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by bainsfather 7y ago
"While it's quite possible that among all news sources, Jonathan Cook seems to have worked for the one horrific news source in the world, and is doing us a service by constantly exposing their acts, Occam's razor would sugges
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by bainsfather 7y ago
A fuller background: Jonathan Cook was a journalist for the Guardian newspaper. I have read his articles for many years now. Most of them (mainly on Palestine) are interesting and (so far as I can tell) accurate. I would say that he is a
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Hi brootstrap, since you're a specialist in this field, I'd be interested in your views... here in the uk, I am often interested in whether or not it will rain in e.g. a 3 hour, 6 hour or 12 hour period. Either because I am going
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Similar experience in the uk, in terms of whether it will rain or not. 3 hour, 6 hour etc forecasts are of little use - no better than looking out the window. Meanwhile wind speed and temperature seem ok on that timescale, but are (usual
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Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 8y ago|0 comments
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Patreon, Kickstarter and the new patrons of the arts(economist.com)
2 points by bainsfather 8y ago|0 comments
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Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by bainsfather 8y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Maybe it is a monster merger though? It is very early days in detecting these phenomena, so I expect you are going to see this headline every time we detect a larger merger than before.
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Gravitational waves: Monster black hole merger detected(bbc.com)
3 points by bainsfather 8y ago|2 comments
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by bainsfather 8y ago
This is a lovely sketch of someone whose path had been artist -> linguist -> mathematician <-> physicist, and is apparently good at all of them. Learning maths because he went to the wrong section of the library, etc. Also, his
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A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises(quantamagazine.org)
95 points by bainsfather 8y ago|15 comments
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Could you list them please?
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Could you provide a link please? On pasture land I see the opposite problem - the animals eat the 'best' stuff (clover, grass) and leave the weeds (thistles, nettles, buttercups, ragwort etc). (Although partly this is because on
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by bainsfather 8y ago
Thanks for your viewpoint. It is so different from the one that I saw (which field are you from btw?) Both times I was asked to become a referee for a journal (during phd and then postdoc), it was because someone I knew was fed up of doing
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by bainsfather 8y ago
When I was a referee (physics), it was most definitely not considered part of my job. I did it entirely voluntarily, was not paid for it, and no-one at my institution cared whether I chose to do it or not.
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The cold war bunkers that cover a country(bbc.com)
2 points by bainsfather 8y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 8y ago
I've been adding to OSM maps for about 5 years, mostly in the UK, but also on Humanitarian OSM. I've had no problems with crossing people. I think it differs from wikipedia in that I am usually adding to the map (mostly paths and
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by bainsfather 8y ago
"The government blocked the project just last week so we'll never know." To be more accurate - the government decided not to subsidise the project. It was emphatically the right decision - the economics of it were awful compa
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by bainsfather 8y ago
On farmland, the nitrogen from the clover reaches the grass after it has been eaten by sheep/cows and then excreted - either directly or by the farmer spreading manure.
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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes(quantamagazine.org)
227 points by bainsfather 8y ago|59 comments
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Blocked by Facebook and the Vulnerability of New Media(craigmurray.org.uk)
69 points by bainsfather 8y ago|20 comments
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Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by bainsfather 9y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 9y ago
"""The newspaper quoted an anonymous Tory HQ source who said Mrs Badenoch had gained access to Ms Harman's website by guessing a password rather than "real hacking".""" I'm not sure that def
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Harriet Harman Accepts Tory MP Kemi Badenoch's Hacking Apology(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 9y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 9y ago
According to former ambassador Craig Murray, this applies only to head of mission (ambassador) : https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/01/ecuador-and-... A host state may expel a diplomat, but may not
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by bainsfather 9y ago
Interesting - what was the village? Are there any articles about its decline?
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Tesla mega-battery in Australia activated(bbc.com)
5 points by bainsfather 9y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 9y ago
This seems to be the "classic" story told whenever modern productivity growth is discussed - "electricity took a long time to show up in the productivity figures so it's not surprising {computers, internet} is taking a l
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by bainsfather 9y ago
In the uk most solar installations get a generous subsidy for power produced. The fixed subsidy was set 5 or more years ago at e.g. 44p/kWh for a specific installed capacity. The high price per kWh means it is economic for these place
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Stephen Fry's warning for the web(bbc.com)
2 points by bainsfather 9y ago|0 comments

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