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Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools(theguardian.com)
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by rob_c 4y ago
My take is its unlikely with social, societal and historical needs in a full education. With hard science yes. And by that I exclude social as a non valid field. Difficult to get right, should education be to train or to enrich? It's a
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by rob_c 4y ago
Great so why is exploritory stuff being published without being completed? This isn't a known to work vaccine or equivalent.
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by rob_c 4y ago
Belonging to the former. Fine here's 3 years to prove it on 0.25FTE... next paper please.
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by rob_c 4y ago
1. Bio article 2. Peer review not done for local web publish 3. Not going to over-emphisize but the research "centres of excellence" aren't Oxford or Harvard here 4. The reproducibility crisis in bio 5. It's clearly tryi
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by rob_c 4y ago
Think I'll pass given the high claim and frankly single study. Not sure I'd call myself an expert but given this is on a uni page and not nature.com I think it's very easy to criticize this as probably not standing up to too
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by rob_c 4y ago
I probably shouldn't go too public with what I know of report 9 that isn't on the record, but frankly next to no code from biologists has gone through peer review and people put "experts" on a pedastle because of what th
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by rob_c 4y ago
> "good money" apparently a very relative term, I think I'm in it for job satisfaction then at 5 figures, shame I'm a qualified expert.
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by rob_c 4y ago
> at least in bioscience... BINGO! that field is notoriously horrible and interacts extremely badly with a 'when not discovered here, not important' syndrome. Biology is brutal toward bio-physicists, mathematicians as well as
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by rob_c 4y ago
yes, but call it out and you typically get critizied as being some sort of horrible person calling for the US-centric forum to burn down. https://archive.today/XZ6rW
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by rob_c 4y ago
True, it's a problem that money solves. But frankly I'd rather keep the money as I'm content rewatching my favourite shows off disk.
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by rob_c 4y ago
Yes but then the US backbones which are federally funded are world leading and they never let outside collaborators forget it. Seriously what useful scientific data produced in the US requires >400Gbps between universities?
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by rob_c 4y ago
Ok so if we all send data to azure it's safe or to ovh that's just fine. It's not terrifying but it does reveal the scale, this isn't a licence check against something like genuine.microsoft.com this is a completely diff
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by rob_c 4y ago
> I personally prefer Linux, but what’s holding me are the streaming services Yes but then these turn off, drop the content you were watching with little/no warning and are unreliable. Buy physical media while you can at least then
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by rob_c 4y ago
That escalated quickly... Being in a developed part of the world thats not getting in the way of the product functioning but I feel sorry for those who don't have a reliable connectivity and/or good bandwidth
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by rob_c 4y ago
Great, now can we get it to scale with processing power. It was somehow more usable 10yr ago on most hardware...
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by rob_c 4y ago
The EC is not a simple solution to a problem, neither is intercepting all internet traffic a simple, popular, or proven effective solution for anything. Other than invading people's privacy post arrest. As I've said if all you hav
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by rob_c 4y ago
I won't caracterise nigel farage in the UK as being entirely of sound mind but he was single minded in his political career. He highlighted this very strongly to the british people and several political lobies within the UK which is wh
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by rob_c 4y ago
Oh the delicious irony, although up until recently they were willing to engage with erdogan right up until his own night of the long knives which ended up putting the silos on high alert.
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by rob_c 4y ago
Yep, and this is one of the major sticking points among the educated people in the UK who voted for brexit. This may sit well with some, but not with others. It has almost certainly created a large political divide close to the philosphical
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by rob_c 4y ago
I would hardly call this trumpficication. That is reading left/right politics on people's deamand for action on a complex issue to something irrelevent. The closest you can even make a comparator here is that it's a loss of f
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by rob_c 4y ago
But if you have nothing to hide it will save you from yourself... "Think of the Children" has been the immoral rallying cry after it worked so well in the UK for passing several 5-eyes compatible laws into power will little resist
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by rob_c 4y ago
That is a lot of inflection points...
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by rob_c 4y ago
Turns out there are many ways to keep doing things wrong that about the problem being users...
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by rob_c 4y ago
Helium gas is, but then is, Hydrogen plasma? :P
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by rob_c 4y ago
Why yes, everything is a chemical and by that logic everything is organic, and you can safely eat some amount of cyanide and arsenic each day. This is the same argument posed/disposed by HTC enthisuasts so thanks for joining in. Doesn&
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by rob_c 4y ago
Wish they would have said. But then is it "safe" to eat a lump of the stuff, fast food standards and all...
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by rob_c 4y ago
Nope. Not eating that even without food dye... Enjoy the chemicals
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by rob_c 4y ago
"tritium for its experiments". The whole point is to reach a Deuterium or Hydrogen reactor with a light lithium ignition in a lot of cases which would be easier to fuel than Tritium due do problems extracting it.
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by rob_c 4y ago
Fantastic work dude. On behalf of anyone who might one day benefit thanks and congrats.

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