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How Much Does a Politician Cost?(theintercept.com)
23 points by bainsfather 9y ago|14 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
BT will still own 100% of Openreach. Also, the article mentions when the separation process will start , but not when it will be completed.
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BT strikes deal to legally separate Openreach division(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 10y ago|1 comments
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Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles(quantamagazine.org)
20 points by bainsfather 10y ago|13 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
> Note that Intercept claims to have been sitting on this content since "before the election" Where do they say that? I don't see it in this article. Thanks.
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by bainsfather 10y ago
I recognize 'stealing the credit for an idea' - the credit is taken away from me if you claim the idea as your own. But copying an idea without taking the credit isn't stealing in the English culture I am part of.
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Boxing clever: The firms based in shipping containers(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 10y ago|0 comments
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What distantly related pandas reveal about genetics(economist.com)
2 points by bainsfather 10y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
From 2010 - it was a good read back then, probably still is. Michael Lewis did a similar article on Iceland as well.
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by bainsfather 10y ago
I agree with all of that, apart from your last conclusion. The British intelligence service was, it appears, acting logically given its motivations and capabilities. It achieved the outcome it wanted. Note that the motivations do not alway
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by bainsfather 10y ago
It became voluntary for the British only because our Prime Minister was weak and (foolishly?) gambled on a referendum in return for strengthening his personal support among some of his eurosceptic MPs. Leaders of other EU countries are unli
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by bainsfather 10y ago
Code interception and breaking. Cutting undersea cables. Parallel construction. Carefully managed release to manipulate public opinion. It's nice to have an inside view on an intelligence coup - albeit from 100 years ago.
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by bainsfather 10y ago
That's a valid point. And there is always a tendency to see the good points in other countries and the bad points in your own. In this case (and also in e.g. building new power stations, new housing, widening roads, expanding London&#
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by bainsfather 10y ago
"Less than a decade ago China had yet to connect any of its cities by bullet train. Today, it has 20,000km (12,500 miles) of high-speed rail lines, more than the rest of the world combined. It is planning to lay another 15,000km by 202
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by bainsfather 10y ago
I read the whole book 15 years ago. It was a waste of time and money. The only new thing I found was a Turing Machine with (iirc) 1 less tape - the whole book could have been reduced to a 4 page paper, as far as new work is concerned.
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by bainsfather 10y ago
"This is the kind of damaging presupposition that is the definition of Russian information warfare (disinformation)" Apparently I have just defined Russian information warfare? (Will you inform the Russians, or should I?) I'
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by bainsfather 10y ago
What did you think of the article? About the headline - it does summarise what the article is about. I doubt anyone clicked through expecting tank battles between Trump and the CIA. 'deep state' seems to be a variant on 'sta
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by bainsfather 10y ago
A UK view here. The Guardian newspaper had this [0] on their front page yesterday [1]. I would not call it measured reporting. In contrast the FT and Economist were much more measured - they presumably still care about their reputation fo
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The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect(theintercept.com)
37 points by bainsfather 10y ago|18 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
A nice thought-parody of arguments about creating General AI. It would be nice to have an updated version because the option 'we just need more computing power' (and training data) is now working pretty well for many machine learn
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by bainsfather 10y ago
The same people who pay for it now, the consumers. Electricity grids have massive 'problems' with balancing themselves as demand varies throughout the day. Currently there are e.g. open cycle gas turbines on standby - they are pa
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by bainsfather 10y ago
Still works fine for me, for e.g. Nature articles. Is it some particular journal(s) that you cannot access?
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by bainsfather 10y ago
Those are not the 'Feynmann Lectures' that became the books, are they? (From the titles, they seem to be different, but the videos do not play on my browser).
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by bainsfather 10y ago
Another take from a former British diplomat and ambassador (Craig Murray): https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence...
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How IS Is Using Consumer Drones(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 10y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
I listen to the bbc's 'in our time' programmes [0] whilst driving. They are (much) more general than you want, but they are excellent programmes covering the whole spectrum of human knowledge. I've become a more broadl
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Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by bainsfather 10y ago|0 comments
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How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by bainsfather 10y ago|0 comments
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A test to detect basic errors in scientific papers(economist.com)
1 points by bainsfather 10y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 10y ago
I think you mean: "A medic has a 1.3% chance of killing someone this year".

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