james-redwood

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by james-redwood 2y ago
This has been extensively debunked. Read the original methods of the BMJ article that you linked. They took every single minor error, like prescribing medicine 15 minutes late, and if the patient died, even of an aggressive cancer that they
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by james-redwood 3y ago
Next up: 2FA for your toothbrush
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by james-redwood 3y ago
Reading the source that Nature cites, it seems like the content has been made temporarily unexaminable ‘in light of COVID’, rather than the section actually getting cut from the textbook. https://ncert.nic.in/rationalised-c
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by james-redwood 3y ago
I'm a former Rhodesian (present day Zimbabwe) who moved to South Africa after things went south in Zim. For context, I'm white, so it's not like I have a racial gripe against Musk. Elon went to one of the fanciest private sch
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I pity the poor dev who has a Moroccan co-worker that helpfully offers to translate their application into darija thinking it’s Arabic
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Two billion people can read it to some degree because of Islam. A minority of them actually use the script to write things daily. And there are plenty of people other than this guy making contributions to it, you’ve only just read a singula
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by james-redwood 4y ago
In my personal experience the quality of discussion is awful on both boards. It’s genuinely worse than Reddit, which was a low bar.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Could you provide a source? There's nothing I can find about Sunak being connected to the WEF in any way. Although the hashtag #wefpuppet has exploded on Twitter by what looks like a bot network.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Sunak, an Oxford and Stanford educated billionaire, is perhaps the best candidate the Conservative party can unsurprisingly put forward at the current moment. Given his background as a successful investment banker at Goldman Sachs, one can
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by james-redwood 4y ago
This made me sick to my stomach. Absolutely revolting behaviour by the CIA against extraordinarily brave Iranians who risked their lives and even did prison time to help.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Da Vinci
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by james-redwood 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1987/ A relevant XKCD comic that encapsulates this well.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Someone that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Dominic Cummings. His Twitter page and Substack are fantastic.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
That’s not going to work, because outside of e-book enthusiasts, few know what DJVU is and even fewer have the technological skills and will to figure out how to open it. A large part of LibGen’s demographic are university students download
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I could certainly imagine that some of these children grow up without a fundamental grasp of the basic sciences as well as the entire idea behind scientific enquiry. While this is also occasionally the case in secular schools, at least I fe
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I didn’t intend to make it seem that simple - I did so rather to point out the fallacies in the parent comment and point out the main reason for civil war to my knowledge. I’m well aware the situation is significantly more complex today.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
While that did happen in my home country of Zimbabwe, it’s not the case for the examples that he mentioned. Especially considering that even Lebanon was under a mandate and had far more freedom to rule themselves, which in my opinion came n
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Lebanon became independent in 1945. Civil war began in 1975, largely as a result of radical Islamist Palestinians who had left Palestine and wanted an Islamic state in Lebanon. Lebanon beforehand, it is important to note, was not Muslim ma
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by james-redwood 4y ago
La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I feel terrible for that student who lost $15k to what amounts essentially to government mandated fraud. Good grief.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Does no one carry a physical mapbook these days? I always keep one in the back just for situations like these.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... Look up ‘civil asset forfeiture’. It’s shocking.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
Windows makes Ubuntu look like Puppy Linux
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by james-redwood 4y ago
This is perhaps one of the best pieces of writing I've ever seen on HN. Very, very pertinent.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I’ve typically found the videos associated with it by searching YouTube and the internet, albeit this approach is not consistently successful.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
> Sure, some questioned the purity of Tapio’s motives; Kristian Wahlbeck, director of development at Finland’s oldest mental health nonprofit, says he was “a bit frowned-upon” and “perceived as too business-minded.” And yes, there were o
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by james-redwood 4y ago
It was a big trend a few years back. But many are still going strong - I for one do them all the time, and I've found it extraordinarily enriching. MIT will almost certainly never take them down, as it's part of their institutiona
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by james-redwood 4y ago
This is probably why it was not reported for several months, and why selling the records to the highest bidder on the darkweb was so much more lucrative. Companies need to give out less pathetic incentives to security researchers.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
It works well in science (think the Nobel Prizes), and there's certainly more than enough money floating around in the tech community for it to work.
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by james-redwood 4y ago
I once met a first year engineering student who was the daughter of a friend of mine. When she complained that you can do nothing cool with small computers, I pointed her to an article about this.

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