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by PaulAJ 6y ago
The problem is that the whole thing is basically an unsupported allegation. It might be true, but for the time being we have no way of knowing. * The material was provided via two of Trumps henchmen, who may or may not have altered it alo
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The truth is not a social construct. Either Hunter Biden received that "thanks for the meeting with your father" email or he didn't. Importance is a social construct. If that email is what it puports to be, then whether it is
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Operation Sealion (the German invasion of Britain) was war-gamed in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion#Post-war_wa... The invasion force surrendered after 6 days. And that assumed that the shambolic
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Well, there was the notorious case of the Polish Spitfire on a BNP poster. https://www.theregister.com/2009/03/04/polish_spitfire/ Presumably the BNP didn't know about the multi-national bit.
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Cool visualisation of Covid-19 rates by state(dangoodspeed.com)
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You had a used ATX power supply?! You were LUCKY!. When I were a lad, all we had was a bike dynamo. And you had to crank it by hand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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This isn't "literacy", its a collection of factoids. Real industrial literacy means knowing something of the end-to-end lifecycle of industrial goods, and the supply chains that bring them to us. In addition to the list in th
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Actually we just focus our efforts on making sure everyone has potable water.
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How do you get out of it if there is a power cut?
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The other problem with something like this at a Masters level is that you run a big risk of making no progress, even if you tackle some kind of sub-problem. When that happens it becomes hard to get your degree. Better to get the degree firs
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> Fundamentally, Haskell did not clearly solve any particular problem with other languages. Marketeers have a saying: "Its a lot easier to sell asprin than vitamins." In other words, if someone says "This is giving me head
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Yes, but.... The trouble with evolutionary explanations of human psychology is that they are "just so stories". Actual tests of these hypotheses are extremely difficult. Sometimes you can get somewhere with experiments on other ma
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One piece of counter-evidence is the repeated story of online communities. In the early days of the Internet there was Usenet (OK, so it started separate, never mind), a global community, or collection of communities, using text-based messa
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This is all about Dunbar's Number; the number of people you can "know" in the sense of having stable social relations with. Its about 150 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number ). A society smal
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In "The Hacker Crackdown" there is a quote from Gail Thackeray: Fifteen percent of the populace will never steal. Fifteen percent will steal most anything not nailed down. The battle is for the hearts and minds of the remaining se
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> [..] while the electrical energy input only increases linearly with time. This is the fallacy. In an electric motor the power required to exert a force is proportional to the speed, so if you want to keep the acceleration constant you
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> An internal review at the bank found humans manually operating the old software were ultimately at fault Which is of course an entirely bogus cop-out. If a mistake can be made in a manual operation then sooner or later it will be. Lowe
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Condor Ferries used to run hydrofoils between the Channel Islands, the UK and France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_Ferries . However they retired their last hydrofoil in 1993. https://www.youtube.com&
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
I have prosopagnosia, and movies are often a problem. I recall an Agatha Christie film where the opening was set at a big dinner party. All the men were wearing dinner jackets, and we were shown lots of plot-critical conversations about exp
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Quantum encryption is solving a non-problem. It provides a mechanism which guarantees that a message sent over a point-to-point optical link hasn't been intercepted. However: * It is orders of magnitude slower than normal data transmis
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Another view which addresses the complexity is STAMP (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and. Processes) by Nancy Leveson. Rather than look at scenarios she sees a system as a set of nested control loops, where each loop involves two-way info
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The "methodology" of bow-tie is that the diagrams are used to identify controls and show how they map on to hazards (often one control is applicable to several hazards). Once you have this mapping you can demonstrate that you have
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Follow the link in "Digital Trust Standards" to the "Criteria for Security and Trust in Telecommunications Networks and Services" ( https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publi... ). P
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The people who make the decisions about IPv6 adoption are not users, they are ISPs. You get an IPv4 address on your router WAN port because that is what your ISP gives to you. From an ISP's point of view IPv6 is a lot of No Business Ca
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What about the D C Power Building which houses the Stanford AI Lab? It was named after Donald Clinton Power.
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Everyone assumes its about connections and kickbacks, but its actually more to do with procurement policies. The people who sign off on large contracts need to be able to demonstrate due dilligence, because if they don't then when some
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My understanding, based on what I've just read, is that it depends on whether the document was created in order to obtain legal advice. If you start the document with "Dear Lawyer, here is my story so far including all the incrimi
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Will you still have to pay the Windows Tax on these products?
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Where is "here"?
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Anyone who thinks that it would be easy to raise government revenues by taxing the wealthy should read "Moneyland" by Oliver Bullough. Anyone who thinks that low tax rates on wealthy people isn't a problem should also read &q

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