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“The Great Hack” is a misinformed documentary about misinformation(economist.com)
4 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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Germany hides the awkward truth about the euro(ft.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
"The Guardian is the only remaining newspaper I trust to be unaffected by UK government agenda." - presumably that wouldn't be the case if Labour were in power?
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by jajag 7y ago
Well if you're going to take your headlines from the comment section of the Telegraph, but the news section of the Guardian, then of course they look partial. How about these other headlines from the current Guardian? "Tom Watson
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by jajag 7y ago
And you, IMHO, are not right. I read both the Telegraph & Guardian online. I find - at least with brexit - that there's a plurality of opinion in the Telegraph that the Guardian doesn't have (for example, regular articles from
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by jajag 7y ago
It's a time value of money problem; there's been plenty of investigation into the future costs of climate change (most notably the Stern Report [1]) but people prefer to have money now, rather than pay now to defer future cost. [1
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by jajag 7y ago
The article describes how long-tail outcomes have been excluded from forecasts out of a desire by scientists to present a unified voice so as to minimize perceived doubt.
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened(spiked-online.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
It can take a while for the full voice list to load after speech synthesis is initialized on the page - try calling getVoices() again after a small delay.
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by jajag 7y ago
Is the article actually suggesting that the brain subconsciously detects the frame rate, and then "frames" the movie to match the perceived medium? High frame rate means TV implies soap opera, low frame rate means film implies mor
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An Unsubscription Story(twitter.com)
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Suspected meteorite crashes into rice field in India(theguardian.com)
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Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months(bbc.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
The point the article is making is that a true moonshot is a project of incredible scale and ambition, and that we're loosing something by allowing the modern usage of the word.
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Modern use of the word ‘moonshot’ mocks Apollo(cacm.acm.org)
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by jajag 7y ago
I've often wondered that if you give someone a calorifically rich but nutritionally poor food stuff, will the body eat to excess to try and make up for the nutritional deficit?
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Piece of skull found in Greece ‘is oldest human fossil outside Africa’(theguardian.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
By offering your services in return - physical labour, or someone like Stewart could have offered to read, write, teach - or even just entertain, by telling stories of his travels.
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Twitter thread latest on Hong Kong protests(twitter.com)
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Schneier on Blockchain, and Trust(schneier.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
Statement on the Information Commissioner's website: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
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by jajag 7y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20261457 - electric vehicles are neither as efficient nor as sustainable as hybrid.
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Hybrids 14x better than electric vehicles at reducing carbon dioxide emissions(emissionsanalytics.com)
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Long-Range EVs Are the Antithesis of Efficiency and Sustainability(seekingalpha.com)
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Bolton Keeps Trying to Goad Iran into War(theatlantic.com)
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Global lost wallet experiment finds most people are honest(theguardian.com)
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by jajag 7y ago
Why on earth has this submission been flagged? It's a thoughtful article, by a Jew, of the rights and wrongs of using genetic testing, in Israel, to define Jewishness, and raises a number of interesting questions. What is there to obje
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What does it mean to be genetically Jewish?(theguardian.com)
19 points by jajag 7y ago|30 comments
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Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China(theguardian.com)
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