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> coming from a tax exile, is quite funny. Absolutely. Also, watching from the distance (and while considering myself privileged to be able to do that, please note in advance this disclaimer before reading further, whoever reads past thi
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Yes, there's a confirmation of what he claims is going on. Two relevant quotes of Cleese from the article: "we’ve gone from being a reasonably literate, reasonably well-informed nation to being a tabloid culture, where we have rea
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A longer-term thinker will also have another idea about what can be considered "a well-crafted app" than somebody being interested to use one more hottest technology of the moment. I'm not using "a senior engineer"
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The new book mentioned: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-triumph-of-doubt... "The Triumph of Doubt -- Dark Money and the Science of Deception" David Michaels, April 2020 "- An insider&#x2
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How hard it is: "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds -- New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason -- Elizabeth Kolbert (2017)" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27&#x2
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IPCC is a huge report and it is a result of a work of international cooperation of more than a hundred of countries. As such it's not an easy read. Here are some book suggestions, some of them could be easier to read: https:/&#x2
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And now by Murray (1): "There had been three days of intense discussion between the counsel and the judge, with the United States government objecting bitterly to Mr El-Masri being heard . A compromise had been reached that he could
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> (outcome using controlled dataset: 40 white to 52 black faces chosen). But that comment is heavily downvoted. Maybe because 1) If that's the comment you refer to, it also contains the claim "Misleading - it seems to be lookin
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And for those of us who need a textual description to get it, maybe someone can post an explanation or description of what is expected and what's an observed behavior? Anybody, please?
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> why does china care so much about the dalai lama? I'd guess because: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program "a nearly two decades long anti-Chinese covert operation focused on Tibet which cons
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The original picture, showing the U.S. soldiers in front of the computers in the 2010 Wired article about the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security: "Doc of the Day: NSA, DHS Trade Players for Net Defense" https:/&#x2F
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I've led the team that worked for more than two years to prepare our products for the Y2K, in real time finance, and there was not a single but many points of failure, some completely not obvious before they were detected, so most of t
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> Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: one person one vote, equally counted, for all men and women over 20, as well as legalised abortion. Back to the U.S. I recommend this 2020 book on that issue: https://www.bloom
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The Man Who Refused to Spy(newyorker.com)
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“Though Trump has trademarked it, the slogan did not originate with him, nor even with Butler’s Jarret character—the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign used it, as Matt Taibbi pointed out Rolling Stone last year (1). (Historians have even shown that
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by acqq 6y ago
It I see it correctly, it's about "August 2020 security update" which was published 11 Aug 2020, more than a month ago.
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That link has only one comment. Actual discussion with 390 comments is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006 and my comment there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366933 In short, my problem
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Not having the whole story arc about Junaid Hussain is the main difference between the show (as seen in the transcript) and the article. I was talking about the former from the start, as it can be easily seen. The point in the article afte
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by acqq 6y ago
> If I recall correctly the US passed Sweden in excess mortality sometime in June/July. According to ourworldindata, in reported Covid-19 deaths per million, on Sept 12: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-ex
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The study from the title is indeed just a correlation, from the abstract: "This study used a retrospective, observational analysis of deidentified tests performed at a national clinical laboratory." Whenever you see a "retros
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Just checked: it seems the last day the U.S. was better than Sweden in deaths per capita was 11. September, so just 8 days ago. And, when the trends continue, in a week the U.S. will be worse than the U.K. too. The only countries in Europe
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Returning to the topic and 2020, from the transcript of the 50-minute show I've mentioned: "Nakasone said the American people shouldn't worry about the 2020 elections because Cybercom is prepared to prevent the Russians from
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Another report: https://assangecourt.report/september-18-morning "Mr El-Masri was due to give evidence by video link , but, after a legal argument, presiding judge Vanessa Baraitser decided that it would be sufficien
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by acqq 6y ago
The article is different from what was aired, which appears to me to be more interesting, as it starts with: "On August 24, 2015, a 21-year-old British hacker named TriCk stepped out of an Internet cafe in Raqqa, Syria, and climbed int
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> I wonder if we can manipulate trump into freeing Assange and Snowden under the narrative “These heros exposed Obama’s crimes, you can be the hero who frees them” Apparently, no, as Trump has much higher priority of "controlling&qu
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The article about NSA "getting ISIS" mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520757 Once there, see the posts by bashinator and _kbh_ for other sources. Back to the topic here, the "technical glitc
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> the second is emphatically not what physicists talk about when they talk about QFT Thanks many times. It looked weird to me too, but I've thought "well, some fringe theoretical physicists -- metaphysics topics". "Qu
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Look at the graph, it has obviously nothing to do with any deficiencies, and everything to do with the measures: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... The comparison is possible because it’s per mi
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> the US has more deaths per capita than Sweden Nothing to be proud about for either of them. Anyway, until e.g. month ago Sweden had the lead.
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It's just an argument that the actual deficiency could cause worse outcome. But that article in Lancet doesn't claim that Italy had Vitamin D deficient population. The number of deaths per capita due to Covid-19 was however orders

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