat
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> None of this matters to people who can't afford to heat their homes in the winter. 1. Yes it does because it helps the country control prices and helps people afford to heat their homes in winter. 2. Yes it does because defence is
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by Nursie 10mo ago
While a bill reduction is definitely useful and important for the people of the UK, energy independence is also important for the nation. Exposure to international fossil fuel markets has been a problem for many nations in recent years, as
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by Nursie 10mo ago
My understanding is that base load tends to refer to a source that produces constantly to cover base usage levels round the clock. That’s what nuclear is good for, and then you have other technologies that service the peaks it can’t quickly
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by Nursie 10mo ago
I went to a sceptics talk by a stage hypnotist a while back that I found very interesting. He said after many years he wasn’t sure what hypnotism was exactly, or even if it was an identifiable thing at all, and that in a lot of ways he was
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> I've struggled with this point of view since my early teens, and possibly even earlier. There is no amount of good one can do to compensate for even the slightest misdeed. I think there's a hole in the thought somewhere. If y
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> My assertion was that "they haven't been a thing", and they haven't. Your sentence implied they were a nationwide issue still, and they very simply haven't been. I gave you another example from last year, but i
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> look at the other guy replying to my comments, And look at you - making incorrect assertions about both free speech zones (they are still used) and your central point about the arrest of a protestor who it turns out wasn't arreste
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> Arresting people for holding up a blank sign is very different and much worse. On the contrary, it’s no different whatsoever from corralling away protest until it’s out of sight in an approved zone, and arresting anyone who expresses d
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by Nursie 10mo ago
> That hasn't been a thing for a long time It’s still the law, was expanded under Obama and is used widely. It is used to control dissent at events where protest would be unsightly, much as the UK incident you brought up. > Consi

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