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Inside The Mind of Dominic Cummings(theguardian.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
Are you able to sketch out the reasons for your confidence? [ Edit: Just realized you wrote the comment I was replying to - so OK I see what you're saying ]
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by jajag 7y ago
Widespread crop failure and fisheries collapse due to extreme weather and acidic oceans could be just around the corner. I can't say that with complete certainty (and I really hope it doesn't happen), but I can't dismiss it w
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by jajag 7y ago
It grows well in Britain, and it's very good in shepherds pie.
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by jajag 7y ago
That's a highly cynical view. On the one hand, Nissan are reportedly considering ramping up production in the UK [1]; on the other, the UK government no doubt realises that there is considerable economical potential in green energy. [1
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by jajag 7y ago
Central banks are creating inflation, problem is it's in all the wrong places - e.g. asset inflation - instead of a rising CPI. (There is a bit of a debate taking place in central banking circles at the moment about whether CPI is an a
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by jajag 7y ago
Don't forget the quarter billion a day the US has been spending on the war in Afghanistan...
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by jajag 7y ago
Will be interesting to see what economic impact the Coronavirus outbreak has.
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by jajag 7y ago
Yeah I'm struggling with that bit also; shouldn't information content be defined as the difference between a storage device with all bits set to the same 0 or 1 value, vs. a device with all bits set to purely random values? And ca
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The performance implications of misunderstanding Node.js promises(eng.lifion.com)
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Role of 'The Preacher' Confirmed at CIA Waterboarding Hearing in Guantánamo(theguardian.com)
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Ants run secret farms on English oak trees(theguardian.com)
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Dark Patterns in Telsa App(twitter.com)
22 points by jajag 7y ago|9 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
Are you saying what the US has been involved in for the past 70 years isn't a racket? This man called it first, and he knew what he was talking about.
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by jajag 7y ago
Also referenced in this article posted a few days back: "War is still a racket" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990298
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by jajag 7y ago
Gut bacteria have beneficial effects, such as the ability to break down foods which would otherwise remain indigestible. If birds and bats have reduced gut microbiomes then it suggests they have a reduced ability to digest certain foodstuff
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Scientists identify new coronavirus as cause of mystery Chinese illness(bbc.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
So what's the quid pro quo? What do birds and bats loose (apart from weight) by having reduced gut microbiomes?
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by jajag 7y ago
Very valid point.
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by jajag 7y ago
But it's also how perfectly valid discussions can be completely shut down - certainly very corrosive.
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by jajag 7y ago
But isn't the whole "Russian disinformation" thing in turn a way of discrediting information? Orwell was writing about this 80 years ago, it's never seemed more relevant.
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by jajag 7y ago
Previous discussion on the possibility (mentioned in the article) that an advanced industrial civilization existed on Earth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840320
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by jajag 7y ago
There's certainly evidence of bias in climate science, but if anything it's been towards understating the effect [1] [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists...
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by jajag 7y ago
If there is anything more to UFOs than just mass hysteria and wishful thinking, then I've always thought it much more likely that they are from a previous industrial civilization here on earth than being extraterrestrial - the PETM f
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by jajag 7y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7793253/PETER-HITCH... It may be the Daily Mail, but it seems our other media outlets won't report it.
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by jajag 7y ago
It's true of a lot of ancient sites; Newgrange in Ireland is essentially a modern reconstruction, complete with a reinforced concrete substructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange#Modern_conservation,...
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by jajag 7y ago
The article mentions Project Vesta which was discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
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Tesla: Nothing Matters Until Everything Matters(seekingalpha.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
Manual is always an option, but that's not my point. I've automated plenty of things in my life and know only too well that the task of automating a task is often a major task in its own right.
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by jajag 7y ago
To paraphrase a famous quote on regular expressions: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll automate.' Now they have two problems."

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