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by danieltillett 6y ago
Stubbornness is the killer. The young just don’t have anything to be stubborn about, but for a manager one greybeard who knows how to cause problems by digging their heels in will make your life hell. The fact that they are probably right j
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Why are the ethics committees allowed to make any decisions? When I was on one I would by default let everything through unless I came across something where I thought I could help improve the experimental design. My colleagues on the other
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by danieltillett 6y ago
If I knew this I wouldn’t be posting in HN :) China is the obvious answer, but I have this feeling that some sort of synthetic currency (not bitcoin) will be created to fill the void.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Massive upheaval yes, revolution no. I would say there is a reasonable chance that the USA dollar will lose reserve currency status in the next 10 years. When/if this happens then everything will change - for an historical parallel loo
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Not only did you miss my point, you made it.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
This kind of missed my point. I know this is not something we are supposed to talk about, but I miss the old HN. The sad thing is these days I get more value reading the new post raw feed than the conversations on the front page.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is sad that you felt you had to use a throwaway account to post this totally reasonable opinion.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
You do realise that there can be multiple purposes for an action? The most pressing at the time the lock down was implemented was preventing the hospital system being overwhelmed, but there are others like allowing time for better treatment
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am not the best person to comment on this as I have been married for 20 years and so have never had to live through the whole modern dating scene, but I think the problem with your idea is that MB personality types are not equal distribut
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Governments don’t impose lockdowns, they just make official what most of the population has already done.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Curious if you have any data that MB helps in long term relationships? I know it seems obvious, but I suspect certain MB types clash. I have often wondered if adding friction to the whole dating process is the solution to the problem. Slow
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Actually wheat and barley did start out as marginal so it crops, but this is irrelevant to modern agriculture. The reason we can feed the almost 8 billion people on the planet is that we have selected for strains that respond to fertiliser
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes and if we did this we would end up with a grain that requires as much fertiliser and agrochemicals as wheat or barley. Good thing kangaroos are adapted to low calories food and low water. Now all we need to do is make them a better food
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes because we graze imported ruminants - I am suggesting we try and make our native animals a viable grazing option. Kangaroo is very tasty and low in fat. Selective breeding like we have done with cattle and sheep could make them commerci
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes the hooves of introduced ruminants are incredibly destructive to this sensitive lands. Kangaroos are much less damaging to the environment as they have soft feet. It seems we have a lot of people commenting here who have no idea about t
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes but they are not productive. The yield of grain is not commercially viable. It is much better to use these lands for grazing stock - in an ideal world native stock. I have my doubts as to the existence of indigenous agricultural - this
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Grains are not able to be productive without huge inputs of fertilisers and agrochemicals. These marginal lands would be better off left as grazing country. One thing we could do is improve the meat conversion of kangaroos and wallabies. So
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by danieltillett 6y ago
There are so many more interesting Australian native food plants that make more sense to concentrate on growing than native grasses. Not the most productive use of time and land.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is possible that the strains in NY and surrounding are different than on the west coast. There is a very interesting hypothesis that the D614G mutation that is found in NY is more contagious than the strains found in CA for example.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
This approach works well particularly well if the masses are decapitate by identifying anyone with high intelligence and “inviting” them into the 10% via education. Angry masses without a leader are not going to do anything.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I wonder how much of this correlation between disorders is just an artefact of inconsistent classification of patients by psychiatrists? What might be being measured here is not the likelihood of getting a second illness, but the probabilit
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes. There seems to be a huge amount of hope invested in these apps with little evidence they will make much difference.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
No they don’t. They are all saying it doesn’t work when the app is in the background on iOS. This makes the app worthless on iOS as nobody it going to walk around with the app in the foreground the whole time. The NHS app appears to solve t
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Because it doesn’t work on iOS. Given the Australian market is 50% iOS this kind of defeats the purpose. We really should just dump the worthless app we have and just use the NHS version.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Tom do you know if anyone has told the developers of the useless Australian app about this?
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Internet video appears to be a natural monopoly given no one can even close to competing against Google.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes we do (I have to dig out the reference), but it appears to be the same as other Coronaviruses. You are right that the worse the infection the longer the immunity, but if we are looking at the young they have a mild disease so we should
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes YouTube may well be profitable as it is run now, but it may not be profitable if it was run as a utility.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
If only it were that simple. Coronavirus only induce a short lived immunity (40 weeks is the average). With the common cold varieties you basically catch the same virus over and over again as you don’t build up any long term immunity to the
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Isn’t the real problem that YouTube is basically a utility service, but one that makes a loss for the parent company. The discussion we should be making is not if YouTube should censor people, but if it should be turned into a regulated uti

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