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Nobel for economics (natural experiments) – popular science background [pdf](s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud)
1 points by robaato 5y ago|0 comments
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Pioneering work that has changed our understanding of migraines(theguardian.com)
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China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers(theguardian.com)
9 points by robaato 5y ago|4 comments
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by robaato 5y ago
From article: [This chart shows] the availability of the DNS name 'facebook.com' on Cloudflare's DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. It stopped being available at around 15:50 UTC and returned at 21:20 UTC.
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by robaato 5y ago
Happen to have just finished a biography of John Buchan (author of "The Thirty-nine Steps" among many others, as well as being Governor General of Canada 1935-40). In the first world war he was high up in the Propaganda Bureau - w
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Microchipped mouthguards to measure head injuries in rugby(theguardian.com)
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by robaato 5y ago
Interesting, as he manages to spell it correctly in text.
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by robaato 5y ago
A favourite in the golf community (I grew up in Hopeman - east of Inverness)
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by robaato 5y ago
Performance tends to be very poor. Seems very much in "cash cow" mode as in not being invested in to improve.
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by robaato 5y ago
I flew London->Seoul, spent a week, then Seoul->Tokyo and return and carried on back to London. The latter ended up being arriving at 2.30 am and then waiting until 10.00 am for the for the next leg. I was able to have a reasonable sn
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by robaato 5y ago
Bit like one of the premises of NLP - people can acquire phobias after a single traumatic incident. So why can't they release them just as quickly? Did a weekend with Richard Bandler and saw an arachnophobe end up with having a tarantu
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by robaato 5y ago
Well there are questions and questions, and also many ways of and times of asking them. For example, and oldie but goodie is: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html That might be overkill for internal
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by robaato 5y ago
I have a soft spot for The Register. Reading BOFH from time to time for light relief...
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Interference on Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices from iPhone MagSafe Tech(ahajournals.org)
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by robaato 5y ago
This seems like a valuable resource for IR Codes (500k apparently): https://www.commandfusion.com/aboutus
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by robaato 5y ago
We had a classic situation at a software house I worked at in the '80s - employee numbers were 1-999 and then jumped to 5,000 - because, you guessed it, this "unique" field was used with magic numbers 1,000 - 5,000 being rese
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PoC code for 54-year-old zero-day in Universal Turing Machine(theregister.com)
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The four fish I would still eat – even after watching Seaspiracy(theguardian.com)
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by robaato 5y ago
See also: http://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/atlas/volume-iii/city-l... You can get a print copy which is a nice gift.
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"Computer says no" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
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by robaato 5y ago
<yorkshire_accent>Luxury!!</yorkshire_accent> When I were a lad we had a teletype terminal in Pollock Halls (Edinburgh) to complete our assignments (well there were some VT100s but with deadlines coming up you had to take w
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by robaato 5y ago
I remember friends in the '80s studying law in Turin always having orals - as you say "they had to know their stuff"!
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by robaato 5y ago
Correct for HN, but perhaps less so for general public...
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Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: by a whistleblower(theguardian.com)
11 points by robaato 6y ago|1 comments
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How do you track which cherry picks have been done?
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by robaato 6y ago
I used to be blase about the idea of talking to the police, but have had some experiences which make me more wary. That said, as a foreigner, especially things like traffic encounters, it usually pays to exaggerate your foreign-ness - they
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by robaato 6y ago
My dad was lucky enough to die in his own bed with my Mum holding one hand and me the other. The last several months he was on morphine for the pain, but overall it is hard to see how it could have gone better (if it was going to happen of
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by robaato 6y ago
I had my first AZ jab 10 days ago. Next day slightly sore arm - that's all.
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by robaato 6y ago
Yup that struck me too as poorly phrased and unclear. Maybe crystal clear to writer, but not to readers...
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by robaato 6y ago
Out of interest - how would one judge a professor then?! Classes taught? Students taught? Students getting degrees (undergrad/Masters/PhDs)? Research grants won? Nobel prizes won?

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