Tycho

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by Tycho 5y ago
They are based on a book. They adapted the key scenes from the book. Also Lynch’s Dune descends into farcical whimsy, it’s not a good movie, although it has some good costume and set design.
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by Tycho 5y ago
“Misinformation” appears to be a term used by people who don’t want to take on the burden of proof when accusing someone of lying.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Most ridiculous bug I’ve encountered is that if you have Notes open in list view and with an external monitor, it will consume 100% CPU non-stop, killing the battery life and overheating the Macbook Pro and eventually physically damaging th
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by Tycho 5y ago
I remember someone told me they always buy a T-shirt when they're away on a trip somewhere. Something local themed. That way whenever, years later, they pull it out of their wardrobe, it stirs some good memories. Started doing this mys
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by Tycho 5y ago
If interview tests were truly useful, wouldn't companies want to assign them continually to their existing employees? Constantly keeping their skills sharp, proving their competence without any confounding variables.
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by Tycho 5y ago
That’s funny, I actually mentioned to someone recently that reading poetry to relax is a bit like doing a (cryptic) crossword - it’s playing with language.
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It’s pretty normal for workplaces to have meetings where the main purpose is just some kind of team bonding or socialising between colleagues.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I just don’t care about things which are of no consequence, rather than frothing with rage about possible minor breaches of protocol. Try it.
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by Tycho 5y ago
30 people who were working in the Downing St buildings stepped out to the garden to talk to colleagues. It’s not a big deal. Indeed they would be safer outside than inside. Safer than the NHS nurses posting dance videos on TikTok from their
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by Tycho 5y ago
These sorts of polls don’t mean much when he has a massive majority and years to run in his term.
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by Tycho 5y ago
This is one of the stupidest scandals I’ve ever seen. It makes Labour look very bad and deluded. They think the PM is going to resign because he stepped outside to the Downing St back garden for a short break and a glass of wine on a sunny
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by Tycho 5y ago
Isn't this more a failure of the scientific advisors? Surely they would be able to deliver a clear verdict on this (eg. definitely transmitted by aerosol, definitely not transmitted by aerosol, or possibly transmitted by aerosol so urg
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by Tycho 5y ago
What is your source for the claim that one usually becomes infectious before becoming aware of the infection from symptoms?
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by Tycho 5y ago
I'm continually astonished that discussion of the vaccines seems to continue as if we can't plainly see that they are totally ineffective at preventing infection and transmission, and that the virus is a very minor threat for non-
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by Tycho 5y ago
Are there other differences between male and female chess play? Like maybe females prefer certain strategies/styles that make a small advantage more secure once you have it.
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by Tycho 5y ago
But also, the subset of people who died from Covid is almost certainly not akin to a random sample from the broader population of the age cohort (and therefore not a subset which you could apply those life expectancy averages to).
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by Tycho 5y ago
And how do those numbers compare?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Well a few months back in official UK mortality statistics from the ONS you could see a massive increase in the non-covid death rate for vaccinated people, but no one in the health authorities seemed to notice or feel the need to explain it
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think the more pressing problem is how to concentrate. According to a Times article the other day, 20% of university students are using “smart drugs” to help with this.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Better would be a score gauging how many members of a media organisation have previously worked in parts of government (or still do).
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by Tycho 5y ago
The richer sense of fulfilment comes from your own family and close community, the people who you care about most and to whose lives you can make a big difference. It would be nice to have that (which is achievable by everyone) and make w
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by Tycho 5y ago
I've been thinking about what gives big cities their edge. Why some even become global hubs for particular industries. Two reasons are clearer to me now than they were in the past: - Lifestyle advantages of living amongst specialis
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by Tycho 5y ago
The British penchant for cryptic crosswords is the equivalent of the Russian enthusiasm for chess.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Prediction: more censorship and narrative protection incoming.
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by Tycho 5y ago
How do the recycling schemes cause more harm than good?
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think the Princeton Companion to Mathematics covers a lot of it at the start of the book.
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by Tycho 5y ago
The right wing moving righter? Hardly. It’s easy to see that politics has shifted drastically left. Political stances considered mainstream 30 years ago would end careers today. The so called “extreme right” Tory government, before the last
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by Tycho 5y ago
How similar to Ivermectin is the new Pfizer covid drug?
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I think introversion and extroversion are just different skill sets that you can develop and are not mutually exclusive.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I suppose the opposite of all this is Guns’n’Roses taking ten years to record Chinese Democracy because Axl Rose wanted to hire a pro skateboarder to do mixing and stuff like that.

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