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by jajag 4y ago
> Ashe declined via email to be interviewed or to answer written questions posed by Science ... But she wrote, “I still have faith in Aβ*56,” Richard Dawkins won't be impressed.
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by jajag 5y ago
This aligns somewhat with Johnjoe McFadden's ideas about the role of the brain's electromagnetic field: https://aeon.co/essays/does-consciousness-come-from-the-brai...
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A Chinese Typewriter, 1899(type-writer.org)
4 points by jajag 5y ago|1 comments
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by jajag 5y ago
^^^ this
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by jajag 6y ago
> No, most of the landlords were of British descent. So landlords of British descent can't be considered Irish? Even if their families had been present in Ireland for several centuries? > To say they could do nothing because Excu
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by jajag 6y ago
It was an attempt to explain the economic structure that would allow food to be exported from a country during a famine, not necessarily to rationalize and certainly not to excuse. The fact of the matter is that these kind of economic struc
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by jajag 6y ago
I didn't say that the British government had no scope of action, but that it was limited compare to what a modern government could do. That this was further compounded by the attitudes and beliefs of members of the government of the ti
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by jajag 6y ago
A more accurate portrayal of the situation is to say that Ireland of the time was a state whose economy depended on the export of premium food products - cattle, dairy & grain - whilst the majority of the population were subsistence ten
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by jajag 6y ago
I recently re-read The Name of the Rose, and tried using Google Translate to translate some of the Latin quotes that appear throughout the text. It was close to useless, which surprised me as most (it not all) of the quotes are from well-kn
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How Apocalyptic Is Now?(unherd.com)
95 points by jajag 6y ago|91 comments
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We should be wary of the R value(unherd.com)
2 points by jajag 6y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 6y ago
I'm only half way through the paper, but it's a very interesting read. One thing I don't get though; I'd have thought that the dative case would be very useful, if not essential, to humans living a hunter-gatherer lifest
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by jajag 6y ago
> Have any of their “predictions” aged well? No, but only in the sense that they've tended to be too conservative and to understate the degree and pace of change. And just to be clear, the paper linked to is a review of weather stat
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by jajag 6y ago
Possibly "grandstanding".
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Did Anyone Predict Coronavirus?(unherd.com)
1 points by jajag 6y ago|1 comments
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by jajag 6y ago
> This might be a good time when a representative democracy, composed of people who are willing to listen to experts and make the hard, unpopular, decisions, would be the best choice. So basically, you want a return to some form of Arist
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by jajag 6y ago
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...
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by jajag 6y ago
Because it's The Register , it's their house style.
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by jajag 6y ago
I thought this was an excellent article, particularly the point about how and (possibly) why the CDC advised against the use of face masks to limit spread of infection during a pandemic. There seems to have been other failings of expert adv
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by jajag 7y ago
Not wishing to downplay the subject, but the surveillance state is not a recent development in the UK. Tony Geraghty [1] was writing about this over 20 years ago. Back then, it was about how techniques developed for use in Northern Ireland
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by jajag 7y ago
Absolutely; it's Amazon that are making the accusations here.
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by jajag 7y ago
Possibly referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#Bacillus_cereus
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by jajag 7y ago
There is a study here of virus stability on dry surfaces: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
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by jajag 7y ago
To put those case figures in context; the median age of the population as a whole in Germany is 47, and for Italy it's 45. [1] [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-age/
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by jajag 7y ago
There's a flight to cash taking place. I guess no-one knows what to do, so the priority is to stay liquid.
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by jajag 7y ago
Can anyone here say to what degree EU state aid & competition law is going to help or hinder governments over the next few weeks, as they try to shore up rapidly collapsing national economies?
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by jajag 7y ago
The issue is the high percentage of patients that require intensive care, with up to 5% needing respiratory support. This can very easily overwhelm local health systems, and cause a knock-on effect to health support to the rest of the commu
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by jajag 7y ago
Back in 2000, I was working for a small dotcom startup and I remember we came into work one day to discover that our production servers were all running at a crawl & unable to serve traffic. Turned out that one of the devs had installed
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by jajag 7y ago
But the problem is that the bias often isn't understood by the readership - a lot of people consider the Guardian, NY Times and similar to be sources of unbiased, objective truth, despite the impossibility of that being the case. And t
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by jajag 7y ago
There's a discussion on this Twitter thread about why it could become a problem: https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1229229188273627136

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