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by pcrh 11mo ago
I have now actually read Flemming's 1929 manuscript that first described penicillin [0]. It is a careful and well documented scientific report describing the action of penicillin on various species of bacteria, how to produce it, and s
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Perhaps a link to the author's website and podcast would be more appropriate? https://www.thenerdreich.com/
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Pending that, there are a number of videos on YouTube that show simulated hearing loss, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOpW-4XFqM
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by pcrh 11mo ago
In this regard, note that the EU can only propose legislation that falls under one of its "competences". For example, national militaries, income tax, education, most of foreign policy, etc, do not fall under EU control. The ECHR
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Agreed. The strength of the EU is based on the EU institutions not having too much power. It's why the EU does not attempt to expel, hopefully temporarily, reprobate nations such as Hungary.
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Most rights are held in balance, as you describe. However, mass surveillance cannot reasonably be held in balance with detection of crimes, as most people are not criminals
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Do EU treaties per se contain any language that might be relevant to privacy? It seems axiomatic that legal systems contain provisions that prevent their violation. However, democracy requires that laws are voted on by elected representativ
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by pcrh 11mo ago
It isn't specifically "libertarian" to accuse some governmental systems as being criminal.
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by pcrh 11mo ago
It's the same in French (obviously), though equally this does not permit mass surveillance: > Article 8 de la Convention européenne de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales: > Droit au respect de la
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Is there any mechanism for preventing the introduction of a law that violates the ECHR? It would seem obvious that that should be the case, no?
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Perhaps, or perhaps not, but its now a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship.
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Half of Europe has living memories of oppressive governments, from fascism in Franco's Spain to communism in East Europe.
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Mass surveillance has already been ruled to be in contravention of the Human Rights act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv... > A 2014 report to the UN General Assembly by the United Natio
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by pcrh 11mo ago
The right to privacy is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, article 8 [0]. It escapes me how politicians can repeatedly attempt to violate this. [0] https://fra.europa.eu/en/law-reference/european
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by pcrh 11mo ago
Nice! It's interesting to see the major travel hubs and how they can differ from modern ones, for example Durocortorum (Reims) and Augustobona (Troyes) in France, as well as Verulamium (St. Albans) in England. It would be nice to be ab
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by pcrh 11mo ago
The one consolation is that these efforts in vanity are unlikely to have broader impacts. Selecting embryos to avoid a known deleterious allele/gene is easily done, and without any harm. Similarly, one can choose blonde hair or blue ey
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by pcrh 11mo ago
These are the first 5 lines of Beowulf: Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scéfing sceaþena þréatum monegum maégþum meodosetla oftéah It's a long stretch to say i
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by pcrh 11mo ago
La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) is dated to between 1129 and 1165. It resembles modern French much more than Beowulf resembles modern English. Few English speakers today could read Beowulf. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by pcrh 11mo ago
French was in fact the language of international diplomacy prior to WWII. Russians, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, etc, would communicate in French. English adopted that position after WWII.
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by pcrh 1y ago
Partly correct. The modern implementation is to use general anesthesia as little as necessary as it has numerous side-effects. Local anesthesia with improved selectivity is used if possible.
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by pcrh 1y ago
General anesthetics is definitely one of the weirder parts of medicine. It seems to have developed mostly by trial and error over hundreds of years, but it has obvious huge benefits. Imagine any kind of internal surgery being attempted with
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by pcrh 1y ago
AI "agents" would be treated the same as machines that do or don't perform according to promise. Otherwise, "agents" as a class in contracts are well covered by existing law: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by pcrh 1y ago
>the water inside it loses structure. It isn't the water that loses structure (how could it?), but the proteins that constitute the lens material.
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by pcrh 1y ago
According to the reference provided [0], that's for all cataract surgery, and cataracts can arise for multiple reasons, half are genetic and so might have attendant complications. The success rate for the most common surgery performed
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by pcrh 1y ago
I meant that geopolitically Canada or Iceland would make more sense, assuming Denmark was out of the picture. And also glad to hear that random annexations by Canada are currently off the menu. Though who knows if Canada might become "
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by pcrh 1y ago
Greenland needs protection from whom? The only country threatening it is the US.
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by pcrh 1y ago
US ownership would be pointless. The US already has relatively free access to its ally Greenland for military purposes. See for example the US base in Pituffik (formerly Thule). Proposing to annex your allies is a bit rude, to say the lea
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by pcrh 1y ago
Myggedalen looks like "midge dale".
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by pcrh 1y ago
You are correct. Inflation affects the value of all assets whose value is frequently traded using currency (which is most of stock markets, property, etc). To argue otherwise would be to deny the seriously negative impact high inflation can
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by pcrh 1y ago
All assets are denominated in currency, so there exists no "shield" from inflation, except perhaps government-issued bonds that guarantee a return above inflation. Most so-called shields against inflation are investments that yiel

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